FIRST TIME listening to METALLICA - "The Four Horsemen" REACTION 

Musically none of them can be skipped. It's a golden record from first to last.

[Anesthesia] --Pulling Teeth {Bass solo) then Whiplash is my favorite, these two go together. Phanton Lord is Amazing.

Girl you don’t skip a song on this album. It’s like having to chose which limb to cut off a person.

This is probably my favorite song on Kill Em All

Don't skip the bonus tracks Am I Evil and Blitzkrieg like most reactors do. Both songs are bangers like the rest of the album.

it's strong songs like this that made true METALLICA fans for 40 years going strong

RIP Cliff Burton!! The band was so much more complete with him.

"The Four Horsemen" was originally written by Dave Mustaine in his former band Panic entitled "The Mechanix". The song was one of Metallica's staples during their clubbing days, albeit with no melodic interlude and different lyrics. The original lyrics were roughly about a sexual encounter at a gas station. James Hetfield has gone on to say the lyrics were "silly". During March of 1983, Lars and James confronted Mustaine about adding a more melodic section. Mustaine claims the middle interlude was inspired by Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama", though it wouldn't be added until after his removal from the band. When the band fired Dave, James took it upon himself to rewrite the lyrics into something more dark. The result is the song we know today as "The Four Horsemen". Referring the Biblical texts about Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

This song was originally called The Mechanix and it was written by Dave Mustaine. When Dave got kicked out of the band, James re-wrote the lyrics of The Mechanix, added a middle section, and slowed down the main riff and The Four Horsemen was born. The original version of the song is on Megadeth's first album, Killing is my Business...and Business is Good. Definitely worth checking out to see the differences.The first guitar solo is the only one in the album that was written by Kirk Hammett, every other guitar solo is just Kirk playing Dave's solos

Metal Militia, Anesthesia and Motorbreath are my favourites off this album! Most of the band were only 18 when they recorded this album...crazy young!

This album was absolutely revolutionary when it dropped. One of the greatest debut albums of all time. No weak tracks. My top three: Whiplash, Seek and Destroy and No Remorse.

My favorite songs from kill em all are the last 3 of the album: no remorse, seek and destroy and metal militia. Least favorite: 😂😂😂

I always love seeing people react to this for the first time, especially when the gallop comes in. I first heard this when I was... Well, I can't really remember. I was extremely young. Practically a baby. Had a lot of rock, and metal fans in my family, so it was unavoidable. I heard it off and in throughout my early childhood, but then I probably didn't hear it for about 10 years, when I finally heard it at age 17, on a classic rock station, and I remember my eyes just bulging out of my head, and locking on my stereo, getting goosebumps, and just feeling like I was somewhere else. Then I grinned, turned it all the way up, and started banging my head as if I fully intended to separate it from my body. It really has an infectious energy to it, and it feels like an old friend to me. I feel the same about the rest of the album, and the following album, as well as the Savatage album Hall of the Mountain King. I don't know who, but someone was blasting this stuff when I was very little, and it just stuck. I went through a lot of music phases growing up, but the first was also the last, before I finally kinda just embraced all sides of myself. But, again, it started and ended with metal, and that's my go-to.

Kirk Hammett shredding the lead guitar into pieces….🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘

How on Earth did I not realize the middle riff was like horse galloping? I thought I was analytical. 😅 I can't unhear it now.

You still got some great tracks coming on this album ! Its amazing this is their first album as they were all barely drinking age then .

Good Ole days, great times, late 80's high school, headbanging in my room and playing air guitar 🎸, what a need 🤓 😂

This the first song I heard from them. Instantly fell in love with them!

OMG i remember reading these lyrics daily on the tap case insert to memorize it haha

Seek & Destroy is my favorite and it´s my 3rd favorite track from them after Fade To Black and For Whom The Bell Tolls :) This is a great track as well!

That middle section live is great. I think seattle 89 was a good example of that. Its probably my fav part of the whole song TBH

That smile when you see the line "or choose you fate and die" 😂 lml

There is no least favorite on this album!

My favorite song ❤❤

this is my go to jam when i want to kick some ass in the gym meaning have a bad ass workout....i used to listen to this jam alot and byfar my favorite metallica song.

