No lyrics this time, but you can still enjoy this amazing piece of art. R.I.P Cliff :( Enjoy! Oh, and make sure to check out the other Metallica videos on my channel - Rock on \m/
00:00 the ship is sailing. The water is calm. Far away, a storm is coming. 00:34 the storm is getting closer, there is something wrong with the water. 01:26 the storm reaches the ship. Thunders are all over the place. It seems that a strange and giant creature is beneath the ship A battle rages on. The sailors try to fight against the odd creature. But for no avail. 06:11 most of the sailors are dead. The creature is destroying the ship. 06:53 the ship starts to sink. It seems that all of the sailors are dead. 07:56 the ship completely disapears. Nothing is left. The creature disapears as well. The water returns to the calmness. 08:31 an extraordinary thunder rages in the sky to remind every sailor to never sail in those waters
This description reminds me of the ship part in the game Call of Cthulhu - Dark Corners of the Earth. The "creature" in this case would be Father Dagon, from the Cthulhu Mythos.
This song and Orion are the best examples of Cliff Burton's classical music likes that influenced the band's composition. He admired a lot classical authors like Bach and Mozart.
@@Mirza_123 mustaine didnt write the whole song. They used his chords and changed up the solo. That's pretty much it. Dave didnt write the bass parts or drum
Ann Aschenbrenner it never gets old. I still have this on cassette, from when I bought it in the 80’s as a young teenager. I never saw Cliff, but I saw them many times with Jason. I fell in love with him from Flotsam & Jetsam days. Still love them.
THESNEAKERADDICT I wouldn't really describe this piece as emotional. It's more atmospheric and story telling. Where as 'To Live Is To Die' is pure emotion.
This was my first metallica song ever, i found it accidentally around 2013 when i was looking for music because my teacher asked me to find some music to add to a school play, and there it was, sitting in the suggested videos. This was around the time no one would shut up about chtulhu and when i read the title being the literal 10 year old i was i went something along the lines of "omg XDD chtulhu epic!!" and clicked on the video, up until that point everything i had listened to was just some queen songs every now, some other rock bands my dad played in the car but mostly minecraft parodies of famous songs and shit along those lines so when the intro ended and the music got intense i started losing my mind over this and how good it was. I downloaded it on a usb stick and brought it to school and when the teacher asked me to make the class listen to the songs i found to see if everyone liked them this was the first song i put on even tho it wasnt even loosely relevant to the school play. Volunteering for the music in the play was the best decision of my life, i wonder what shitty music i would be listening to right now if i didnt
They named a short story after it. Well, and a whole mythos. Horror Babble has all the Cthulu Mythos cycle and the Lovecraft Circle Mythos stories on two grand videos, good shit for a winter evening with a glass of scotch
This is as artistic as classical music. I remember looking down upon the kids wearing metallica shirts. I had never listened to a metallica album from start to finish, but this is pure, intelligent, creative musical composition. I'm a fan now!
+Christian Panero I agree with you; I always felt like Master of Puppets was a tad too thrashy and less than melodic for my tastes. IMO RtL has the perfect balance of aggression and melody.
I wonder how Mustaine discovered that intro's progression, it's a very magical one... This song takes you to another realm, it's really awesome man, I'm seeing monsters!!
The first intro progression is James's but the next two are certainly Dave's. Metallica would play what was a precursor to this song on the final few dates of the KEA4O tour. It only featured two of the clean progressions and their distorted variations. So yes, the parts that make up most of the song. Those were written by Dave. The parts they added to Dave's parts - the first clean intro, the heavy bridge, the pounding tom part and harmonies and outro - were written by the other guys. Kirk wrote the solo. So it's a song which features contributions from 5 members of Metallica! ;)
This song makes me emotional every time. I feel like I'm embarking on a life-defining journey, pushing through fear, apprehension and self-doubt, but emerging victorious. This song is a gift to the world!
You are on a life defining journey, but it starts as soon as you open your eyes, and the beasts you have to defeat are all the invisible things holding you back from what you really want to do.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! -Cliff Burton’s last words before a bus fell on him R.I.P Cliff Burton. May he forever Rest In Peace, knowing that his band has become one of the most successful in history.
This song is so much more interesting and chilling after you've read about Cthulhu and R'lyeh. The intro with the bass sounds like him waking up from his long slumber, the later D chords progressions sound like him ascending from the depths and tearing through the waves and the distorted bass basically throughout the whole song sounds like him speaking his mysterious language. What a masterpiece.
Cthulhu F'tgan! The sleeper from R'lyeh rises!! YAH! SHUB NIGGURATH! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young! What walked on the hills that May evening?!?!
@@mickmarsbar81 From a haze came a rage of thunder Distant signs of darkness on the way Fading cries scream of pain and hunger But in the night the light will guide your way
In my opinion the best Metallica track. I cannot count how many times i have listened to this, and every time i find something new and interesting. And it fits to the mood of Lovecraft stories perfectly ;)
"To Live is to die" , "Suicide and Redemption".... Well my favourites are "Suicide and Redemtion" and "The Call of Ktulu".... Orion is a little bit overrated
Javier Sebastian Martin Suarez Peinado You gotta admit though, even if its not your favourite, the bass work in Orion is fucking godly. Cliff was such an amazing bass player.
ThePolerbearproducts SUicide is great...the bass sounds great, the riffs sounds incredible and there are like two or three drums solos at the end of the song...the only problem with that song is the production... And the bass work in "The Call of Ktulu" is more tecnical than "Orion" and has a better atmosphere and solos Another nice tune of Metallica for me is "My friend or misery" , is sad that song is not an instrumental..such a sahme because the bass lines of Jason newsted of that song were catchy and good
@@toniheyrend296 It's definitely Lovecraft. People spell it differently, but with "The Call of Ktulu" being the same as the original "The Call of Cthulhu" save the name, it's definitely intended
@@toniheyrend296 the song was from the beginning inspired by Lovecraft's book like many more of their songs but the original name for the song was "When Hell Freezes Over". Cliff was a huge Lovecraft fan and was the one to propose the new title.
