1984, this crazy Punker comes up to me and says you'd like this and gave me his copy of kill um all. A few weeks later, I saw them with wasp and Armored Saint. This record had been out about a week.
@@StoneyWoneyThe only thing keeping RtL back for me is Escape and Trapped Under Ice. Those are 2 of the only 3 songs I’d skip off the entirety of the first four albums. Both good songs but after the perfection of the first four tracks it just feels like it loses momentum until you get back to Creeping Death.
I gotta give major props to whoever edited this video - all the "surgical cuts" to shorten the tracks are VERY well done! It wasn't just a random hack-n-slash chop job like most videos that hop, skip, & jump through the songs ; attention was paid to rhythms and riffs so the sudden advances were unexpected but not unsettling. I do audio editing and engineering so, I appreciate good edits.
The Green Mile was the movie where the guy catches fire in the electric chair. Written by Stephen King. And the orison guard does that on purpose to make the guy suffer. Wild.
In regards to the call of ktulu and Orion (master of puppets), you must understand that Metallica’s bassist studied classical music. So think of these songs/instrumentals as classical pieces with metal injected into them and you’ll appreciate them more.
@@Trahzy yea but metallica combines the musical features and heavy metal and smashes them into a beautiful masterpiece. With that being said I do not think they are the Best of all time,
Yo kids you forgot Kill’em All The album that started it all. You gotta start at the beginning. Anyway saw this Ride the Lighting tour in 1985. And saw the Master of Puppets tour in 1986.
@@juancontreras2711. No just born in the right year. The 80’s was a great decade. And I graduated 8’th grade and High school and turned 21 all in the 80’s. And lived in the suburbs of Chicago and all the bands came to Chicago. Lol
The first time I heard "From Whom the Bell Tolls" I thought that it would be a cool song for a horror movie. Years later I go to the theater and watch "Zombieland." As soon as the bell rang during the opening I was like"YES!!!!" I also agree with you guys "Fade to Black" is the best song off this album and is one of my favorite songs.
Creeping Death is all about Biblical references and was from Cliff Burton (RIP) - one of Metallica's best. This album hits so hard for it's time because back then it was all about hair 'metal'. These guys came in and crushed it.
Creeping Death is my favorite on this album, in 1991 they played it in Moscow, USSR and got an audience of 1.6 million people to all yell die at that part of the song, insane!
Actually most of them didn’t say shit because they don’t speak English. You’d actually see that if you’d listen to the amount of silence and trouble James was having.
I remember hearing Fight Fire With Fire for the first time when this album was released. It was a sound we had never heard before and it was magnificent.
"There's crazier stuff out there" but there wasn't 40 goddam years ago. Keep in mind they didn't even down-tune for most of this stuff, so the badassery is PURE composition and skill.
I'll never forget being in grade 6, my best friend at the time gave me this album for my birthday. Our middle school had a school dance, and I gave the DJ this album to play a song as a prank, he ended up playing 'Fight Fire With Fire' and we just slowly watched everyone in the gym leave to go outside. My friends and I were dying laughing, it was awesome! 🤣
I have to say, as Metallica fan since 1982, it’s so rewarding to watch your reactions from a younger perspective. Thank you for the sincerity of your content. You guys always keep your viewers engaged and locked in with your opinions and comedic approach. You’ve earned a new subscriber today. Keep it going strong!
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 he said the Egyptians put the blood on their doors, but it was the hebrews that did that in order to save their children. the first born of the Egyptians were killed
it's sound (speed frequency) was altered through the use of recording equipment. an anvil doesn't sound like that.... but when you slow down, and elongate the sound, it will ring out as much as you want it to
Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets are two of the absolute best metal albums ever. The latter is my favourite album of all time. Cliff Burton was massively important to Metallica’s early sound. Not sure if you guys caught it, but the beginning of For Whom the Bell Tolls is all Cliff’s bass playing. He also makes those distorted “wow” noises in The Call of Ktulu. He was a true master of his craft, RIP Cliff 🤘🏻
Awesome album choice, guys! Metallica is legendary, and this is probably their best. But if you’re still exploring the roots of metal, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest are the true trailblazers. Sabbath made it heavy, Priest made it metal. Legendary vocalists and both bands dual guitar work and vocal prowess laid the groundwork for bands like Megadeth and Metallica and shaped the entire genre. If you haven’t already, check out Maiden’s Number of the Beast and Powerslave, they're must-listens. And for Priest, start with Sad Wings of Destiny, and Painkiller. I know I’ve mentioned it before, but these are the albums that define metal history!
