I was raised in a household with parents who loved classical music and when I played Metallica for my 65 year old mother for the first time she loved it and after listening to their entire catalogue up until the black album she thinks its the closest thing to a classical symphony she's heard.
I grew up playing the piano-mostly classical stuff and I’ve always thought the genres had a lot of common sound! I always figured that’s what drew me to Metallica and metal in general.
It is very simple, my friend; react to all Metallica’s albums starting with “Kill ‘Em’ All” from 1983 to see how these unique and insanely talented guys envolved and perfected the genre they still rule and reign to this date 🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘
Yes, but the best Metallica bassist that was able to combine bass playing and great backup vocals was Jason Newstead. Cliff was their best bassist instrumentally but Jason Newstead was their best bass player overall when you look at the total package.
OK - I'm hooked now - always impressed with a younger generation discovering something out of their "comfort zone" and feeling it within their bones. We did this before YT existed but we had to rely on our parents or peers record or CD collection. This is what YT is best at. Carrying the torch. You carry on fella - don't stop. Subscribed.
Metallica is for me not only the best Metal Band in the World! They are for me the best Band in the World because they are still kicking Ass....and they are over 60 Years old....🤘🤘🤘
If you're going to listen to the live stuff, I'd recommend listening to the studio version first so you can familiarise yourself with the song and maybe post both reactions. Good luck with the guitar! It can be frustrating at first, but stick with it. It's definitely worth it!
Piling on the comments about starting from the beginning at Kill Em All and work your way down the timeline. Your subscribers will skyrocket! So many Metallica fans love watching your style of reactions. Keep it up my man!
You need to react to live metallica performances, from seattle 89 and Moscow 91. Creeping death is a must watch. Great reaction and welcome to the metallica family 😊
Glad to see you react to this song. It was the first Metallica song I ever heard. I have been a die hard fan ever since. So I guess that is 40 years now.
Did you know that Metallica recorded a concert in 1989 which is widely regarded by fans to be truly epic, peak Metallica if you will. Battery is an excellent example from that show.
Hell yeah! I get the same exact feeling when I listen to this. I normally play it on my headphones on my walk to work after someone has pissed me off, or I just can’t be bothered with going, and it makes me feel like can conquer anything and anyone!
Take your time man also that’s a sick ass guitar!!! I’ve been playing for a year and a half and hell I’m still at beginner level,good luck and just keep playing!
Live in Ireland and have followed metallica since mid 80s. Legends . Love seeing your reaction as it brings me back to first time I listened to them. 🤘🤘🤘🤘
I’m 40 now, played this as a senior in hs w/a band at school😌Took me a while to get into Metallica since I grew up in the grunge/alternative age and really didn’t venture too far out from there😕
I remember back when this album came out in 1984 , I was 14 .. , For whom the bells toll was my very first Metallica song I heard. Hooked ever since. Great job on your channel , keep it up
As I grew up in a house with a fanatic muso (dad had his own studio as well), I learned that there are only two type of music. The music you either hate or love. These albums, my father you'd to just look at my while I played the albums over and over. 30 odd years later, I was in the studio listening to Master of Puppets (album), at some point my father had walked in, sat down and just listened. When it was completed, look up at me and simply said, that was always a great album huh. He's a country & western fan through and through.
As a kid I had a mix-tape (actual cassettes back in those days, ah, the memories!) where every second song was this one. The other songs were more or less filler, put there to make this one all fresh with each play :D
S&M2 version of this song with San Francisco symphony is really joy to listen and watch. Check it out even if you won't create a reaction video out of it. :)
Welcome to the select group of people who love metal or just great music that makes you move and think and feel all at the same time. Love watching your reactions. Keep it up. Don’t forget to include Moore TOOL. They’re also on the same level. 🤘🏼
You can learn most Metallica. That's one of the awesome things about them. The beginning of most of the songs is what I originally learned, just by ear on the guitar.