This song is just amazing. Some people say they need lyrics to understand the song and what it's about, but I don't. The emotion and beauty in this song tell a story.
In this post-Freudian age the institution of marriage, as a by-product of religiously-fueled monogamy, has deteriorated to the point that amorphous sexual identity, as opposed to rigid religiosity, has become the primary self-defining feature of the individual. But has anything changed? Has the entrapment of women via marriage, which Blake called a "gilded cage" merely deteriorated to the "rusty prison" of the Bang Bus, representative of anonymous male-centric sex and continued subjugation?
no one at the top of a hearthful org. based on love wants to hear or see about "cults" unless it's the band that ROCKS. or is leading to lyrics in a rockin' band!
Bill Kleinschmidt Flawed grammar: check Yo momma insult: check Namecalling: check No proper counterargument: check Thanks for being the stereotypical internet douchebag ^^
Desde minuto 3:20 te lleva a otro lado!!! y no estoy intoxicado! el thrash es mi cable a tierra! en especial los instrumentales! Él/los musicos dan todo en estos temas! creatividad.virtuosidad y el Sentimiento!! gracias a estas bandas! ayudan a tanta gente a seguir viviendo y superar malos tragos de la vida! INFINITAMENTE agradecidos! dejan un legado de vida en una estrofa y en la melodía!!! los amamos! firma: todos el Mundo. jajja llegue a ese final épico! de tremendo tema.
This is the album and the band that got me into metal. I actually remember listening to a CD my friend had on a bus ride home from a camping trip one day. I put this album on and just drifted away...I actually managed to fall asleep to this album, not because it was boring but because it was so moving and just what I needed to hear while I was so tired...just a magnificent piece of music overall. Very underrated in my opinion.
To Live Is To Die would be the ultimate badass final boss theme that almost kills you with game over and no continues but then you have 1hp left and somehow keep fighting until the very True Ending.
when I hear this song I always picture some big ship fighting the kraken during a big storm with enormous waves and wind at night, that's just so fitting
00:00 - 00:34 hooded figures gathering on a stormy cliff next to the ocean forming a circle, taking their time. it is not raining but black clouds are there as far as the eye can see 00:34 - 01:01 starting a fire in the center of the circle, lighting candles to light their altar. 01:02 - 01:26 singing chants for the call, preparing the first victim. 01:26 - 01:30 the high priest puts the dagger to victims neck, cuts it, blood starts to spill to the altar. 01:30 - 01:45 his body trembles as the blood drains from his veins, occult keep chanting. 01:45 - 01:58 victim dies, they throw his corpse into fire, the smell of burnt flesh surrounds them, fills their lungs. 01:58 - 02:25 chant is getting wilder as they bring the second victim to the altar. this time the high priest goes for the eyes, taking them out with the tip of his dagger, one by one, victim screams 02:25 - 03:20 priest stabs the second victim in the heart, his screams stopped but his body starts getting spasms, strange, meaningless sounds from his throat. ...and he dies. 03:21 - 03:47 they throw the second body to the fire, occult stops chanting as the high priest starts to chant the words. 03:47 - 04:01 occult repeats with the priest, more powerful than ever. like their lives depending on it. 04:02 - 04:57 the priest kneels down before altar, making their offering. 04:58 - 05:24 rock beneath their feet starts shaking, ocean starts to boil 05:25 - 05:38 they are waiting with curiosity and exicitement 05:39 - 06:11 fear takes over, and rises fast, earth shakes harder, terror takes over fear, their hearts beating like they are racing each other, almost gonna explode 06:12 - 06:27 for a moment everything stops, earth stops shaking, ocean stops boiling even the terror they felt is gone, until the moaning sound coming from the deeps of the ocean 06:28 - 06:54 he's rising from the deeps of the ocean, from r'leyh, where he was sleeping for thousands of years, he's now awake, they know that, terror takes over their minds, again. they enjoy the terror they feel. 06:55 - 07:50 he's there, right before their eyes, with all his grandeur, they starting to lose their mind, all of them, all that they summon him, victims were so lucky to not to see that... thing. he starts to swing his tentacles, crushing "everything" they hit, grabbing cultists, eating them. 07:51 - 07:56 the priest runs by the altar, kneels down again. 07:57 - 08:27 starts chanting again. 08:28 - 08:32 cthulhu rises his tentacles, they're so big almost touches the clouds 08:33 - 08:55 hits a couple of tentacle blows, one right to the altar, grabs the high priest, crushes him.
An amazing instrumental, one of the absolute best Metallica tracks of all time. It is damn near perfect. Some of the highlights: cool riffing by James Hetfield (and partly written by Dave Mustaine), Lars Ulrich does a solid job keeping the relentless pace, Kirk Hammett delivers an odyssey of a guitar solo (starting at 3:33 and ending at 4:56), and Cliff Burton displays his unique brilliance throughout the piece, his magnificent soloing providing a mix of awe and eeriness. Just fantastic.
Just as I thought you were gonna talk about weed the Indica and bassline kicked in and united at the base of my skull and made me love and appreciate good music forever and ever more.
Metallica and Megadeth are just as good, I'm more of a Megadeth fan myself but frankly, I have always been a fan of both. You should *NEVER* belittle someone for preferring one of the two as everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
I love Cliff and the whole Metallica crew... but when I listen to these old recordings I think of my friends and I performing Metallica covers in our shed. Yeah, our shed. In freezing cold New England weather..., FFS. Fucking good times.
I’m 50 this year 2023 and listened to this in the mid 80’s when I was a mere 13 years old!! Love it even more today!! Classics are classic for a fucking reason!!
