I was like, wait a min. Haven't I seen this from yall on Patreon? Hey y'all, gonna need a sick TH-cam special from yall. Inamorata from Metallica. That'd be great, thanks yall
I can't imagine what it was like to be a hard rock/metal fan in the early 80s and then Metallica enters the scene. Had to have been life changing. This is my favorite Metallica song because it's so raw and it was so different at the time. Glad y'all got to it.
In 1982 I received a casette tape of a live show Metallica did in San Francisco. The quality was terrible, people talking and yelling. There was a vibration that caused a buzz on the tape, almost like the recorder was set on an amp. I wore that tape out. I couldn't get enough of it. This was like something I'd never heard before and I loved it. It wasn't until '84 before I got a copy of this album. Back then they were very, very hard to get.
It was a helluva time honestly..metallica didn't get any radio play and they didnt get good distribution either...essentially it was word of mouth from your friendly neighbourhood headbangers...metallica was new and different,but in those years,there were epic albums dropping about every month...this was just one more...in a blur of new stuff all the time,many of which are considered metal classics these days
This song is 41 years old. That's a long time ago. Listening to this today is like listening to "Chattanooga Choo Choo" when this came out. It's nowhere near as dated. Teenagers in the studio just kicking ass.
Hey guys. This is one of the times that my vast amount of useless knowledge comes in handy. When the released Kill 'Em All - James Hetfield was 19 (about to turn 20). Lars Urlich was 19, Kirk Hammett was 20. Cliff Burton was also 20.
@@NandR not true. Hammett actually recorded the album with them. They used a lot of Dave's guitar work though. And continued to use a little up through their Master of Puppets album. And that's what caused so much venom towards them on Dave's part, as opposed to popular opinion, which is Dave whining for being fired. Dave's not angry at them anymore, at least publicly, but during the Big Four tour Hetfield and Ulrich refused to interact with Mustaine, forcing them to play in the second slot as opposed to 3rd where the organizers wanted them. So there does still appear to be SOME bad blood. Sorry, I rambled lol
@@NandR He would have been 21 or 22 I think. Not exactly sure. I think Dave made the trip 'cross country with them and then was fired when they were starting to record it. Not a great day I imagine. He's a bit of a lesson on how NOT to live your life in the sense that he measured his success by how Megadeath compared to Metallica in record sales. It turned out well in some respects - the success of Megadeath - but it's no way to live your life.
@@m00n_g0d just because Dave said it doesn't make it so, Dave had nothing to do with Master of puppets, he claims he wrote a singular variation of a riff that was used in leper messiah. The guy has been butt hurt and will continue to be until the day he dies. If Dave's influence was so great, why hasn't megadeth reached the status Metallica has?
Ryan speaking the truth when he says that bands today doesn't play out their grooves. It makes such a different, it feels much more organic and it the difference between a quality song and a bad one in my book.
My favorite thing about these guys is their artistic ability to actually GET the song, the genre, and the context. Ryan mentioning the rawness with thrash versus modern metal- a casual listener wouldn’t know the difference. Massive respect, as always. You guys rock. 🤘🏻
Exactly, thanks for saving my time I was just about to comment on that. To note sound differences between poloshed soumd and rawness of early material is advanced level metalhead stuff, they became really well versed
I was 15 with my first guitar and my dad had me sit down and learn this song note for note. He had it on cassette and I was locked in a little room in a single wide trailer and he outside working on a lawnmower giving me hints. I still play this song on guitar from time to time. Best Metallica album to me
Kill 'Em All is a bit raw and unrefined and they were really wearing their influences on their sleeve. But there's no denying it's a lot of fun. I'd love to see you guys do something from Load or Reload. Very divisive albums amongst the fan base. Definitely not thrash (or even metal) but there are some fantastic hard rock songs on those albums in my humble opinion. Check out Outlaw Torn or Bleeding Me for something epic, or maybe Ain't My Bitch or Bad Seed for something a bit more fun.
Load/Reload is my favorite Metallica record. Bleeding Me is my favorite, but The House that Jack Built is a close second. Fixxxer, Carpe Diem Baby, Devil's Dance, The Outlaw Torn, Where the Wild Things Are, so many amazing songs. You guys definitely have to spend some time on Load/Reload and Death Magnetic.
I remember buying Load when it first came out at a Walmart when driving across country to get stationed in California. Listened to it once, rolled down the window, threw it out somewhere on 40, and haven’t listened to it since.
This is one of Metallica's songs that you must experience live sometime! There Is no experience quite like 80,000+ people singing "Seek & Destroy" in unison!
2000-Summer Sanitarium Tour-Sparta International Speedway-1/2 mile of people in the infield and 1/2 the stadium seating filled screaming SEEK & DESTROY will never leave my bones
Good song, but I'm only capable of refering to it as the ripoff of Megadeth's Mechanix now. I still like both....don't get me wrong. Just an interesting part of the history of early thrash.
