Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales Exodus - Bonded by Blood Megadeth - Peace Sells... Metallica - Ride The Lightning Slayer - Hell Awaits/Reign In Blood Sepultura - Schizophrenia/Beneath The Remains/Arise my top thrash albums (idc Morbid Tales is thrash for me)
I wouldn't say breakthrough, certainly one of their most notorious, however the black album famously was their breakthrough record, it's what launched them into what they are today, has the most sales out of all of their records
Cliff's bass does not always sound like you'd expect a bass to sound. There are bass-only versions (or bass/drum) versions of for example For Whom the Bell Tolls and Call of Ktulu to listen to, for those who need to tune in Cliff's bass sound and not mistake it for guitar.
When I discovered Metallica I had mixed feelings for Cliff. I could hear his bass in the parts where he is the protagonist, but in the other parts I couldn't. My thoughts were "This guy receives so much praise only for certain sections?" Some months ago I decided to listen to Metallica again but having experienced a lot of other stuff. To my surprise, Cliff's bass was there vibrant and powerful almost all the time. I guess that I used to confuse it with a guitar in the past but now I finally came to appreciate it. His tone is unique nevertheless. He would play the bass in such an innovative way for the time that people even in the present get confused with it. This is another sign of Cliff's genius.
@@samuelgl3733 It wasn't entirely how Cliff played, the bass he uses a Rickenbacker practically sounds like a guitar with the pedal configurement he uses
@@MrJak427 Escape has always been one of my favourites, I don't care if the band hates it. Hetfield also hates Don't Tread on Me and for me it's one of the highlights of the Black album.
@@petrilampela he wears a don’t tread on me shirt all the time😂 That corporation/flag is basically what inspired him to write that song did he ever explain why? Like not a hood vibe playing it live?
@@MrJak427 If I remember correctly he said that he just disliked the song musically. It's got a catchy and uplifting chorus melody that goes in major key (like Escape does), maybe that's why 🤷
Old Metallica always feels nostalgic. I think almost every metalhead might feel the same. Metallica is for many the first metal band they listened to, along with maybe Slipknot, Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath. In my case, I have listened to so many different bands and genres that I have set Metallica aside for years, but yet, when I ocasionally listen to them, I feel teleported to the past haha. The times when I was a rookie in music come back, and seeing your reaction to this album has that same effect. Thank you for your time
When Metallica played with the SF Symphony (the first time) the orchestral arrangements were prepared by the legendary Michael Kamen (he did orchestra arrangements for Pink Floyd as well) who also conducted the Symphony for the first show. His arrangement for this song in particular is amazing. He really got a feel for what Cliff was doing musically and wrote absolutely brilliant counterpoints for this track. The newer version from the S&M2 performance is even better. I'd recommend giving the S&M versions a listen as well. Call of Cthulu and The Thing That Sould Not Be are two of my favorite pieces by Metallica and both were written by Cliff. Firing Dave was the best thing to happen to Metallica, losing Cliff was a loss for music in general. 🤘🧙♂️🤘 Rich the Ancient Metal Beast
You noticed half way through, and mentioned again at the end about "Another song about death". Well, yes, that's the album's theme. Master of Puppets theme is things that control. ...And Justice For All's theme is Injustices. James Hetfield (rhythm guitar) also hates Escape. The record label forced them to make that song. They refused to play it live for a long long time (first and possibly the last time in 2012) edit: As you liked Creeping Death, be sure to search for it played live in Moscow.
That Moscow performance of Creeping Death is probably the best performance of it I've ever seen. Jason's backup vocals from the DIE DIE DIE part until the end of the song are so good
I got this album shortly after it dropped, and it was pretty shocking at the time being hit in the face with Fight Fire With Fire. It was heavier than anything I'd ever heard (I was already into Ozzy/Maiden/Priest but this was another level). It actually took me a while to be able to appreciate the band. Creeping Death's riff was the first one to grow on me, and then of course For Whom the Bell Tolls is undeniable too.
Yeah, people forget that Metallica was by far the heaviest, most extreme thing out for a decent portion of the early 80s. Slayer already had a record and a tour by ‘84, but Metallica was still several cuts above the Priests and Maidens at the time in terms of heaviness and extremity, and they were even heavier this album and the next. Chuck Schuldiner, often considered the founder of Death Metal, stated himself in an interview that a major part of the growing extreme metal scene as a whole, including his music, came from Metallica’s influence.
Creeping Death was my introduction to Metallica It was a track on a compilation album I bought called Hell comes to your house. I was hooked and it is still my favorite Metallica song.
Wait--wasn't _Hell Comes to Your House_ a compilation of death rock from southern California, such as Christian Death and 45 Grave? It came out in 1981 (before Metallica released their first album).