I still remember absolutely falling in love with this song when I was in 3rd grade listening to all of the Metallica CDs my brother in high school had just bought. It's still one of my absolute favorite instrumental songs of all time 🤘🤘
as i type this comment it is currently september 28, 2016. that's 30 years and 1 day after cliff died on september 27th, 1986. 30 years, man. had to believe it's been 30 freaking years since cliff's death. but don't worry cliff, you are not forgotten. you will be remembered. now let's raise our arms to the sky, throw up the horns, crank up some fucking metallica, and honor the best damn bass player to ever walk the earth!!
Imagine; You're sailing across the Ocean, leaning hard into the wind. A storm is brewing, the air heavy, and darkened. A flash! Waves! and the storm is upon you....
This is exactly the image I had in mind. I also imagined a particularly big wall of water appearing in front of the ship with an indescribable dark shape inside, eery lights emanating from it. The ship is sailing towards it and there is no way to deviate it from its course That's what this song evokes to me
I was a Marine in Task Force Ripper during Desert Storm. We mounted speakers on the front of our 5 ton truck that towed our 198 155mm arty gun. We blasted Ride the Lightning as we drove into combat. Unfortunately psych ops eventually drowned us out flying choppers around blasting Ted Nugent's Stranglehold Crazy time.. no movie could ever capture it
![Metallica - The Call of Ktulu [Remastered 2023]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/nKWUHo9ZPS4/mqdefault.jpg)
00:00 the ship is sailing. The water is calm. Far away, a storm is coming.
00:34 the storm is getting closer, there is something wrong with the water.
01:26 the storm reaches the ship. Thunders are all over the place. It seems that a strange and giant creature is beneath the ship
A battle rages on. The sailors try to fight against the odd creature. But for no avail.
06:11 most of the sailors are dead. The creature is destroying the ship.
06:53 the ship starts to sink. It seems that all of the sailors are dead.
07:56 the ship completely disapears. Nothing is left. The creature disapears as well. The water returns to the calmness.
08:31 an extraordinary thunder rages in the sky to remind every sailor to never sail in those waters
epic man that shit is epic
This deserves more likes.
Someone animate this!!
This description reminds me of the ship part in the game Call of Cthulhu - Dark Corners of the Earth. The "creature" in this case would be Father Dagon, from the Cthulhu Mythos.
Brilliant mate!
This song and Orion are the best examples of Cliff Burton's classical music likes that influenced the band's composition. He admired a lot classical authors like Bach and Mozart.
Andre Gomes Pulling Teeth was also a huge example of his musical influences.
Ohh..this song create by Dave Mustaine..
Mozart and Bach are happy go yucky.
Beethoven is real.
@@Mirza_123 "participated"
@@Mirza_123 mustaine didnt write the whole song. They used his chords and changed up the solo. That's pretty much it. Dave didnt write the bass parts or drum
It's 2020 I'm 61 years old still head banging to Metallica
I am 60. saw them open for van halen
Damn bro this hit me a certain way. I'm 17 and going through a lot of tough shit listening to this after a long night 💯
Go for it Ann 🤘🏻😄
Young Tee keep listening to decent music mate.. You'll be fine 🤘🏻👍🏻 chin up..
Ann Aschenbrenner it never gets old. I still have this on cassette, from when I bought it in the 80’s as a young teenager. I never saw Cliff, but I saw them many times with Jason. I fell in love with him from Flotsam & Jetsam days. Still love them.
This song basically proves that you don't need lyrics to make an absolute masterpiece
Lol ever heard of Beethoven, Bach, Mozart...
@@bko85 Yeh but their style of music isn't my favourite, don't get me wrong they were musical geniuses though
Think classical music did that a few centuries ago agree though
@@Langford0101 Classical music is practically just "acoustic metal".
As Frank Zappa said about music "words are for people who need them"
"Metallica is the best metal band"
-H.P Lovecraft
"but wait..... I found this guy *casually show ningen isu performance in lovecraft dream* "
-DAGON
@@jakaalatas8938 ???????????
Metallica is the absolute BEST metal band that ever walk this Earth. Period
@@adamrivett628 Iron maiden and black sabbath are on a higher level.
@@darthvader3465 cool
The part from 0:00 to about 8:55 really does it for me.
Damage Inc. play this during a snow storm it blends in
I like from 0:00 to 8:54 more, but I get your point
Hell yeah 🤘
Something from 0:00 to 8:54 makes this song really great.
RIPClifford Lee Burton
@@thisisCHOPZZ And that part from 0:00 to 8:54 too, so good.
Lyrics:
WAAIGH
WOOUGH
WEEGH
WAAAH
WAAA
WOUUH
WOOUGH
WAAAOO
weegh
waaaah
waargh
waaoh
waaagh
waaaaoh
WUUIIIOOUoouiioiuuh
Woorghuu
Lyricist: Cliff Burton
Vocals: Cliff Burton's Aria pro II
Backing vocals: Morley power wah, Cliff's foot.
HOOLOOOOOLY FUCK you;re so funny, yeah. ggz
Bro, you are a legend for posting this comment!! Freaking epic! 😂😂😂
Alo.
Aki.
Abaixoooooo.
Arribaaaaaaa.
Guauuuuu.
Sempre.
Ke ben.
Metallica.
Best fucken comment I've ever read.....I bow down to you sir.
🤣
Everyone: jamming
Cliff: *summoning a Lovecraftian horror*
“What have you got there Cliff?”
“A bass.”
Love those crazy bass 🙏
DO YOU KNOW?
from 6:16 and 6:23 wasn't Cliff's bassline, it was an actual sound of Ktulu screaming from deep beneath in the ocean
Lol
Or maybe Cliff was indeed powerful enough to summon Cthulhu’s soul...from his bass; that’s as badass as it gets!!
🤘🏻😎🤘🏻⚡️⚡️
@@charlielucas3386 exactly
The Thing That Should Not Be?
