Metallica was thrash metal for four records, the black album is more of a heavy metal record and then they started playing alternative rock on load and reload.
At first, he had trouble playing guitar and singing at the same time. Someone helped James to learn how to play rhythm guitar and sing at the same time (I'll let you guess who it was). He already knew how to play the guitar though.
@@NAlvazaz Not true he could sing and play fine and did in his other band before Metallica but he wanted to be Sean Harris from diamond head and so opted to just sing but quickly realised he was a better rhythm player than anyone else they tried out.
Yeah, I would say doom its the closest. The Thing is very rythmic, while doom-metal is more bluesy or droning, but it also has that moody, atmospheric, eerie quality of doom-metal. So its just like more rythmical doom-metal. Its too heavy to be heavy-metal tho, funny enough. For Whom the Bell Tolls has doom elements too, with heavy and prog like structure. Would Lepper Messiah be more like sludge-metal without the gritiness?
@@misterfuzzyflippers Yeah, it has that mid-tempo thrash-metal characteristic of groove, and heaviness, but it lacks the specific sound. If anything, despite being an obvious choice for heavy-metal, Enter Sandman had the groove aspect of groove-metal, but without the agression and heavy vocals.
I'd argue that the most prog Metallica track is AJFA title track. Long, complex both in its structure and changing time signatures, as well as being grandiose. Other title tracks from the 80s are a bit like that too, but AJFA is best example imo
Id say Thing in a way is the closest they got to death metal. Solo and riffs are very Morbid Angel esque. Ending of Phantom Lord is the closest they got to black metal too
Power Metal - Trapped Under Ice, Has Some Of James most Intense Vocals in the higher registers, the song is pummeling and fast pace, and the bridge is a gang call and response chant. Compare it to something like Ride The Sky by Helloween. The Four Horsemen, it talks about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and it sounds like it could be an Early Helloween song. Black Metal - Ride The Lightning, Probably the closest I can think of. It’s the most sinister and cold sounding song they had, the breakdown with the solo and the intensity of it doesn’t sound too dissimilar to something like the Blood Fire Death Album by Bathory. Plus it features Black Metal Screams from a Scandinavian man (Lars). Glam Metal - Mechanix, Jump in the Fire because of the lyrics and wouldn’t be too out of place with other Glam Metal bands Symphonic Metal - No Leaf Clover, it came with heavy Orchestral accompaniment. Neo-Classical - The Call of Ktulu, lots of arpeggios, and the classical sounding melody in the last section (courtesy of Cliff), plus the Bass Solos. Funk Metal - Shoot Me Again, maybe not the correct correlation for this song, but it’s without a doubt the Grooviest song they’ve ever done; maybe even the funkiest, especially the Bassline (other then Cure).
7:59 Phantom Lord (lyrically anyways) is probably the closest Metallica came to Power Metal imo. Especially in the chorus: "Hear the cry of war, louder than before. With his sword in hand, to control the land. Crushing metal strikes, on this frightening night. Fall onto your knees, for the Phantom Lord."
I always wonder how would someone classify songs like For Whom the Bell Tolls, Lepper Messiah or The Thing that Should not be. You can easily call them heavy-metal, but the irony is, that they are way too heavy for heavy-metal. The closest to heaviness are tracks from early Black Sabbath, but even then, Sabbaths heaviest songs were classified as doom-metal. So are those song doom-metal? At the same time, they have a very rythmic quality to them, while doom-metal is more like drown out, bluesy, atmospheric. The Thing fits doom-metal the best of the three, with section of For Whom the Bell Tolls being doom as hell, but I think one you could The Bell Tolls as a mixture of doom, heavy and prog, with The Thing being most doom-metal of their all tracks. Lepper Messiah is too punchy, agresssive, like it doesnt go for atmosphere the same the other two tracks go, and sludge could be seen as dirtier, more agressive, punchier version of doom so I see Lepper Messiah as sludge. I know discussing styles like this is silly, but I saw someone arguing 80s Metallica were more of a heavy-metal band with some trash songs, but the problem with this is that while most of their 80s songs could be classified as thrash, while the rest are like a mixture of heavy, prog, sludge, doom, so thrash was definitely their predominant genre.
Metallica kind of speed metal version is every time they speed up their song from mid 80’s to 92 if they play a kill em all song other then Seek or the super speed up version of fight fire with fire .Watch the Montreal or the Toronto 1986 live concert for exemple !!!
Trapped Under Ice is their closest shot to Speed Metal AND Power Metal probably as it sounds similar to Helloween's debut album (which was Melodic Speed Metal, they'd "invent" Power Metal on their second record).
99.9% (if not 100%) of Kill 'Em All is thrash metal. It's basically the only Metallica album where all the songs are 100% thrash. RTL, MOP, AFJA (which is progressive metal/thrash), Death Magnetic, and 72 Seasons have mostly thrash songs on it. “Motorbreath” is thrashy as hell (speed metal wtf). Arguably the most thrashiest track next to Metal Militia.