Call of ktulu is like being on an old ship out in the middle of the sea where you find yourself in the middle of a storm and out of nowhere emerges Ktulu in all his terror and you are just left in fright and awe.
Fade To Black was wtitten from the point of James Hetfield if I remember correctly. A guitar or amp I believe was stolen out of their van or the like which had been gifted to him by his mother and they had also been booted out of their managers house and living on the road and he fell into a deep depression at the time and it was him channeling his feelings
For Whom the Bell Tolls was the first Metallica song I'd ever heard. I heard it in the car with my dad on the way home. That was almost a year ago now and Metallica is my favorite band. I'm 13 now. I listen to all of their albums (except Lulu) and want to go to a concert with my dad before he leaves me.
It's so awesome to see the new generation discover Metallica. You guys are so luck to have so much Metallica music to discover. I still remember when I discovered them back in 1991 when my brother was playing his "...And Justice for All" record. Loved them since, and love them still.
Yup, it was "One" that got me hooked. Went to the store and bought Kill 'Em All, Ride the Lightning, and Master of Puppets a couple days later.......on cassette 😂
Lil Man said he plays the organ? Time for y’all to react to some Deep Purple, Machine Head will be a great start, a few iconic tracks you will probably recognise too. Very influential to metal.
As a Metallica fan my whole life…these videos make me so so happy! To see people hearing them for the first time is pure magic! It truly helps us REMEMBER HOW WE FELT, when we first heard this. We were in AWE! We’re just like yall…we were like,”WHAT THE FU*%++ is THIS!!!!!!”
Fun facts about the song Escape; - They went to the studio with 7 songs but the label said they needed 8 songs, so they wrote Escape in like 3 days for the album - For this reason, they decided to write song the song about how they don't like being told what to do - James Hetfield hates this song, and says its his least favourite from their discography - As far as I can remember, they have only played the song live once, during a full live playthrough of this album
James use to go to old book stores and thrift stores. He would look at the titles of books for inspiration. If he found one he liked, like “For whom the bell tolls”, he would turn that into a song. The same thing happened with “Johnny got his gun”, became the song “One”.
How I would rank the album: 1. Creeping Death (10/10) 2. Fade to Black (10/10) 3. Fight Fire With Fire (10/10) 4. For Whom the Bell Tolls (10/10) 5. Ride the Lightning (9/10) 6. The Call of Ktulu (9/10) 7. Trapped Under Ice (8/10) 8. Escape (8/10) Overall, this album is a 10/10. Very top heavy, but the lesser songs are still great. Always a fun listen, especially when it's storming outside 🤘
This video makes me tears down... you know, I just remember those times when I was young like them and heard the first 5 albums from metallica and the emotion was the same... discovering this band was the initiation for me to the heavy metal world.
this album is very legendary. Metallica best album. this my top 3 1. Ride the Lightning (Best) 2. Fade to Black 3. Trapped Under Ice (thrashing, headbanging, underrated)
As a kid that grew up in the 70's listening to Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest...... when Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax came about in the early 80's.....holy shit, we went fkn crazy over that. Man that was the best time to be a kid to experience this evolution of music, how the genre of metal flourished over the decades. Master of Puppets album is what really defined them as thrash metal, but And Justice For All is where they got more "technical" but still on the heavy side of thrash. But you really need to listen to their first album Kill'em All. You'll hear how with each album they progressed and then the black album that changed it all. Wait till you hear Slayer 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤘😎🤘🇺🇸
As a kid that grew up in the early 2000’s, man I wish I got to experience that! Got to experience the post grunge so the was neat but experiencing the evolution of metal like that had to have been awesome!
@jasonbogartcovers yeah it was. That evolution is what inspired me to learn how to play drums. Seeing what these drummers were capable of doing blew me away. My uncle, who plays drums but not metal, already had me interested in playing, but after all these thrash bands popping up, I had to learn cause that's what I wanted to play 🤘😎🤘🇺🇸
i pretty much stopped listening to new metal once Metallica became popular. iron maiden, Priest , Sabbath and a few others were the peak. Master Of Puppets was alright , but after that it just didn't interest me.
For the love of all that you hold dear in this world, watch Metallica’s Seattle ‘89 show; the entire concert ideally. Best recorded live set of all time. Creeping Death with Jason Newsted on bass and background vocals will change your lives.
