@@aleksastefanovic.4451 The part Dave "claims" to have written is the galloping chords after this section...except take away the gallops and just play the chords...that's what he played on old jam tape. Not that riff
I just love the gallopy nature of the Frayed Ends of Insanity riff, and the pure thrash of Dyers Eve and the bridge riff of Damage Incorporated. But I think that all these songs are great! They all of a special place in my heart.
Load and Reload are pretty underrated and get a lot of unnecessary hate in the Metal community. I’ve always been a sucker for the Bluesier sound on those records. Back in high school those were my two favourite Metallica LPs.
Some really stellar riff choices, here, and it's nice you included the bass on the "...And Justice For All" songs! "Disposable Heroes" is one of my absolute favorite songs on "Puppets" and has been since the album's release. Nice crunch tone, too!
Man I love the groovines of the eye of the beholder. People nowadays are going for anything that will blow your mind. Something that you just can't understand. But for me, the groove is the essential part of the riff
I really like the love for Load/ReLoad riffs. I don't feel like they get enough appreciation from the majority of Metallica fans. The overall sound was a pretty big departure but it's impossible to argue there aren't some killer riffs on those albums. King Nothing is one of my all time favorite riffs to play. It might not be as technically challenging as anything off Puppets or Justice but it's so damn fun to actually play that it's hard not to fall in love with it.
That damage Inc riff is my favourite Metallica riff! Shortest straw is underrated and No remorse needs more love! Also the struggle within after the solo rocks!
great picks! Many of my favourite riffs. Also, thought I was among very few people that like the Am I Savage riff, good to see that riff in the video as well.
Man, I remember listening to Carpe Diem for the first time because I thought I had turned the wrong band on lol. It's almost as heavy as Sad but True and all the blues-ier 🤘. First class example of this video's namesake. Amazing video man. A lot of these amazing riffs get overshadowed by the main hits, so it's nice to see some coverage.
Love it. Great transitions to make this enjoyable as a whole performance! One minor quibble over the “Carpe Diem Baby” verse - those power chords should have a fifth below, too, on the bottom E string (think Rage Against the Machine or the bridge of “Blackened”).
Thank you so much for this video! That means that I am not the only one who likes these riffs. Literally, accept for Purify, all of them are my favorite!! Thank you, great sounding and playing
I remember being super excited when they released some snippets of riffs that would be in St. Anger. I bet if they re-recorded and released it with a decent production (like Nevermore did with Enemies of Reality), plus some editing to cut out the endless repetition, it would be a banger, even without solos.
That Leper Messiah has to be one of their greatest riffs ever made ( I was not expecting sweet amber that made me so unbelievably happy to see that song getting love as it’s my favorite off St.Anger)
Some of the straight up baddest-ass riffs ever conceived IMO. I spent HALF MY LIFE learning to play like this just because these riffs were so awesome and powerful and no matter how much I scoured, there was very little else in this style. Tons of imitators but nothing that really is as potent as this stuff.
I came here to see the cool guitar in the preview picture. I was pleasantly surprised by and stayed for tightly played metallica riffs with an appropriately dialed level of gain for the first time in youtube history.
I have no doubt in my head you did this very well! I want to get that out of the way from the start. Cleanly produced, played the riffs well, these are some of the more obscure riffs and good choices too… however, the one thing I would like to put on the table: you need to stop rushing. I noticed it right from Frayed Ends, you were always just slightly ahead of the beat. Not enough for anyone other than myself (probably) to notice, and after a while I got used to it, but for me it was a tiny bit off putting and some of the riffs which heavily utilize staccato chords in the right ear while the left is playing the riff got some of their punch and impact taken away just by how ahead of the downbeat you tended to be. Again you played well I have no doubt in my mind, that was just the one thing that lightly nipped at me overall. Probably just a me thing as well. Well done though!
Great playing all the way through. If you want an extra challenge, I’ve seen Hetfield play that Eye of the Beholder riff with all downstrokes. Live at Mexico 1993, during the Justice medley they do
Solid List The Bonus one from ST.Anger even though the Album is Usualy erry low on a :Best MetallicA Album tier list, that Album has solid riff and Okay Songs
love your work & accuracy of the tones, these are the best riffs out there for sure.. just a humble reminder; you might want to doube check the last verse of the house that jack built ;) Cheers
"20 *underrated* riffs" : Nothing from the first four albums can be called "underrated"... "Lepper Messiah", "Frayed end of Sanity", "Shortest Straw", "Dyers Eve", "Eye of the Beholder", "Damage Inc", "disposable Heroes", "No Remose", "Phantom Lord" , "Trapped under Ice"; "Call of Ktulluh"... no matter what riff or isolate material you take off, they're part of a wide consensus of canonicity...They're classic. Admit it, the tiltle was just an excuse to play your favourite riffs. And you play them well with a very nice guitar tone btw.
Awesome stuff man. I totally agree. Personally, I reckon that Fixxxer is their most underrated song! However, at no stage and in nobody's language, has anything on St Anger EVER been a Bonus!🤣🤣
Great job. My kind of tone 👍🎸 Could you explain a little bit about how you are getting your sound and what that device behind you is? Thanks. Are you playing out a tube amp, some kind of modelling?
Frayed Ends of Sanity may as well just be the most underrated EVERYTHING for Metallica. The song is absolutely fantastic in every way and never got the run that other classics did. That first riff from this video is one of my favorites from the band.
