This is the song that fundamentally changed the band forever. They sat down and were like, "Where the fokk do we go from here, bro?" (that's how Lars talks) And then the black album and Load and Reload were born from that question.
Lars really put together one hell of a drum track on this song. This song is up there with some of the hardest ones to play on drums. And by that I mean to play exactly as it’s heard on the album note for note, there’s kicks is spots that normally you wouldn’t expect and the pattern for them seems to constantly be changing so you have to memorize the entire song not just one pattern, there’s symbols and crash hits at uncomfortable spots during fast drumming, and not to mention the multiple dummy fast double bass sections that are decently long. And the song just never lets up either. It’s difficult to nail, and even if you do, you need the stamina to keep up for the whole song too. I’ve only heard ONE cover on RUclips where the guy played it perfectly as far as I could tell. ONE. Others were close but they just memorized one of the kick patterns through one of the verses and reused the same pattern in the following verses even though it changes, or they moved the spot some of them hit on or some of the crash hits to slightly different spots. Makes sense why he couldn’t play it live lol. But honestly who cares, it’s a badass track he put down for the song
Indeed he did… the fact that it has the “forward ..1&2&3&4& momentum on the top end … contrary to battery or fight fire which in a live situation is a bit more forgiving as the snare is on the 1234 matching the hats Lombardo “turns it around “at the end of Angel … a good way to help learn the techniques I found in Van Halen’s Get Up off 5150..
I was about your age when I 1st heard Justice. Brings a lot of memories man. I think you'll love Peace Sells but get around to Ride the Lightning and Kill Em All for some of Metallica's hardest songs of their career.
So much anger and emotion in this song. Definitely pertains to James childhood and also dealing with the death of Cliff Burton whom James looked to like a big brother. By far my favorite Metallica album. Make me emotional every time I hear this song. Especially after losing my older brother and father. I didn’t exactly have the best childhood either.
Lars was good at one time. It never ceases to amaze me how many people don't know that. With that said, he could not play this song live (the double bass part gave him trouble). It's the only song I know of that he couldn't. I saw them on the justice tour and they simply didn't even play it. With that said, he played every other song and was a beast live.
There's been some speculation that he never actually recorded the double bass part either. That they just double tracked a single kick pattern and offset one of them to make it "double". It's never been confirmed, but various engineers that worked on AJFA have said that 90% of the time spent recording and editing was to fix Lars' drum takes. That, combined with the fact they never played it live (and whenever they did he didn't do the double kick part), it does seem plausible. And tbh Lars is a decent drummer but he was never 'good' or "great during the AJFA period". He has *never* been able to keep time properly, which is *the* most important thing for a drummer. He has a great ear for musicality and arrangement, but I would never consider him good or great at drumming.
@@beirch I mean I saw them on this tour and he was really good live. I never heard him slip up much at all. Even on the black album tour he was good playing the AJFA songs still. Sounded great to me. Another thing is I know a lot of drummers that talk big and criticize him but they can't play this song either even though in their minds they are playing it correctly they're not. Josh Steffan is the only one I've seen pull it off.
@@beirch No according to flemming rasmussen Lars from all the albums they did with him, Did double bass in one take mostly. At that time it was the easier thing in difficult part he could pull off. I think the few cut tapes were on few snare and cymbals things .