I’m so old, my first Metallica albums were on cassette and the opening track on here was my introduction to Metallica. My brother made a copy of that song on my cassingle and told me to check it out. I didn’t get RTL at first, because it wasn’t at Walmart, but Justice was and I got that instead (at the time, Justice was the newest one available).
Don’t know if you guys knew, but the intro to Bells was done on bass. The night pitched wah wah was done by the late cliff burton, probably the best bassist of all time
As a 16 year old, seeing them live in '89, the nation in the grips of the Satanic Panic....Creeping Death was mind blowing. Being in the pit chanting "DIE DIE DIE" was so powerful.
I’m 53 and grew up listening to Metallica…seeing you guys reacting to these songs the way I did when I first heard them is just wild! Full circle! You DEFINITELY should do Master Of Puppets! Greatest metal album ever!! Keep rocking guys!
I swear no-one in this world can headbang in the right rhythm to the opening track 😅 You just naturally start nodding your head to the beat of the snare on the verse but when the second riff hits your neck is like "what just happened". I was only able to hear the riff as it's supposed to be when I heard the instrumental demo version of the song. What a great album, and actually it was Escape that originally made me fall in love with the band in the eighties. I had heard One and some other tracks but the chorus of Escape just stuck in my head. Love that song and I don't care what others think. And the way that the chorus is in major key at first and in the end in minor key. Also Fade in Black is quite a different song as it has a chorus without vocals. And you still want to sing to it.
The last song, Call of Ktulu, is an instrumental. And while it may seem a bit repetitive initially, try listening between the lines because that entire section before the guitar solo is a canvas for Cliff Burton, their bassist, to do cool stuff on the bass, in essence, he's doing lead lines almost the entire time, if you want to pick it out easier, it's the noises that sound a bit like a massive creature underneath the other instruments, imo he's trying to replicate Ktulu moving under the waters in the oceans
@@Dunnay48 A part of me believes this was done with Cliff's okay, plus the fact that they weren't exposed to high calibre professional mixers at that point. I can't picture a scenario where someone with Cliff's influence on the band can lie down on something as vital as how he sounded.
@@njldst2007 hmm that might be it, i've just heard *not necessarily true then i guess* that Cliff wouldn't stay around much during the final mastering, which would then mean he wouldn't be there to defend his audibility, etc etc made quiet in the mix.
@@Dunnay48 Could be that too, who knows. One thing I did notice is that after I was aware of the bass' sound, I feel like I notice it much more easier the following listens, so it's like a cool easter egg of sorts I guess
The Green Mile was the movie where the guy catches fire in the electric chair. Written by Stephen King. And the orison guard does that on purpose to make the guy suffer. Wild.
I really like you guys. I'm 53, and have seen my boys eleven times. It's very refreshing watching you young guys listening and loving Metallica! Metallica and King James forever!
Of all their albums, RTL is still my favorite. It's been 30 years since I first heard it, and I know exactly where I was when I did. Who I was with. How I felt afterwards. Some fun facts for you -The "Bell" you hear at the beginning of For Whom the Bell Tolls is in fact NOT a bell. It is drummer, Lars Ulrich, hitting a very large anvil with a hammer. -Fade to Black was written in an apartment in '84. It was shortly after all of their gear was stolen outside of a gig in Boston, MA. Containing a Marshall that his Mother helped him purchase before her passing. -The bridge section of Creeping Death was written by Kirk when was 16 years old. It was originally used in his first band, Exodus and was called "Die By His Hand"
I think they will be ready for Reign in Blood one day. It has to be done at some point in time. It is in the top 5 metal albums of all time and one of the heaviest albums ever made.
To think that the mind of a young Cliff conceived the idea of making a song so abstract through the idea of making of instrumental piece about a weird ancient lovecraft god where his distorted bass was like the voice of that unkown universal entity always I loved that idea, very genius
You guys gotta bring Little Man back and do Deep Purple's album, Machine Head. It's a killer record. It's also one of the most rocking ass organ players in the world. That record has something for everyone: shredding organ for Little Man, shredding guitars for the guitar enthusiasts, killer drums for the drum enthusiasts. Machine Head is one of the records that made Metal what it would eventually become.
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MASTER OF PUPPETS NEXT!?
Iron Maiden and Judas Priest soon please! Number of the Beast, Powerslave for Maiden and for Priest Sad Wings of Destiny and Painkiller.