And they SWEAR it wasn't of the D.A.T.S. in recording 😮😊
just incredible the emotion that comes off these instrumental tracks, so powerful and heartfelt
THESNEAKERADDICT I wouldn't really describe this piece as emotional. It's more atmospheric and story telling. Where as 'To Live Is To Die' is pure emotion.
+HeyTray1 then what's orion and suicide and redemption?
+THESNEAKERADDICT they are my favorites on every album (til and justice)
+gingersleep Some emotions can be very cold and ghostly indeed...
+stuff ghosthly are you stuffin your nose pcp
One of the best songs ever made
Your drum solo on Moby Dick is #1 song, eh? ;)
huge fan of you Mr.Bonham
High praise from you. Greatest rock drummer of all time.
John Bonham died in the 80s
Max Price wow you're real fun
I like Ray Burton talking about the day he met Jason Newsted. Jason gave Ray his condolences and Ray interrupt him and said welcome to the family.
One of the best instrumentals ever.
I agree
+Muhammad F. You gotta listen to the violin concert covering their best songs.
Uriel Ramirez What is it called? A violin version of this song sounds like a pretty cool idea
+Muhammad F. Just search Metallica live in San Francisco
Jake Herington Sick. Will do
This song just happened to be on the radio as we drove towards two small hurricanes that had just formed, I'll never forget that it was crazy!
Who that must be cool to see
Epic
ride the lightnings a fitting album for such an occasion
Cliff Burton watching you
\m/
This was my first metallica song ever, i found it accidentally around 2013 when i was looking for music because my teacher asked me to find some music to add to a school play, and there it was, sitting in the suggested videos. This was around the time no one would shut up about chtulhu and when i read the title being the literal 10 year old i was i went something along the lines of "omg XDD chtulhu epic!!" and clicked on the video, up until that point everything i had listened to was just some queen songs every now, some other rock bands my dad played in the car but mostly minecraft parodies of famous songs and shit along those lines so when the intro ended and the music got intense i started losing my mind over this and how good it was.
I downloaded it on a usb stick and brought it to school and when the teacher asked me to make the class listen to the songs i found to see if everyone liked them this was the first song i put on even tho it wasnt even loosely relevant to the school play.
Volunteering for the music in the play was the best decision of my life, i wonder what shitty music i would be listening to right now if i didnt
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such a cool way to get into metallica \m/
That's kinda sad because instrumentaly this is as good as it gets your never gonna top that feeling
I got to metal by watching Darkest Dungeon shitposts. Seems like you discover best music by accidents.
Fuck yea bro.
This song is so good they named a book after it
I don't know if want to correct you because I think I might gonna get wooshed...
They named a short story after it. Well, and a whole mythos. Horror Babble has all the Cthulu Mythos cycle and the Lovecraft Circle Mythos stories on two grand videos, good shit for a winter evening with a glass of scotch
@@orangeiceice12 I still don't know if anyone is joking
@@deimos351 I think so
hahahahaha, nice one.
Orion and call of kthulu are my favorite instrumentals of all time.
Pantera-floods,outro
To live is to die?
Xavier Cruz couldn’t agree more .. legendary track.
Me too
Almost.
Without any lyrics this instrumental express more meaning and emotions than most of modern songs, it's like a thunder in the chest
7:50-8:55
This part of the song is the most beautiful art I've ever heard
Iron maiden - ish
This is as artistic as classical music. I remember looking down upon the kids wearing metallica shirts. I had never listened to a metallica album from start to finish, but this is pure, intelligent, creative musical composition. I'm a fan now!
Fuck yeah ! Have you listened to orion?
The gods were channeling something through them in those first 4 Albums.
@@valeriegregoire5073 yeah😎
This is good, but nowhere nearly so artistic as actual serious music…which you call “classical,” a term which is at best a misnomer.
Massive tocatta and fugue vibes here. Definitely a big influence for metal
Ride the lightning is one of Metallica's greatest album
+Christian Panero IS the best album
+diego cuevas salazar ... and justice for all is
+Christian Panero I agree with you; I always felt like Master of Puppets was a tad too thrashy and less than melodic for my tastes. IMO RtL has the perfect balance of aggression and melody.
+Christian Panero Correction.... It's one of the greatest albums of all time
+Christian Panero indeed it is
RIP Ray Burton. Now he’s with his son jamming in heaven.
Cliff?
@@jennyanimal9046 his dad died rip to him
@@sonicxdudex765 ☹️😓
@@jennyanimal9046 Ray were his father
Ir maybe in some strange ancient world or hell
I wonder how Mustaine discovered that intro's progression, it's a very magical one...
This song takes you to another realm, it's really awesome man, I'm seeing monsters!!
Calebe Priester Dave is a god at progression and transition, that’s how
@@mckenze9274 yup those chords and progressions are so Dave. You can instantly hear it's his
Mustaine is a metal genius 🤘
The first intro progression is James's but the next two are certainly Dave's. Metallica would play what was a precursor to this song on the final few dates of the KEA4O tour. It only featured two of the clean progressions and their distorted variations. So yes, the parts that make up most of the song. Those were written by Dave. The parts they added to Dave's parts - the first clean intro, the heavy bridge, the pounding tom part and harmonies and outro - were written by the other guys. Kirk wrote the solo. So it's a song which features contributions from 5 members of Metallica! ;)
in dave’s biography or something he says that he learned a lot of chord progressions from the beatles
This song makes me emotional every time. I feel like I'm embarking on a life-defining journey, pushing through fear, apprehension and self-doubt, but emerging victorious. This song is a gift to the world!
You are on a life defining journey, but it starts as soon as you open your eyes, and the beasts you have to defeat are all the invisible things holding you back from what you really want to do.
Well put.
It is a gift 🎁 too the world 🌎
Boy: Mommy, was that thunder?
Mom: No, it's just Cliff Burton shredding.
Dude as a bass player for my school I thought that was God status.
