Editing ...And Justice for All (album) (section)

==Background==
''...And Justice for All'' is the first Metallica album to feature bassist [[Jason Newsted]] after the death of [[Cliff Burton]] in 1986; Newsted had previously played on the 1987 Metallica EP'' [[The $5.98 E.P. - Garage Days Re-Revisited]]''.<ref name="Decibel">{{cite web|author=J. Bennett |title=Metallica "...And Justice for All" |url=http://www.decibelmagazine.com/hall-of-fame/metallica/ |work=[[Decibel (magazine)|Decibel]] |access-date=June 9, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130226012329/http://www.decibelmagazine.com/hall-of-fame/metallica/ |archive-date=February 26, 2013 }}</ref> Metallica had intended to record the album earlier, but was sidetracked by the large number of festival dates scheduled for the summer of 1987, including the European leg of the [[Monsters of Rock]] festival. Another reason was frontman [[James Hetfield]]'s arm injury in a skateboarding accident.<ref name="M.Wall"/>

Metallica's previous studio album, ''[[Master of Puppets]] (''1986), was their last under their contract with the record label [[Music for Nations]]. Manager [[Peter Mensch]] wanted them to sign with British record distributor [[Phonogram Records]]. Phonogram manager Martin Hooker offered them "well over £1 million, which at that time was the biggest deal we'd ever offered anyone". His explanation was that the final figure for combined British and European sales of all three Metallica albums was more than 1.5&nbsp;million copies.<ref name="M.Wall" />