@@mournblade1066 Not sure about that. But this was all metal bands ruclips.net/video/qxL_4kK9P0k/видео.html is the link to the whole album here on youtube
Hopefully one day you’ll check out Pantera’s Cowboys from Hell album. Definitely one of the albums that was a fundamental building block in my metal journey
Well that takes me back, buying this album from Virgin Records on the day it was released for £2.99! What an immense album it is, such a big evolution from Kill ‘em All and had the pleasure to see them on the tour as well. RIP Cliff.
cassette from Manchester Afflecks Palace for me; listened on my Tandy walkman copy then went straight back to buy Kill em all😁🤘🎸 Didnt see them until 92 with Jason Newstead
@@nikkihayes5411 LOL Afflecks. I went to Manchester in 1987 to study at UMIST and spent many an hour shopping in there, laughing at all the bell-bottomed jeans when “Madchester” started. I had many a tape as I was into the underground tape trading and still have the original Metallica demo “No Life ‘TIL Leather” on tape, along with many others. Walkman was such a fantastic invention.
The chorus to Escape was the thing that really got me hooked into Metallica back in the eighties. It just instantly got stuck in my head and I still think it's one of the catchiest melodies they ever wrote. Don't have a clue why everybody else hates it 🤷
the reason everyone hates it is because james hetfeild hates it and he said that it was just added to be an easy radio hit because the studio told them to make one. don't get me wrong I love this song but I understand why people wouldn't really like that.
@@elliottoneill785 Probably that's the main reason for most. But Kira here seemed to dislike the chorus melody on this video anyhow, I don't know if she knew about the controversy beforehand. I never let other people's opinions affect mine even if they are from the band themselves. I especially love how they took the happy chorus and made it something ominous in the end of the song just by switching the key from major to minor without touching the lyrics. Such a cool idea.
@@elliottoneill785 I feel like saying "everyone hates it" is a mischaracterization. I have a lot of friends who are OG Metallica fans like myself and none of us hate that song. If we had to list every track on the album from favorite to least favorite, that one might be at the bottom of some of our lists... but even on one of the greatest albums in metal history, there has to be a least favorite song. I'm fully aware of the history of the song and why the band doesn't like it and how the producers pretty much forced them to write it... but it's got a great guitar solo. It's got a killer opening riff. The verses are awesome. The chorus seems a little phoned in, but it's still solid. It's a good song. And I'm one of the fortunate few to have heard them play it live. (They've only played it live once, ever)
Ride the Lightning is *probably* the album that I’ve listened to most in my life. I didn’t get into Metallica until the late 90s, but every night in Year 11 & 12 I would play this album at night when I went to sleep. It’s imprinted on my brain! Still one of my favourite albums, but Master of Puppets is ever so slightly better (Ride was basically the blueprint for Puppets).
Wow Kira, I haven't watched yet but having seen your other videos I just know you will looooooove this one! It's very young, punky and extremely hungry Metallica inventing a new style of music. It's like this perfect mixture of raw and skilled. Great stuff.
I remember the first time I heard it. I borrowed the tape from my friend on a long bus ride for a marching band trip. I wasn’t into metal yet. I distinctly remembered “take a look to the sky just before you die, it’s the last time you will” so I asked him for a copy of whatever album had that. He gave me a copy of that but at first he lent me Kill ‘Em All instead. Anyway, I listened to “Ride the Lightning” basically every day, usually while doing homework haha. Been into metal since then
This whole album is incredible in my opinion, plus it has my favorite song of all time: Fade to Black. I was so excited to see this in my recommended :)
So the “Bell” on For Whom The Bell Tolls was actually a hammer hitting an anvil. Glad you are enjoying it and I am looking forward to seeing you do all the albums. Subbed and waiting for the next one.
Love the reactions, they're so spontaneously natural and awesome haha. Btw next time you listen to Call of Ktulu, try paying attention to those rumbling notes underneath, that's Cliff (their legendary bassist who passed away in 86) basically soloing almost throughout the 'verse' parts of the instrumental, they add so much dynamic to the song imo 😁
"Cthulhu", nailed it 😄 It's bloody amazing, and there's an even more epic version of this song on "Symphony and Metallica". I can never say which version I like better, but if a more grandiose\bombastic version sounds interesting you must look it up.
You seemed to really enjoy Ride the Lightning and Call of Ktulu. Interestingly, those are the two songs for which Dave Mustaine has shared writing credit. He wrote a few of the riffs from Lightning, and according to him he wrote almost all of the riffs for Ktulu.
Thrash is actually closer kin to jazz than you might expect with how the solo sections are structured, especially on e.g. Megadeth's Rust in Peace where the solos are super modal.
I was always put off by their name thinking how bad are they with a name like that? Late 1987 i heard Creeping Death and was blown away by it. Next day i was in my local record shop and bought Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets. Was too late to see them with Cliff as my first gig was in September 1988. in Edinburgh. Saw them again in May 1990 in Glasgow and that was the end of me going to see them live. To this day Ride...is still my favourite.
