I wouldn't even consider myself a Metallica fan .. but this song is the most incredible thing I've ever heard .. immensely powerful and extremely dangerous while driving .... and unbelievably heavy lyrics from a 21 year old James Hetfield..
I always assumed since they used one of his aliases, the topic was Nyarlathotep, an Old One from Lovecraftian bestiary/lore. *edit* He's known as the Crawling or Creeping Chaos, not Death, I HAVE ERRED!!!! NOOOO!!!!
Fun Fact: Ever heard The Frayed Ends of Sanity? Well, lemme tell ya that the acronym for The Frayed Ends of Sanity is FEoS. That's the plural for ''ugly'' in Spanish
I remember begging my mom to let me go see Metallica when I was 15. She said she'd let me go if I find someone, so I invited my best friend at the time. She bailed on me so my mom decided she'd go with me instead haha her I am 22, now I can't wait to see them again this summer!!! #Metallica2017
I never thought i would headbang to old-testament songs in my life.BUT METALLICA CHANGED MY LIFE BECAUSE THEY ARE AMAZING AT MAKING EVEN THIS THEME COOL.
I'm a Traditional Catholic (by faith) and I'm strongly against mainstream music in Church. But this song, aside from Southern Gospel, I'll make an exception. This is legit. I can see Moses and St. Michael singing this in Heaven.
LOVE THIS SONG. I'm an imperfect Christian, all are who are truthful, this is spot on with the Scriptures. Master of Puppets is another song I made my kids be aware of as I've never heard a more grisly truth about how evil drugs are. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Yeap. I've heard literal Praise Team pop slop in megachurches that weren't as good at explaining the Gospel as this Thrash metal song. Whether they intended or not, Metallica created a track that is both badass and reminds me of the Lord's plan in all things.
I first heard this when I was 15. I'm 47 going on 48 years old now and this more fantastic than ever. Metal forever. One of the very few things in my life that will endure for my whole lifetime.
When I was was 10 years old, most Christians, told me all metal music was of the devil, what they didn't realize it's just the book of moses put Into music. the four horsemen by Metallica is the same thing, revelations put into music, luckily when I got older I could think for myself, Christians should not judge just because they have a guitar and long hair
***** It's complicated. Judaism and Christianity didn't split until that kid from Galilee gave up being a carpenter and became a traveling preacher. ;-) That's where the whole "Judeo-Christian" thing comes in. I was raised Christian, but Passover was always acknowledged, if not celebrated, in my family. And folks of my generation can't picture Ramses II except as Yul Brenner, or Moses except as Charlton Heston.
+Mark Stockman Very fitting for the celebration of the "preventive" murder of 60 000 or so "antisemites". It´s time to avenge HAMAN and his people! ;-)
Definitly, best song of Ride The Lighthing and one of the best of Metallica in general. This is the perfect example of how a perfect trash metal song is made to be sound. Thanks Metallica for creating this masterpieces!
Probably one of their best and aggressively heavy tracks. It clearly stands the test of time, for even listening to this in 2023, time is not even a concept, this song kicks ass!😎
@@thedarksideofthemoon9195 yep if u listen to this at 5:55 it matches perfectly with the riff in the trailer and bc I had a buddy help me run thru countless songs to pin it down and confirm it for the setting the show is taking place in (Eddie in the trailer is definitely distracting the demo bats with a fitting song to "kill the first born pharaohs son")
Was reading about this song, I think on Wikipedia, and Cliff Burton one night was watching the movie The Ten Commandments, which is on ABC now, and he was inspired to write the song by the green smoke creeping across the land and killing all first born males, except the houses that had lamb's blood around the door.
Yes, it’s about the destroyer Moses told Pharaoh, that their God was sending - to kill the firstborn of all Egypt, including his own son, because he wouldn’t let his people go. (It’s in the movie and the words “so it is written, so it is done” comes from the mean decrees of Pharaoh towards the Israelites.)
The last statement of your comment is unnecessary. Not to claim to be an old man myself, but as you get older, you'll understand the general impossibility of comparing generation-dependent waves of music as better or worse.
For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. Exodus 12:23 KJV
Remember my Dad having this album when I was like 13, me being young and naive thought it was a new band (this was 2003), he had a chuckle, gave me the album and I've been a fan ever since.