See if you can find a live version. When James cries out ‘it’s the last time you will’ and everything pauses for that brief beat before dropping back into the groove, it’s just incredible. Also - see if you can catch this laid over the ending of Game of Thrones on RUclips.
Yo my man, you gotta hear "Anesthesia Pulling Teeth" so much of their sound on the first 3 albums will be explained (especially the instrumentals) The one, The only, Cliff Burton
Metallica (Anesthesia)-Pulling Teeth is a must ! Cliff Burton's bass solo was so epic that they recorded it for Kill Em All. The live version in Chicago is my favorite on RUclips. 🤘❤️🇨🇦
I can't remember which video you said this in: "I think I was a metal head all long, cause I'm liking this" BUT Here is something to think about, it's not about being a metal head really. There is good music and then there is bad music, and a lot in between. Doesn't matter what genre it's categorized in, as good music will always find a way to a persons heart, IF they're just willing to listen with an open mind ;)
You probably are getting an adrenalin rush of some sort listening to this music, and that's a good thing. As for a favorite band, I have like a thousand favorites, lol.
This is the Metallica I remember !!! Just Fire 🤘🔥🎸🇺🇲💯... Really you don't have have a favorite , there could be 50 favorites Just Top Tier music in general !!! Great Reaction mollyboy keep up the work , best job in the world listening to New Music !!! 🤘🔥🇺🇲💯....
One of the few bands whose songs sound even better in concert! Watch their Moscow concert on RUclips from 1991 in front of 1.6 million people. The songs sound amazing!!!
Enjoying your journey lately homie. Especially your Pantera trip. I see your guitar back there, so this might be a good time to point out something you are hearing and dialing into. Power chords and palm muting. I’m not a guitar expert at all, but learning those 2 aspects of playing metal was fairly easy and enhances your journey while learning more. I can play random BS but if I blast some power chords, throw some double time palm muting in there, and maybe a lucky Dime “pig squeal” aka pick harmonic, it’s fun as hell. Specifically palm muting, for me, is the guitar become percussive like a drum and sitting real tight in the pocket with the drums and bass. It taps into that primal rhythmic pulse that even our caveman ancestors slammed with. It’s when your headbanging takes that extra dip into full body pulse. Also, tears pour from my eyes when I hear beautiful music of any kind too. It’s pretty cool huh? 🤘
My experience with metallica is that all the live versions are even crazier bruh. you've got to listen to this song live in mexico city, you will be so shocked man
You're right, "Ride The Lightning" is an album, in fact all the songs you heard with those covers are the albums, all you need to do is react to a song from their First Album "Kill Em All", I recommend "The Four Horsemen " and "Seek & Destroy"
Metallica began to start becoming popular during my age of 18yrs old. I was a fan immediately. This was after their first recording of Garage Days. One of their very first performances was in Buffalo NY at Monsters OF Rock in 1990. I was there! They were brand spankin new to everyone in the crowd.🔴 I absolutely loved their music. Would sit & listen over n over & HEADBANG cuz loved the sound sooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!!💥
This song is about your country. It's about WWII and the air fights over Europe. Since I was your age I've had a "trinity" of bands that I placed above all others...1. Pink Floyd, 2. Metallica, and 3. Queensryche. Hearing you mention my two favorite bands in the world together has given me hope in the younger generation. You have incredibly intelligent and terrific taste in music. Rock on!! Keep up the guitar. You'll be glad you did. (Btw, Pink Floyd is otherworldly, no can, or will touch them. Be very proud to be British!)