Many days as a teen in my room with the headphones on listening to this. Or at my friends playing video games with this music playing. Ahhhh.... Good times
I was born in the 80s and got this album when I was 13 and fell in love with it - listened to it 100s of times that first year. Then one of hte first concerts I went to when I was 14 was the 2000 Summer Sanitarium tour with Korn, Kid Rock, PM5K, SOAD, and Metallica - was a pretty sweet exxperience - metallica played like a 2 hour set - hearing 40k people chanting "DIE BY MY HAND" is pretty epic
just love your reaction to Call of Ktulu. was fab in my teens when this Album came out just bashing my drums to the Whole Album . Tempo changes in Call of Ktulu . such a hook and Iconic Album. I Saw Metallica Live at Monster Rock Fest Donnington 1987. adore them ever since.
This was a good pick! You are so damn cool :). Laughed out loud when you noticed the instrumental track :D. Something tells me after get more used to metal, you will end up liking stuff like the band Death or even some Atmospheric Black Metal. A bit more focus on the atmosphere and instruments.
You actually hear the bass more than you realize. Yeah, the bass was mixed kind of low but Cliff Burton was also playing with a wah pedal so he was coming in loud and clear during those moments in For Whom The Bell Tolls and Call of Ktulu. The real wild, crazy sounds is him using a wah pedal. James Hetfield also recorded multiple tracks of rhythm guitar so it's so thick and heavy that the bass kind of gets lost in there. As for the albums the first 5 albums, Garage Days Re-Revisited (It's now the first part of a double album called Garage Inc.) and Hardwired To Self Destruct, are the best ones. Might want to lower your expectations for Load, Reload, and St. Anger. There are some good songs on them but they just don't hit the mark like they should. Death Magnetic is another good one, not as good as the first 5 but better than Load, Reload, and St. Anger. Really wish I could've saw every single reaction you had without the edits but I really enjoyed the video.
Am I the only one who wants to watch Zombleland every time I hear For Whom The Bell Tolls. That and Enter Sandman are my favourite Metallica songs, RIP Cliff Burton.
More Bowie would be great! Station to Station or Low would probably be worth checking next. Your reaction to Ziggy reminded me of my own first reaction to that album, so it took me back in the best way
This is my favorite Metallica album. Its so heavy, and its the last time you can really hear the rawness of their early writing style, before they started getting more commercialized.
It was great watching you discover Creeping Death and The call of Cthulu, both great songs that close up really well the album. I have to say I was surprised to hear that For whom the bell tolls was your least favorite song. but I enjoyed watching your whole video. Saludos de México
I saw Metallica OPEN, thats right OPEN for Ozzy back in 86 before Cliff Burton died (RIP bro). With only 3 albums out it was an experience I will never forget. It was this album that set the bar for my youth and Metal in general. I air guitared for hours to this album and it is still by far my favorite Metallica album. Metal Up Your Ass people !!!!
It was in 1985 that I had my 1st Metallica experience. I was flicking the the 12in singles in my local record shop when I found this 12in single that had a cover version from one of my favourite bands 'Diamond Head'. The song was Am I Evil. So I bought it and while I thought the cover version was very good. When I heard the A side 'Creeping Death' I was stunned. I could not believe how good the song was. So I immediately ordered the album. When I finally got it I realised that this was a band that was going to be massive and from then on I was a Metallica fan. I cannot wait to see them at this years Download Festival.
one thing you might want to take into account, back in the days when this album was released, albums were not on CD's, they were on cassette tapes with a Side "A" and a Side "B" and many times songs were arranged in specific order depending on the side the song was on, sometimes each side was more themed to a certain way or "stronger" songs were first in the list of their side, it might be interesting to listen to the songs as they were listed per side, the lull of the album you pointed out may not be so prevalent , but it would provide, IMHO, a more realistic experience of how the album was experienced when it was originally released
This album has three hits: For Whom The Bell Tolls, Fade To Black and Creeping Death. My personal favorite is Creeping Death, especially hearing it live when 100.000 people all chant "DIE" over and over :D
Or Moscow. There's never been a definitive report on how many fans were in attendance, but the general consensus is over a million. Some reports are even as high as 1.6 million.
The title track is probably my favorite, good reaction! I think you would like Tesseract - Altered State, proggy in the vein of Tool. Glad you're back listening to metal 🙌
It's the lyrics that really makes For whom the bell tolls such a good song for me, don't think it was my favorite song the first time I heard it too, but now it's probably my favorite on the album :) PS! Yeah, creeping death rocks, you should check out the Mexico city live version :)
Just a heads up if you're gonna listen to Kill 'em All: The original release back in the 80's included two covers, Blitzkrieg and Am I Evil. Both great songs. That's the way the album was for many years, until recently. For whatever reason the new version doesn't include them.
Great reaction, and you're right about Call of Ktulu it is a masterpiece! I would highly recommend their 4th album "And Justice For All" I think you'd really dig it!
Call of Ktulu was a song that grew slowly but steady on me since the first time I listened to it, back in, idk, 94'. Now it is my favourite since I am a bassist now. The instrumentals had a previous name: When Hell Freezes Over. But the guitarist is a big fan of terror novels, swapped it to pay homage to "The Call of Chtulhu" from H.P. Lovecraft. And after that, the bassist added his iconic way of playing the instrument as the omnious cryptic being portraid in the book... A lot of metalheads dig terror novels and even Stephen King said that metal bands boosted the sales of his books! (e. g. I've got into King from Anthrax) Cheers!