@@beirch Lars could play the double bass part like this even till Reload era. On the 1987 demo he is doing it and there s not edit on it or paste. In interviews he said that it was the rythm changes that weren't bothering him to pull it live
The next album that you should listen to is the most famous and the most loved also "Ride The Lightning" since most of the musical compositions or rather said songs are composed as much as; Hetfield, Ulrich, and Cliff Burton. Besides, today it is celebrating its 36 years since it was launched on the market, I think it would be a good idea to take that beautiful celebration by listening to it all in this quarantine. I will only tell you that the most acclaimed and famous (Not as much as the black album) are: Figth Fire With Fire For Who The Bell Tolls Fade To Black Crepping Death The Call of ktulu But there you must choose which are your favorites. The ones I mentioned to you are my ultra favorites
James did not have a very "happy" childhood. Christian Science parents (pray for medical cures christianity, not Scientology) split and Mom died of cancer when he was an early teenager... yeah, there's some resentment in there. Ray Burton, Cliff's dad was more a father figure to him (and the rest of the band) than Jame's old man ever was in many ways. After Cliff died in the rather traumatic bus roll over (they found him under the bus with his legs sticking out) the 20 odd year old kids that were Metallica really didn't know how to grieve and were pushed almost immediately back into playing and touring by the label who was trying to milk the most money out of them before they possibly imploded. This album came basically on the heels of Cliff's death smack on the heels of a world tour cycle and the raw anger of unresolved grief is palpable. Edit: Lars Ulrich has a great relationship with his family and his father and presumably mother pretty much indulged him in his early music career after it became obvious that while young Lars was one of the best tennis players in Denmark he was badly outclassed in the US and the rest of the world.
If you do the Kill em All album, I recommend you to do the live versions. Here it is the whole album live each song from different concert over the time. ruclips.net/video/bYX_kPXxMY0/видео.html
Ok Journey...this is going to be long, but stick with me here. The thing with Lars is that he wasn’t naturally a drummer, he worked his ass of in the early days to keep up with his peers, such as Dave Lombardo (Slayer) and Charlie Benante (Anthrax) and was playing beyond his natural ability...and the utmost respect to that! But, Lars has the tendency to be a blunt dick, and outwardly opinionated. Both unexceptionable in today’s culture. Also, he’s taken a step back from a technical standpoint since the Black Album. Now the patched together claim on AJFA may have merit? But I will say the digital cut and paste that goes on today is far worse than anything they supposed to have done on this album. How do I know? I’ve played in Metal bands for about 25 years as a drummer, and a guitarist...and I’ve seen firsthand the fuckery that goes on when creating tracks on digital wave file programs....and all done so to cut studio time. Now this album was recorded anolog, to basically VCR tape, ala ADAT. It is hard, and a pain in the ass to cut and splice tape, and keep the integrity of the track solid....it can be done, but very difficult. Now, I have a friend who trashes on this drum track because it’s so chopped, and he can hear the spots. Well, thanks to Guitar Hero nerds, they extracted the actual drum track....which you can find on RUclips (and I recommend you do) and when I played the drum track so he could show me where it’s chopped, he really couldn’t, only saying “I just know it is” Editing is part of the studio, and the filth that goes on now days is insane compared to the ol anolog days. Lars has taken a backseat to where he was then...but he will show glimpses of it now days...check out more recent tracks such as Moth Into Flame, My Apocalypse, or Spit Out The Bone...where he showes he can still turn it up....love the Metallica/Megadeth reactions. Both phenomenal bands!!!!!
I’m pretty sure I remember reading somewhere either the studio engineer or someone else who worked on the album saying that the drum track for this song IS spliced, but only at certain breaks in the track. So he did play large portions of it exactly as you hear it. It’s not like they added in the double bass on top of the track later on. He really did the double bass as it sounds. Which is totally understandable for this song. It’s fucking hard af to play that perfectly all the way through. I’ve only heard ONE cover on RUclips that basically nails it perfectly. Everyone else seems to play a slightly simplified kick pattern underneath and/or placed some of the quiet crashes and cymbal hits in an easier place. And the dude that played it perfectly said it took him like 2 months to get it that good for a single take for the video, and that after he was done he was drenched in sweat and drank like a gallon of water and was done for the day afterwards lol. So I think it’s plenty fair for Lars to have recorded the drum track in segments. Still keeps it genuine in him playing everything you hear at the same time, but gives him a rest after a section when there’s a break in the drums so he can record the next part after a break lol
@@TheJerseyNinja there is a demo of Lars nailing it in one take but, I mean, splicing up the studio recording for such a song is quite understandable lmao
I noticed you're older and less skittish in your new videos (a compliment, growing up makes you wiser ✌) My question is, do you still have this elitist view on drumming? Lars is still a joke, or have you understood that he is the best drummer for metallica? Skill like all technical virtuoso players have isn't how we gauge each other 🙂 Peace
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This song is about Hetfield’s own childhood. You can tell how personal the lyrics are
This is the song that fundamentally changed the band forever. They sat down and were like, "Where the fokk do we go from here, bro?" (that's how Lars talks) And then the black album and Load and Reload were born from that question.