Lmao, ive been listening to Metallica for a lot of years now and they're my favorite metal band, but this is the first time I've actually read the lyrics to this song and I've been way off on alot of them haha, wow much better now that I know them right
I love this song I just sat down and listened to the song with lyrics just give me the chills even more now biblical I'm pretty sure it's in there lol love metallica
I remember the first time i heard this was in my highschool parking lot where a dude was jamming out to this in his rusted out dodge a100 van me and him became good friends
well what to say dear brothers from another mothers than thank you all or this moment, when I ex Yugoslav listen this in late 80s and early 90s I didnt understand the lyrics much and I like it a lot, now when I was listening again with reading the lyrics here and understand the meaning of this first 5 albums I can say that this guys are or wore very spiritual ... Love and Respect
Hrvoje Bertovic Theres a HUGE difference between knowing the bible, and believing it, Metallica knows the bible, but they are not even close to believing it.
I have always kinda felt as if "Creeping Death" should have been the final track on this album. It actually sounds very good when "The Call Ktulu" starts playing right after "Escape", and then is followed by "Creeping Death" afterwards.
I must have been asleep when listening to this in my 20's, now Im in my 50's and now realise its Biblical when all the while I thought they were satanic, awesome Metallica❤
I rule the midnight air, the destroyer Born, I shall soon be there, deadly mass I creep the steps and floor, final darkness Blood, lambs blood painted door, I shall pass That verse set my ear buds on fire 🔥😮🔥
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My parents always wanted me to preform at church. Oh they were not to happy with me playing this.
I'm going to be right there with you in about a week😉
Why not? It's a Bible song. This counts as a Bible song, right?
That's the kinda church I wanna go to fucking sick
If they was jewish they would've loved it.
@@adanzaragoza1723 it's from jewish one.
I wouldn't even consider myself a Metallica fan .. but this song is the most incredible thing I've ever heard .. immensely powerful and extremely dangerous while driving .... and unbelievably heavy lyrics from a 21 year old James Hetfield..
Scahoni same. Me on bike + anything from this album= drifts, skids, slides, people swearing at me, it’s fun.
Im so dead
Uh lyrics are from the Bible bud
@@carvinguptrails .... Unbelievably heavy lyrics from a 33 year old Jesus Christ.
@@bizzjoe 😂😂😂😂
and they say i don't read bibles... they're right..
I listened to it...
Ha ah truth said right there ☺☺
most people don't they listen to someone standing at the lecturn
I always assumed since they used one of his aliases, the topic was Nyarlathotep, an Old One from Lovecraftian bestiary/lore. *edit* He's known as the Crawling or Creeping Chaos, not Death, I HAVE ERRED!!!! NOOOO!!!!
I'm 42...I started to listen to metallica when I was 14...and still a fan!!!!
***** i'm 45...and they changed my fuckin LIFE! from KEA till today.
greetingz from germany!
ZAP
Im 15 years old and i listen 5 years to them now
***** Same age here. Friend gave me his Ride the Lighting and Bark at the Moon (Ozzy) tapes and I've been hooked on metal ever since.
***** I am 13 and I have been listening to Metallica for 4 years now and they only get better
+Branieschopper TV 30 years are nothing for a Metallica fan :P
Perfect song for Christmas morning
perfect song for crying your eyes out to after some idiot betrays you
@@SydneyJeanFilms ouch
Passover, not Christmas
@@SydneyJeanFilmsAre you okay?
Yeah
30 years on and still sounds just as awesomely fresh. Not an ounce of datedness.
What bullshit. It sounds old as fuck. Good but old
Old as the bible
Mark knopfler from dire straits 🫢
Almost 40 years old still sounds great.
@John Popoff here from the future. Still sounds good 50 years later
Fun Fact: This was originally written by Metallica and was stolen from Metallica by Metallica later on.
The KKK wow, i did not know that
I dont fucking care, I like metallica the same as i like megadeth
Fun Fact: Ever heard The Frayed Ends of Sanity? Well, lemme tell ya that the acronym for The Frayed Ends of Sanity is FEoS. That's the plural for ''ugly'' in Spanish
Punkmetal Mx oh u a salty one arnt ya
That's a fckin crime, bruh.
" I'm sent here by the chosen One."
I guess, I see what you did there :D
Since nobody said anything before I'll just say to this comment to skip ahead "I'm creeping death !"
So let it be written. So let it be done. To kill the first-born Pharaoh son. Im Creeping Death
Moses wants you kill children lol.
I'M CREEPING DEATH!
I still get chills listening to this after almost 30 years. Hell yes!
I'm 45 today and still get the chills from this song. Started listening when I was only 14
"I rule the midnight air, the destroyer "
My favorite line
Lambs blood painted door, motherfucker I shall pass.
Same!
I remember begging my mom to let me go see Metallica when I was 15. She said she'd let me go if I find someone, so I invited my best friend at the time. She bailed on me so my mom decided she'd go with me instead haha her I am 22, now I can't wait to see them again this summer!!! #Metallica2017
Maria Arreaga did you see them again ?