Chocolate Mudd You ain’t shit to judge cliff burtons playing 😂
Hell Yeah!!!! Cojones!
that's all of their ride of lightning
that's the point
cringe
I Will Say this only:
Thank you mister Clifford Burton for all that you gave us....
Even if it was only particular songs in a few albums... It really sucks the dude wasnt alive longer... He died real young too...
Rick E Bunbury actually most of the music on this track is Dave mustaine
You do realize he's dead, don't you? He can't hear you.
@@craigj.davies1983 Poor you, thinking you know the answer in order to judge other strangers on youtube. talk to your parents about this.
@@railster Judging? Who's judging who? I just let him know that dead people can't hear you.
Man Cliff was dangerous with that wah pedal!💪 R.I.P Cliff
This is 2020 and this still rocks.
IT DOES! *F O R E V E R*
Lovecraft would be proud of how much justice they did for the subject matter.
Dude this will still rock in 3020.
@@peternormand4094 F*ck yeah.
@@peternormand4094 don,t think to far ahead. what,s left of the human race will be trying destroy themselves again.
"Dudududu WAAAAAHHHHH!"
-Cliff Burton. 1984.
"...Dudududu WOOOOUHHHH dadudududu dada"
The bassline in this is honestly so cool
...Dudududu dawwh dawhh duuuuu Wauhwahwawooahwoahhh
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
-Cliff Burton’s last words before a bus fell on him
R.I.P Cliff Burton. May he forever Rest In Peace, knowing that his band has become one of the most successful in history.
@@kennethnavalotajr3113 boiii
This song is so much more interesting and chilling after you've read about Cthulhu and R'lyeh. The intro with the bass sounds like him waking up from his long slumber, the later D chords progressions sound like him ascending from the depths and tearing through the waves and the distorted bass basically throughout the whole song sounds like him speaking his mysterious language. What a masterpiece.
Cthulhu F'tgan! The sleeper from R'lyeh rises!!
YAH! SHUB NIGGURATH! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young! What walked on the hills that May evening?!?!
This song is like watching a storm forming in the distance, you know it's getting closer, will devastate everything, and there's nothing you can do.
That moment when you write 'storm' but really meant to say OUR LORD AND MASTER KTULU WHO DWELLS IN THE DEEP.
Very poetic :)
@@mickmarsbar81 From a haze came a rage of thunder
Distant signs of darkness on the way
Fading cries scream of pain and hunger
But in the night the light will guide your way
The fact this album and Kill 'Em All are nearing their 40's is astounding. Timeless classics from the legends of the Big Four.
I just looked up the release dates for both albums and I was shocked about that. That just proves that both of these albums are timeless classics!
RTL, KEA, PS and RIP for me are the best. RTL and Deth's RIP are the best (and coincidentally both blue ;))
this and Orion are so atmospheric, you don't need any lyrics to understand what the song talks about, only the title may help
beercan what about to live is to die ( the instrumental in and justice for all)
MultiAlerocks yeah, that one too. fun fact: I just listened to the song this morning
MultiAlerocks But to be honest the whole AJFA album is very atmospheric
The song talks about the call of ktulu.
Deniz Savkay I don't doubt it
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
I think it's actually Mercyful Fait
Yeah if it could there'd be nothing left to sort out and we'd just eat applesauce in a fucking snuggy
Lovecraft FTW!
That is rather deep and obscure.
We live on a Placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity and it was not meant that we should Voyage far
Some albums of metallica are bad, some albums are good, some albums are very good but ride the lightning is a MASTERPIECE...
So is kill em all and master of puppets
Kill em all, master or puppets, ride the lightning, death magentic, the black album are great
@@leavemealone322 black album ain't metal album, but like its songs ain't bad.
@@leavemealone322 also AJFA way better than Death Magnetic, but AJFA has barely any bass...
@@dovydas4483 what is it then?
The song that plays when Cthulhu rises as the final boss for 2020.
Edit: It’s January 2021 and things seem good. Stay safe and stay metal everyone ^-^
In fact hahahaha
at the rate we're going that may happen lol.
Oí x
Makes sense with all the madness being sowed right now
Damn that be true lol
This has to be one of the most tasteful and brilliant uses of Kirk's Wah pedal to date.
And yes, that joke goes to Cliffs Pedal, in case you didn't notice.
Cliff Burton
@@hiiambarney4489 Took me a second but it was so worth it.
The wah is on the bass.
My absolute all time favorite instrumental & probably my favorite Metallica song of all time.
Brings me back & hits me right in the feel's..
In my opinion the best Metallica track. I cannot count how many times i have listened to this, and every time i find something new and interesting. And it fits to the mood of Lovecraft stories perfectly ;)
You're 100% right!
5:10 - 5:25 is ABSOLUTELY BREATHTAKING!!!
6:15 - That bass just tells you "Ktulu announces his arrival"
Rising from the deep..
What ktulu actually is?
@@ailajadu575 Sea Beast of mythic times.
Jojo presne tak.... jsem rad, ze jsem mohl jako 6ti lety smrad mit tatkuv discman a doma najit pujcene od strejdy originalky se zajmavyma obrazkama :D
Cthulhu Has Spoken!
"Welcome to our fortress tall..."
- Dave Mustaine
Yep Hangar 18
I’ll take some time to show you around
Impossible to break these walls
For You see the steel is much too strong
Instuments to sight the stars
my son just head banged for the first time to this.... I'm just so proud I could cry.
Christopher Rogers Give that kid a beer
Now you know his favourite demonic overlord is Cthulhu
Somehow I missed "head" in your sentence. Strange ;)
Christopher Rogers Cthulu it's over him now.
Just kidding bro very proud of your son
This is real music
Christopher Rogers Amén!
This one and Orion are my favorite Metallica Instrumentals.
"To Live is to die" , "Suicide and Redemption".... Well my favourites are "Suicide and Redemtion" and "The Call of Ktulu"....