I had a proud mom moment when I took my kids to see zombieland in the theaters. My youngest was around 7 or 8 and this song was played during the intro and my boy starts yelling at the top of his lungs “mommy mommy that’s Metallica”. All the teens in audience started laughing. I smiled and thought to myself “yep I’m raising him right”
Metallica creates kind of a base rhythm or melody but then they elaborate so much on it that sometimes doesn't even sound like you're in the same music , BUT somehow it fits perfectly, they are the best at this kind of shift within the same music in my opinion, you never see it coming
If you like the guitars, the solo in “am I evil” it’s one of the best ever. Man, I would like to hear Metallica for the first time again! I was introduced to Metallica by my cousin saying: Have you heard this American band with a danish drummer? And then he played creeping death! I never looked back😎
Keep listening to metal my friend, and you will stop feeling the need to apologize for cursing. 😁🍻 Say what you feel and say it with feeling!! signed-- 80's era metalhead 🤘😎🤘
You don't have to become a metal head. Just be a music head. Expose yourself to all shapes and kinds of music, and you will eventually learn to appreciate it all. I love metal, but I also love 80s soft country like Anne Murray and Don Williams. I also like hip hop, and I even like some jazz and bluegrass. The Sopranos theme song, for example is a badass blues tune. "Woke up this morning . . ."
I was raised in a household with parents who loved classical music and when I played Metallica for my 65 year old mother for the first time she loved it and after listening to their entire catalogue up until the black album she thinks its the closest thing to a classical symphony she's heard.
I grew up playing the piano-mostly classical stuff and I’ve always thought the genres had a lot of common sound! I always figured that’s what drew me to Metallica and metal in general.
That's due to Cliff Burton, who appreciated classical music and introduced it to James.
i hate the two S&m albums but your mom might like them
@@dercurtHe was classically trained and gave that methodology to the band. He was pretty special.
I've always felt that metal (not hair band poppy metal but real heavy metal composition) is the closest thing to classical orchestration.
It’s fun watching the rookies to Metallica learn how great they are
I get a buzz watching these young un's minds get blown 😁
It is very simple, my friend; react to all Metallica’s albums starting with “Kill ‘Em’ All” from 1983 to see how these unique and insanely talented guys envolved and perfected the genre they still rule and reign to this date 🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘
YESSS! Every album is an experience
We completely with this statement...rock on
Yes but I choose to think Metallica died in 1991
@@andrewvanlangen7831 they came back, too me LOAD and RELOAD S&M yes no good other than that great
That's the point, my friend! Metal music forever 🤘
Fun little fact about this song, it's based on a novel written by Ernest Hemingway, concerning soldiers in the Spanish Civil War. READING IS TIGHT!
Not Hemingway quote but, Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. Robert Frost.
Cliff's bass on this is extraordinary!🏴
Cliff is the reason for Metallica
Yes, but the best Metallica bassist that was able to combine bass playing and great backup vocals was Jason Newstead. Cliff was their best bassist instrumentally but Jason Newstead was their best bass player overall when you look at the total package.
May he rest in peace 🪦
Enjoy your Metallica journey. Love watching youngsters hearing Metallica for the first time. O. G.
Cliff Burton on his bass...brings me back to my teens in the 80s
This is my favourite metallica song by a mile
For whom the bell tolls will be one of my funeral songs. That’s how much this song and band means to me
I'm with you!😁🤘🤘
You NEED to listen to the “cliff em all” version of this song. Cliff Burton’s bass live is the most bone-chillingly good sound ever
That bass intro!! This band created this genre of Metal and so many genres that followed were inspired from Metallica directly.
Motorhead and black sabbath started it all. That's who metallica and guns n roses said inspired them
Damn i wish i coud explore Metallica for the first time - again 😄
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Right! I love living vicariously through these young ones that werent born when these masterpieces came out. There really isnt anything like it.
OK - I'm hooked now - always impressed with a younger generation discovering something out of their "comfort zone" and feeling it within their bones. We did this before YT existed but we had to rely on our parents or peers record or CD collection.
This is what YT is best at. Carrying the torch. You carry on fella - don't stop. Subscribed.
It's great to see the next gen becoming metal heads. I'm also really enjoying "rehearing" all of this from fresh ears
My favorite Metallica song!
Finally saw them play this live in August. It was incredible!
Metallica is for me not only the best Metal Band in the World! They are for me the best Band in the World because they are still kicking Ass....and they are over 60 Years old....🤘🤘🤘
Ride the Lightning has got to be my favorite album from Metallica. Pure metal gold.