be prepared for this song. I use to blast this song in my room when my parents and i were at it.
It is time to Ride the Lighning!
yes please best album by them for me
@@ianduffy7756 Yeah, both RTL and AJFA had a really interesting, non-regular sound imo!
🤘
This is a sledgehammer beating you repeatedly what a way to end their thrash era.
Next Ride The Lightning album
AJFA is a Masterpiece of metal from start to finish.. it's that simple. 🤘 🔥
The lyrics really give the drums great room to breath and be able to have great fluidity to drive the song.
This is my favorite Hammett solo.
Lars really put together one hell of a drum track on this song. This song is up there with some of the hardest ones to play on drums. And by that I mean to play exactly as it’s heard on the album note for note, there’s kicks is spots that normally you wouldn’t expect and the pattern for them seems to constantly be changing so you have to memorize the entire song not just one pattern, there’s symbols and crash hits at uncomfortable spots during fast drumming, and not to mention the multiple dummy fast double bass sections that are decently long. And the song just never lets up either. It’s difficult to nail, and even if you do, you need the stamina to keep up for the whole song too. I’ve only heard ONE cover on RUclips where the guy played it perfectly as far as I could tell. ONE. Others were close but they just memorized one of the kick patterns through one of the verses and reused the same pattern in the following verses even though it changes, or they moved the spot some of them hit on or some of the crash hits to slightly different spots. Makes sense why he couldn’t play it live lol. But honestly who cares, it’s a badass track he put down for the song
Indeed he did… the fact that it has the “forward ..1&2&3&4& momentum on the top end … contrary to battery or fight fire
which in a live situation is a bit more forgiving as the snare is on the 1234 matching the hats
Lombardo “turns it around “at the end of Angel … a good way to help learn the techniques I found in Van Halen’s Get Up off 5150..
Ultimate thrash with real lyrics 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Best song, best album!
I was about your age when I 1st heard Justice. Brings a lot of memories man. I think you'll love Peace Sells but get around to Ride the Lightning and Kill Em All for some of Metallica's hardest songs of their career.
So much anger and emotion in this song. Definitely pertains to James childhood and also dealing with the death of Cliff Burton whom James looked to like a big brother. By far my favorite Metallica album. Make me emotional every time I hear this song. Especially after losing my older brother and father. I didn’t exactly have the best childhood either.
Yep. Pure catharsis man
Yes! "Ride the Lightning" next good sir. :)
Only fair to do either Ride the Lightning or Kill Em All in their entirety next
Best song ever ❤
Thank you for the reaction ! 🤘
Lars was good at one time. It never ceases to amaze me how many people don't know that. With that said, he could not play this song live (the double bass part gave him trouble). It's the only song I know of that he couldn't. I saw them on the justice tour and they simply didn't even play it. With that said, he played every other song and was a beast live.
Except Shortest Straw, they didn't play that ethier
There's been some speculation that he never actually recorded the double bass part either. That they just double tracked a single kick pattern and offset one of them to make it "double".
It's never been confirmed, but various engineers that worked on AJFA have said that 90% of the time spent recording and editing was to fix Lars' drum takes. That, combined with the fact they never played it live (and whenever they did he didn't do the double kick part), it does seem plausible.