@@bmeach4940 because Dave Mustaine wrote the music for it when he was with Metallica. Then when they kicked him out he said "don't use my stuff" but they used it anyway and just re wrote the lyrics. If you listen to both songs back to back its painfully obvious and I guarantee Lars/James/Kirk would all tell you the same since they buried the hatchet years ago. Theres other differences in the songs but the meat and Potatoes of it is Dave's creation. As a matter of fact, his fingerprint can be heard throughout that entire album and in bits and pieces of "Ride the Lightning"
So glad you guys finally got to the first Metallica album! Oddly enough Seek & Destroy is probably the slowest/tamest song on the whole album...they should have called it Fire and Lightning instead of Kill 'Em All. Love this song but both musically and thematically/lyrically, Whiplash is probably the most "this is the beginning of thrash metal" song on the album. Arguable of course but that's always been the song I point people to for that purpose. Merry Christmas, Ryan and George!
Out of all the songs in thrash metal history, this is very high on the list of songs that are awesome to hear live. Whole crowd just screaming that chorus is fun as hell
Something that I see nobody else is talking about is how Metallica would go see hard-core punk rock bands at the Mabuhay Garden in San Francisco when they were first coming up. They loved this music by such bands as the Misfits and Discharge. So they took their love of Heavy Metal and combined it with the speed and aggression of Hardcore Punk and created Thrash. It would be amazing if you guys did an old Misfits or Discharge song on this channel
Cliff was 21, James was 19, Lars was 19, and Kirk was 20 when this album came out. The inspiration for the lyrics depends on when the band was asked that question. Years ago, they said the song was about inner-city violence, but in more recent times they've said it's just about them rockin' with the fans (a recurring theme on that record).
The end of the song is the first true metal breakdown as we know it today. It gets zero love on the list of best breakdowns of all time, but it’s top five in my book. How they speed up the first breakdown and then transition into the second is unreal for 1983.
The first track they wrote and also the first one they recorded was Hit The Lights, not this one. It's track #1 on the album... and still gets played live. One of the best opening tracks on any album!!! Seek is such a fun track live, and a great way to end their shows, or the first set before the encore
This album is what got me into playing instruments. Hearing this in a garage with your friends for the first time was freaking incredible, you were on the money by saying imagine what i was like when there was nothing else quite like it.
George I'm not sure that it would have grabbed you in the same manner if you had heard the Metallica songs in chronological order. Your musical taste in metal has been thoroughly refined since you started a few years ago. In the *_Opeth - Blackwater Park_* video, you jokingly said: _"We should've gotten this shit first!"_ I wondered about that, and I think that the song might very well would have been lost on you, back when you heard Ghost of Perdition in stead. Likewise, I don't think that you would have have enjoyed Seek & Destroy as much, if you hadn't already heard a lot of Metallica's other songs beforehand. These are of course the interesting questions that ponder after the fact, unfortunately without having any way to ever find out =)
Seen the show 2 weeks ago in Minneapolis, we are all a lot older but just as fun as when i was in high school! So glad i went. My son is 20 and has played guitar since he was 7 and James Hetfield is his favorite. I’m so glad I got to share the show with him! Awesome!
Kill Em All was Metallica's introduction to the world. They were raw, young and full of piss and vinegar. They were tired of the "pretty boy" hair metal scene. They have evolved over time and sound nothing like this anymore, mostly because they are in their 60's now. But this was definitely what they aimed ro be and kept this fire for many years
@psychomantis2881 Hair metal didn't truly arrive until the one-two punch of the US Festival in May 1983--the same month that Metallica recorded Kill 'Em All--and Quiet Riot's breakthrough with "Cum on Feel the Noize," which peaked in November of that year. Metallica had long developed their sound by then. There were certainly pop metal bands at the time, and Metallica had definitely heard of Motley Crue, but the genre hadn't completely taken over MTV yet, and Metallica's main musical antagonist was Van Halen.
@@PsychoMantis308that release date doesn’t mean anything. That was an independent release of just a couple of hundred records pressed. Glam metal was not known at all in ‘81 outside of the Sunset Strip in L.A.
I think you guys would have a blast comparing this to Metallica's 1993 live recording in Mexico City a decade later, available in the Live Shit Binge & Purge set. There's extended crowd participation and improvisatory jamming that convert this song into almost an entirely new one.
Can I just say that I really love whenever you repeat something that you read somewhere or heard somewhere you also give a citation as to the publication you read it or heard it from.
I love Garage Days but really the first half is insane, Breadfan, Blitzkrieg (omg!) Small Hours, The Wait..I love them all, "So What" and the rest are OK, yes I know they are all covers and I really don't give a shit, they're still Metallica Fire in my book
@Lost In Vegas @George. You mentioned chronological order and it makes me think about when I went back thru their catalog the first time. I noticed that you can hear the sound carries thru. For example after listening to "Kill "Em All" and going to "Ride the Lightning", you can hear what they are doing. Same for R.T.L going into "Puppets, and so forth (up until Load and Re-Load). But they do bring it back. This also reminds me of when Ryan mentioned the changing of the groove, and how that was a thing Ryan noticed about "Spit Out the Bone" You can hear THIS in THAT. Plus the shit just jams!!! Love you guys. Been watching since like video 5 or 6!!