If you're going to listen to the live stuff, I'd recommend listening to the studio version first so you can familiarise yourself with the song and maybe post both reactions.
Good luck with the guitar! It can be frustrating at first, but stick with it. It's definitely worth it!
From that same album: "Ride the Lightning", "Trapped Under Ice", "Call of Ktulu"
Oh to be hearing this again for the first time! 🤘
Piling on the comments about starting from the beginning at Kill Em All and work your way down the timeline. Your subscribers will skyrocket! So many Metallica fans love watching your style of reactions. Keep it up my man!
God I wish I could go back in time and hear all of these songs for the first time again...
3:29 that is a proper stink face! 😆. Metallica is pure 🔥
😂😂😂
You need to react to live metallica performances, from seattle 89 and Moscow 91. Creeping death is a must watch. Great reaction and welcome to the metallica family 😊
89’ my senior year of high school. We drove 3 hours to Seattle to see the concert. EPIC!!!!!
Also The Day on the Green one with Cliff
It’s a little fact, this album does not slow down even at its slowest
The Metallica family is everywhere and everybody is welcome 🤛🤘♥️
This is my favourite Metallica Album
Bro I have to binge watch this channel. It's wonderful to see your reactions. It reminds me of my first time.
Glad you enjoy it!
Man, you really need to see the live performances of this song, they are incredible, I swear.
Your channel is going to be massive mate. You have the best reaction to songs I’ve seen.keep up the good work mate. Gday from Australia. 🤘🤘
Thank you! That means a lot and definitely helps me stay motivated!
You've got to see this live with cliff on bass
This was the heaviest thing I could play on the school bus going home
One of the greatest songs ever written.
You've got to watch the live version of this to see Cliff doing the intro. It will amaze you. 🙂
Some of the best Hetfield vocals here
My favorite Metallica song by far. A musical masterpiece in every conceivable way. I'm glad you discovered and appreciate Heavy Metal music!
Nice reaction dude. :) If you want your channel to reach 10,000 super quick, just keep on doing your Metallica thing. :)
That's the plan!
I would love to see you learning to play the guitar
Mollyboy....Hero of the day, awesome song by Metallica, I think you'll love it!
You definitely get a healthy dose of guitar with metallica
This by far is my favorite Metallica song!! Portugal. The Man starts every one of their concerts with this!! ❤
The cool part about this tune, is the fact that the intro guitar is actually Cliff's bass all distorted. Pretty bad ass.
Probably my fav Metallica song. Pumps me up really hard for a workout
The song is actually based on the book there’s a lot of history in heavy metal
That’s a sick design on that guitar! 🔥
Rip cliff Burton. He is a beast playing this song.
Glad to see you react to this song. It was the first Metallica song I ever heard. I have been a die hard fan ever since. So I guess that is 40 years now.
Did you know that Metallica recorded a concert in 1989 which is widely regarded by fans to be truly epic, peak Metallica if you will. Battery is an excellent example from that show.
I WAS THERE!!!! 89’ my senior year.
Hell yeah! I get the same exact feeling when I listen to this. I normally play it on my headphones on my walk to work after someone has pissed me off, or I just can’t be bothered with going, and it makes me feel like can conquer anything and anyone!
Congrats on the growth friend.. You deserve it 🍻
Thank you, I appreciate it!
Ah, my top favorite Metallica song-
This is based off of an old war novel with the same name.
I’ve listen to this song too many times to think and yet I still have the same reaction your doing right now
It would be awesome to watch you learn the guitar! 🎸
I’m telling you!!!! DISPOSABLE HEROES!
You’ll not regret it!
Day on the Green live 1985 version of this is epic. It's all about Cliff Burton on bass.
Take your time man also that’s a sick ass guitar!!! I’ve been playing for a year and a half and hell I’m still at beginner level,good luck and just keep playing!