I really enjoy your style and hearing your thoughts. As much as you loved Lateralus (the song) from TOOL, I'm convinced you'd really enjoy the album and I'd very much like to see your reaction and hear your thoughts.
Pretty sure that Het hates the song Escape, I remember reading that he only wrote it because the label wanted 8 tracks and a "single" on the record. They were still really finding their own vibe on here. Coming off the back of Kill 'em All which is very Motorhead and Diamond Head inflected with a more "rock" sound, they took what they learned worked off this record and then produced a stone cold masterpiece that people will still be gushing over in a hundred years. 🤟🏽
My late friend introduced me to Metallica through this album ("Creeping Death" specifically) but they are still in my Top 5...up and coming RUclipsr myself and still trying!! Nice reactions, though!
i don't wanna spoil the video but oooof it's so gooood i love you metallica
this is my fav Metallica
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Exodus - Bonded by Blood
Megadeth - Peace Sells...
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Slayer - Hell Awaits/Reign In Blood
Sepultura - Schizophrenia/Beneath The Remains/Arise
my top thrash albums (idc Morbid Tales is thrash for me)
More Metallica please!!! Kill ‘em all , then master of puppets.
More Metallica…🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘….Master of Puppets-album will blow you away 🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘
Escape is everyone's least favourite Metallica song
james’s voice on the call of ktulu is insane
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Ye I really loved how minimalistic he was about that shit fam
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This was their breakout album, I remember vividly when this dropped. All that British New Wave Metal was finished in an instant. Best Metallica album.
the first debut album was kill em all, wasn't it?
@@manokreck5468 breakout and debut mean different things. bleach was nirvana's debut, but nevermind was the breakout.
To me the opening track on rtl is what set metallica apart from everyone else in 84. No other band played that heavy and fast
I wouldn't say breakthrough, certainly one of their most notorious, however the black album famously was their breakthrough record, it's what launched them into what they are today, has the most sales out of all of their records
Yeah, we never heard Iron Maiden ... or Saxon ... oe Def Leppard ... or et cetera again ... after '84 ... ? Not!
One of the best metal albums of all time, even has a slight edge over master of puppets in my opinion
Agreed 😊 Lightning is still my favorite album 😎 enjoyed it as much now as I did when it first came out 😁 R.I.P. Clifford Lee Burton 😓
I hope she gets hemorroids the day after eating chipotle filled tacos
You're not the only one who prefers this to Puppets. 😁
Same here 🤘
I can never tell. MoP is them at their artistic peak, but lightning has more enthusiasm about it.
"Mustaine knows what he's doing!"
I hope Kirk Hammett never sees this...
Poor Kirk!
Further proof that 'Creeping Death' is Metallica's greatest song. Rock on, Kira🤘
Even on an album full of bangers, it's a difficult one to passover.
@@Boyde712 I see what you did there
@@Boyde712 lol
Fight fire with fire is better honestly
No its not
The best album this band ever made.
100% agree
Ehhhhhh for me personally… Justice just scrapes past this both astonishing albums
@@M19TMS agreed
Cliff's bass does not always sound like you'd expect a bass to sound. There are bass-only versions (or bass/drum) versions of for example For Whom the Bell Tolls and Call of Ktulu to listen to, for those who need to tune in Cliff's bass sound and not mistake it for guitar.
When I discovered Metallica I had mixed feelings for Cliff. I could hear his bass in the parts where he is the protagonist, but in the other parts I couldn't. My thoughts were "This guy receives so much praise only for certain sections?"
Some months ago I decided to listen to Metallica again but having experienced a lot of other stuff. To my surprise, Cliff's bass was there vibrant and powerful almost all the time. I guess that I used to confuse it with a guitar in the past but now I finally came to appreciate it.
His tone is unique nevertheless. He would play the bass in such an innovative way for the time that people even in the present get confused with it. This is another sign of Cliff's genius.
@@samuelgl3733 It wasn't entirely how Cliff played, the bass he uses a Rickenbacker practically sounds like a guitar with the pedal configurement he uses
Also that Rickenbacker was heavily modified to get the tone he wanted.@@npc1238
Further proving why RTL is Metallica’s masterpiece. Great guitar tone, lyrics, attitude, composition. All the songs are 10/10
Escape………. They themselves hate it whole heartedly because it was a forced song that the record company pressured them to record
Absolutely agree
@@MrJak427 Escape has always been one of my favourites, I don't care if the band hates it. Hetfield also hates Don't Tread on Me and for me it's one of the highlights of the Black album.
@@petrilampela he wears a don’t tread on me shirt all the time😂
That corporation/flag is basically what inspired him to write that song
did he ever explain why? Like not a hood vibe playing it live?