Interesting insights you have about the sounds of the guitar with the galloping of a horse and the slower pace of the song is like accepting there's no way out, you know, I think there's no wrong on the thoughts people may have about the song if it's related to the apocalyptic message of it, that's what I call imagination, and you Lilly have an excellent one, Kudos 🎉 on your comments, found them very original and on point, very well done

Esperei muito tempo por esse dia e finalmente ele chegou. The Four Horsemen é uma obra-prima do Metallica e estive muito ansioso para ver sua reação. Que venham as próximas músicas desse maravilhoso álbum! 🇧🇷

Cliff Burton's bass solo is best seen on the 1983 Chicago show And they were all around 21yrs old

Might not remember but I told you Megadeth re did this as Mechanix. Should check that out too...compare and contrast. Love your journey girl!!!!! 😁🤘🤘 Looks like other metal heads told you too.🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

AGAIN, What a smile!!!!

2:31 Yes that guitar riff does represent a gallop. Im a guitarist and we literally call that technique galloping. Iron Maiden really uses it often. The Trooper is the best example of gallops IMO

i always skil "HIT THE LIGHTS" 😂😂😂

It's a great song. Thanks.

Am I Evil

Yeah Girl, love it!😎👍💕🍷🚬

They'r all good on this album. You have good taste in music. (from the videos i'v seen, metal)

Phantom Lord is the best Kill Em All song....period. Hugely underrated.

One of their best fuckin songs

I love the galloping bass drum. They sound like hooves

For me til today the best song of metallica. You here Cliffs Bass and the influence of Dave and the "Story" is awesome.

The galloping guitars of true thrash metal. 🤟. Welcome to the garage, sister.

reference musical construction. one of the best songs. thanks for the great response!🤘

This is also my favorite off KEA. It gives a glimpse into where they would go for the next three albums. The live in San Diego version of this song on Binge & Purge is worth watching. Lars gets off one drum kit during the first galloping instrumental section, runs across the stage to another, just in time to come back in. Cool.

This is my favorite song of the album,another exciting song NO Remorse,..the best of all Seek and Destroy

This has been one of my favorite songs, but I've been a fan since the beginning when Dave Mustang was still around and he needs some credit for writing the music for this. James changed the lyrics to the first version once they kicked Dave out of the band. But Dave did his version and if you want to hear it its called Mechanix. Its on the Megadeth album, Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!

Great Reaction! Every song is a banger on this album but if I picked a least favorite per your request I would go with Metal Militia.

Lilly you just amazing.i love your concept and your epic reaction, explication

The song I like least on Kill em all is Seek and Destroy, it's a good song it just got overplayed. I just pretty much got burned out on it, The Four Horsemen I never got burned out on. My favorite Metallica song since I first heard it in 83

CLIFF KILLED IT

Live version goes in as well

The Four Horsemen is my favourite Metallica song ever! One of my top 5 overall, too. Prime stuff. One of my favourite movie moments is when it played during X-Men Apocalypse, which is a movie that you can certainly have opinions on, but I was just popping so hard that such a non commercial song that’s in my top 5 would be playing in a mainstream film.

You need to do The Four Horsemen Live in Seattle 1989. That will blow your mind.

The end solo always make me crawl on the floor in circles!!

All first three albums there is no song skipped. and Justice for all you can feel the shift after Cliff died. They are still the best Metal Band.

This is the War And Peace of the album.

Lars kick drum on the verses is the horses hooves galloping

It's funny how many say that they should make an album like the first 4. Fyi, the first 4 are all completely different, as all of their albums.

Best song in the history of the music!

dave mustane has a version, to be fair,. that's awesome

I absolutely love watching your eyes move in such a wild and unexpected way when reacting to these songs. So amazing and beautiful!

fun fact, there is a chorus that metallica no longer plays live with this song. They were accused of taking it from Lynyrd Skynyrds “sweet home alabama” and never played it again.

This has got to be one of my favorite songs by metallica because I know that mustaine is playing on it.

3:00 ..they start 🤟🤟🤟🤟

Did you also notice that the bass drum sounds like a galloping horse?

My personal favorite song off Kill Em All was Whiplash. I didn't start listening to Metallica until Ride the Lightning, but the 1st Metallica album that I bought was Masters of Puppets. I got to see them on that tour just before Cliff died.

Lets goooo

One of my favorite Metallica songs of all times, and this the freaking first album!!!!!

Also check out Am I Evil and Blitzkrieg... Definitely a Must to listen too!! 🤘

Death was the rider of the 4th horse which brought pestilence. Just in case anyone doesn’t know.