Orion is a little bit overrated
Javier Sebastian Martin Suarez Peinado You gotta admit though, even if its not your favourite, the bass work in Orion is fucking godly. Cliff was such an amazing bass player.
Javier Sebastian Martin Suarez Peinado "To Live is to Die" is a great one also. I wasn't a real fan of "Suicide and Redemption" for some reason.
ThePolerbearproducts SUicide is great...the bass sounds great, the riffs sounds incredible and there are like two or three drums solos at the end of the song...the only problem with that song is the production...
And the bass work in "The Call of Ktulu" is more tecnical than "Orion" and has a better atmosphere and solos
Another nice tune of Metallica for me is "My friend or misery" , is sad that song is not an instrumental..such a sahme because the bass lines of Jason newsted of that song were catchy and good
Imagine if Cliff survived, Think about the amazing instrumentals he would've made in the future.
Lovecraft and Metallica. Can't get much better than that.
H.P. Lovecraft's cat makes it better.
See, I don’t even think it’s actually love craft. If it is they definitely misspelled Cthulhu
@@toniheyrend296 It's definitely Lovecraft. People spell it differently, but with "The Call of Ktulu" being the same as the original "The Call of Cthulhu" save the name, it's definitely intended
@@toniheyrend296 the song was from the beginning inspired by Lovecraft's book like many more of their songs but the original name for the song was "When Hell Freezes Over". Cliff was a huge Lovecraft fan and was the one to propose the new title.
maybe some short of Gandalf singing with them
The lyrics to this and Orion are so moving...
Jacob Miller ikr they are amazing
I think the lyrics fit very well with the power of the St Anger solos!
Jacob Miller No they are not, but lyrics for To live is to die are…
The lyrics to Pulling Teeth are better by far.
Yeah, no kidding
This song is just amazing. Some people say they need lyrics to understand the song and what it's about, but I don't. The emotion and beauty in this song tell a story.
30 years ago today.
R.I.P Cliff, forever the best !
In this post-Freudian age the institution of marriage, as a by-product of religiously-fueled monogamy, has deteriorated to the point that amorphous sexual identity, as opposed to rigid religiosity, has become the primary self-defining feature of the individual. But has anything changed? Has the entrapment of women via marriage, which Blake called a "gilded cage" merely deteriorated to the "rusty prison" of the Bang Bus, representative of anonymous male-centric sex and continued subjugation?
cool!
cool? someone died man the bast bassist ever died 31 years ago (approx)
the best of the best
I shall listen to this as I read Lovecraft, or play Bloodborne.
no one at the top of a hearthful org. based on love wants to hear or see about "cults" unless it's the band that ROCKS. or is leading to lyrics in a rockin' band!
Eddiethenotsogreat I'm doing this right this sec LOL. (reading Lovecraft and listening to this)
Tilda Birzeanu Can you feel Cthulu creeping up on you yet?
Eddiethenotsogreat yeah, pretty sick
Eddiethenotsogreat And?
I played this song so many times that Cthulhu blocked me,
I can call him only to hear the voicemail now...
Lol 😂😂😂
Press Iä to pay respects
Iä! Iä!
They have phone lines in R'lyeh? Awesome!
that make me day
Defeat his eye and his brain (terraria reference)
First time ever listening and holy shit that was awesome
Lucky
wish i could listen to this first time again lol. you might like sanitarium too
Welcome and enjoy the rest of your Metallica experience.
I don't think you all realize how important this track is in the history of metal.
+Stevie P how come?
+Dwide Schrude Propably because it's not important at all.
Bill Kleinschmidt
Flawed grammar: check
Yo momma insult: check
Namecalling: check
No proper counterargument: check
Thanks for being the stereotypical internet douchebag ^^
No problem pal :D
+Bill Kleinschmidt fuck you :)
Lyrics are on the bassline.
1:33 THE MOST BR00TAL SCREAM IVE EVER HEARD
It's Cthulhu speaking in his alien language.
haha.. whatever that language is, it's beautiful!
I see you are a man of culture
I love Cliff and Jason. But what if Lemmy.......
Desde minuto 3:20 te lleva a otro lado!!! y no estoy intoxicado! el thrash es mi cable a tierra! en especial los instrumentales! Él/los musicos dan todo en estos temas! creatividad.virtuosidad y el Sentimiento!! gracias a estas bandas! ayudan a tanta gente a seguir viviendo y superar malos tragos de la vida! INFINITAMENTE agradecidos! dejan un legado de vida en una estrofa y en la melodía!!! los amamos! firma: todos el Mundo. jajja llegue a ese final épico! de tremendo tema.
Salud logistica like
Cool story bro
Buena carta que te aventaste ahi bro, coincido contigo en todo lo que mencionas
The riff at 3:20 is probably one of my favorite James riffs of all time. This tone also adds to that.
It screams JAmes
In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
“Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Lä lä Fthaghn.
IÄ! IÄ! CTHULHU FHTAGN!
HAIL CHTULHU
And with strange aeons, even Death may die.
where's that from?
This is the album and the band that got me into metal. I actually remember listening to a CD my friend had on a bus ride home from a camping trip one day. I put this album on and just drifted away...I actually managed to fall asleep to this album, not because it was boring but because it was so moving and just what I needed to hear while I was so tired...just a magnificent piece of music overall. Very underrated in my opinion.
Essa música faz parte da minha vida,ela é com certeza,de muita importância para mim, grato por poder usufruir desta maravilha.
Songs like this will live forever, just think, any modern pop song die the next year after it was realesed, but masterpieces like this will never die.
Yes.
This would be SUCH a good song to use in basically any bossfight.
Bloodborne boss fight....dont know which boss it would suit though..