Ha! Awesome!!
Well done! 👍 Great story. 😁
cool mom 👩 😎
4:00 that die back voice is so underrated..
Metallica was always the legendary metal band. Still is...
3:40 Kirk wrote the riff when he was only 16
Ikr🤯 he gets really emotional talking about it. Poor guy😅
So? Jason becker wrote altitudes when he was only 13.. and becker's song is waaaay different. God its a masterpiece
@@yuri-ub8kk wow that's interesting but I sure don't care
@@yuri-ub8kk Jason Becker wishes he wrote something even 10% as good as Creeping death is
@@buzdoukaroci9628you dont know jason backer, do you?
5:00 mark-ish the background vocals sound like an Angel of death is backing up James, and it's so fucking heavy. Metallica forever \m/
But with effects
I think that’s cliff
What’s ironic about this album is that it sounds so electric. It sounds like Kirk was using a bolt of lightning as a guitar
Basically the old testament in 6 minutes.
I never thought i would headbang to old-testament songs in my life.BUT METALLICA CHANGED MY LIFE BECAUSE THEY ARE AMAZING AT MAKING EVEN THIS THEME COOL.
Considering Kirk was from the band "Exodus", it all makes sense.
Used this to teach a Sunday School class on Passover. Verse by verse.
Enrique Arrieta Moral of the story, dont fuck with god
I didnt hear anything about Samson, David, or Solomon
I wish this song could be played at church
me too
Depends on the church
The priest would be headbanging!
I'm a Traditional Catholic (by faith) and I'm strongly against mainstream music in Church. But this song, aside from Southern Gospel, I'll make an exception. This is legit. I can see Moses and St. Michael singing this in Heaven.
@@vincentreyes6154 I wouldn't call metal mainstream; popular yes, but not mainstream
Only Metallica can make bible stories FUCKING METAL!!! #PraiseGodwithmetal
Try Megadeth's 'Looking down the cross'
Cole Hanson so can black Sabbath
Shadilay McKek So can Avenged Sevenfold.
What did Iron Maiden and A7X do about the Bible?
#PraiseGodWithMetal
LOVE THIS SONG. I'm an imperfect Christian, all are who are truthful, this is spot on with the Scriptures. Master of Puppets is another song I made my kids be aware of as I've never heard a more grisly truth about how evil drugs are. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Yeap. I've heard literal Praise Team pop slop in megachurches that weren't as good at explaining the Gospel as this Thrash metal song. Whether they intended or not, Metallica created a track that is both badass and reminds me of the Lord's plan in all things.
I first heard this when I was 15. I'm 47 going on 48 years old now and this more fantastic than ever. Metal forever. One of the very few things in my life that will endure for my whole lifetime.
me too.
How’s 53 man
You can tell a metal head. Who wore themselves out, headbanging, playing their air guitar? Don't even lie. :I
Worth it!!!!
almost everybody does that HAHAHAHAHAH
WORTH ALL THE NECK PAIN THE NEXT DAY! ITS EPIC!!
When I was was 10 years old, most Christians, told me all metal music was of the devil, what they didn't realize it's just the book of moses put Into music. the four horsemen by Metallica is the same thing, revelations put into music, luckily when I got older I could think for myself, Christians should not judge just because they have a guitar and long hair
You're right man. We as Christian's can really be judgmental, sad when our faith is contingent on Christ not judging us!
Dave mustaine wrote both those songs. He also is a born again Christian now. So he from day one had huge biblical influences
no one cares but I'm a christian metalhead and very proud of that
@@oscarcampos5568 he only wrote the four horsemen really
Just look what the church does to Skillet and Stryper
3:40 to 4:20 when thrash metal and doom metal fuse together
Easily my favorite part of the song.
@@jakezillaofficial yea..deff.
Yeah
any a recent interview Kirk admit it he compos that part when he was 16 old
@@hatim1303 8 years ago you mean it was the guitar center interview when he said that but damn what a riff
My family always listens to this as part of our Passover remembrance.
Sounds like a good time.
***** It's complicated. Judaism and Christianity didn't split until that kid from Galilee gave up being a carpenter and became a traveling preacher. ;-) That's where the whole "Judeo-Christian" thing comes in. I was raised Christian, but Passover was always acknowledged, if not celebrated, in my family. And folks of my generation can't picture Ramses II except as Yul Brenner, or Moses except as Charlton Heston.