@@Stonefalconetti Mustaine's a lead guitarist who also plays rhythm, whereas James is a pure rhythm guitarist. Mustaine is definitely a better all-round all-round guitarist since he can do both, but James is like a human metronom and has the best right hand in the business (which is lucky for Metallica because if they had to rely on Lars to keep the tempo, they'd be screwed).
Adler is no slouch. I think people that make these best ever declarations are ridiculous. There are so many amazing musicians out there. @@TheLarknessMonster
I love watching the '89 performace of this, for that bash-your-face-in aggression, and then skip to watching it from a 2012+ performance, where it's become a family singalong, with beach balls being dropped on the crowd. I love taking it ALL in.
This is their official 1st release, however they had a demo cassette going around called "No Life Till Leather'. If anyone has that original cassette its work $$$$$$! Peace from FL
Widely regarded as one of the greatest debut albums in Rock history. Y'all been sleeping on Kill'em All. ON EDIT: You should do Anesthesia and Whiplash as a single reaction for your next Kill'em All pick. ...just saying.
Dam and you just now released it to the public we Metallica fans we need more Metallica on your platform please bands like this keep me interested but THANK YOU you playing something off the album that started THRASH METAL. 🤘🏼🤘🏼👍🙏
For the first time in 40 years I just noticed what a great job the album cover does with integrating the one and only lower case letter. Helps that it's basically centered. Nice graphic design work.
Even after 35 years, this is still my hands-down favorite Tallica song. James got the idea for this song from Diamond Head. It was a song called dead reckoning. If you guys dug seek, you gotta hear whiplash. Definitely my second favorite off killer all. It's pretty fuckin cool to see rap guys banging to metallica. Metallica changed my life in a very fundamental way. After I heard Metallica the first time, It completely changed the way I heard music, and looked at the world. All for the better. I'm still as diehard a fan now as I was back then. So Cheers to you guys and Cheers to the Mighty Metallica for being the Greatest Band ever!
You just can't help banging your head at these old Metalica songs. I only saw them two times: Once at Monster of Rock in Seattle, and again in Billings, Montana.
Some must watch Metallica songs/shows u guys didnt do yet: - Creeping Death - Disposable Heroes - To Live is to Die - Wiplash - Four Horsemen - Hit the Lights - Battery - Dyers Eve - Unforgiven 1 - 2 - 3 - Harvester of Sorrow live moscow 1991 - Creeping Death live moscow 1991 - Enter Sandman live moscow 1991 - !!!!!!!Master of Puppets, Battery, Blackened, Wiplash, Whom the Bell tolls live Seattle 1989!!!!!!! - Master of Puppets live 2019 Manchester Just to list a few ... keep rocking guys! Love that u always keep it real!
Some people say listen to other songs on this album, and while I really like many of them, your guys's tendency to like a "medium thrash" this is about the best you can get for that on this album. The rest of them are mostly much thrashier lol.
This is the last Metallica song to have a writing credit for Mustaine. Seek and Destroy - has that solo, and in an old interview with Metallica, Seek and Destroy had already been written, and James said he played the solo, and he played it right. This means Dave wrote that solo.
My hockey team, The San Jose Sharks, skates onto the ice to this song every home game. Metallica is from The Bay Area & actually used to have season tickets to The Sharks. At the Stanley Cup Final home game I went to, Metallica actually sang The National Anthem.
Good review as always. Kind sums up the way I feel about this song as well, and this album. If you listen to enough Metallica and enough Megadeth, then you can clearly hear Mustaine's influence on this album... it is unmistakable and awesome. My personal favorite on this album is Four Horsemen and it's simply a must-listen for yall right now. It really showcases the band's instrumental mastery and uncanny transitions at such a young age. I also recommend Motorbreath, Jump in the Fire, and Hit the Lights off this album. All of these are better songs than Seek and Destroy IMO. One more note. Cliff Burton. My favorite bassist ever. He anchors this band and album (anesthesia pulling teeth), along with Hetfield on the rhythm. I digress, please consider my recommendations above as I feel they represent the best of this album. Cheers and Merry Christmas everyone!
When we heard that in 83-84 we lost our damn minds....12-13yr old me and my friends wore that shit out. Remember Metallica did not get played on the radio, at that time. First time I ever heard them on the radio was like 1988 on my way to the LA Coliseum to see them on the Monsters of Rock tour. Best riot/concert ever!!
that's one of my favorite metallica songs, since I was a kid. Been listening to them since I was a kid, as far back as I can remember. That song is just a banger. That whole album killed
Just a heads up! This is an older Patreon exclusive reaction that we did wayyyy back in 2019 guys fyi!
I wondered why you guys were talking about Christmas 😂😂
Can add exodus blacklist on TH-cam that you guys did?