Live in Ireland and have followed metallica since mid 80s. Legends . Love seeing your reaction as it brings me back to first time I listened to them. 🤘🤘🤘🤘
"Cliff em All" video please, live version of this in 1985.
I’m 40 now, played this as a senior in hs w/a band at school😌Took me a while to get into Metallica since I grew up in the grunge/alternative age and really didn’t venture too far out from there😕
I remember back when this album came out in 1984 , I was 14 .. , For whom the bells toll was my very first Metallica song I heard. Hooked ever since. Great job on your channel , keep it up
As I grew up in a house with a fanatic muso (dad had his own studio as well), I learned that there are only two type of music. The music you either hate or love.
These albums, my father you'd to just look at my while I played the albums over and over. 30 odd years later, I was in the studio listening to Master of Puppets (album), at some point my father had walked in, sat down and just listened. When it was completed, look up at me and simply said, that was always a great album huh. He's a country & western fan through and through.
Super love it! Seen them in live concerts several times! It’s awesome 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻😃For whom the bells tolls is super awesome!
As a kid I had a mix-tape (actual cassettes back in those days, ah, the memories!) where every second song was this one. The other songs were more or less filler, put there to make this one all fresh with each play :D
S&M2 version of this song with San Francisco symphony is really joy to listen and watch. Check it out even if you won't create a reaction video out of it. :)
Bro, I love that you like this. Reality we were then outcasts back in the day. This was unerground.....
Welcome to the select group of people who love metal or just great music that makes you move and think and feel all at the same time. Love watching your reactions. Keep it up. Don’t forget to include Moore TOOL. They’re also on the same level. 🤘🏼
Cliff Burton's bass intro on this song is legendary
Dude.... a hip hop guy turned metal head.... that's awesome! If you come to the states I'll be your drummer!
You can learn most Metallica. That's one of the awesome things about them. The beginning of most of the songs is what I originally learned, just by ear on the guitar.
3:35 that frozen face! xDD awesome
so many nasty riffs in this
One of the best bass intros ever
Awesome! You know what, I think you're ready for Am I Evil. May God have mercy on your soul!
You are now ready to hear "Blackened" off the "And Justice For All" album.
Pre 90's Metallica is pretty epic, this song is one of their best
80s Metallica is the only Metallica
@@RegurgiNate84 can’t argue with that..
See if you can find a live version. When James cries out ‘it’s the last time you will’ and everything pauses for that brief beat before dropping back into the groove, it’s just incredible. Also - see if you can catch this laid over the ending of Game of Thrones on RUclips.
Yo my man, you gotta hear "Anesthesia Pulling Teeth" so much of their sound on the first 3 albums will be explained (especially the instrumentals) The one, The only, Cliff Burton
Metallica (Anesthesia)-Pulling Teeth is a must !
Cliff Burton's bass solo was so epic that they recorded it for Kill Em All.
The live version in Chicago is my favorite on RUclips.
🤘❤️🇨🇦
I can't remember which video you said this in: "I think I was a metal head all long, cause I'm liking this"
BUT Here is something to think about, it's not about being a metal head really.
There is good music and then there is bad music, and a lot in between. Doesn't matter what genre it's categorized in, as good music will always find a way to a persons heart, IF they're just willing to listen with an open mind ;)
You probably are getting an adrenalin rush of some sort listening to this music, and that's a good thing. As for a favorite band, I have like a thousand favorites, lol.
You need to check out the live version to for whom the bell tolls day of the green!!!!!!!! Cliff burton the bass player will blow your mind. RIP Cliff
This is the Metallica I remember !!! Just Fire 🤘🔥🎸🇺🇲💯... Really you don't have have a favorite , there could be 50 favorites Just Top Tier music in general !!! Great Reaction mollyboy keep up the work , best job in the world listening to New Music !!! 🤘🔥🇺🇲💯....
One of the few bands whose songs sound even better in concert! Watch their Moscow concert on RUclips from 1991 in front of 1.6 million people. The songs sound amazing!!!