And tbh Lars is a decent drummer but he was never 'good' or "great during the AJFA period". He has *never* been able to keep time properly, which is *the* most important thing for a drummer. He has a great ear for musicality and arrangement, but I would never consider him good or great at drumming.
@@beirch I mean I saw them on this tour and he was really good live. I never heard him slip up much at all. Even on the black album tour he was good playing the AJFA songs still. Sounded great to me. Another thing is I know a lot of drummers that talk big and criticize him but they can't play this song either even though in their minds they are playing it correctly they're not. Josh Steffan is the only one I've seen pull it off.
@@beirch No according to flemming rasmussen Lars from all the albums they did with him, Did double bass in one take mostly.
At that time it was the easier thing in difficult part he could pull off.
I think the few cut tapes were on few snare and cymbals things .
@@beirch Lars could play the double bass part like this even till Reload era.
On the 1987 demo he is doing it and there s not edit on it or paste.
In interviews he said that it was the rythm changes that weren't bothering him to pull it live
Metallica can still bring the fire when they want too. I submit for your consideration 'Spit Out the Bone' off of their latest album, 'Hardwired.
It's about James childhood, best track on the alubum for sure. Great reaction my friend. Kirk is smoking that guitar.
Ride the lighting next
I joined for the pauses, hell yeah
Every song on Justice is best song, except Harvester, for me.
James hand is godly
The next album that you should listen to is the most famous and the most loved also "Ride The Lightning" since most of the musical compositions or rather said songs are composed as much as; Hetfield, Ulrich, and Cliff Burton. Besides, today it is celebrating its 36 years since it was launched on the market, I think it would be a good idea to take that beautiful celebration by listening to it all in this quarantine. I will only tell you that the most acclaimed and famous (Not as much as the black album) are:
Figth Fire With Fire
For Who The Bell Tolls
Fade To Black
Crepping Death
The Call of ktulu
But there you must choose which are your favorites. The ones I mentioned to you are my ultra favorites
id say trapped under ice and escape are pretty solid too but yeah that album is and will be an alltime banger \m/
@@bxr1s_ you are a man of bro culture;)
Love ya bro. Hope u r well
Do Harvester of Sorrow studio version before you end this series. Redemption!
Lars did amazing on this song
Since you finished this album, please start from the beginning KILL EM ALL THE RELEASE WITH BLITZKRIEG AND AM I EVIL ON IT
Ride the lightning album
Nice introooooooo brooo
Hopefully your next metallica reaction is fight fire with fire
its team work...
James mama died when he was 10 and this songs pretty much about her and his dad didn't really speak to him much after she died
his dad left them when he was 13 and his mom died when he was 16
Check out Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake. As a drummer you will love it.
James did not have a very "happy" childhood. Christian Science parents (pray for medical cures christianity, not Scientology) split and Mom died of cancer when he was an early teenager... yeah, there's some resentment in there. Ray Burton, Cliff's dad was more a father figure to him (and the rest of the band) than Jame's old man ever was in many ways. After Cliff died in the rather traumatic bus roll over (they found him under the bus with his legs sticking out) the 20 odd year old kids that were Metallica really didn't know how to grieve and were pushed almost immediately back into playing and touring by the label who was trying to milk the most money out of them before they possibly imploded. This album came basically on the heels of Cliff's death smack on the heels of a world tour cycle and the raw anger of unresolved grief is palpable.
Edit: Lars Ulrich has a great relationship with his family and his father and presumably mother pretty much indulged him in his early music career after it became obvious that while young Lars was one of the best tennis players in Denmark he was badly outclassed in the US and the rest of the world.
If you do the Kill em All album, I recommend you to do the live versions. Here it is the whole album live each song from different concert over the time. ruclips.net/video/bYX_kPXxMY0/видео.html
next up ride the lightning album!
Ride the lightning next!!!
