Some average metal garage band tape? I dont think so man. They sound like every other hair metal band of the time, just a little heavier and a littlr faster.
I heard ride the lightning full album the night before it was released on metal shop. Maiden and Priest were de throwned overnight as the kings of metal.
When I heard this, I freaked out!! I listened to Motorbreath very little, mostly I liked the solos in Metal militia or Phantom lord, but this is just fucking awesome!
Heard this when I was 17 years old as a bootleg demo being passed around a bunch of metal heads…guitar players… it totally changed what I wanted to do on guitar. I was just blown away and couldn’t stop listening to it. Still is amazing but the way it hit me back then probably changed my life. It was so fast and different than anything before. To think what they turned into( biggest metal band ever) makes sense to me now.
Not only is Dave's solos the emphasis of what thrash metal solos should sound like listen to his rhythm playing. Just perfect playing. Then match it up with the precision with Hetfield's rhythms. Just perfect. Those two as a guitar tandem. Perfect!!!
yeah they were tight. And NLTL was the last time Metallica rhythm guitar was double tracked using both players (to my understanding James did all the non-lead on subsequent recordings
Im an old dude now... almost 52 Metallica fan and Megadeth fan from waaaaay back. Still banging my head and throwing the horns! Both bands gave us great metal and im fucking glad i got to witness and experience them both!! 🤘🤘
yes JAMES was still trying to copy the singer from DIAMOND HEAD and MUSTAINE's solos were completely improvised not set in stone at all. incredibly interesting to hear these earliest versions of "KILL' which is and always will be my fave 'TALLICA album.
I thought that was Dave singing honestly I think he does sing actually cuz this is too similar to Dave for me to shake I know James still sung live at this time
Dave is without any doubt better than Kirk but it's not a contest. Dave was a front man anyway and it never would have worked with him and James. It was a blessing they branched into two amazing bands.
Kirk only started wah spamming in the 90s watch metallica live at Seattle 1989 that energy was unmatched I’d say even by Megadeth still love both bands tho
@@bendup52 Truth be told, in Jump in the Fire's second solo, Kirk's version is way better than Dave's. The same for the solo on Phantom Lord. The speed is the same, but Kirk's melody is much better and truly matches the songs, they are in harmony. Before you call me a Metallica fanboy, I am also a fanboy of both😆. My first concert was Megadeth's, way before Metallica's.
I got so lucky to get a dub off an original copy of this. The owner of The Vinyl Revolution in Monterey, CA was friends with Lars and was given a copy. He made a dub and gave it to me. So amazing.
I like the approach Ron Mc Govney did to the basslines. They're different from what Cliff Burton did in Kill em All. More simple, but effective basslines, closer to a punk bass
@@somebodybody6514 maybe he was just not allowed to open his damn mouth , just like Jason , anyways lol with Dave and James in the team , i'd have an hard time dictating the direction of my bass lines regardless !
Knowing the context and history of Metallica, this demo is fantastic! This was just the beginning of something great in the metal scene of California and the rest of the country!
1s time i heard this was in english class in 85 a kid next to me had a walkman and i heard KEA coming out of his headphones, listened to 1 song and left school at lunch, went to Tower records and bought it. Most amazing thing i'd ever heard at the time.
I imagine listening to this back then, coupled with Van Halen for the first time on the radio. Man, I bet that was amazing, those were great decades for metal!
Hearing this and a live concert with Mustaine in the band is eye opening. I can't believe I never heard his influence on Kill em All until now. So much of the guitar work in these songs sound like strait up Megadeth LOL.
Dave’s solos have signature bits that u hear over his career especially his signature solo endings he’s used over the years but it’s crazy how simplified Kirk made his solos It’s like playing guitar hero on medium vs expert
I was the one who gave the demo to Jon Zazula. I was going to college in Arizona in 1982 and took a spring break trip to LA. I went to the troubadour and saw Malice, Pandemonium and Metallica. I could not believe how great Metallica was! I talked to James and told him I knew a record producer in Jersey (mega force records) who loves metal and would love you guys! James told me to talk to Lars. So I did and Lars gave me the demo tape which I still have! After my semester I went back to Jersey for the summer. I stopped in at the local flea market and talked to J.Zazula. He listened to the demo tape and cranked it loud and said I love this and I will call them! That summer if you all remember Metallica was playing around Jersey and NY. I went back to college and saw they had signed with Jon Zazula. I never received any real recognition for helping Metallica get their break but I am okay with that. I know if I talked to Lars he would remember me for sure! I have seen them many times but never have been in the right situation to chat with the band. Rock on headbangers! Long live Metal!
This is actually playing back at the wrong speed (slightly fast), it’s a half step sharp- which is also why James sounds so young, check out other postings of this to hear it as it was recorded.