U need to do bleeding me or outlaw torn next please
I was like, wait a min. Haven't I seen this from yall on Patreon? Hey y'all, gonna need a sick TH-cam special from yall. Inamorata from Metallica. That'd be great, thanks yall
@@lukepw9968Both great, but Outlaw Torn for the win.
These guys were 19-20 years old when they made this masterpiece of thrash.
I was making 4.25 an HR at 19, Sigh.
I was dropping out of planes into Iraq at 19
I was making $5.25 an hour at a car wash 😂
@psychomantis2881 By the time I turned 21, I owned the car wash.
Thank you for your service.@@PsychoMantis308
@@PsychoMantis308 And you couldn't even legally buy or drink a beer, or hell these days, smoke a cigarette lol ridiculous!!!!
Cliff Burton was the oldest member of the band when this was recorded. He was 21. James and Lars were only 19.
17 ...Mustaine was still in the group.
@@JaredHyder420 he was already kicked out by the time they recorded
Is this not ron mcgovney?
@@jonahlopez8395but they wrote it in 1981, this is on the metal up your ass demo, so..
@@Beyondflix clearly. As I said before. Dave wasn’t part of the recording process
I can't imagine what it was like to be a hard rock/metal fan in the early 80s and then Metallica enters the scene. Had to have been life changing. This is my favorite Metallica song because it's so raw and it was so different at the time. Glad y'all got to it.
chris ray I totally agree. Nothing sounded like that before them.
In 1982 I received a casette tape of a live show Metallica did in San Francisco. The quality was terrible, people talking and yelling. There was a vibration that caused a buzz on the tape, almost like the recorder was set on an amp.
I wore that tape out. I couldn't get enough of it. This was like something I'd never heard before and I loved it. It wasn't until '84 before I got a copy of this album. Back then they were very, very hard to get.
@@facelessandnamelessIron Maiden-Killers came out in 1981 and it was pretty hardcore for the time
It was a helluva time honestly..metallica didn't get any radio play and they didnt get good distribution either...essentially it was word of mouth from your friendly neighbourhood headbangers...metallica was new and different,but in those years,there were epic albums dropping about every month...this was just one more...in a blur of new stuff all the time,many of which are considered metal classics these days
It was pretty awesome. Lol
I'm glad you reviewed this song! That means you're saving the killer track FOUR HORSE MEN for New Years Eve!
They probably saving it for Christmas this year
This song is 41 years old. That's a long time ago. Listening to this today is like listening to "Chattanooga Choo Choo" when this came out. It's nowhere near as dated. Teenagers in the studio just kicking ass.
You just made me feel really old! 41 years old? Gulp
It was written in 81, so technically it's 43 years old...
Maybe it's because they're great, but maybe it's also because the evolution of popmusic has stagnated a bit, especially in the metalworld?
@@lonedinosaur13 I'll be 42 this year on the greatest day of the year, 11/11. Leonardo DiCaprio and Demi Moore also share this birthday.
Man that makes me feel old. My band played this at my high school in 1986, everyone hated us! Haha
Hey guys. This is one of the times that my vast amount of useless knowledge comes in handy. When the released Kill 'Em All - James Hetfield was 19 (about to turn 20). Lars Urlich was 19, Kirk Hammett was 20. Cliff Burton was also 20.
Edward Curren But how old was Dave Mustaine? Since Kirk wasn’t in the band yet?
@@NandR not true. Hammett actually recorded the album with them. They used a lot of Dave's guitar work though. And continued to use a little up through their Master of Puppets album. And that's what caused so much venom towards them on Dave's part, as opposed to popular opinion, which is Dave whining for being fired.
Dave's not angry at them anymore, at least publicly, but during the Big Four tour Hetfield and Ulrich refused to interact with Mustaine, forcing them to play in the second slot as opposed to 3rd where the organizers wanted them. So there does still appear to be SOME bad blood.
Sorry, I rambled lol
Kenneth Townshend I meant for this song. I know Dave was there when these first songs were written but Kirk recorded it.
@@NandR He would have been 21 or 22 I think. Not exactly sure. I think Dave made the trip 'cross country with them and then was fired when they were starting to record it. Not a great day I imagine. He's a bit of a lesson on how NOT to live your life in the sense that he measured his success by how Megadeath compared to Metallica in record sales. It turned out well in some respects - the success of Megadeath - but it's no way to live your life.
@@m00n_g0d just because Dave said it doesn't make it so, Dave had nothing to do with Master of puppets, he claims he wrote a singular variation of a riff that was used in leper messiah. The guy has been butt hurt and will continue to be until the day he dies. If Dave's influence was so great, why hasn't megadeth reached the status Metallica has?
FOUR HORSEMEN!!!
They already did that one
@@theshowstopper979 they did it twice actually lmao
@@theshowstopper979 Look at the date of the comment dummy.
so do it a third time! lmao
eff it do four reactions one for each horseman
Ryan speaking the truth when he says that bands today doesn't play out their grooves. It makes such a different, it feels much more organic and it the difference between a quality song and a bad one in my book.