@@MrJak427 If I remember correctly he said that he just disliked the song musically. It's got a catchy and uplifting chorus melody that goes in major key (like Escape does), maybe that's why 🤷
'Bell Tolls' is absolutely amazing live.
It’s “For whom the bell tolls”
Yup it is. I saw them live in the 80's.
@@SPROctez It's Bellz, actually.
Specifically the "cliff em all show"
Complete awesome album, my daughter is into the cliff era metallica now, I am so proud 🤘🤘
And THAT'S why they call Trapped Under Ice underrated. I love that song.
The guitar tone is what makes it amazing!!
Gibson Flying Vs
@@michaelseay9783 Bit more than that!
@@michaelseay9783 And Ada preamp, and Mesa MarkIIC+ head, and Marshall cabs, and Fleming Rasmussen at the desk
The call of ktulu is my favorite instrumental and its the one of the best songs i've heard
Yup I agree
Old Metallica always feels nostalgic. I think almost every metalhead might feel the same. Metallica is for many the first metal band they listened to, along with maybe Slipknot, Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath.
In my case, I have listened to so many different bands and genres that I have set Metallica aside for years, but yet, when I ocasionally listen to them, I feel teleported to the past haha. The times when I was a rookie in music come back, and seeing your reaction to this album has that same effect. Thank you for your time
there’s no way you didn’t freak out at the “for whom the bell tolls” intro
When Metallica played with the SF Symphony (the first time) the orchestral arrangements were prepared by the legendary Michael Kamen (he did orchestra arrangements for Pink Floyd as well) who also conducted the Symphony for the first show. His arrangement for this song in particular is amazing. He really got a feel for what Cliff was doing musically and wrote absolutely brilliant counterpoints for this track. The newer version from the S&M2 performance is even better. I'd recommend giving the S&M versions a listen as well. Call of Cthulu and The Thing That Sould Not Be are two of my favorite pieces by Metallica and both were written by Cliff.
Firing Dave was the best thing to happen to Metallica, losing Cliff was a loss for music in general.
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Rich the Ancient Metal Beast
Rich What track are you talking about?
@@whatchatalkinboutwillis9894 call of kathulu. The S&M version is fantastic
You noticed half way through, and mentioned again at the end about "Another song about death". Well, yes, that's the album's theme. Master of Puppets theme is things that control. ...And Justice For All's theme is Injustices.
James Hetfield (rhythm guitar) also hates Escape. The record label forced them to make that song. They refused to play it live for a long long time (first and possibly the last time in 2012)
edit: As you liked Creeping Death, be sure to search for it played live in Moscow.
That Moscow performance of Creeping Death is probably the best performance of it I've ever seen. Jason's backup vocals from the DIE DIE DIE part until the end of the song are so good
@@ImThe5thKingYeah its amazing but I prefer the 1989 Seattle version
This reaction was amazing!! As always your my favorite reactor. I certainly hope we can get an entire TOOL album in sometime soon!!
Her smile while listening to songs about nuclear destruction and electrocution is exactly my reaction.
and suicide
That Bell... is an anvil.
I got this album shortly after it dropped, and it was pretty shocking at the time being hit in the face with Fight Fire With Fire. It was heavier than anything I'd ever heard (I was already into Ozzy/Maiden/Priest but this was another level). It actually took me a while to be able to appreciate the band. Creeping Death's riff was the first one to grow on me, and then of course For Whom the Bell Tolls is undeniable too.
Yeah, people forget that Metallica was by far the heaviest, most extreme thing out for a decent portion of the early 80s. Slayer already had a record and a tour by ‘84, but Metallica was still several cuts above the Priests and Maidens at the time in terms of heaviness and extremity, and they were even heavier this album and the next. Chuck Schuldiner, often considered the founder of Death Metal, stated himself in an interview that a major part of the growing extreme metal scene as a whole, including his music, came from Metallica’s influence.
Creeping Death was my introduction to Metallica It was a track on a compilation album I bought called Hell comes to your house. I was hooked and it is still my favorite Metallica song.
My fav too !
Wait--wasn't _Hell Comes to Your House_ a compilation of death rock from southern California, such as Christian Death and 45 Grave? It came out in 1981 (before Metallica released their first album).
@@mournblade1066 Not sure about that. But this was all metal bands ruclips.net/video/qxL_4kK9P0k/видео.html is the link to the whole album here on youtube
I’m glad you did this album Kira, it’s one of my very favorite metal albums. Keep up the great content!
Hopefully one day you’ll check out Pantera’s Cowboys from Hell album. Definitely one of the albums that was a fundamental building block in my metal journey
Love the reaction! This is such a great album. Love the enthusiasm! You definitely appeared to have fun listening to this😂!
Well that takes me back, buying this album from Virgin Records on the day it was released for £2.99! What an immense album it is, such a big evolution from Kill ‘em All and had the pleasure to see them on the tour as well. RIP Cliff.
cassette from Manchester Afflecks Palace for me; listened on my Tandy walkman copy then went straight back to buy Kill em all😁🤘🎸 Didnt see them until 92 with Jason Newstead
You guys had some cool ass lives
@@nikkihayes5411 LOL Afflecks. I went to Manchester in 1987 to study at UMIST and spent many an hour shopping in there, laughing at all the bell-bottomed jeans when “Madchester” started.