4 7 Ebrietas! Hahahaha Cthulhu itself
To Live Is To Die would be the ultimate badass final boss theme that almost kills you with game over and no continues but then you have 1hp left and somehow keep fighting until the very True Ending.
when I hear this song I always picture some big ship fighting the kraken during a big storm with enormous waves and wind at night, that's just so fitting
Literally Bloodborne
00:00 - 00:34 hooded figures gathering on a stormy cliff next to the ocean forming a circle, taking their time. it is not raining but black clouds are there as far as the eye can see
00:34 - 01:01 starting a fire in the center of the circle, lighting candles to light their altar.
01:02 - 01:26 singing chants for the call, preparing the first victim.
01:26 - 01:30 the high priest puts the dagger to victims neck, cuts it, blood starts to spill to the altar.
01:30 - 01:45 his body trembles as the blood drains from his veins, occult keep chanting.
01:45 - 01:58 victim dies, they throw his corpse into fire, the smell of burnt flesh surrounds them, fills their lungs.
01:58 - 02:25 chant is getting wilder as they bring the second victim to the altar. this time the high priest goes for the eyes, taking them out with the tip of his dagger, one by one, victim screams
02:25 - 03:20 priest stabs the second victim in the heart, his screams stopped but his body starts getting spasms, strange, meaningless sounds from his throat. ...and he dies.
03:21 - 03:47 they throw the second body to the fire, occult stops chanting as the high priest starts to chant the words.
03:47 - 04:01 occult repeats with the priest, more powerful than ever. like their lives depending on it.
04:02 - 04:57 the priest kneels down before altar, making their offering.
04:58 - 05:24 rock beneath their feet starts shaking, ocean starts to boil
05:25 - 05:38 they are waiting with curiosity and exicitement
05:39 - 06:11 fear takes over, and rises fast, earth shakes harder, terror takes over fear, their hearts beating like they are racing each other, almost gonna explode
06:12 - 06:27 for a moment everything stops, earth stops shaking, ocean stops boiling even the terror they felt is gone, until the moaning sound coming from the deeps of the ocean
06:28 - 06:54 he's rising from the deeps of the ocean, from r'leyh, where he was sleeping for thousands of years, he's now awake, they know that, terror takes over their minds, again. they enjoy the terror they feel.
06:55 - 07:50 he's there, right before their eyes, with all his grandeur, they starting to lose their mind, all of them, all that they summon him, victims were so lucky to not to see that... thing. he starts to swing his tentacles, crushing "everything" they hit, grabbing cultists, eating them.
07:51 - 07:56 the priest runs by the altar, kneels down again.
07:57 - 08:27 starts chanting again.
08:28 - 08:32 cthulhu rises his tentacles, they're so big almost touches the clouds
08:33 - 08:55 hits a couple of tentacle blows, one right to the altar, grabs the high priest, crushes him.
Great visuals, if only the video existed!
maybe someone can shoot it :)
MeTaLOn31 wow.
Has anyone offered to buy movie rights yet?
You just said my thoughts on this song
This album I played on loop while I was reading the Elric saga in 1984. It gave the books so much more life.
R.I.P Cliff, thank you for all.
I can hear dave influence
אפשר לישמוע את ההשפעה שלו בהרבה חלקים מהאלבום הזה
Sket!
Mustaine? It's because this is the last album he wrote, co-wrote and recorded before leaving Metallica
An amazing instrumental, one of the absolute best Metallica tracks of all time. It is damn near perfect. Some of the highlights: cool riffing by James Hetfield (and partly written by Dave Mustaine), Lars Ulrich does a solid job keeping the relentless pace, Kirk Hammett delivers an odyssey of a guitar solo (starting at 3:33 and ending at 4:56), and Cliff Burton displays his unique brilliance throughout the piece, his magnificent soloing providing a mix of awe and eeriness. Just fantastic.
Legend says Cliff made those "Ktulu" screams.
It's a true fact
Love how the bass lurks just beneath the surface and bubbles to the top when Cliff stands on the wah.
vo so pelotu2
The Wah in the BASS is great! Cliff = Genius!
Wah in the guitar is shit! Kirk =Suck!
Just when you think you've blown all your dopamine receptors, your shuffle hits ''The Call of Ktulu'' and you spend yet another night awake.
Hylde
dopamine is a sad thing how its finite, im really noticing it with metallica and shit, not the same as it used to be
Hyldebrandt Heelclick 🤘🤘🤘👹👹👹👽🖖💀☠️💀
Hyledrandt Heelclick There's still a few left! Holy shit that cracked me up for about 5 minutes straight, I hope they're reusable ahahaha good shit..
Just as I thought you were gonna talk about weed the Indica and bassline kicked in and united at the base of my skull and made me love and appreciate good music forever and ever more.
Beethoven would of loved Metallica.
I've always felt they were very Beethoven inspired.
William Koscielniak Cliff was
If Beethoven was born like 50 years ago, he would’ve probably played metal.
@@williamkoscielniak820
The intro to "Damage, Inc." sounds quite similar to Bach's "Come, Sweet Death".
Would have
Metallica and Megadeth are just as good, I'm more of a Megadeth fan myself but frankly, I have always been a fan of both. You should *NEVER* belittle someone for preferring one of the two as everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
Megadeth has belted some serious metal. Hi 5 Bro!
vsma70 \m/
The great one has spoken! Cthulhu r'lyeh!!!
Agreed
🤘
They need to make a movie about Metallica like they did for bohemian rhapsody!
MetalDrummer 09 they did it already ,it’s called some kind of monster
But is a documentary
I really want to see a young Mustaine
I watched one called through the never '-'
Ay I need to see them
Simply a masterpiece
Written by Dave mustaine
I'm close to being 40, and I'm still a proud rocker/metalhead 🤘
40 here and proud metal head!
I'm 13 and I don't give a f about the people that call me shit because I listen to metal🤘
What!?!? I'm 48. Metal/thrash, NYHC!!!! WILL NEVER STOP BEING A FAN!