Look, the change from Dave to Kirk was a necessary one, but: 1) They never gave Dave the appropriate credit for his part in creating the Metallica sound, and; 2) They should have fired Dave *AFTER* recording _Kill Em All._ Look, I love many of Kirk's contributions so much that I couldn't imagine Metallica being as good as they were without them, but _Kill Em All_ was Dave era Metallica and Dave just did everything he created better (just as I couldn't imagine Dave doing justice to "Fade To Black"). _Kill Em All_ was _Metal Up Your Ass" and that's Dave's attitude and playing 100%!
They gave Dave so many warnings. But they should’ve said “hey listen, you are being a pain in the ass towards the whole band and you have 2 choices, either get tf out, or fix the drug and alcohol problem”. That probably would’ve worked. Its annoying that they kicked Dave out cause i think Dave is better than Kirk.. Their best lineup was when they had both Cliff and Dave
It sounds like Dave sang The Four Horsemen on this demo. But it does not explain how Metallica did it on their own since then. No more Dave when Puppets came out.
@VinCostanza nah. Dude was a fuckup and it took a literal near death experience almost 13 years later for him to finally clean up his act. You're coping.
Hit The Lights [0:00] The Mechanix [4:05] Motorbreath [8:20] Seek & Destroy [11:28] Metal Militia [16:04] Jump In The Fire [21:00] Phantom Lord [24:42]
Bands only need 1 front man. I look at it this way. Dave and James are both alpha. They were always going to split. We got 2 awesome metal bands but I can see where you are coming from. Imagine if dave (and cliff) still part of Metallica...
@@danielvician6339 they was all Drunk AF all the time. And you're telling me James didn't have an attitude or Lars? Look at the way they bullied Jason, Treated Ron, still treat Kirk like an outside these days and Robert is treated still to this day as a full in musician. They all was dicks, drunk and high AF. Dave gets a lot of hate but everyone forgets all the shit Lars has done and James!
When this demo was made in 1982, I don't think any of the band members in Metallica (at that time) realized just how popular this music was going to become. And they didn't fully understand how famous they were about to become in the following year or two.
@@apacheworrier3776 are u kidding me? i know someone that went to see them in Paris in 1984 taking a moped from Rouen , it was freezing cold and a 6h drive total.. Who was nuts enough to do that to see a live show? Metallica was already popular.
@@joshgore8256 They sold themselves to the business during x years. SO painful for their first hour fans. At least they've brought metal..to the masses ! And made it more decent for them...
I've listened to Metallica since I was a kid and heard Sandman when I heard it on the radio in 92 or 93. When I played football in high school we would play Metallica in the locker room and when we lifted weights. In college, I listened to Ride and the first Black Sabbath album to get me through late night study sessions. On long car rides with my parents I'd listen to Justice. Working cruddy jobs in my 20s and 30s I had the first 3 Metallica albums on repeat. This music is in my marrow. I'm 40 now and I still come back to it. It is one of the many influences in the music I write and play.
this is so much better a fans dream my dad had this tape in 83 when i was 9 in LA. this is the best of megadeth and metallica. this is how it was meant to be
Dave is an excellent guitarist and bad ass on vocals. Spent most of my life hating on the guy for no reason. He's an absolute beast. Live the metallica we have but that group back then were metal
I like how some folks in the comments are all "imagine playing 'mama said' to these guys, and tell em it's what theyll be playing in 15ish years". And not "nothing else matters" with the "in 35 years Elton John will cover this song of yours, and refer to it publicly as a ageless classic akin to Green Sleeves". Or "the rolling stones are going to contact you directly to ask, actually insist, that you open for them" But some people are still sour 30+ years later that these (literal) boys grew into men and their music went through a similar maturation
@@FyreofShadow probably because a lot of them are "improved" versions of dave's solos from the demo. the four horsemen for example is straight up ripped from dave, as well as mechanix
@@juangil8284 LOL, actually that's the reason. James and Lars realized the same in Kirk's audition and got him in the band. Kirk Hammett's solos and killer riffs (4 songs in RTL, 5 in MOP, 5 in AJFA, 4 in the black album) are part of the reason why Metallica became a behemoth in the metal world, but that is usually forgotten given that Mustaine is/was a motormouth always making it about him before the music.
Gotta love this "let's pitch it up so the guitar sounds as if it was playing faster, don't give a shit how it affects the other stuff or the vocals-approach". Great stuff! Today metal is all about "you gotta use this amp and this guitar, then you have to do this and that and don't you dare doing this and that!" I really miss this attitude..."I don't give a shit" rings with every note of this amazing demo!
@@RafaelCDet Well, then try to play along with a guitar tuned at 440hz in E Standard. It's definitely pitched up a tad, my dummy brother. Changing the speed of the tape was not some expansive studio magic, it was just as easy as that. Also when changing the speed of the tape not only the pitch changes, but also the formant of the vocals. That's why it just doesn't sound like James.