ABSOLUTELY🔥🔥🔥
yes!!!!! 🤘🤘🤘
Yesssss
YEAH
kid wears a suit for a youtube video. he's gonna go far.
Ive said it before, id love to work for him one day
Dress for the job you want
Sport jacket with an xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxl long tie nothing more.
Bro he’s on the jaybud youtube channel listening to Metallica. He’s already at the top.
if he learns to read
Little Man without a doubt needs to be on all videos. He plays the damn Organ for god sakes.
😂
Absolutely. Also, he’s the most mature of them all. Dude with the long hair comes in 2nd with maturity.
@@InfamousDominion I love his bombastic side eye
Kill em all is a classic, no idea whoever said it wasn't. The first 5 are the ones everyone loves.
Yeah definitely a classic, just overshadowed by what came after.
Kill ‘em all is 100% in the ‘classics’. In fact, the black album is the one that is debatable as to whether it belongs or not…
@@vcstaff It's a classic for sure, it changed the landscape of metal, for worse or better, way too iconic to not be considered a classic
Thank you
Yeah, I prefer Kill em All to all other Metallica albums. Kill ‘em All to
And Justice for All are all classics.
You guys SO remind me of sitting at my buddy Jimmy's house in 84 when he walked in and said "You gotta here this sh*t!"
That is exactly the energy which brought me to this vid!
Pretty sure that’s what my Buddy Lance said to me in 84’
1984, this crazy Punker comes up to me and says you'd like this and gave me his copy of kill um all. A few weeks later, I saw them with wasp and Armored Saint. This record had been out about a week.
One of the best albums of all time
I highly agree with you on that
Only surpassed by its follow up album
@@ac521 I personally disagree, but I can still understand. They are both stellar albums.
Ride the Lightning
My all-time favorite
🔥🤘🏽🔥
@@StoneyWoneyThe only thing keeping RtL back for me is Escape and Trapped Under Ice. Those are 2 of the only 3 songs I’d skip off the entirety of the first four albums. Both good songs but after the perfection of the first four tracks it just feels like it loses momentum until you get back to Creeping Death.
I gotta give major props to whoever edited this video - all the "surgical cuts" to shorten the tracks are VERY well done! It wasn't just a random hack-n-slash chop job like most videos that hop, skip, & jump through the songs ; attention was paid to rhythms and riffs so the sudden advances were unexpected but not unsettling. I do audio editing and engineering so, I appreciate good edits.
I was gonna say! Great job on editing.
The Green Mile was the movie where the guy catches fire in the electric chair. Written by Stephen King. And the orison guard does that on purpose to make the guy suffer. Wild.
In regards to the call of ktulu and Orion (master of puppets), you must understand that Metallica’s bassist studied classical music. So think of these songs/instrumentals as classical pieces with metal injected into them and you’ll appreciate them more.
Well said.
"They put emotions in the guitars"
Thats why they are the best of all time
Lots of bands and people put emotion into the guitars lol
@@Trahzy yea but metallica combines the musical features and heavy metal and smashes them into a beautiful masterpiece. With that being said I do not think they are the Best of all time,
@@mitchellminor2363 You need to listen to a lot more metal man.
long hair bro is radiating chill energy
Absolutely love it. Just good kids discovering great albums.
As a millennial, I became a teenager in a late 90s and I discovered their 80s albums
I saw Metallica perform Fight Fire With Fire live in person and my neck hasn't been the same since.
🤟🤟🤟
Yo kids you forgot Kill’em All
The album that started it all.
You gotta start at the beginning.
Anyway saw this Ride the Lighting tour in 1985.
And saw the Master of Puppets tour in 1986.
So lucky
What a life you lived man
@@juancontreras2711. No just born in the right year.
The 80’s was a great decade.
And I graduated 8’th grade and High school and turned 21 all in the 80’s. And lived in the suburbs of Chicago and all the bands came to Chicago. Lol
I'm not worthy to be in your presence!!! Super jealous of you!!!
The first time I heard "From Whom the Bell Tolls" I thought that it would be a cool song for a horror movie. Years later I go to the theater and watch "Zombieland." As soon as the bell rang during the opening I was like"YES!!!!" I also agree with you guys "Fade to Black" is the best song off this album and is one of my favorite songs.
As an aging man who grew up on this album watching the next generation just chillin and having a great time is absolutely awesome!
