Live Shit: Binge & Purge

Live Shit: Binge & Purge
Live Shit: Binge & Purge
Live album box set by Metallica
Released	November 23, 1993
Recorded	August 29, 1989 – March 2, 1993
Venue	Seattle Coliseum (Seattle); San Diego Sports Arena (San Diego); Palacio de los Deportes (Mexico City); ;
Genre	Thrash metal; heavy metal;
Length	2:20:35 (Seattle performance); 3:19:09 (San Diego performance); 2:57:06 (Mexico City performance); 8:34:39 (full box set)
Label	Elektra
Producer	James Hetfield; Lars Ulrich;
Metallica live albums chronology
Metallica video chronology

Live Shit: Binge & Purge is the first live album by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released in a box set format on November 23, 1993. The initial pressings contained three CDs or cassette tapes, featuring songs from concerts in Mexico City during the Nowhere Else to Roam tour, as well as three VHS tapes. A newer version includes two DVDs from concerts in San Diego on the Wherever We May Roam Tour and Seattle on the Damaged Justice Tour. It was originally packaged as a cardboard box designed to resemble a typical tour equipment transport box. In addition to the audio and video media, the box featured extra bonus material, including a booklet with photos, typical tour correspondence exchanged by the band and their management, internal documents, and handwritten notes; a recreated copy of an access pass to the "Snakepit" section of the tour stage; and a cardboard drawing/airbrush stencil of the "Scary Guy" logo. Live Shit: Binge & Purge has been certified 15× platinum by the RIAA as a long-form video format.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	8/10^[2]
Entertainment Weekly	B^[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[4]

When the set was reissued in a 3-CD / 2-DVD format, the box was replaced with a jewel case format. The booklet that was included in the initial set was made available as DVD-ROM content.

Track listing

Audio CDs

Recorded at the Palacio de los Deportes, Mexico City, Mexico, on February 25, 26, 27, and March 1 and 2, 1993.

Disc one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Ecstasy of Gold/Enter Sandman"	Ennio Morricone/James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett	7:28
2.	"Creeping Death"	Hetfield, Ulrich, Cliff Burton, Hammett	7:28
3.	"Harvester of Sorrow"	Hetfield, Ulrich	7:19
4.	"Welcome Home (Sanitarium)"	Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett	6:39
5.	"Sad but True"	Hetfield, Ulrich	6:07
6.	"Of Wolf and Man"	Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett	6:22
7.	"The Unforgiven"	Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett	6:48
8.	"Justice Medley" "Eye of the Beholder" "The Frayed Ends of Sanity" "...And Justice for All" "Blackened"	Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett Hetfield, Ulrich, Newsted	9:38
9.	"Solos (bass/guitar) (My Friend of Misery/Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin))"		18:49
Total length:			76:34

Disc two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Through the Never"	Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett	3:47
2.	"For Whom the Bell Tolls"	Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton	5:48
3.	"Fade to Black"	Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett	7:12
4.	"Master of Puppets"	Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett	4:35
5.	"Seek & Destroy"	Hetfield, Ulrich	18:08
6.	"Whiplash"	Hetfield, Ulrich	5:34
Total length:			45:04

Disc three
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Nothing Else Matters"	Hetfield, Ulrich	6:22
2.	"Wherever I May Roam"	Hetfield, Ulrich	6:33
3.	"Am I Evil?" (originally performed by Diamond Head)	Sean Harris, Brian Tatler	5:42
4.	"Last Caress" (originally performed by the Misfits)	Glenn Danzig	1:25
5.	"One"	Hetfield, Ulrich	10:27
6.	"So What?/Battery" ("So What?" originally performed by Anti-Nowhere League)	Nick Kulmer, Chris Exall, Clive Blake / Hetfield, Ulrich	10:05
7.	"The Four Horsemen"	Hetfield, Ulrich, Dave Mustaine	6:08
8.	"Motorbreath"	Hetfield	3:14
9.	"Stone Cold Crazy" (originally performed by Queen)	Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, John Deacon	5:32
Total length:			55:28

VHS/DVD

San Diego

Recorded at the San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego, California, on January 13 and 14, 1992.