@@RamonPalonski dude, it sounds like Hetfield, just not the KEA Hetfield, this was when didn't discovered his own style and just keep trying what his favorite singers did
Kill ‘Em All is the best. I lost interest once they put the slow ballad “Fade To Black” on Ride The Lightning. They went too commercial for me. They had some good songs after that but Kill Em All is the only record I like as a whole.
My favorite thing about Dave is u can hear riffs and solos on this demo that he would hold onto for years before digging them out and claiming them back as his
Thanks for posting this! The first Metallica song I ever heard was Ride the Lightning, and I've never been the same since. This recording is great, and I prefer it to much of their later stuff; makes me wish they'd never broken up with Dave Mustaine!
I was just a little little kid in 81 if I had heard this then my brain would have melted into goo. I didn't have any older siblings to show me the way so it wouldn't be until the late 80's until I was shown the way. My brain still almost melted then. This is the way.
@@t1naftore no not even a little the black album had a couple good songs but after other than that Justice was their last true metal album and they butchered it too, enhancing Lars's drums and Hetfields guitar any quieting the bass.
This is some demo for sure! Amazing they did this at such young ages, and personally i don't have any problem with Hetfields singing here. And the guitar-solos, my god! 👏👌
Can anyone else hear the diamond head influence ? . Gotta say Metallica at its best in the early days loved listening to them in the 80s brings back so many great memories. Still listen to em and still more the older stuff ,
I wonder if there are any original copies of No Life Till Leather still floating around? As a huge Metallica fan, that would be like the Holy Grail to get my hands on one.
I honestly would preferred James incorporating this into his vocals instead of the yodeling that we got from 94-present time . Like Indiana Jones said .. this belongs in a museum .
In late 1981 I actually heard a bootleg of this, as best I remember only 4 songs on the cassette tape, the 1st song on it was MOTORBREATH.... had been stationed in the Marine Corp. in Camp Pendleton Ca, one of the guys in my squad had this tape on his car's glove compartment, heard it while we were washing his car. I got immediately blown away.....never heard anything like it, I was sold on Metallica. My buddy never revealed the source of how he obtain the tape. 1-1/2 years later when they were touring to kill m all...I saw them between duty stations on my way to Camp Lejeune NC, 1st concert in my hometown of Chicago at the METRO, now in the present 2023 I have racked up 59 shows all over the world, coming up on my 59-60 in Dallas, Tx next month August.
I dont think Dave did the vocals on this. I watched another documentary I guess you could call it where Dave was talking about megadeth and finding a vocalist because he originally didn't want to do it but he grudgingly eventually did out of necessity. So I don't think he did vocals in metallica. If you watch the old footage of Metallica with Dave, Dave is acting like more of the front man than James though, taking over the mic.
This shit is worthy of being put in a museum, and will be one day
Fuck yeahh!!!
Truth
Should already be in there.
Some average metal garage band tape? I dont think so man. They sound like every other hair metal band of the time, just a little heavier and a littlr faster.
@@trenken this is 82. Hair metal wasn't a thing dude. 🙄
Imagine hearing this back in the day when thrash / speed metal hardly, or if ever existed ? MIND BLOWN
I did... was awesome comming from accept and saxon to this :)
I heard ride the lightning full album the night before it was released on metal shop. Maiden and Priest were de throwned overnight as the kings of metal.
moms priest and maiden still blow this band away
good times for sure.
I'm still mind blown today
Hetfield was just 18-19 years old when this was recorded, still a teenager. Musical genius !
16 or 17 i guess. 82-83
@@metaljoe9088 he was 19 in 82
@@Spoon101 dude I'm 40 and been a fan of both bands for like 30 years and I cannot imagine giving up either
@@Spoon101 mustain sloppy
He was 19 in a couple months!
Damn. Dave’s lead playing here is really frigging good.
10:48 woah
Your goddamned right it is 🤘
🧢
Dave’s solo in Motorbreath is outrageous 10:47
When I heard this, I freaked out!! I listened to Motorbreath very little, mostly I liked the solos in Metal militia or Phantom lord, but this is just fucking awesome!
Thats why hes the GOAT
THAT SHIT HAD PERFECT DIRECTION
Yep. Substandard in the box basic theory with missed picks. “Outrageous”
@@SoberHighDrunk If it was Kirk playing it half of the people would throw shit at him lmao(I do not hate Dave just to clarify)
Mustaine is a monster!
Yes, Because he was only 21 years old (very young). Regard from Chile (Antofagasta)
Munkstain
No Wah.
He was not a singer at all back then.
Mustaine is the only redeaming quality for Metallica
Heard this when I was 17 years old as a bootleg demo being passed around a bunch of metal heads…guitar players… it totally changed what I wanted to do on guitar. I was just blown away and couldn’t stop listening to it. Still is amazing but the way it hit me back then probably changed my life. It was so fast and different than anything before. To think what they turned into( biggest metal band ever) makes sense to me now.