I had many a tape as I was into the underground tape trading and still have the original Metallica demo “No Life ‘TIL Leather” on tape, along with many others. Walkman was such a fantastic invention.
@@DrSkeff brings back memories of saturday nights in the Barnes Wallis building (hippy disco on the top floor)🤪🤘👍
@@nikkihayes5411 “The Heavy” as they used to call it. I used to DJ that event for a few years.
First time I've seen a video from you and I gotta say, that was an immensely fun reaction! Please do more!
Great reaction Kira, I bought this album when it was first released and the intro to fight fire with fire still gives me chills.
The chorus to Escape was the thing that really got me hooked into Metallica back in the eighties. It just instantly got stuck in my head and I still think it's one of the catchiest melodies they ever wrote. Don't have a clue why everybody else hates it 🤷
the reason everyone hates it is because james hetfeild hates it and he said that it was just added to be an easy radio hit because the studio told them to make one. don't get me wrong I love this song but I understand why people wouldn't really like that.
@@elliottoneill785 Probably that's the main reason for most. But Kira here seemed to dislike the chorus melody on this video anyhow, I don't know if she knew about the controversy beforehand. I never let other people's opinions affect mine even if they are from the band themselves. I especially love how they took the happy chorus and made it something ominous in the end of the song just by switching the key from major to minor without touching the lyrics. Such a cool idea.
@@elliottoneill785 I feel like saying "everyone hates it" is a mischaracterization. I have a lot of friends who are OG Metallica fans like myself and none of us hate that song. If we had to list every track on the album from favorite to least favorite, that one might be at the bottom of some of our lists... but even on one of the greatest albums in metal history, there has to be a least favorite song. I'm fully aware of the history of the song and why the band doesn't like it and how the producers pretty much forced them to write it... but it's got a great guitar solo. It's got a killer opening riff. The verses are awesome. The chorus seems a little phoned in, but it's still solid. It's a good song. And I'm one of the fortunate few to have heard them play it live. (They've only played it live once, ever)
Hating it because of it's origin is emotional baggage. They were forced to, but they wrote a Metallica song.
Nice reaction!! Metallica is a great band! Waiting for your reaction for all the albums. :)
Spot on as always Kira. Thanks for taking me back in time.
First time i listened to Metallica I bought the cassette ride the lightning. I had no idea my life was about to change forever
Ride the Lightning is *probably* the album that I’ve listened to most in my life. I didn’t get into Metallica until the late 90s, but every night in Year 11 & 12 I would play this album at night when I went to sleep.
It’s imprinted on my brain! Still one of my favourite albums, but Master of Puppets is ever so slightly better (Ride was basically the blueprint for Puppets).
Hey Kira first time watching your video and seeing your channel love your stuff much love from Sydney keep grinding 🤟🏻💯
So good to see your reactions again!
Wow Kira, I haven't watched yet but having seen your other videos I just know you will looooooove this one!
It's very young, punky and extremely hungry Metallica inventing a new style of music. It's like this perfect mixture of raw and skilled. Great stuff.
one of my favorite albums back in 80's...
glad you enjoyed the album,, this is by far my fav album of all time for me nothing comes close to this masterpiece:)
Loved your reaction !! Greetings from Los Angeles 🤘🏼
You reminded me the first times I heard this album. Those giggles, those big happy smiles. Ride the Lightning is huge!
I remember the first time I heard it. I borrowed the tape from my friend on a long bus ride for a marching band trip. I wasn’t into metal yet. I distinctly remembered “take a look to the sky just before you die, it’s the last time you will” so I asked him for a copy of whatever album had that. He gave me a copy of that but at first he lent me Kill ‘Em All instead. Anyway, I listened to “Ride the Lightning” basically every day, usually while doing homework haha. Been into metal since then
This whole album is incredible in my opinion, plus it has my favorite song of all time: Fade to Black.
I was so excited to see this in my recommended :)
So the “Bell” on For Whom The Bell Tolls was actually a hammer hitting an anvil. Glad you are enjoying it and I am looking forward to seeing you do all the albums. Subbed and waiting for the next one.
It's a sample of a bell with a little anvil layered over it.
@@redrick8900 it’s Lars hitting an anvil with a hammer with a bell sample. The band has said this before.
@@harryhurd2474 What are you doing? Repeating the thing I just told you to make yourself look less wrong? It doesn't work.
@@redrick8900 I am not wrong, they used an anvil and a hammer. How is that wrong?
@@harryhurd2474 What are you doing? Repeating the thing I just told you to make yourself look less wrong? It doesn't work.