Takes me back to when we did this, but without video or social media. Just a group of friends hangin out listening to new music.
Creeping Death is all about Biblical references and was from Cliff Burton (RIP) - one of Metallica's best. This album hits so hard for it's time because back then it was all about hair 'metal'. These guys came in and crushed it.
Creeping Death is my favorite on this album, in 1991 they played it in Moscow, USSR and got an audience of 1.6 million people to all yell die at that part of the song, insane!
Actually most of them didn’t say shit because they don’t speak English. You’d actually see that if you’d listen to the amount of silence and trouble James was having.
Pantera didn't have that problem @@_metal.militia
I remember hearing Fight Fire With Fire for the first time when this album was released. It was a sound we had never heard before and it was magnificent.
"There's crazier stuff out there" but there wasn't 40 goddam years ago. Keep in mind they didn't even down-tune for most of this stuff, so the badassery is PURE composition and skill.
Yes to this.
“Good year for wine too…”
😂
I'll never forget being in grade 6, my best friend at the time gave me this album for my birthday. Our middle school had a school dance, and I gave the DJ this album to play a song as a prank, he ended up playing 'Fight Fire With Fire' and we just slowly watched everyone in the gym leave to go outside. My friends and I were dying laughing, it was awesome! 🤣
Stop buying that sandpaper single ply paper man. You gotta get the Charmin extra soft. It's a little more expensive but your ass will thank you.
@@KingNothing2x4Nah probably the chem teacher
Charmin Ultra Strong if you have ass hairs, the Ultra Soft is dingleberry city
Quilted Northern > Charmin
@@ghmasterful lmfaoooooo
If you can't afford the Charmin just dab a little
A&D or Vaseline you'll lose the burn.
P s. Stay off the Taco Bell
Had this CD running on repeat for 6 months in my car at one point. A perfect album.
I have to say, as Metallica fan since 1982, it’s so rewarding to watch your reactions from a younger perspective. Thank you for the sincerity of your content. You guys always keep your viewers engaged and locked in with your opinions and comedic approach. You’ve earned a new subscriber today. Keep it going strong!
reliving the nostalgia through the reactions. It’s a drug in itself. Love it
Would’ve loved for them to hear Disposable Heroes…their minds would be absolutely melted.
Props to whoever edited this video, the cuts are incredibly smooth
Lil Man in the know (Creeping Death) Nice
I loved seeing him dropping the Passover knowledge.
dont pretend to be surprised, he looks like he was selling bibles door to door on the way over.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 he said the Egyptians put the blood on their doors, but it was the hebrews that did that in order to save their children.
the first born of the Egyptians were killed
The movie little man referenced after Ride the Lighting was The Green Mile
Real tired boss….. dog tired
I can't even watch that movie anymore. I love it but I absolutely sob uncontrollably (I'm a girl 😂) just can't do it.
Lars Ulrich, the drummer for Metallica, used an anvil to create the bell sound at the beginning of the song "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
it's sound (speed frequency) was altered through the use of recording equipment.
an anvil doesn't sound like that.... but when you slow down, and elongate the sound, it will ring out as much as you want it to
Y'all look like the cast of a 2000's comedy produced by Seth Rogan.
I see it now that you say that haha
Fuck yeah
fun fact about fade to black at 24:17 this part represents the last bit of adrenaline someone gets before committing suicide
LIL MAN IS BACK!!!
WE WON!
Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets are two of the absolute best metal albums ever. The latter is my favourite album of all time.
Cliff Burton was massively important to Metallica’s early sound. Not sure if you guys caught it, but the beginning of For Whom the Bell Tolls is all Cliff’s bass playing. He also makes those distorted “wow” noises in The Call of Ktulu. He was a true master of his craft, RIP Cliff 🤘🏻
I agree 100%
young dude with the suit is a prodigy
Looks like he has drummers instincts
ahh for whom the bells toll, a classic head banging song
The synchronized headbanging at the start of Ride the Lightning was the best thing ever.
The intro to Ride the Lightning is a display of that.
I just realized you said Ride the Lightning.
Not headbanging is the strange thing, you need to do it 🤘🏼
Awesome album choice, guys! Metallica is legendary, and this is probably their best. But if you’re still exploring the roots of metal, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest are the true trailblazers. Sabbath made it heavy, Priest made it metal. Legendary vocalists and both bands dual guitar work and vocal prowess laid the groundwork for bands like Megadeth and Metallica and shaped the entire genre. If you haven’t already, check out Maiden’s Number of the Beast and Powerslave, they're must-listens. And for Priest, start with Sad Wings of Destiny, and Painkiller. I know I’ve mentioned it before, but these are the albums that define metal history!