Technically they turned into the two biggest metal bands ever
The singing style here is pretty much inspired by Diamond Head (i guess)
menggokil
exactly!
And blitzkrieg!
Totally
Yes it certainly is!!
Not only is Dave's solos the emphasis of what thrash metal solos should sound like listen to his rhythm playing. Just perfect playing. Then match it up with the precision with Hetfield's rhythms. Just perfect. Those two as a guitar tandem. Perfect!!!
yeah they were tight. And NLTL was the last time Metallica rhythm guitar was double tracked using both players (to my understanding James did all the non-lead on subsequent recordings
Kirk was better. Get off Dave's dick already
Ydk fucking shit dude
@@rebusd up until the black album, then again since death magnetic
Im an old dude now... almost 52 Metallica fan and Megadeth fan from waaaaay back. Still banging my head and throwing the horns! Both bands gave us great metal and im fucking glad i got to witness and experience them both!! 🤘🤘
Dude this is awesome! And I can't get over the mini James Hetfield singing! Can I just say Dave is a shredder! Thanks for the great upload!
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yes JAMES was still trying to copy the singer from DIAMOND HEAD and MUSTAINE's solos were completely improvised not set in stone at all. incredibly interesting to hear these earliest versions of "KILL' which is and always will be my fave 'TALLICA album.
I thought that was Dave singing honestly I think he does sing actually cuz this is too similar to Dave for me to shake I know James still sung live at this time
I'm a HUUUUGE MetallicA fan and I admit No Life Til Leather is better than Kill Em All.
@@turtlboi2217 it’s not Dave man
To hear these solos without the help of a wawa peddle is stunning-the essence and attack of Dave's playing is forever cemented in the Metallica sound.
Yes i agree man, would love to have seen them live with Dave playing the original stuff. Not a bad Kirk wawa knock off
@@pmac2597 yup. I grew up in southern cali. Saw Metallica in the small clubs but always with Kirk. I just missed the shows with Dave by a year or so.
Dave is without any doubt better than Kirk but it's not a contest. Dave was a front man anyway and it never would have worked with him and James. It was a blessing they branched into two amazing bands.
@@flightofthebumblebee9529 Kirk is better. Always was.
Kirk only started wah spamming in the 90s watch metallica live at Seattle 1989 that energy was unmatched I’d say even by Megadeth still love both bands tho
These guys are pretty good. Hope they make it big lol
They just might.
Cant wait for no life till leather to come out🔥🔥
That Dave Mustaine guy is a sick guitarist
@@JaBismarck Yeah, I think he may be too cool for Metallica.
It’s actually a demo from the 80’s and they went on to become Earth’s biggest metal band
@@akebretto3873 you missed the joke
I can listen to Dave soloing forever and ever
@@MrElecteriklol sloppy, u Metallica fan boys are hilarious
@@bendup52 Truth be told, in Jump in the Fire's second solo, Kirk's version is way better than Dave's. The same for the solo on Phantom Lord. The speed is the same, but Kirk's melody is much better and truly matches the songs, they are in harmony.
Before you call me a Metallica fanboy, I am also a fanboy of both😆. My first concert was Megadeth's, way before Metallica's.
@@bendup52 Dave and Kirk play the same pentatonic shit, just Dave is faster, only diff
Can’t believe it’s James signing 😲
I doubt he sung. Mustaine's voice
@@ПавелМышлаевский It’s James
@@ludwigblomqvist7531 Hi Sweden... Maybe
@@ПавелМышлаевский Yes! Hi
@@ПавелМышлаевский it sounds like both of them
I got so lucky to get a dub off an original copy of this. The owner of The Vinyl Revolution in Monterey, CA was friends with Lars and was given a copy. He made a dub and gave it to me. So amazing.
With these uploads anyone can make a dub of the original,but what would be really cool is having an original. Like that owner
You can definitely hear King Diamond's influence in this demo, specifically on the vocals. Thanks for uploading!
Also Diamond Head
King Diamond Head@@diegobernardi562
I like the approach Ron Mc Govney did to the basslines. They're different from what Cliff Burton did in Kill em All. More simple, but effective basslines, closer to a punk bass
especially in Hit The Lights. never felt the need to repeat the main riff note by note on bass
absolutely nothing special
@@somebodybody6514 maybe he was just not allowed to open his damn mouth , just like Jason , anyways lol with Dave and James in the team , i'd have an hard time dictating the direction of my bass lines regardless !
@@TheTrooperMBellefson never seemed to have that problem with Dave, you could always hear him clearly.
@@timgonzales2891 but lars is not in megadeth
Knowing the context and history of Metallica, this demo is fantastic!
This was just the beginning of something great in the metal scene of California and the rest of the country!
1s time i heard this was in english class in 85 a kid next to me had a walkman and i heard KEA coming out of his headphones, listened to 1 song and left school at lunch, went to Tower records and bought it. Most amazing thing i'd ever heard at the time.