It's something I love about Opeth too!
My favorite thing about these guys is their artistic ability to actually GET the song, the genre, and the context. Ryan mentioning the rawness with thrash versus modern metal- a casual listener wouldn’t know the difference.
Massive respect, as always. You guys rock. 🤘🏻
Exactly, thanks for saving my time I was just about to comment on that. To note sound differences between poloshed soumd and rawness of early material is advanced level metalhead stuff, they became really well versed
It's not Christmas without your Metallica drops!!!!! Thanks boys!!!! Happy Holidays guys, enjoy!!
I was 15 with my first guitar and my dad had me sit down and learn this song note for note. He had it on cassette and I was locked in a little room in a single wide trailer and he outside working on a lawnmower giving me hints. I still play this song on guitar from time to time. Best Metallica album to me
Awesome father!
My favorite Metallica album too…hard, heavy, dirty, and mean…Cliff Burton has a bass solo on the album…how much more can a metal fan want? ❤
Kill 'Em All is a bit raw and unrefined and they were really wearing their influences on their sleeve. But there's no denying it's a lot of fun. I'd love to see you guys do something from Load or Reload. Very divisive albums amongst the fan base. Definitely not thrash (or even metal) but there are some fantastic hard rock songs on those albums in my humble opinion. Check out Outlaw Torn or Bleeding Me for something epic, or maybe Ain't My Bitch or Bad Seed for something a bit more fun.
Load/Reload is my favorite Metallica record. Bleeding Me is my favorite, but The House that Jack Built is a close second. Fixxxer, Carpe Diem Baby, Devil's Dance, The Outlaw Torn, Where the Wild Things Are, so many amazing songs. You guys definitely have to spend some time on Load/Reload and Death Magnetic.
I remember buying Load when it first came out at a Walmart when driving across country to get stationed in California. Listened to it once, rolled down the window, threw it out somewhere on 40, and haven’t listened to it since.
I can't wait for you guys to eventually get to either Battery or Damage Inc
Or disposable heroes
Agree. Battery or damage.
4 horsemen too!
The entire M.O.P. album is just so damn good. Seriously might be my favorite album of all time.
@@oldcat7 I've always had a hard time deciding which was best between puppts and lightening.
@@dioneberts1715 Yes, disposable 🤘
This is one of Metallica's songs that you must experience live sometime! There Is no experience quite like 80,000+ people singing "Seek & Destroy" in unison!
2000-Summer Sanitarium Tour-Sparta International Speedway-1/2 mile of people in the infield and 1/2 the stadium seating filled screaming SEEK & DESTROY will never leave my bones
Just saw them again 2 weeks ago in Chicago and they fkng Crushed it
Metallica - The Four Horsemen reaction is a must!
From the same Album.
remastered version.
Teh3aZ yes! 🤘
Good song, but I'm only capable of refering to it as the ripoff of Megadeth's Mechanix now. I still like both....don't get me wrong. Just an interesting part of the history of early thrash.
sociald324 Yep I know it’s Mustaine riffs, I actually like Megadeth more than Metallica FYI.
@@sociald324
Will you please elaborate how this is a ripoff of a song from a band that didn't exist when this music was created?
@@bmeach4940 because Dave Mustaine wrote the music for it when he was with Metallica. Then when they kicked him out he said "don't use my stuff" but they used it anyway and just re wrote the lyrics. If you listen to both songs back to back its painfully obvious and I guarantee Lars/James/Kirk would all tell you the same since they buried the hatchet years ago. Theres other differences in the songs but the meat and Potatoes of it is Dave's creation. As a matter of fact, his fingerprint can be heard throughout that entire album and in bits and pieces of "Ride the Lightning"
So glad you guys finally got to the first Metallica album! Oddly enough Seek & Destroy is probably the slowest/tamest song on the whole album...they should have called it Fire and Lightning instead of Kill 'Em All. Love this song but both musically and thematically/lyrically, Whiplash is probably the most "this is the beginning of thrash metal" song on the album. Arguable of course but that's always been the song I point people to for that purpose. Merry Christmas, Ryan and George!
I do agree. They could've done Whiplash, Motorbreath, Phantom Lord which are far more thrashy. Hell even " Hit the Lights".
The outro cures cancer
RAAAAAAAIDERS! James is a huge Raiders fan too so that hat fits in real well. Merry Christmas, thanks for another Metallica vid!
They were 20 when they wrote this...freaking insane
Out of all the songs in thrash metal history, this is very high on the list of songs that are awesome to hear live. Whole crowd just screaming that chorus is fun as hell
I used to love this tune but when they played it live and would do a 10 min call (James) and respond (audience) that killed the song for me.
Metallica for Christmas again let's go!