Your family's gotta be the best family ever
+Mark Stockman Very fitting for the celebration of the "preventive" murder of 60 000 or so "antisemites". It´s time to avenge HAMAN and his people! ;-)
Egypt then Persia. In modern times it was Russia then Germany. Working on the U.S.....careful
2:47 that's why kirk fits perferctly in metallica
A Masterpiece.
Definitly, best song of Ride The Lighthing and one of the best of Metallica in general. This is the perfect example of how a perfect trash metal song is made to be sound. Thanks Metallica for creating this masterpieces!
TFRyuk thrash😂
Probably one of their best and aggressively heavy tracks. It clearly stands the test of time, for even listening to this in 2023, time is not even a concept, this song kicks ass!😎
Best Passover song ever written
switch 3:38 still gives me goosebumps after 25 years
Quick question have u seen all of stranger things?
@@Dat_Doggo well that was unexpected
@@thedarksideofthemoon9195 lol this is the song being played by Eddie in stranger things volume 2
@@Dat_Doggo wait really?
@@thedarksideofthemoon9195 yep if u listen to this at 5:55 it matches perfectly with the riff in the trailer and bc I had a buddy help me run thru countless songs to pin it down and confirm it for the setting the show is taking place in (Eddie in the trailer is definitely distracting the demo bats with a fitting song to "kill the first born pharaohs son")
Best Metallica song, period.
Probably my favorite Metallica song.
doctortabby it's my second favorite right under Orion
But Orion is just music no lyrics, right ?
PaCmAn Is My iDoL aNd FlOyd Is A pUsSy that's true but it's a fucking amazing instrumental
Mine too.
4:00 first time I heard this song I thought he said " I dye my hair! " -_-
My English is better now though XD
+Jefferson Araujo lol
+PeachyMike Mee too :D
+Mark O Maybe it's true then after all ;)
PeachyMike lol
hahahaha
my favorite Bible story
I like how the lyrics of this song are literally out of the book of exodus
Just realized this song was about Moses freeing the slaves from his brother 😂 and the creeping death is the spirit in the movie prince of Egypt
Creeping death is the 12 plagues of Egypt and creeping death is the angel of death
Was reading about this song, I think on Wikipedia, and Cliff Burton one night was watching the movie The Ten Commandments, which is on ABC now, and he was inspired to write the song by the green smoke creeping across the land and killing all first born males, except the houses that had lamb's blood around the door.
Yes, it’s about the destroyer Moses told Pharaoh, that their God was sending - to kill the firstborn of all Egypt, including his own son, because he wouldn’t let his people go. (It’s in the movie and the words “so it is written, so it is done” comes from the mean decrees of Pharaoh towards the Israelites.)
the event is called passover.
Metallica will never get old, not to me anyway.
Dread I agree.
It will live on forever
Neveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer
Metallica is like wine, the more it ages, the better it becomes
I started to listen to metallica when I was 12, now that I'm 19, I still like em as the first day 😍
I started at 8yo in 1988 and still listening to it during my workouts in 2022. It’s that good.
I'm 16 and been listening to them since I was 14. I love them so much
Probably the best song from their best album.
3:40 to 4:20 is fucking epic!
I started listening to metallica when I was 1 or 2. I'm now 16 and i still love them. Far better than any modern music nowadays
The last statement of your comment is unnecessary. Not to claim to be an old man myself, but as you get older, you'll understand the general impossibility of comparing generation-dependent waves of music as better or worse.
Metallica is not even in my top 20 but they are so great
Audi is right though, Pop sucks compared to this.
Kilian | Feed the flames
You talk as if there was no pop 20, 30, 40 years ago.
6th There were, but still pop of that time was 1000000x better than modern pop music.
4:24 tho! One of the best riffs of all time!
This song is just Amazing.
0:00 to 6:36 is my favorite part
Nice
my too
TheOvalOwl shhhh shh that's been said before
No shit, bruh! Mine too!
Noice
This is one off the sickest and smoothest solo by Kirk, so coooool
I hear metallice since i'm 6. still love them \m/
+Jilibus It means you are a wonderful person in this crazy world! :)
+Mark O ^the thirst is real with this one
The idiotism is real with this one...
By far my favorite Metallica song.
Brad Brandon My favourite Metallica songs are the entirety of Ride the Lightning and ...And Justice For All
If only they played this in the Disney film... Haha!
What film you mean? Prince of Egypt (or something like that :D )
Andrew Schiavo I wish I could play this at my chruch, it's talking about a story in the bible, Moses, right?! So I don't know why I can't play it...
ROCKSTAR CAMM That would be epic!
Andrew Schiavo *Dreamworks
Disney is too soft for this.
Metallica was (and still is at times) my therapy. Nothing get's me more pumped.
As a Christian this song is amazing and it shows that you don't want to mess with God
Or idiots......