I imagine listening to this back then, coupled with Van Halen for the first time on the radio. Man, I bet that was amazing, those were great decades for metal!
daves solos on this are unbelievable wow
I didn’t know Vince Neil song for Metallica lol 😂
😂
Yep!!!!
Haha, that's what I was thinking too!
I am positive that the reason Metallica hate The Crue is because they secretly liked them.
@@Banana_Split_Cream_BunsCrue helped them get some of their first gigs. I don’t think they hate them, just took a different direction with music.
Hearing this and a live concert with Mustaine in the band is eye opening. I can't believe I never heard his influence on Kill em All until now. So much of the guitar work in these songs sound like strait up Megadeth LOL.
Dave wrote most of the riffs, Metallica stole them after he was kicked out, Dave then took ‘em back & made them faster
@@tuievans he only has songwriting credits on four songs
@@mrcaesar3123 4 out of 7 thats most of the songs
This is nothing compared to megadeth riffs / solos.
@@slushbox3443 3 in Kill 'Em All, one in Ride The Lighting.
This makes 3/7 in Kill 'Em All, and 1/10 in Ride.
Definitely a minority.
Wow Dave is clearly on another level
This was just pot and alcohol this was before the hard drug use
excuse Me, i mostly heard complex noise in his solos; lot of complex yes; but cero feelings.
@@victorfelixleyva3575 This is the birth of thrash metal, not blues or R&B... energy and speed, pedal to the metal, feelings??????? lol
no offense, but daves' solos here are ugly
didn’t Lloyd Grant do the lead guitar for this?
You can hear the Diamond Head influence expecially in Hit The Lights
Yeah. "Hit The Lights" was their first, even before Dave's time. You can hear how they changed with Dave.
Yeah the riff was definitely inspire by the prince.
And seek
honestly this is my favourite Metallica release
Not Kill Em All? This is basically the .5 version of that.
Can we get it at the proper speed?
@@commandercaptain4664 this version has mustaine preforming
@@commandercaptain4664 are you nuts this version has Dave not Kirk can you not hear it lol. This is fabulous
@@flightofthebumblebee9529 Yeah. The solos make no sense. I hear that.
Dave’s solos have signature bits that u hear over his career especially his signature solo endings he’s used over the years but it’s crazy how simplified Kirk made his solos
It’s like playing guitar hero on medium vs expert
Kirk sucks
Dave Mustaine siempre su sello fueron los solos de guitarra, es imposible no reconocer la mano del gran pelirrojo ❤
James sounds like he is 14
its because this is sped up slightly compared to the original, so its pitched up as well
He was 17 I guess
@@german2501 he was
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@@german2501 Well, he was 19.
This is the best sounding version I have ever heard. Thanks.
Thanks Jonny and Marsha Zazula for bringing this out to the world, and helping to enrich the lives of headbangers worldwide! 🤘🍻
R.I.P. Jon Zazula
Zazula basically put his house and life on the line for this band. Incredible.
'Bologna on hand'
I was the one who gave the demo to Jon Zazula. I was going to college in Arizona in 1982 and took a spring break trip to LA. I went to the troubadour and saw Malice, Pandemonium and Metallica. I could not believe how great Metallica was! I talked to James and told him I knew a record producer in Jersey (mega force records) who loves metal and would love you guys! James told me to talk to Lars. So I did and Lars gave me the demo tape which I still have! After my semester I went back to Jersey for the summer. I stopped in at the local flea market and talked to J.Zazula. He listened to the demo tape and cranked it loud and said I love this and I will call them! That summer if you all remember Metallica was playing around Jersey and NY. I went back to college and saw they had signed with Jon Zazula. I never received any real recognition for helping Metallica get their break but I am okay with that. I know if I talked to Lars he would remember me for sure! I have seen them many times but never have been in the right situation to chat with the band. Rock on headbangers! Long live Metal!
WTF those solos of dave are insane
Never was a mustaine fan or Megadeth lover but Dave is killing this shit
This is actually playing back at the wrong speed (slightly fast), it’s a half step sharp- which is also why James sounds so young, check out other postings of this to hear it as it was recorded.
Look, the change from Dave to Kirk was a necessary one, but:
1) They never gave Dave the appropriate credit for his part in creating the Metallica sound, and;
2) They should have fired Dave *AFTER* recording _Kill Em All._
Look, I love many of Kirk's contributions so much that I couldn't imagine Metallica being as good as they were without them, but _Kill Em All_ was Dave era Metallica and Dave just did everything he created better (just as I couldn't imagine Dave doing justice to "Fade To Black"). _Kill Em All_ was _Metal Up Your Ass" and that's Dave's attitude and playing 100%!
i agree
Kill em all albumsounds Megadeth (mustaine)
They gave Dave so many warnings. But they should’ve said “hey listen, you are being a pain in the ass towards the whole band and you have 2 choices, either get tf out, or fix the drug and alcohol problem”. That probably would’ve worked. Its annoying that they kicked Dave out cause i think Dave is better than Kirk.. Their best lineup was when they had both Cliff and Dave
It sounds like Dave sang The Four Horsemen on this demo. But it does not explain how Metallica did it on their own since then. No more Dave when Puppets came out.