I agree 🔥🤘🏽🔥
Something that I see nobody else is talking about is how Metallica would go see hard-core punk rock bands at the Mabuhay Garden in San Francisco when they were first coming up. They loved this music by such bands as the Misfits and Discharge. So they took their love of Heavy Metal and combined it with the speed and aggression of Hardcore Punk and created Thrash. It would be amazing if you guys did an old Misfits or Discharge song on this channel
Think SLAYER were more on point as to incorporating PUNK into THRASH METAL
Misfits!
Discharge single handedly created both crust punk and d-beat
I was there! Used to go to the Stone and Rock on Broadway too. Those were the days.
Overkill was the first to combine punk and NWOBHM, in turn creating what we now know as thrash.
This is by far my favorite metallica album. Probably one of the best thrash metal albums of all time
It never leaves my truck
It's my second fav, I'm a Ride the Lighting guy. Both amazing records!
Cliff was 21, James was 19, Lars was 19, and Kirk was 20 when this album came out.
The inspiration for the lyrics depends on when the band was asked that question. Years ago, they said the song was about inner-city violence, but in more recent times they've said it's just about them rockin' with the fans (a recurring theme on that record).
Yea...but still everything on it screams Dave Mustain.
Thank you for the Metallica! And man, I'm sorry you didn't go on the initial journey with us from the beginning. Glad you found them!
This is the album that started it all. CLASSIC!
🔥🤘🏽🔥
I remember when this came out...
I was 18 and a senior in high school.
Time flies as they say...
that's when i was born. was a good year.
I remember playing this in my bedroom in the 80's after high school, BEFORE my parents got home from work, HEADBANGING and playing my AIR GUITAR 🎸
You guys have no idea how cool that was to watch. Made my day. Love it when music brings everyone together. Keep up the good work.
Am I Evil, THE FOUR HORSEMEN, I love this Whole album
Am I evil was on the 1988 re-release
The riff at 13:11… my all time favourite Metallica riff. Simple but full of raw blistering attitude.
What Metallica riff....the whole song screams Dave Mustain all over it 😂😂😂
The end of the song is the first true metal breakdown as we know it today.
It gets zero love on the list of best breakdowns of all time, but it’s top five in my book. How they speed up the first breakdown and then transition into the second is unreal for 1983.
Truth! One of the first and best. Shout out to Sepultura and Dead Embryonic Cells breakdown!
@@DEFKNIGHT My personal #2 breakdown of all time (Dominations will always be #1). You sr. have excellent taste.
I would say maybe Sabbath Bloody Sabbath was the first metal song to do a breakdown but that’s just my opinion.
Uhm, ever heard of a little band called Black Sabbath?
The first track they wrote and also the first one they recorded was Hit The Lights, not this one. It's track #1 on the album... and still gets played live. One of the best opening tracks on any album!!!
Seek is such a fun track live, and a great way to end their shows, or the first set before the encore
Y’all, we NEED RIDE THE LIGHTNING UP NEXT!!!
Absolute fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
They did RTL on their Petreon
This album is what got me into playing instruments. Hearing this in a garage with your friends for the first time was freaking incredible, you were on the money by saying imagine what i was like when there was nothing else quite like it.
George I'm not sure that it would have grabbed you in the same manner if you had heard the Metallica songs in chronological order. Your musical taste in metal has been thoroughly refined since you started a few years ago.
In the *_Opeth - Blackwater Park_* video, you jokingly said: _"We should've gotten this shit first!"_ I wondered about that, and I think that the song might very well would have been lost on you, back when you heard Ghost of Perdition in stead. Likewise, I don't think that you would have have enjoyed Seek & Destroy as much, if you hadn't already heard a lot of Metallica's other songs beforehand.
These are of course the interesting questions that ponder after the fact, unfortunately without having any way to ever find out =)
You guys should’ve seen it live back in the day. It was an incredible time to be a teenager.
YES! Saw Metallica open for Ozzy. I was immediately hooked!
One of those songs every up and coming Metal band played at practice.
That is such an old school song , from the time I use my cassette player to listen!!!
I always click so fast when i see Metallica!
Seen the show 2 weeks ago in Minneapolis, we are all a lot older but just as fun as when i was in high school! So glad i went. My son is 20 and has played guitar since he was 7 and James Hetfield is his favorite. I’m so glad I got to share the show with him! Awesome!
always enjoy yalls videos and your music appreciation
I just binged all your Metallica reactions last night lol great timing
Kill Em All was Metallica's introduction to the world. They were raw, young and full of piss and vinegar. They were tired of the "pretty boy" hair metal scene. They have evolved over time and sound nothing like this anymore, mostly because they are in their 60's now. But this was definitely what they aimed ro be and kept this fire for many years
This was before the pretty boy metal scene! Poison, Motley Crue, Nelson, winger, slaughter, the pretty boy hair band MTV scene was 1984-1988 era!
Well said
@@DPRyan-vd5pp Too Fast For Love came out in 1981
@psychomantis2881 Hair metal didn't truly arrive until the one-two punch of the US Festival in May 1983--the same month that Metallica recorded Kill 'Em All--and Quiet Riot's breakthrough with "Cum on Feel the Noize," which peaked in November of that year. Metallica had long developed their sound by then.