Enjoying your journey lately homie. Especially your Pantera trip. I see your guitar back there, so this might be a good time to point out something you are hearing and dialing into. Power chords and palm muting. I’m not a guitar expert at all, but learning those 2 aspects of playing metal was fairly easy and enhances your journey while learning more. I can play random BS but if I blast some power chords, throw some double time palm muting in there, and maybe a lucky Dime “pig squeal” aka pick harmonic, it’s fun as hell. Specifically palm muting, for me, is the guitar become percussive like a drum and sitting real tight in the pocket with the drums and bass. It taps into that primal rhythmic pulse that even our caveman ancestors slammed with. It’s when your headbanging takes that extra dip into full body pulse. Also, tears pour from my eyes when I hear beautiful music of any kind too. It’s pretty cool huh? 🤘
My experience with metallica is that all the live versions are even crazier bruh. you've got to listen to this song live in mexico city, you will be so shocked man
Dude, someone who feels this music so much is not 'becoming' a Metalhead, you've aways been one , you just didnt know it yet 🤘🤘🤘
You're right, "Ride The Lightning" is an album, in fact all the songs you heard with those covers are the albums, all you need to do is react to a song from their First Album "Kill Em All", I recommend "The Four Horsemen " and "Seek & Destroy"
Metallica began to start becoming popular during my age of 18yrs old. I was a fan immediately. This was after their first recording of Garage Days. One of their very first performances was in Buffalo NY at Monsters OF Rock in 1990. I was there! They were brand spankin new to everyone in the crowd.🔴
I absolutely loved their music. Would sit & listen over n over & HEADBANG cuz loved the sound sooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!!💥
This song is about your country. It's about WWII and the air fights over Europe. Since I was your age I've had a "trinity" of bands that I placed above all others...1. Pink Floyd, 2. Metallica, and 3. Queensryche. Hearing you mention my two favorite bands in the world together has given me hope in the younger generation. You have incredibly intelligent and terrific taste in music. Rock on!! Keep up the guitar. You'll be glad you did. (Btw, Pink Floyd is otherworldly, no can, or will touch them. Be very proud to be British!)
Great song live. One as well. The energy will knock you out.
I had a proud mom moment when I took my kids to see zombieland in the theaters. My youngest was around 7 or 8 and this song was played during the intro and my boy starts yelling at the top of his lungs “mommy mommy that’s Metallica”. All the teens in audience started laughing. I smiled and thought to myself “yep I’m raising him right”
Metallica creates kind of a base rhythm or melody but then they elaborate so much on it that sometimes doesn't even sound like you're in the same music , BUT somehow it fits perfectly, they are the best at this kind of shift within the same music in my opinion, you never see it coming
Cliff was the assassin of the bass
these reactions are fire
You need to do One and Welcome Home (Sanitarium)….THESE ARE ESSENTIAL!!
1st rule of Zombie Land: Cardio!
The intro to zombie land and this song kicks ass!
Nothing else matters is completely different but class.
If you like the guitars, the solo in “am I evil” it’s one of the best ever. Man, I would like to hear Metallica for the first time again! I was introduced to Metallica by my cousin saying: Have you heard this American band with a danish drummer? And then he played creeping death! I never looked back😎
That is a bass guitar lead with distortion at the beginning of the song. It's such fun to play it. Chromatic scale.
Keep listening to metal my friend, and you will stop feeling the need to apologize for cursing. 😁🍻
Say what you feel and say it with feeling!!
signed-- 80's era metalhead 🤘😎🤘
I have a Ride the Lightning coffee cup. Only way to stsrt the day.
You don't have to become a metal head. Just be a music head. Expose yourself to all shapes and kinds of music, and you will eventually learn to appreciate it all. I love metal, but I also love 80s soft country like Anne Murray and Don Williams. I also like hip hop, and I even like some jazz and bluegrass. The Sopranos theme song, for example is a badass blues tune. "Woke up this morning . . ."