@VinCostanza nah. Dude was a fuckup and it took a literal near death experience almost 13 years later for him to finally clean up his act. You're coping.
Dave is flippin wringing that guitar’s neck. Incredible.
Imagine “ guys in 20 years from now, you ll be the greatest metal band ever “
*10
greatest? n o
most famous, yes
Greatest in popularity only.
@@tromboneman4517 your name is trombone man..
@@gianluigidautilia6417, I’m a trombonist who also happens to be a metal head. Weird, but it is what it is.
Hit The Lights [0:00]
The Mechanix [4:05]
Motorbreath [8:20]
Seek & Destroy [11:28]
Metal Militia [16:04]
Jump In The Fire [21:00]
Phantom Lord [24:42]
Thnks❤
Imagine going back in time and playing Mama Said to these guys and telling them that's what they'll be up to in 15 years.
Or King Nothing, or Bleeding Me.
Mind-blowing
They would probably kick your ass and call you a lier.. lol
or St.Anger album
They'll be like "Get the fuck outta here!" and will toss beer bottles and cans at you... 🤣🤣🤣
Fuck Dave can shred. Why would they get rid of such a talent. He wrote a lot of this stuff too.
Because he became an asshole when he was drunk and always picked fights with the other members
Cuz he was drunk af all the time and he had bad attitude
Didn’t vibe with the band
Bands only need 1 front man. I look at it this way. Dave and James are both alpha. They were always going to split. We got 2 awesome metal bands but I can see where you are coming from. Imagine if dave (and cliff) still part of Metallica...
@@danielvician6339 they was all Drunk AF all the time. And you're telling me James didn't have an attitude or Lars? Look at the way they bullied Jason, Treated Ron, still treat Kirk like an outside these days and Robert is treated still to this day as a full in musician.
They all was dicks, drunk and high AF. Dave gets a lot of hate but everyone forgets all the shit Lars has done and James!
When this demo was made in 1982, I don't think any of the band members in Metallica (at that time) realized just how popular this music was going to become. And they didn't fully understand how famous they were about to become in the following year or two.
Prolly the Zazulas did not expect it would blow up the way it did a few years latet!
They didn’t really take off until the And Justice For All album.
No shit
@@Xendava they were still a cult band at the time Master came out.
But if you were into metal you knew who they were.
@@apacheworrier3776 are u kidding me? i know someone that went to see them in Paris in 1984 taking a moped from Rouen , it was freezing cold and a 6h drive total.. Who was nuts enough to do that to see a live show? Metallica was already popular.
To all Metallica fans: This is supposed to have "Millions" of views, people,...🤘🤘🤘
Not for the masses...😎
Only for the true old school fans!!!! Haha
Metallica wasn't for the masses til the "sell out" album
@@joshgore8256 They sold themselves to the business during x years. SO painful for their first hour fans.
At least they've brought metal..to the masses ! And made it more decent for them...
????
Nobody ever talks about Jump In The Fire it's such an awesome song maybe even my favorite metallica song
This is the best Metallica 🤘 Sometimes, old is gold.
Vocals are terrible
@@Strimbles then go back to 1982 and say that to James
@@sleepyblade I'm sure he would agree. He said his early vocals were cringy
@@Strimbles yeah that's what I mean, you can't change it, it is what it is
I've listened to Metallica since I was a kid and heard Sandman when I heard it on the radio in 92 or 93. When I played football in high school we would play Metallica in the locker room and when we lifted weights. In college, I listened to Ride and the first Black Sabbath album to get me through late night study sessions. On long car rides with my parents I'd listen to Justice. Working cruddy jobs in my 20s and 30s I had the first 3 Metallica albums on repeat. This music is in my marrow. I'm 40 now and I still come back to it. It is one of the many influences in the music I write and play.
this is so much better a fans dream my dad had this tape in 83 when i was 9 in LA. this is the best of megadeth and metallica. this is how it was meant to be
Dave is an excellent guitarist and bad ass on vocals. Spent most of my life hating on the guy for no reason. He's an absolute beast. Live the metallica we have but that group back then were metal
Every song of this demo was just killer.
Can't believe that in a matter of a few years they'd go on to make songs like Disposable and Blackened
I like how some folks in the comments are all "imagine playing 'mama said' to these guys, and tell em it's what theyll be playing in 15ish years". And not "nothing else matters" with the "in 35 years Elton John will cover this song of yours, and refer to it publicly as a ageless classic akin to Green Sleeves". Or "the rolling stones are going to contact you directly to ask, actually insist, that you open for them"
But some people are still sour 30+ years later that these (literal) boys grew into men and their music went through a similar maturation
How are the vocals even higher than on the actual record
Puberty ig
this is a demo made a couple years before kill em all he was also still trying to find a voice at this time
Well it is Speed!👨🏻 And, cheaper equipment, maybe related things, just guessing, oh, and he is younger? LOL
Sounds more like Dave on lead vocals with James on supporting vocals to me.