Call of ktulu is like being on an old ship out in the middle of the sea where you find yourself in the middle of a storm and out of nowhere emerges Ktulu in all his terror and you are just left in fright and awe.
Suit feller is referring to 1999's
The Green Mile starring Tom Hanks and the late Michael Clarke Duncan.
Long hair bro needs to unleash that mane if he’s gonna headbang! One of the underrated pleasures of life right there.
Fade To Black was wtitten from the point of James Hetfield if I remember correctly. A guitar or amp I believe was stolen out of their van or the like which had been gifted to him by his mother and they had also been booted out of their managers house and living on the road and he fell into a deep depression at the time and it was him channeling his feelings
The van with most of their gear in it was stolen.
For Whom the Bell Tolls was the first Metallica song I'd ever heard. I heard it in the car with my dad on the way home. That was almost a year ago now and Metallica is my favorite band. I'm 13 now. I listen to all of their albums (except Lulu) and want to go to a concert with my dad before he leaves me.
I hope you two can do that together I know your dad would love it
Except lulu is so real
It's so awesome to see the new generation discover Metallica. You guys are so luck to have so much Metallica music to discover. I still remember when I discovered them back in 1991 when my brother was playing his "...And Justice for All" record. Loved them since, and love them still.
Yup, it was "One" that got me hooked. Went to the store and bought Kill 'Em All, Ride the Lightning, and Master of Puppets a couple days later.......on cassette 😂
Lil Man said he plays the organ? Time for y’all to react to some Deep Purple, Machine Head will be a great start, a few iconic tracks you will probably recognise too. Very influential to metal.
As a Metallica fan my whole life…these videos make me so so happy! To see people hearing them for the first time is pure magic! It truly helps us REMEMBER HOW WE FELT, when we first heard this. We were in AWE! We’re just like yall…we were like,”WHAT THE FU*%++ is THIS!!!!!!”
Four words: SLAYER: REIGN IN BLOOD!!! enough said
Oh hell yeah
i like repentless more but reign in blood is a classic
and there must be more
Seasons in the Abyss is Slayer's best musically, but Reign in Blood is my fav and one of the greatest metal albums ever.
Little man always looks nervous through the songs. He looks like he's about to ride a rollercoaster 🤘🏽🔥☠️
Fun facts about the song Escape;
- They went to the studio with 7 songs but the label said they needed 8 songs, so they wrote Escape in like 3 days for the album
- For this reason, they decided to write song the song about how they don't like being told what to do
- James Hetfield hates this song, and says its his least favourite from their discography
- As far as I can remember, they have only played the song live once, during a full live playthrough of this album
15 minutes
Also one of only a few Metallica songs in a major key chorus
James use to go to old book stores and thrift stores. He would look at the titles of books for inspiration. If he found one he liked, like “For whom the bell tolls”, he would turn that into a song.
The same thing happened with “Johnny got his gun”, became the song “One”.
How I would rank the album:
1. Creeping Death (10/10)
2. Fade to Black (10/10)
3. Fight Fire With Fire (10/10)
4. For Whom the Bell Tolls (10/10)
5. Ride the Lightning (9/10)
6. The Call of Ktulu (9/10)
7. Trapped Under Ice (8/10)
8. Escape (8/10)
Overall, this album is a 10/10. Very top heavy, but the lesser songs are still great. Always a fun listen, especially when it's storming outside 🤘
I'd switch 3 and 5... but... close to my rating
🔥🤘🏽🔥
@@PML78 this
My only disagreement is your one and two but it would be arguing semantics as they are both just absolutely great songs
Call of Ktulu is a 10 dont fw me bro..
You gave the album 10 out of 10. Yet you gave two songs 8 and 9
love this channel ! so good
This video makes me tears down... you know, I just remember those times when I was young like them and heard the first 5 albums from metallica and the emotion was the same... discovering this band was the initiation for me to the heavy metal world.
Great to see younger generations appreciating Metallica artistry’s
Feeling proud
this album is very legendary. Metallica best album. this my top 3
1. Ride the Lightning (Best)
2. Fade to Black
3. Trapped Under Ice (thrashing, headbanging, underrated)
Nothing better than classic Metallica (pre-black album). Don’t care how cliche that is or how popular it is. It’s popular for a reason.