There were certainly pop metal bands at the time, and Metallica had definitely heard of Motley Crue, but the genre hadn't completely taken over MTV yet, and Metallica's main musical antagonist was Van Halen.
@@PsychoMantis308that release date doesn’t mean anything. That was an independent release of just a couple of hundred records pressed. Glam metal was not known at all in ‘81 outside of the Sunset Strip in L.A.
those riffs are so simple to play and so satisfying ! First song I learned on guitar. Love it
It’s not about how simple it is, but the fact that they knew how to bring the notes together to make it sound like that good
Great album. No Remorse is my favorite song of all time by them. Bleeding Me is great too.
🔥🤘🏽🔥
Four Horsemen is the best from this album, do it.
Yes
Oh god that middle section? PESTILENCE
I think you guys would have a blast comparing this to Metallica's 1993 live recording in Mexico City a decade later, available in the Live Shit Binge & Purge set. There's extended crowd participation and improvisatory jamming that convert this song into almost an entirely new one.
Can't even tell you how excited I was when you did Blackened on Xmas. Love to see this. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year dudes.
Can you please do Disposable Heroes next? 😊
They did the entire Master Of Puppets album on Patreon
They already did it on TH-cam
Nevermind I guess he's already on patreon. Commented 4y ago lol
I feel like they did that already bc they did the entire MoP album all in all.
ur late to the party bro
Can I just say that I really love whenever you repeat something that you read somewhere or heard somewhere you also give a citation as to the publication you read it or heard it from.
Seek and Destroy was an infantry tactic used in Vietnam. It just sounds hard which is the only point of the lyrics
And the name of the album is "Kill'em All". One can only wonder what it is about.
Whole album holds up till this day and will do so forever.
Stone cold crazy by queen... Definitely the first thrash song... 1974...
I've heard this song live twice and it gives me chills every time. What an incredible song
Seek & Destroy really comes alive when played live. It's one of the best parts of the concert.
Love watching yall.. you guys absolutely enjoy music period
Metallica whiplash, the four horsemen, am i evil, the small hours, last carress
I love Garage Days but really the first half is insane, Breadfan, Blitzkrieg (omg!) Small Hours, The Wait..I love them all, "So What" and the rest are OK, yes I know they are all covers and I really don't give a shit, they're still Metallica Fire in my book
This is the first Metallica song I ever heard back in 1985! I’ve been hooked on them ever since!
This was and still is amazing
@Lost In Vegas @George. You mentioned chronological order and it makes me think about when I went back thru their catalog the first time. I noticed that you can hear the sound carries thru. For example after listening to "Kill "Em All" and going to "Ride the Lightning", you can hear what they are doing. Same for R.T.L going into "Puppets, and so forth (up until Load and Re-Load). But they do bring it back. This also reminds me of when Ryan mentioned the changing of the groove, and how that was a thing Ryan noticed about "Spit Out the Bone" You can hear THIS in THAT. Plus the shit just jams!!! Love you guys. Been watching since like video 5 or 6!!
Always heard Priest in this album, love it.
DA BEARS! Bears fan in GA, here! Love the channel, and all your reviews/insights/breakdowns. One of the best reaction channels
Hetfield is THE greatest rhythm guitar player.
He is most definitely the most underrated, if not the the greatest!
Mustaine...by far.
@@Stonefalconetti Mustaine's a lead guitarist who also plays rhythm, whereas James is a pure rhythm guitarist. Mustaine is definitely a better all-round all-round guitarist since he can do both, but James is like a human metronom and has the best right hand in the business (which is lucky for Metallica because if they had to rely on Lars to keep the tempo, they'd be screwed).
@@Stonefalconetti Uh no? Mustaine isn't even close. Willie Adler is even better than Mustaine.
Adler is no slouch. I think people that make these best ever declarations are ridiculous. There are so many amazing musicians out there. @@TheLarknessMonster
You guys are great! I've been watching from the beginning. You guys are the first. The OGs. Much love 😎🤘
Dual reaction ...
Queen and Metallica
Stone Cold Crazy
Cmon....
I love watching the '89 performace of this, for that bash-your-face-in aggression, and then skip to watching it from a 2012+ performance, where it's become a family singalong, with beach balls being dropped on the crowd. I love taking it ALL in.
I heard the song last night i Denmark. It was just killing 😎🤟🏼
After all these years you're finally getting to this wow!
Props for posting the stereo version of the song. Some of us audiophiles appreciate it.
This is their official 1st release, however they had a demo cassette going around called "No Life Till Leather'. If anyone has that original cassette its work $$$$$$! Peace from FL
Widely regarded as one of the greatest debut albums in Rock history. Y'all been sleeping on Kill'em All.
ON EDIT: You should do Anesthesia and Whiplash as a single reaction for your next Kill'em All pick. ...just saying.
