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Iggy and The Stooges
Metallic KO
Death Is Not The End - Cat No: DEATH115
- updated:2025-11-11
A limited remastered cassette reissue of the chaotic, legendary semi-bootleg live album "Metallic KO" — recorded February 9, 1974 at Detroit's Michigan Palace, just as Iggy and The Stooges were falling apart — out now on Death Is Not The End!!
Crass, conceited, vulgar and unpleasant. Also quite unique. Death Is Not The End drops a cassette reissue of Iggy and The Stooges chaotic Metallic KO LP, recorded live at Detroit's Michigan Palace between 1973 & 1974 - documenting the band's death throes during what would be their last performances for 30+ years.
"Metallic K.O. is the only rock album I know where you can actually hear hurled beer bottles breaking against guitar strings"
— Lester Bangs
"Something we should get straight from the start: measured by any normal criteria 'Metallic KO' is one hell of a long way from being a good rock'n'roll record, let alone a great one"
— Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds 1976
"Metallic K.O. is the only rock album I know where you can actually hear hurled beer bottles breaking against guitar strings"
— Lester Bangs
"Something we should get straight from the start: measured by any normal criteria 'Metallic KO' is one hell of a long way from being a good rock'n'roll record, let alone a great one"
— Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds 1976
A raw, dangerous document of madness from the rough-and-tumble proto-punk era: the band's playing, the barrage of insults traded with the audience, the sound of hurled beer bottles shattering. No digital version — cassette-only release. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)