Love the reactions, they're so spontaneously natural and awesome haha. Btw next time you listen to Call of Ktulu, try paying attention to those rumbling notes underneath, that's Cliff (their legendary bassist who passed away in 86) basically soloing almost throughout the 'verse' parts of the instrumental, they add so much dynamic to the song imo 😁
I love your videos and I always look forward to them
"Cthulhu", nailed it 😄
It's bloody amazing, and there's an even more epic version of this song on "Symphony and Metallica". I can never say which version I like better, but if a more grandiose\bombastic version sounds interesting you must look it up.
So nice to see you rocking out again : )
Been awhile since I’ve seen you post anything. Good to see ya! I enjoy your videos 👍🤘🤘
Great reaction. Your editing is getting better and better
You seemed to really enjoy Ride the Lightning and Call of Ktulu. Interestingly, those are the two songs for which Dave Mustaine has shared writing credit. He wrote a few of the riffs from Lightning, and according to him he wrote almost all of the riffs for Ktulu.
Trapped under ice and creeping death are 2 of my all time favorites.
TUI is such underrated song it so GD
Luckily for me I was exposed to this as a new album while in my teens. Metallica seemed like the fastest band on the planet.
They where in first two albums.
I bought this record in 1985 and literally wore it out. I still remember when it used to skip, or be scratchy... It kept me going through high school.
Thrash is actually closer kin to jazz than you might expect with how the solo sections are structured, especially on e.g. Megadeth's Rust in Peace where the solos are super modal.
How can you not mention the fact that Peace Sells is basically Jazz infested as Chris Poland and Gar Samuelson were Jazz musicians.
Exactly! Just faster!
I was always put off by their name thinking how bad are they with a name like that? Late 1987 i heard Creeping Death and was blown away by it. Next day i was in my local record shop and bought Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets. Was too late to see them with Cliff as my first gig was in September 1988. in Edinburgh. Saw them again in May 1990 in Glasgow and that was the end of me going to see them live. To this day Ride...is still my favourite.
Many days as a teen in my room with the headphones on listening to this. Or at my friends playing video games with this music playing. Ahhhh.... Good times
We grew up with this in the 80's so fun living vicariously through the younger generation. I am reliving this great music good job kira.
I was born in the 80s and got this album when I was 13 and fell in love with it - listened to it 100s of times that first year. Then one of hte first concerts I went to when I was 14 was the 2000 Summer Sanitarium tour with Korn, Kid Rock, PM5K, SOAD, and Metallica - was a pretty sweet exxperience - metallica played like a 2 hour set - hearing 40k people chanting "DIE BY MY HAND" is pretty epic
Kill 'Em All got me started, this album got me hooked, and I saw the next three album tours. Such great music!
Kira, if you like The Call of Ktulu, try the S and M live version. Personally I think it knocks socks off the original with the added strings
just love your reaction to Call of Ktulu. was fab in my teens when this Album came out just bashing my drums to the Whole Album . Tempo changes in Call of Ktulu . such a hook and Iconic Album. I Saw Metallica Live at Monster Rock Fest Donnington 1987. adore them ever since.
This was a good pick!
You are so damn cool :). Laughed out loud when you noticed the instrumental track :D.
Something tells me after get more used to metal, you will end up liking stuff like the band Death or even some Atmospheric Black Metal. A bit more focus on the atmosphere and instruments.
I love watching people's reactions and knowing when they are going to be impressed, surprised, etc lol
I love that you chose this Kira.
You actually hear the bass more than you realize. Yeah, the bass was mixed kind of low but Cliff Burton was also playing with a wah pedal so he was coming in loud and clear during those moments in For Whom The Bell Tolls and Call of Ktulu. The real wild, crazy sounds is him using a wah pedal. James Hetfield also recorded multiple tracks of rhythm guitar so it's so thick and heavy that the bass kind of gets lost in there. As for the albums the first 5 albums, Garage Days Re-Revisited (It's now the first part of a double album called Garage Inc.) and Hardwired To Self Destruct, are the best ones. Might want to lower your expectations for Load, Reload, and St. Anger. There are some good songs on them but they just don't hit the mark like they should. Death Magnetic is another good one, not as good as the first 5 but better than Load, Reload, and St. Anger. Really wish I could've saw every single reaction you had without the edits but I really enjoyed the video.
Burton only plays the lead on the live version of For Whom the Bell Tolls. The wah on the album is Hammett.
@@redrick8900very wrong. Call of ktulu he also uses Wah on the album. Impossible to make those sounds otherwise
@@BLUBB3R8227 Not what I'm talking about.
Am I the only one who wants to watch Zombleland every time I hear For Whom The Bell Tolls. That and Enter Sandman are my favourite Metallica songs, RIP Cliff Burton.
about to watch this, and I am so excited to see you headbang. You have super Bruce Dickinson 1982 hair;)
The best thirty-seven minutes I spent today. Thanks.
More Bowie would be great! Station to Station or Low would probably be worth checking next. Your reaction to Ziggy reminded me of my own first reaction to that album, so it took me back in the best way
Great intro!
This is my favorite Metallica album. Its so heavy, and its the last time you can really hear the rawness of their early writing style, before they started getting more commercialized.