I really love the main riff ! I believe its called the rabbit riff or maybe the pogo stick riff or maybe the kangaroo riff lol but i believe you understand what im trying to say here

I'd play this all the way through without skipping any song. It's a conglomerate of the day and you'll bang your head the whole time!!! Then move on to Ride the lightning and Master of puppets. It's an evolution.

Seeing younger generations jamming to one of the greatest metal bands ever proves that metal and Metallica will live forever!!!!

At 7:25 in this video you here Burton on that bass let it wale.

Their transitions were seamless even back then

Gotta give credit to Dave Mustaine for writing the guitar work here. Kirk Hammett did a hell of a job with it though

So Dave Mustain of Megadeth actually wrote this song it was originally titled iMechanic,, Metallica changed the lyrics, but the music was still the same

theres nothing to skip on this album. what does get skipped by reactors however is that the 80s kill em all had 2 bonus tracks, blitzkrieg & am i evil, that are just as epic, but nobody ever reacts to them because the internet dropped the bonus tracks, because they were not on the 1983 megaforce but added to the 1986 electra version. everybody from 1986 on bought a kill em all record with those 2 fucking tracks, so its bullshit nobody reacts to them. Am I evil in particular is a masterpiece & they played it at every 80s show. I hope you react to Am I Evil.

On a personal note this was Dave Mustaine now Megadeth song

James Hetfield composed (with Dave Mustaine) this song when he was 18 years old. The song was originally called "The Mechanics". The lyrics of the song were reworked several times. Metallica, by the way, doesn't really like to play this song at their concerts

Reacts to the song Turn The Page from the album Garage Inc.❤

WHIPLASH!!!!!!! The Thrash Theme of Head banging mania Anthem

Ok, now you have to do "Mechanix" by Megadeth

This originally was called "Mechanix" but when Mustaine was fired they change the rythim and lyrics. You can hear the original in the first Megadeth Album

there are no skip past tracks , this album with 0 radio play or MTV play helped start thrash metal

Lesgoo 🔥

A few quick comments. Definitely some Harry Potter in here. Also, Lord of the Rings. Who, are the all that need to be killed? A sinner once, a sinner twice? Love the double kick-drrum that kinda mirrors the guitar. Hi Lilly Jane! Question...what is the distinction between Lilly Jane and Mary Jane . Example... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tgFnZQbmup8.html You know, I'm in love with Mary Jane. Just trying to be provocative. What's up girl! 😊😊😊

Gee all the hate towards Dave Mustaine by Metallica fans, the fact is he wrote Mechanix, Jump,Phantom and Militia in their entirety, however lyrics were changed in all of them by James, Lars just added his name to everything because he along with James started the band, if you listen to their demos you can hear the difference in lyrics, but the solos on those songs are Kirk’s interpretation of Dave’s solos, yes they are cleaner , but still baffling how most Metallica fans still can’t accept Dave’s contribution to the band

Probly my first time hearing this I have all ways bean into hip hop music sints 80 s so I not lisan to this stuff. I don't mind battery add. The drums sound dope 😊solo guitar .was very popular in 80 s. Then thay died out.

This is really thrashy song in different breakdowns..i really love this..

Every song on this album is good. I don’t skip any.

If you like the guitar riffs on this track, have a quick listen to "wake up dead" by Megadeth. I think you will like it.

No bad song on Kill'em all, but since this song it's been played on every Metallica event I will put Seek and Destroy

Anesthesia is an epic piece from Burton you don’t skip on this album

hey can i ask why you dont try anthrax gung ho is thrash drummer is sick

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Great listening with you, as always :) Yes, there is a lot of 42 years old drama around this song in Because it was written by Mustaine, as "Mechanix". Metallica and him even played it live, so it was known. And after his departure, Metallica still used it, with these variations. But the main riff is pretty much the same, and the second solo is not much different. Dave re-wrote it to be faster, for his own Megadeth debut. But I do like The Four Horsemen more. Dave screaming about a sex ridden, pun loving mechanic, is not my cup of tea :) but both songs are greatly beloved for both bands,

Can you imagine the four horsemen coming to get your ass? "The sound of hooves knock at your door"? I'd run upstairs, jump outta my back window, go in my garage fire up my dirt bike and take tf off lol.

There's not a bad song to skip on this album. You put it on and it plays to the end of the album

No Remorse is probably my favorite, followed by Four Horsemen.

So are you gonna react to the original Mechanix version?