@@vagp2495 kid, you are a legend compared to kids of your generation , salute
@@heimdallwg2112 thank you so much
The ending has a special place in my heart.
I love Cliff and the whole Metallica crew... but when I listen to these old recordings I think of my friends and I performing Metallica covers in our shed. Yeah, our shed. In freezing cold New England weather..., FFS. Fucking good times.
Nostalgia, such bittersweetness
For a lot of reasons, this is my favorite song of Metallica. Still, after all these years... \m/
I’m 50 this year 2023 and listened to this in the mid 80’s when I was a mere 13 years old!! Love it even more today!! Classics are classic for a fucking reason!!
You can imagine your own story in your mind when listening to this. Its sooo good. Love instrumentals.
my top 1
1. The call of ktulu
Carlos Teixeira Nice list!
Carlos Teixeira i'd personaly would get Call Of Ktulu on that List...
jajajajaja
This comment made me laugh my ass off
Man not enough talk about Kirk’s solo! Sounds like all hell is breaking loose, it fits the song so damn well.
Haha I'm sure Mustaine will say he wrote it.
@@jesseashford3949 Dave wrote just one riff, solo is Kirk's
More like: all hell is freezing over...
I still remember absolutely falling in love with this song when I was in 3rd grade listening to all of the Metallica CDs my brother in high school had just bought. It's still one of my absolute favorite instrumental songs of all time 🤘🤘
One of the best successes of Metallica. I still love them🎸😎🎸😎🎸😎🎸😎🎸😎🎸😎🎸😎🎸😎
Classical music with distortion.
Any early Children of Bodom basically
thats the phrase i was looking for to describe this, thank you
Yeah I've heard people compare heavy metal in general to classical music. I've noticed many correlations, it's great.
@@Nobody-qg1kc LISTEN TO NYMPHÉTAMINE BY CRADLE OF FILTH
It's a compliment.
I almost forgot to listen to this today.
This is So me xd
I made that mistake once.... the consequences were dire
Good catch
Fthagn
well thank god you're here
I played this to Dark Souls.
Now it's Bloodborne.
The sky and Cosmos are one.
By the gods...Fear it Laurence!
Played it while playing bloodborne... Yarnham became dunwich...
Underrated comment
@@Tfunkshizzle, this says a lot about society...
Happy Birthday Cliff! We all miss you!
Cliff opens his bass wah randomly. He wrote this awesomeness
Its not random, its actually very precise and effective
Wahsomeness*
Random? wtf?
as i type this comment it is currently september 28, 2016. that's 30 years and 1 day after cliff died on september 27th, 1986. 30 years, man. had to believe it's been 30 freaking years since cliff's death. but don't worry cliff, you are not forgotten. you will be remembered. now let's raise our arms to the sky, throw up the horns, crank up some fucking metallica, and honor the best damn bass player to ever walk the earth!!
dang, i feel really sd listening to this song and thinking about cliff's death...
Plutogia Pythia Kurohebi To Live is to die is the saddest Metallica song of all time, and the fact that Cliff wrote it makes it even sadder.
yeah, i know, that's why i love to live is to die so much
god bless Cliff
Wil am jay went to 4 ,5 6 they ruled
Imagine; You're sailing across the Ocean, leaning hard into the wind. A storm is brewing, the air heavy, and darkened. A flash! Waves! and the storm is upon you....
This is exactly the image I had in mind.
I also imagined a particularly big wall of water appearing in front of the ship with an indescribable dark shape inside, eery lights emanating from it. The ship is sailing towards it and there is no way to deviate it from its course
That's what this song evokes to me
@@sephikong8323thinking about that while listening to the song gives me chills!!
This is the first time I listen to The Call of Ktulu, and it's already very high in my list of the best music I've ever heard.
Try some pantera too😚
Listen to Orion
@@elijahbzusbsbzhzh9443 it's done my bro
The Call of Ktulu was composed by Mustaine
Don't forget Megadeth, Korn, Otep and Black Sabbath
People say I have the perfect voice for this song. They say I'd do a pretty good Orion, too.
people say i dont sound good when i burp and fart at the same time but i do it anyways
Same luis. Same.
+luis Guerra you should work on your harmonys, burping and farting in harmony made Justin bieber famous
no shit? ah man how i would love to be able to have the voice for those songs!
Do a cover man
Cliff's bass is a pure eargasm !
I was a Marine in Task Force Ripper during Desert Storm. We mounted speakers on the front of our 5 ton truck that towed our 198 155mm arty gun. We blasted Ride the Lightning as we drove into combat. Unfortunately psych ops eventually drowned us out flying choppers around blasting Ted Nugent's Stranglehold
Crazy time.. no movie could ever capture it
@@KelpPardue 😂
Made me jealous
Wicked mate.. awesome to hear. Thank you for your service
Thank you sir 🙏
From one Marine to another thank you for your service
If you concentrate hard enough, you’ll hear the lyrics
And what are the lirycs?
@@andreic884 there are there. mabey listen harder.
@STORM LORD you need to see the Far Realm to hear the lyrics... and once you see it... you are forever trapped
Dumbass😂
Andy Tnt Iä iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!
The ending of this one is like a battle of the gods. Zeus ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Jove!
DRBSYNATDA STRUNZ
The cult worships ktulu, but ktulu worships Cliff Burton.
i worship metallica in general
Cliff made Ktulu his bitch
Cliff Burton is the BASSIST EVER no one even comes close to his shredding, which why when KTULU needs advise he seeks CLIFF BURTON !!!
Bull fucking shit
This is probably one of the greatest metal masterpieces ever laid upon the ears of mortal men
The very being of the cosmos spoken aloud.... and given a name.
Um no, that would be Yog Sothoth.
yog sothoth calls for you
well said
Chris Celeritas . Truth hurts. So be it. We ve been shown the truth through song. Only a select few
Only a select few survived this ..this is our music . Our twin flame in a world of one