As a kid that grew up in the 70's listening to Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest...... when Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax came about in the early 80's.....holy shit, we went fkn crazy over that. Man that was the best time to be a kid to experience this evolution of music, how the genre of metal flourished over the decades. Master of Puppets album is what really defined them as thrash metal, but And Justice For All is where they got more "technical" but still on the heavy side of thrash. But you really need to listen to their first album Kill'em All. You'll hear how with each album they progressed and then the black album that changed it all. Wait till you hear Slayer 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤘😎🤘🇺🇸
As a kid that grew up in the early 2000’s, man I wish I got to experience that! Got to experience the post grunge so the was neat but experiencing the evolution of metal like that had to have been awesome!
@jasonbogartcovers yeah it was. That evolution is what inspired me to learn how to play drums. Seeing what these drummers were capable of doing blew me away. My uncle, who plays drums but not metal, already had me interested in playing, but after all these thrash bands popping up, I had to learn cause that's what I wanted to play 🤘😎🤘🇺🇸
i pretty much stopped listening to new metal once Metallica became popular. iron maiden, Priest , Sabbath and a few others were the peak. Master Of Puppets was alright , but after that it just didn't interest me.
Saw your channel on my recomend list so I checked it out and really enjoyed the reaction. Go Little Man!! 🤘🤘🤘
For the love of all that you hold dear in this world, watch Metallica’s Seattle ‘89 show; the entire concert ideally. Best recorded live set of all time.
Creeping Death with Jason Newsted on bass and background vocals will change your lives.
Got it on VHS and DVD. I’ve had their box set for over thirty years and have both cassette and disc versions
Yes please!! The best concert ever! And Jason's back vocals are perfect ❤
@@beatmet2355me too 🤘🏻😎
Agreed! The best live concert recording for any artist that I’ve ever seen. Absolutely amazing!
Chairman Het
"SING IT❗️"
"What is it?!"
For Whom the Bell Tolls 🎸🤘🤘🔔
I’m so old, my first Metallica albums were on cassette and the opening track on here was my introduction to Metallica.
My brother made a copy of that song on my cassingle and told me to check it out. I didn’t get RTL at first, because it wasn’t at Walmart, but Justice was and I got that instead (at the time, Justice was the newest one available).
Don’t know if you guys knew, but the intro to Bells was done on bass. The night pitched wah wah was done by the late cliff burton, probably the best bassist of all time
Little man is my fav member, guest or not.
I'm 52 years old, and remember banging my head to this at your age and earlier. It was bad ass then, too!
As a 16 year old, seeing them live in '89, the nation in the grips of the Satanic Panic....Creeping Death was mind blowing. Being in the pit chanting "DIE DIE DIE" was so powerful.
Welcome to true talent. This is a perfect example of genius.
don't forget about their first album kill em all. definitely a recommendation to understand Metallica's early roots
I’m 53 and grew up listening to Metallica…seeing you guys reacting to these songs the way I did when I first heard them is just wild! Full circle! You DEFINITELY should do Master Of Puppets! Greatest metal album ever!! Keep rocking guys!
Fight Fire With Fire is my favorite song period
I swear no-one in this world can headbang in the right rhythm to the opening track 😅 You just naturally start nodding your head to the beat of the snare on the verse but when the second riff hits your neck is like "what just happened". I was only able to hear the riff as it's supposed to be when I heard the instrumental demo version of the song. What a great album, and actually it was Escape that originally made me fall in love with the band in the eighties. I had heard One and some other tracks but the chorus of Escape just stuck in my head. Love that song and I don't care what others think. And the way that the chorus is in major key at first and in the end in minor key. Also Fade in Black is quite a different song as it has a chorus without vocals. And you still want to sing to it.
Thank you , little man.
That movie with the wet sponge was The Green Mile (1999).
Little man liking this more than Slipknot's ST was pure betrayal lol
On a serious note, cool video
love you guys reaction, and love that sitka hoody🤙
The last song, Call of Ktulu, is an instrumental. And while it may seem a bit repetitive initially, try listening between the lines because that entire section before the guitar solo is a canvas for Cliff Burton, their bassist, to do cool stuff on the bass, in essence, he's doing lead lines almost the entire time, if you want to pick it out easier, it's the noises that sound a bit like a massive creature underneath the other instruments, imo he's trying to replicate Ktulu moving under the waters in the oceans
I can't believe they (james and lars) made the bass mix so low though :(
@@Dunnay48 A part of me believes this was done with Cliff's okay, plus the fact that they weren't exposed to high calibre professional mixers at that point. I can't picture a scenario where someone with Cliff's influence on the band can lie down on something as vital as how he sounded.