God is cool
God a G
Haters: Metal is Satanic!
Me: This song is about Passover. Don’t say anything else.
Listening to this as an Israeli feels disturbingly satisfying.
For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
Exodus 12:23 KJV
Only 144k worldwide protected from the coming one.
Revelations 7
@@newkingdom6750 what does that mean?
Remember my Dad having this album when I was like 13, me being young and naive thought it was a new band (this was 2003), he had a chuckle, gave me the album and I've been a fan ever since.
I'm 14 years old. I think this is better than the modern "music" that everyone I know listens to.
You are so right! Keep on listening to good music(P.S. I'm 13 :D)
I'm 2
***** not really
I'm learning to play guitar. I can almost cover Master of Puppets.
i feel you bro (im 13)
the four horsemen disliked this
ramses too
The Four Horsemen liked ya comment
The Phantom Lord disliked this song!
The Four Horsemen wrote this
and Leper Messiah
Lmao, ive been listening to Metallica for a lot of years now and they're my favorite metal band, but this is the first time I've actually read the lyrics to this song and I've been way off on alot of them haha, wow much better now that I know them right
Long Live The Metal #InMetalWeTrust
Syndikat Commander #InMetalWeTrust
I love this song I just sat down and listened to the song with lyrics just give me the chills even more now biblical I'm pretty sure it's in there lol love metallica
The best Passover song ever!!!
One of my favourite songs
I DYE MY HAIR! I CREEP ACROSS THE LAMP KILLING FIRST BORN MAM!
One of my all time faves!!!
When the priest says heavy metal is blasphemous
this song has a very strong message
Esse Som é demais..!!!
Uma das melhores do álbum...!
Sonzeira de primeira..!Rsrs
my life is this \m/
Nice!
This is too good to be a song
Just by listening to the first few seconds of this song, (guitar and the drum intro in the beginning), I feel like a god!!
this song never gets old!!!
Essa música deles... é muito boa!!! Muito fera...! Uma das minhas preferidas...! Melhor álbum tbm . Ride ...!
I love how all their albums have different sounds
I remember the first time i heard this was in my highschool parking lot where a dude was jamming out to this in his rusted out dodge a100 van me and him became good friends
Remember
Dodges and Metallica are one od The best things that God gave to humanity
They unite People XD
Also really cool story bruv
the best downpicking ever❤
I love the strength in that "NOW" my fav part
And it's a history lesson from the past long ago as well. It feels a lot like memories gone by ages ago and come back again.
Bellissima creeping death 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼❤️❤️❤️
Should be theme for new assassins creed
I have no friends You are totaly right
Idk how I'd feel about metallica's music being in a ubisoft game but I definitly agree with that
Awesome!!!
Man I love This song
well what to say dear brothers from another mothers than thank you all or this moment, when I ex Yugoslav listen this in late 80s and early 90s I didnt understand the lyrics much and I like it a lot, now when I was listening again with reading the lyrics here and understand the meaning of this first 5 albums I can say that this guys are or wore very spiritual ... Love and Respect
Hrvoje Bertovic Theres a HUGE difference between knowing the bible, and believing it, Metallica knows the bible, but they are not even close to believing it.
Pozdrav za Hrvatsku 😀
I have always kinda felt as if "Creeping Death" should have been the final track on this album.
It actually sounds very good when "The Call Ktulu" starts playing right after "Escape", and then is followed by "Creeping Death" afterwards.
The arguably GOAT song from the unarguably GOAT Metal Band.🤘
yep still my fav Metallica song after all these years
R.I.P cliff
1962-1986
I’m a big Metallica fan and I love this song ❤
One of my top 20 songs. I used to have it on a tape right after REO Speedwagon's Take It On The Run.
I love the voices on the background saying DIE,DIE,DIE
Pharaoh felt Gods wrath
4:26 I rule the midnight air, the destroyer 🔥
See, Christian music doesn't suck
I must have been asleep when listening to this in my 20's, now Im in my 50's and now realise its Biblical when all the while I thought they were satanic, awesome Metallica❤
😈Best Metallica period OMG this whole album is fire
I rule the midnight air, the destroyer
Born, I shall soon be there, deadly mass
I creep the steps and floor, final darkness
Blood, lambs blood painted door, I shall pass
That verse set my ear buds on fire 🔥😮🔥
i like to listen to this album while running ! perfection :)
Una de mis rolas preferidas de Metallica grandiosa
Coronavirus love this one...
My favorite Metallica song,so let it be written.
The blood on the the door means God's wrath will pass u bye as a believer....awesome song
This is a masterpiece!!!!