@@mattreynolds4488 if you think this is Dave on the vocals you have never heard a megadeth song in your life
mustaine's soloing is so much clearer than hammett's in the album
not a surprise
Honestly, I still like Hammet's solos on the album more, although I can't say why.
@@FyreofShadow probably because a lot of them are "improved" versions of dave's solos from the demo. the four horsemen for example is straight up ripped from dave, as well as mechanix
@@FyreofShadow for me, Kirks solos sound more warm, less robotic, somewhat of a bluesie feel. Just my opinion though.
@@juangil8284 LOL, actually that's the reason. James and Lars realized the same in Kirk's audition and got him in the band. Kirk Hammett's solos and killer riffs (4 songs in RTL, 5 in MOP, 5 in AJFA, 4 in the black album) are part of the reason why Metallica became a behemoth in the metal world, but that is usually forgotten given that Mustaine is/was a motormouth always making it about him before the music.
I heard this and I just had to drink a beer and smoke a joint. "Metal up your Ass" Thanks for making my Friday 7-2-2021
Still better than LuLu
That's not Metallica
Wrong. Everything is better than LuLu.
Lulu isnt a Metallica album. Its a Lou Reed album
@Read Father Seraphim Rose they should "re-garage days" st anger. Do about a 5 song ep. Clean open recording, less fluff, all muscle.
@Read Father Seraphim Rose st anger is amazing tho
There's no Cliff Burton on this. It's Ron McGovney on bass. Only recording Ron is ever on of Metallica.
Power metal demo and metal up your ass have him too
There's another demo that's even earlier than this one here on TH-cam that he is on.
Gotta love this "let's pitch it up so the guitar sounds as if it was playing faster, don't give a shit how it affects the other stuff or the vocals-approach". Great stuff!
Today metal is all about "you gotta use this amp and this guitar, then you have to do this and that and don't you dare doing this and that!" I really miss this attitude..."I don't give a shit" rings with every note of this amazing demo!
it's not pitched up dummy, james vocals were just that high in 1982
@@RafaelCDet
Well, then try to play along with a guitar tuned at 440hz in E Standard. It's definitely pitched up a tad, my dummy brother. Changing the speed of the tape was not some expansive studio magic, it was just as easy as that. Also when changing the speed of the tape not only the pitch changes, but also the formant of the vocals. That's why it just doesn't sound like James.
Nah
@@RamonPalonski dude, it sounds like Hetfield, just not the KEA Hetfield, this was when didn't discovered his own style and just keep trying what his favorite singers did
it's definitely sped up, the drums sound weird. there are other versions on youtube that are the correct speed. this was probably a bad transfer.
I have to admit, Mustain played all the solos exponentially better than hammet
Thank you for this Marcio. Any fan has to appreciate this! ❤
First three albums are the best!
100% agree
To me, all the first 5
Love Load. Re load isn’t too bad either
four*
Kill ‘Em All is the best. I lost interest once they put the slow ballad “Fade To Black” on Ride The Lightning. They went too commercial for me. They had some good songs after that but Kill Em All is the only record I like as a whole.
Metal is the inheritor of the genius classical composers
That's what I keep telling all unbelievers. Metal is the closest thing you'll find to the classical masters.
No.
Se nota la potencia de Mustaine, en la composición de las canciones y guitarra, genio y figura en No life.
I like that there is so much backup vocals, and it sounds echoey which makes it have a different feel to all the other albums and songs.
The original and perfect version of Metallica
I wish met and dave m could have come to an agreement so the deluxe version of this could have been released like Met initially planned
yes would be awesome
I would swear this is not a James's voice. BTW, this is a masterpiece. 👍👏🤘
He sounds like mid 80s Halford
@@bigtommy9715 Exactly. James was surely influenced by Rob. 👍🤘
Even Het mocks his early voice as "before my balls dropped". Lol
My favorite thing about Dave is u can hear riffs and solos on this demo that he would hold onto for years before digging them out and claiming them back as his
you mean he has never evolved? you just literally explained exactly why metallica is the greatest ever and megadeth is not.
@@SamGrantOfficialLMFAO,are you being serious and mucicly inclined. Because you can't be both at the same time.
@@michaelabney3486 please learn how to spell.
@SamGrantOfficial u are so jealous and know Megadeth is waaaaay better lol
@SamGrantOfficial your comment is so dumb
Thanks for posting this! The first Metallica song I ever heard was Ride the Lightning, and I've never been the same since. This recording is great, and I prefer it to much of their later stuff; makes me wish they'd never broken up with Dave Mustaine!