U guys will blow u minds with 4 horsemans. Love from Brazil.
Dam and you just now released it to the public we Metallica fans we need more Metallica on your platform please bands like this keep me interested but THANK YOU you playing something off the album that started THRASH METAL. 🤘🏼🤘🏼👍🙏
For the first time in 40 years I just noticed what a great job the album cover does with integrating the one and only lower case letter. Helps that it's basically centered. Nice graphic design work.
You guys gotta do Metallicas "I Disappear" next!!!
I saw this tour in a club front of the stage , sick concert!
this is the weirdest thing i was searching for this reaction on your channel this morning and now you post it😭
Merry Christmas @LOSTINVEGAS. Thank you for the metallica reaction
The fact that this is the first time in a studio is 🔥
And recorded in a week or so.
Even after 35 years, this is still my hands-down favorite Tallica song. James got the idea for this song from Diamond Head. It was a song called dead reckoning. If you guys dug seek, you gotta hear whiplash. Definitely my second favorite off killer all. It's pretty fuckin cool to see rap guys banging to metallica. Metallica changed my life in a very fundamental way. After I heard Metallica the first time, It completely changed the way I heard music, and looked at the world. All for the better. I'm still as diehard a fan now as I was back then. So Cheers to you guys and Cheers to the Mighty Metallica for being the Greatest Band ever!
That’s the first and actual breakdown in metal history ❤
Damage inc for the next reaction would be fine guys
They’ve done it already
You just can't help banging your head at these old Metalica songs. I only saw them two times: Once at Monster of Rock in Seattle, and again in Billings, Montana.
Saw them in a bar with a couple hundred people in 83 couple weeks after it was released
Some must watch Metallica songs/shows u guys didnt do yet:
- Creeping Death
- Disposable Heroes
- To Live is to Die
- Wiplash
- Four Horsemen
- Hit the Lights
- Battery
- Dyers Eve
- Unforgiven 1 - 2 - 3
- Harvester of Sorrow live moscow 1991
- Creeping Death live moscow 1991
- Enter Sandman live moscow 1991
- !!!!!!!Master of Puppets, Battery, Blackened, Wiplash, Whom the Bell tolls live Seattle 1989!!!!!!!
- Master of Puppets live 2019 Manchester
Just to list a few ... keep rocking guys! Love that u always keep it real!
Some people say listen to other songs on this album, and while I really like many of them, your guys's tendency to like a "medium thrash" this is about the best you can get for that on this album. The rest of them are mostly much thrashier lol.
12:45 That transitions is so good! Reminds me of GHOST love these riffs!!!
Thank Johnny Z for taking a chance on these youngsters
Great reaction - just heard them live Friday In Parken, Copenhagen Denmark. Second half is same place In 6 hours time🤘🤘🤘
Awesome. Please do Mercyful Fate - Shadows.
Really like your honesty at the end of this video. Also, Rattlehead by Megadeth... PLEASE!
If I remember correctly, Dave Mustaine (of Megadeth) wrote the solo and James played it. Absolutely phenomenal bands, even to this day.
This is the last Metallica song to have a writing credit for Mustaine. Seek and Destroy - has that solo, and in an old interview with Metallica, Seek and Destroy had already been written, and James said he played the solo, and he played it right. This means Dave wrote that solo.
Dave wrote nothing on this song but he did demo a version of a solo that Kirk changed
My hockey team, The San Jose Sharks, skates onto the ice to this song every home game. Metallica is from The Bay Area & actually used to have season tickets to The Sharks. At the Stanley Cup Final home game I went to, Metallica actually sang The National Anthem.
Good review as always. Kind sums up the way I feel about this song as well, and this album. If you listen to enough Metallica and enough Megadeth, then you can clearly hear Mustaine's influence on this album... it is unmistakable and awesome. My personal favorite on this album is Four Horsemen and it's simply a must-listen for yall right now. It really showcases the band's instrumental mastery and uncanny transitions at such a young age. I also recommend Motorbreath, Jump in the Fire, and Hit the Lights off this album. All of these are better songs than Seek and Destroy IMO.
One more note. Cliff Burton. My favorite bassist ever. He anchors this band and album (anesthesia pulling teeth), along with Hetfield on the rhythm. I digress, please consider my recommendations above as I feel they represent the best of this album.
Cheers and Merry Christmas everyone!
Metallica's older stuff holds up so much better than their later stuff.
It's not outdated
When we heard that in 83-84 we lost our damn minds....12-13yr old me and my friends wore that shit out. Remember Metallica did not get played on the radio, at that time. First time I ever heard them on the radio was like 1988 on my way to the LA Coliseum to see them on the Monsters of Rock tour. Best riot/concert ever!!
My substitute teacher in junior high borrowed this album to me in 83 along with Excitor and Venom. My mind was rocked at 13! 🤘🤘
that's one of my favorite metallica songs, since I was a kid. Been listening to them since I was a kid, as far back as I can remember. That song is just a banger. That whole album killed