VHS one/DVD one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"20 Min. MetalliMovie"	19:56
2.	"The Ecstasy of Gold/Enter Sandman"	7:23
3.	"Creeping Death"	7:45
4.	"Harvester of Sorrow"	6:55
5.	"Welcome Home (Sanitarium)"	6:59
6.	"Sad But True"	6:35
7.	"Wherever I May Roam"	6:57
8.	"Bass solo (My Friend of Misery)/Orion Jam"	10:48
9.	"Through the Never"	4:29
10.	"The Unforgiven"	7:54
11.	"Justice Medley" ("Eye of the Beholder"/"Blackened"/"The Frayed Ends of Sanity"/"...And Justice for All"/"Blackened")"	10:16
12.	"Drum solo and drum battle (with James Hetfield on drum kit) (Moby Dick (by Led Zeppelin)/One/Hit The Lights/Walk This Way (by Aerosmith)"	9:43
13.	"Guitar solo (Mistreated (by Deep Purple))"	8:49
Total length:		1:54:29

VHS two/DVD one

No.	Title	Length
14.	"The Four Horsemen"	5:30
15.	"For Whom the Bell Tolls"	5:50
16.	"Fade to Black"	7:19
17.	"Whiplash"	7:41
18.	"Master of Puppets"	5:28
19.	"Seek & Destroy sung by Newsted"	15:44
20.	"One"	9:46
21.	"Last Caress"	3:54
22.	"Am I Evil?"	2:55
23.	"Battery"	7:27
24.	"Stone Cold Crazy/End credits"	13:06
Total length:		1:24:40

Seattle

Recorded at the Seattle Coliseum, Seattle, Washington on August 29 and 30, 1989.

VHS three/DVD two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Ecstasy of Gold/Blackened"	11:43
2.	"For Whom the Bell Tolls"	5:30
3.	"Welcome Home (Sanitarium)"	6:27
4.	"Harvester of Sorrow"	6:28
5.	"The Four Horsemen"	5:35
6.	"The Thing That Should Not Be"	7:14
7.	"Bass solo/To Live Is to Die Jam"	7:46
8.	"Master of Puppets"	8:46
9.	"Fade to Black"	8:10
10.	"Seek & Destroy"	8:05
11.	"...And Justice for All"	13:33
12.	"One"	7:48
13.	"Creeping Death"	7:48
14.	"Guitar solo (Little Wing (by Jimi Hendrix))"	6:34
15.	"Battery"	9:11
16.	"The Frayed Ends of Sanity Jam/Last Caress"	1:54
17.	"Am I Evil?"	4:06
18.	"Whiplash"	5:37
19.	"Breadfan/End credits"	8:20
Total length:		2:20:35

Personnel

Metallica

James Hetfield – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Kirk Hammett – lead guitar, backing vocals
Jason Newsted – bass, backing vocals, occasional lead vocals
Lars Ulrich – drums

Production

James Hetfield; Lars Ulrich – producers
Guy Charbonneau; Mick Hughes – engineers
James "Jimbo" Barton; Kent Matcke; Mike Fraser – mixing
Scott Humphrey – digital editing

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1993	Billboard 200	26^[5]

Video certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Germany (BVMI)^[6]	Gold	25,000^{^}
United States (RIAA)^[7]	15× Platinum	1,500,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

^ "Metallica – Live Shit: Binge & Purge review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
^ Popoff, Martin (August 1, 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 277. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
^ Browne, David (December 3, 1993). "BOXING DAY (Metallica: Live Shit: Binge & Purge)". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on May 23, 2007. Retrieved June 3, 2012.
^ "Metallica: Album Guide". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on February 10, 2011. Retrieved June 3, 2012.
^ "Metallica – Chart history – Billboard".
^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Metallica; 'Live Shit (Bing & Purge)')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
^ "American video certifications – Metallica – Binge". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved May 16, 2023.

[1] "Metallica – Live Shit: Binge & Purge review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved January 25, 2017.

[martin-2] Popoff, Martin (August 1, 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 277. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.

[3] Browne, David (December 3, 1993). "BOXING DAY (Metallica: Live Shit: Binge & Purge)". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on May 23, 2007. Retrieved June 3, 2012.

[4] "Metallica: Album Guide". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on February 10, 2011. Retrieved June 3, 2012.

[5] "Metallica – Chart history – Billboard".

[GermanyMetallicaLive_Shit_(Bing_&_Purge)videoCertRef-6] "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Metallica; 'Live Shit (Bing & Purge)')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved May 25, 2019.

[United_StatesMetallicaBingevideoCertRef-7] "American video certifications – Metallica – Binge". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved May 16, 2023.

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