It was great watching you discover Creeping Death and The call of Cthulu, both great songs that close up really well the album. I have to say I was surprised to hear that For whom the bell tolls was your least favorite song. but I enjoyed watching your whole video. Saludos de México
I saw Metallica OPEN, thats right OPEN for Ozzy back in 86 before Cliff Burton died (RIP bro). With only 3 albums out it was an experience I will never forget. It was this album that set the bar for my youth and Metal in general. I air guitared for hours to this album and it is still by far my favorite Metallica album. Metal Up Your Ass people !!!!
The first Met album I owned...changed my life: the power, the musicianship, masterpiece!
It was in 1985 that I had my 1st Metallica experience. I was flicking the the 12in singles in my local record shop when I found this 12in single that had a cover version from one of my favourite bands 'Diamond Head'. The song was Am I Evil. So I bought it and while I thought the cover version was very good. When I heard the A side 'Creeping Death' I was stunned. I could not believe how good the song was. So I immediately ordered the album. When I finally got it I realised that this was a band that was going to be massive and from then on I was a Metallica fan. I cannot wait to see them at this years Download Festival.
This was an awesome reaction!
one thing you might want to take into account, back in the days when this album was released, albums were not on CD's, they were on cassette tapes with a Side "A" and a Side "B" and many times songs were arranged in specific order depending on the side the song was on, sometimes each side was more themed to a certain way or "stronger" songs were first in the list of their side, it might be interesting to listen to the songs as they were listed per side, the lull of the album you pointed out may not be so prevalent , but it would provide, IMHO, a more realistic experience of how the album was experienced when it was originally released
This album has three hits: For Whom The Bell Tolls, Fade To Black and Creeping Death. My personal favorite is Creeping Death, especially hearing it live when 100.000 people all chant "DIE" over and over :D
YES!!!, especially at seattle '89! 🤘🤘
Or Moscow. There's never been a definitive report on how many fans were in attendance, but the general consensus is over a million. Some reports are even as high as 1.6 million.
The title track is probably my favorite, good reaction! I think you would like Tesseract - Altered State, proggy in the vein of Tool. Glad you're back listening to metal 🙌
I love that you dig the sound track of my youth 🖤
First album i ever bought of any kind of music probably close to 20years ago, still my favouritte metallica album
Love watching you rock out!!!
Shxt , listening to this reaction just reminded me of how great this album was/is.
Gotta listen to the whole album again myself.
Up yours.
All those albums are pure fire, you kinda need to do it all:)
The only record I missed getting was the gold vinal of Creeping Death, This album helped push my life into the direction that it went 🙂
This was my introduction into Metal music,age 15, that was 30 years ago!!!Never looked back!!!
It's the lyrics that really makes For whom the bell tolls such a good song for me, don't think it was my favorite song the first time I heard it too, but now it's probably my favorite on the album :) PS! Yeah, creeping death rocks, you should check out the Mexico city live version :)
Just a heads up if you're gonna listen to Kill 'em All: The original release back in the 80's included two covers, Blitzkrieg and Am I Evil. Both great songs. That's the way the album was for many years, until recently. For whatever reason the new version doesn't include them.
Glad your back with the metal reactions! Rust In Peace full album next! 🤘
Wow youre a lot more chill than i remember lol, good reaction though haha!
Love your reaction!
LOVE that album to death !!
Great reaction, and you're right about Call of Ktulu it is a masterpiece! I would highly recommend their 4th album "And Justice For All" I think you'd really dig it!
Nice to see u again.
Just go ahead & get it over with-
MASTER! MASTER!
Call of Ktulu was a song that grew slowly but steady on me since the first time I listened to it, back in, idk, 94'.
Now it is my favourite since I am a bassist now.
The instrumentals had a previous name: When Hell Freezes Over.
But the guitarist is a big fan of terror novels, swapped it to pay homage to "The Call of Chtulhu" from H.P. Lovecraft.
And after that, the bassist added his iconic way of playing the instrument as the omnious cryptic being portraid in the book...
A lot of metalheads dig terror novels and even Stephen King said that metal bands boosted the sales of his books!
(e. g. I've got into King from Anthrax)
Cheers!
I really enjoy your style and hearing your thoughts.
As much as you loved Lateralus (the song) from TOOL, I'm convinced you'd really enjoy the album and I'd very much like to see your reaction and hear your thoughts.
Pretty sure that Het hates the song Escape, I remember reading that he only wrote it because the label wanted 8 tracks and a "single" on the record.
They were still really finding their own vibe on here. Coming off the back of Kill 'em All which is very Motorhead and Diamond Head inflected with a more "rock" sound, they took what they learned worked off this record and then produced a stone cold masterpiece that people will still be gushing over in a hundred years. 🤟🏽
Just left the gym rocking my ride the lightning cutoff, ain’t no better time to find this😎⚡️
My late friend introduced me to Metallica through this album ("Creeping Death" specifically) but they are still in my Top 5...up and coming RUclipsr myself and still trying!! Nice reactions, though!