Ok Journey...this is going to be long, but stick with me here. The thing with Lars is that he wasn’t naturally a drummer, he worked his ass of in the early days to keep up with his peers, such as Dave Lombardo (Slayer) and Charlie Benante (Anthrax) and was playing beyond his natural ability...and the utmost respect to that! But, Lars has the tendency to be a blunt dick, and outwardly opinionated. Both unexceptionable in today’s culture. Also, he’s taken a step back from a technical standpoint since the Black Album. Now the patched together claim on AJFA may have merit? But I will say the digital cut and paste that goes on today is far worse than anything they supposed to have done on this album. How do I know? I’ve played in Metal bands for about 25 years as a drummer, and a guitarist...and I’ve seen firsthand the fuckery that goes on when creating tracks on digital wave file programs....and all done so to cut studio time. Now this album was recorded anolog, to basically VCR tape, ala ADAT. It is hard, and a pain in the ass to cut and splice tape, and keep the integrity of the track solid....it can be done, but very difficult.
Now, I have a friend who trashes on this drum track because it’s so chopped, and he can hear the spots. Well, thanks to Guitar Hero nerds, they extracted the actual drum track....which you can find on RUclips (and I recommend you do) and when I played the drum track so he could show me where it’s chopped, he really couldn’t, only saying “I just know it is”
Editing is part of the studio, and the filth that goes on now days is insane compared to the ol anolog days. Lars has taken a backseat to where he was then...but he will show glimpses of it now days...check out more recent tracks such as Moth Into Flame, My Apocalypse, or Spit Out The Bone...where he showes he can still turn it up....love the Metallica/Megadeth reactions. Both phenomenal bands!!!!!
Dont forget Nick Menza. He was a beast. RIP
I’m pretty sure I remember reading somewhere either the studio engineer or someone else who worked on the album saying that the drum track for this song IS spliced, but only at certain breaks in the track. So he did play large portions of it exactly as you hear it. It’s not like they added in the double bass on top of the track later on. He really did the double bass as it sounds. Which is totally understandable for this song. It’s fucking hard af to play that perfectly all the way through. I’ve only heard ONE cover on RUclips that basically nails it perfectly. Everyone else seems to play a slightly simplified kick pattern underneath and/or placed some of the quiet crashes and cymbal hits in an easier place. And the dude that played it perfectly said it took him like 2 months to get it that good for a single take for the video, and that after he was done he was drenched in sweat and drank like a gallon of water and was done for the day afterwards lol. So I think it’s plenty fair for Lars to have recorded the drum track in segments. Still keeps it genuine in him playing everything you hear at the same time, but gives him a rest after a section when there’s a break in the drums so he can record the next part after a break lol
@@TheJerseyNinja there is a demo of Lars nailing it in one take but, I mean, splicing up the studio recording for such a song is quite understandable lmao
Bit late to the party but subscribed anyway
So , kill em all is🔥Ride the lightning 🔥Master of puppets 🔥And Justice for all🔥,after that the 🔥slowly burned out with the odd spark here and there
He compared Metallica to slayer I think we know who the better band is like if you agree Metallica
Check out people=shit and welcome by slipknot!
Heard both of them both really good songs
Mr. Scary by dokken
It needs to be done
Also dont call me a Cockmumbler
Journey the bad camera
Megadeth Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? album, please!
Dude why do you always pause it?
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 PAUSE IT IF YOU FUCKING WANT TOOO!!!!
wheres the bass?
This is Lars at his best.
You don’t pause enough. Shit!
I noticed you're older and less skittish in your new videos (a compliment, growing up makes you wiser ✌)
My question is, do you still have this elitist view on drumming?
Lars is still a joke, or have you understood that he is the best drummer for metallica? Skill like all technical virtuoso players have isn't how we gauge each other 🙂
Peace
Lars is awesome I make jokes about it but he's an awesome drummer most of the time. there's been some funny moments, he's inspired me a lot
they never played this live probably because of lars
Hey could you stop pausing it thanx
😉
Hey could you stop watching my videos thanx
You mad bro
cringe