The weird instrument that accompanies Hetfield on “Low Man’s Lyric” is a Mediaeval instrument called a hurdy-gurdy. It was a really interesting, and I think it actually sounds great for this tune (toward which, by the way, I’ve grown far more affectionate over the years; I’ve been through some really rough stuff in the last 15 years of my life, and now both the lyrics and the mood of the song are deeply relatable)
So, as the resident Christian metalhead (and guitar player) on this channel, I, uh... I have to quarrel with the pick of The God That Failed for Christian metal. Yes, Christian metal is metal with Christian themes, but it's not *JUST* that. Otherwise, technically, songs like God is Dead by Black Sabbath, or Jesus Saves by Slayer, or Christians to the Lions by Behemoth would be considered "Christian Metal". Go listen to those songs, and then listen to a band like Stryper, Demon Hunter, or Impending Doom. The common thread is its focus on faith, hope, and spirituality. The music often explores themes of struggle, redemption, and the battle between good and evil, with a message rooted in Christian beliefs. So picking that one is... Just short of the exact opposite of what Christian metal is. 😂😂
Yeah The God The Failed is precisely the song that would most scare boomer parents as "satanic". On the other hand Creeping Death just tells a story straight off the Bible, that's about as christian as Metallica gets.
Well, as a fellow Christian metalhead :) I have to disagree. The God That Failed is a Christian song the way that The Last Temptation of Christ is a Christian book/movie. It is a song of hope which shines - albeit lightly - through despair. And yes, Christ is a god that failed. That’s exactly what makes him human and unique.
Sorry, for something being Folk Metal, it's not enough to just have a folk song covered. Folk Metal is similar to Symphonic Metal, as in: more instruments required. Folk metal commonly uses flutes, hurdy gurdies, violines, bagpipes or other instruments that are meant to have some medieval or folkish style.
Wasn’t load/reload heavily inspired by grunge, so I think we can call some songs (post-) grunge at least (Until it sleeps, Outlaw Torn, fixxxer, maybe thorn within ) Ik grunge isn’t usually considered Metal but I just wanted to mention that
A bit unrelated to the video, but I was wondering if you're ever gonna do a bass cover of Call of Ktulu with the original bass track, the one Apocalyptica did? Or combined with that one live version with a lot of improvisations? Think a lot of people would love to see that
Funny, Kyuss and Sleep are the first to come to mind when I think about stoner and sludge too. My friend and I back in the day used to make fun of this one Sleep song all the time that I swear had like two notes that were hit every thirty seconds or so. Easiest song to figure out on guitar in the world once you figure out how low they were tuned.
One Metallica stoner rock connection that I haven't heard anyone else mention is Shoot Me Again and Song For the Dead by Queens of the Stone Age. They both start with fast riffs that then slow down into the main, slower riff. The main riffs are pretty much identical, both in C going from C to C# with the exact same rhythm of open Cs supporting them. The only differences are that Shoot Me Again plays the C# an octave lower and Song For the Dead isn't an unlistenably shit song.
No Hair Metal! Damn! They need to get on top of that! Some sort of a duet with Kip Winger! Lol! On a serious note, I'm happy to know that James has reached out to Kip and apologized for the "A year and a half in the life of Metallica" and the "Nothing Else Matters" video
I always though Bad Seed from ReLoad is a good example of Metallica doing Southern/Groove Metal. Still can't hear how you pulled Prog out of one section of Blackend though.
I dont think metallica ever even made anything that sounds like death metal, but fun fact is that death metal band VADER covered "fight fire with fire" so your pick is SOMEWHAT reasonable
Load and reload, like what the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin did in the early to mid 70s. Just stretching as artists. 2x4 is great, Aint-Eye-Better Than You-Sad But True would be a cool medley.
No Metal band ON EARTH has achieved what they did!!!!! HOWEVER, IMHO they are Sorta Overrated!!!! When Metal died in the Mid 90s they had to ‘MODERNIZE’ by going Alternative!!!!!:/ They had sum good hits, but changed their trajectory by going Mainstream!!!!:/ I have the most respect for: Maiden, Priest, Motörhead, Overkill, Slayer ect.!!!!! Because they didn’t change their style and didn’t compromise their sound for the ‘Masses’!!!!!!\M/ But Make no mistake, they are the BEATLES of Metal!!!!!\M/
very cool, I categorized metal or no metal. Now i know many styles I dont know wtf are I always think that master of puppets was a prog thrash metal song, many riffs and changes. Death magnetic album i think is prog thrash in many parts
Sludge/Grind guy here. To me, there's no song that gets even close to sounding like Grindcore in the slightest. If Metallica had a song with blast beats, it would be the closest as it's the core element of any grind band/song, let alone a vocal delivery which sounds harsher than anything they ever did (besides the outro to All Within My Hands obviously). Sludge however, I'd risk and say that - Human is the most sludge metal-ish song they have ever done. That main fuckin' riff, man, along with the solo moment, really scream that sound. Minus the orchestra of course, though I think hearing Crowbar play with an orchestra would be both funny in theory and awesome as fuck to hear.
If you want to reach your largest possible audience, play different styles of music. Led Zepplin for example, they played rock, blues, reggae, funk etc to reach the largest audience.
The SMALLEST Thing about this entire vid but does not sit right within me is the fact that you put Agoraphobic Nosebleed in the Grindcore section, yet left out Pig Destroyer all together
Lol, took me two minutes to find something wrong about this. Metallica's original SOUND was...heavy metal, then power metal, some would say they later evolved into speed metal, but with the help of Mustaine it was really thrash, in order to get that "crunchy" tone, they went through several layers of music, thrash was NOT their original sound. Source: i have the demos from ron's garage when shit went sour at lars's