Mustaine was like “this production rocks, Copy those settings”
Lol true
a lot of signature 'YEA''s in hit the lights, even back then
Phantom Lord is such a good song
FR FINALLY SOMEONE WHO AGREES
Godamn!! Dave's solos are awesome!
I was just a little little kid in 81 if I had heard this then my brain would have melted into goo. I didn't have any older siblings to show me the way so it wouldn't be until the late 80's until I was shown the way. My brain still almost melted then. This is the way.
You can clearly hear the influence from Diamond Head in this one
this demo is pitched up (they're playing in f standard). So that's why James vocals are so high, in reality they weren't.
Think it’s sped up to pitch as well?
Daves solos in motorbreath and his originals in jump in the fire are amazing. I like them better than kirks
I agree 👍
200%. Better structured, tighter, more fluid and more energetic.
Lars drumming is really good on this.
WTF? Why is Lars credited as the author but not Dave?
Good stuff brings back memories of my youth, too bad they haven't produced anything remotely close to this in 30 years and this is a demo
You are exaggerating
@@t1naftore no not even a little the black album had a couple good songs but after other than that Justice was their last true metal album and they butchered it too, enhancing Lars's drums and Hetfields guitar any quieting the bass.
Lux æternaaaaaaa
Well at least from Metallica, Megadeth put Endgame Dystopia and The Sick
@@Kegga_6 You really are exaggerating heavily. You're just too arrogant to accept it.
Man, Dave playing is really somethin else! Now this is the sound of MegallicA (or MetadetH)
Ozzy osbourne sings so well here!
The singing on hit the lights. He sounds like a 15 yo
because he was lol
@@iannrd oh yeah he was.
Actually Hetfield was 19 here and Ulrich 18. Young fellas nevertheless!
@@blitzer921 eh potato potato.
@@Deadsk the vocals are more like King Diamond than Diamond Head
James vocals in this should inspire anyone
He was influenced by Sean Harris.
Bro you must give the credit to Sean Harris not James
This is some demo for sure! Amazing they did this at such young ages, and personally i don't have any problem with Hetfields singing here. And the guitar-solos, my god! 👏👌
Kirk Hammett did a great job on Kill ‘Em All, but it would have been more historic if Dave played on it!
Can anyone else hear the diamond head influence ? .
Gotta say Metallica at its best in the early days loved listening to them in the 80s brings back so many great memories.
Still listen to em and still more the older stuff ,
I remember Mustain talking about Mechanix in metal mags, now I understand alot more this is great.
Jump in the Fire way better than the one on Kill 'Em All.
Real, lyrics way more catchy
I didn't know Robert Plant used to be in Metallica!! Every day's a school day 😅
So much megadeth in this metallica release
Idk if just the thrash and speed elitist talkin but this shit better than every Metallica release
I wonder if there are any original copies of No Life Till Leather still floating around? As a huge Metallica fan, that would be like the Holy Grail to get my hands on one.
Thanks for posting - this is killer- they are so tight- you can also hear they love Motorhead
I honestly would preferred James incorporating this into his vocals instead of the yodeling that we got from 94-present time . Like Indiana Jones said .. this belongs in a museum .
He actually started to sound like a grunge singer later on.
In late 1981 I actually heard a bootleg of this, as best I remember only 4 songs on the cassette tape, the 1st song on it was MOTORBREATH.... had been stationed in the Marine Corp. in Camp Pendleton Ca, one of the guys in my squad had this tape on his car's glove compartment, heard it while we were washing his car. I got immediately blown away.....never heard anything like it, I was sold on Metallica. My buddy never revealed the source of how he obtain the tape. 1-1/2 years later when they were touring to kill m all...I saw them between duty stations on my way to Camp Lejeune NC, 1st concert in my hometown of Chicago at the METRO, now in the present 2023 I have racked up 59 shows all over the world, coming up on my 59-60 in Dallas, Tx next month August.
James singing Mechanix is hilarious.
Isn’t James, is Dave.
@@eduardoapablaza8794 Isn't dave, is James.
Dave has said himself that he never sang for metallica
This is how this shit was supposed to be played. DAVE MUSTAINE IS THE REAL METALLICA LEAD!!!!
James Hetfield singing a pure mustaine song is really amazing to be able to witness
By far best Metallica album
I disagree. Ride the lightning will always be my favorite.
I dont think Dave did the vocals on this. I watched another documentary I guess you could call it where Dave was talking about megadeth and finding a vocalist because he originally didn't want to do it but he grudgingly eventually did out of necessity. So I don't think he did vocals in metallica. If you watch the old footage of Metallica with Dave, Dave is acting like more of the front man than James though, taking over the mic.
Metallideth forever! \m/
Motorbreath is beautiful!
Thanx DAVE MUSTAINE to had been part of this proyect to original METALLICA..