@@njldst2007 hmm that might be it, i've just heard *not necessarily true then i guess* that Cliff wouldn't stay around much during the final mastering, which would then mean he wouldn't be there to defend his audibility, etc etc made quiet in the mix.
@@Dunnay48 Could be that too, who knows. One thing I did notice is that after I was aware of the bass' sound, I feel like I notice it much more easier the following listens, so it's like a cool easter egg of sorts I guess
Everyone: yeah i really liked that yeah
“What do you think, little man?”
Little man: 🎩🤵💸
Great reaction and this was my first of you guys but not last. "I was me but now he's gone" what a lyric and song
The Green Mile was the movie where the guy catches fire in the electric chair. Written by Stephen King. And the orison guard does that on purpose to make the guy suffer. Wild.
iowa from slipknot is a must
I really like you guys. I'm 53, and have seen my boys eleven times. It's very refreshing watching you young guys listening and loving Metallica! Metallica and King James forever!
Creeping Death Is a song about the Passover. Call of Ktulu (Cthulhu) Is Cliffs gem. Rest In Peace, Cliff.
Cliff's gem is Orion. Hands down
I also disagree, Orion is Cliff's finest work.
Of all their albums, RTL is still my favorite. It's been 30 years since I first heard it, and I know exactly where I was when I did. Who I was with. How I felt afterwards.
Some fun facts for you
-The "Bell" you hear at the beginning of For Whom the Bell Tolls is in fact NOT a bell. It is drummer, Lars Ulrich, hitting a very large anvil with a hammer.
-Fade to Black was written in an apartment in '84. It was shortly after all of their gear was stolen outside of a gig in Boston, MA. Containing a Marshall that his Mother helped him purchase before her passing.
-The bridge section of Creeping Death was written by Kirk when was 16 years old. It was originally used in his first band, Exodus and was called "Die By His Hand"
I honestly prefer Ride the Lightning over Master of Puppets.
Saw Metallica live in Detroit and they played Ride The Lightning so damn well. The whole concert made me want to cry. I hope to see them again!
Love seeing the young guys appreciate our jams.
oh man, this brings me back when I was a kid and I first listened to metallica kill em all cassette, from then on it was all metal for me
Give us Slayer Reign in Blood. You are all beautiful guys.
This! Although that might be a little advanced for them..
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 nah lets throw em into the deep end with meshuggah lol they'll have a stroke
I think they will be ready for Reign in Blood one day. It has to be done at some point in time. It is in the top 5 metal albums of all time and one of the heaviest albums ever made.
Ill literaly die to see you guys reacting and justice for all
Nice Little Man caught the key change in Fade to Black
The original release in the 80’s has an additional song , a cover version of Am I Evil. Which is really awesome. 🤩
Creeping Death, not a sleeper. They still play it at probably most of their concerts.
FYI- my first time on your channel and I have to say little man is a must.
The movie of the sponge and the electric chair is Green Mille. You need to watch it. Wholesome movie
Awesome.. I like it unedited.. it's great watching you guys rock out
To think that the mind of a young Cliff conceived the idea of making a song so abstract through the idea of making of instrumental piece about a weird ancient lovecraft god where his distorted bass was like the voice of that unkown universal entity
always I loved that idea, very genius
Remember guys, this album is now 40 years old. Take a moment to process that.
I was in the situation that this song describes and it really resonated with me, this song helped me get out of that situation.
So pumped that u guys listened to the older stuff. There’s just no comparison between 80s Metallica and the black album.
Also, this album’s theme was from Lars’s obsession with the topic of death during that time. He was curious, and he and James wrote about it.
You guys gotta bring Little Man back and do Deep Purple's album, Machine Head. It's a killer record. It's also one of the most rocking ass organ players in the world.
That record has something for everyone: shredding organ for Little Man, shredding guitars for the guitar enthusiasts, killer drums for the drum enthusiasts. Machine Head is one of the records that made Metal what it would eventually become.
Wow what a beautiful album. Forgot how the track list goes and I was rockin out with y’all🙏🏻