Metallica Called Out By Celtic Frost After Covering Their Song: "It Was Humiliating" 

Funny how many self-proclaimed metalheads in the comments have never heard of Celtic Frost 🤦🏻‍♀️

Tom's actual reaction: UGH!

Holy shit! I'm genuinely surprised with the amount of people in the comments that never heard of Celtic Frost.

So many people don't know Celtic Frost, they were called Hellhammer back in 1982 and had a more extreme sound than Venom and Metallica at the time, they're also responsible for being a huge influence for death metal and black metal. Celtic Frost later changed its name to Triptykon, its really astonishing to see how many people don't know Celtic Frost but listen to extreme metal.

Those Kirk and Rob doodles can be pretty cringeworthy sometimes.

Funny, I got verbal permission from Tom himself to put a Frost cover (The Usurper) on a demo I was doing. He heard and basically said "sure, go for it". Great moment.

All drama aside, "Morbid Tales" is one of the most heaviest pioneering metal albums ever. Check out, "Procreation of the Wicked". But yes, the Metallica cover was horrible, very horrible.

Metallica should've covered Cherry Orchards. .

I saw the title and thought how miserable can Thomas be but when he said rob and Kirk did their “cover” I totally understood why.

I was fourteen when I saw Celtic Frost. Opening acts were Voi Vod, Saint Vitus and Running Wild. Coincidentally: Metallica was literally playing, a walking distance away, opening for Ozzy the night of Celtic Frost’s show! Some stage hand got on the mic during someones set and said: “This next song is for Metallica playing up the street!” The audience replied with their middle fingers, ‘fuck Metallica,’ and “posers” chants

If it helps, Metallica butchers their OWN tunes these days, in spite of Trujillo's best efforts.

Growing up in the 80's was such a brilliant time to be a metalhead. Celtic Frost were the pioneers of Black and Avant Garde metal. Check out their live 2007 Wacken show. Thats a fu**king band.

Metallica, dont mess with the frost... you could be hurt.

You know what's not metal? Running a metal gossip channel on RU-vid.

Where’s my daily tortilla?!

I wouldn’t be too mad, Rob and Kirk butcher all the songs they “doodle”!

Anyone disrespecting celtic frost is a poser, and not a metalhead, period. If metallica is the only metal band you're into, you aren't a metalhead, your opinion is irrelevant and objectively false. It really is that simple.

Don't mess with Celtic Frost - it's sacred ground

Wait. WTF Song did they Cover? Don’t think it was mentioned.

Look up Trujello singing When Doves Cry...now that's humiliating.

Atleast before they played it they said they loved frost and Called it real metal

Celtic Frost no longer exist mate. Tom G Warrior is the lead singer in Triptykon, formally of Celtic Frost.

Sepulturas cover of procreation of the wicked is one of the Heaviest/most awesome metal songs of all time 😎

As a vegetarian, i say who gives a shit if somebody goes hunting, I respect that a hell of a lot more than factory farming

From what I've seen, Kirk and Robert's covers are meant to have the same tone as light hearted banter. Not actually Metallica trying to make metal history with a ground breaking cover that the audience is captivated and blown away by. 🤷‍♂️ Plus if I were to look at the bright side, they may have introduced the song to a large number of people in the audience who may have gone home and said "Who was that band? Celtic Frost? I should check them out." Plus it may have been featured on RU-vid, etc.

Well said Tom!

the dude is in his fifties wearing guy liner and a beanie. Im not sure he knows what "humiliating" means.

i never heard this about Metallica covering a Celtic Frost song until i found this video. But all i know is when i first owned the TO MEGA THERION album in cassette tape years ago when i was 20 something years younger (and i still listen to it now by the way and its still just as good as i remember)...anyway, i remember i was playing it all the time and at the same time, Van Damme movie CYBORG was always on cinemax and in my mind i was pairing up the dramatic opening track INNOCENCE AND WRATH (which i feel the track belongs in the soundtrack of a post-apocalyptic movie) with the movie CYBORG and was working on doing splits..and thats why i still do splits now...and even though i am damn near a 50 year old curmudgeon still holding on to my splits..and i owe that to the opening track of that album even now..and i also still like older Metallica albums better because of the near 50 year old curmudgeon that i am

Not like they recorded it, it's just a live cover done.

Maybe this will get more people to check out Celtic Frost , so Metallica might have done a good deed here after all. ( Optimism is so un-metal but I'm half asleep. )

James only hunted a Bear once and said that he regretted it.

My reaction when they covered Engel by Rammstein.

If he care's that much about Celtic Frost, why he left the band in the first place? (can't trash on Metallica since he also sold out with the Glam Metal in Cold Lake and the Nu Metal in the Proyotype Ep)

Im not a Metallica fan but covers to me are showing respect. A lot of other things to get upset about now days .

tom has always been sour anyway, most miserable bastard in metal. I love celtic frost but his comments reek of jealousy. It was a little semi rehearsed moment acknowledging an area and scene legend.

Cliff would've done it justice with just his bass \m/

People saying he “left “ Celtic Frost....TOM IS Celtic Frost..it’s his band so he has the right to state his opinion. And Hellhammer,Celtic Frost and Triptykon are all bad ass bands!! Hail TOM!!!

I’m not usually into the music drama shit but I am definitely on the side of Tom. The cover sounded like such garbage. It was like they just we’re screwing around trying to show their metal credentials. Tom F. Is a man that doesn’t suffer fools. He’s a serious dude when if comes to his music and art!

Thanks for not naming the song. Derp!

What song was it?

celtic frost / metallica diss track anyone??? metal beef. lol.

If my worst enemy had a good song, I’d be man enough to admit it, even if I don’t like him Talent is talent to me

What was the song they covered?

This was a... Celtic Roast! I let myself out.

Celtic Frost was a very influencial band back in the 80's, so was Metallica. But the unfortunate death of Cliff destroyed the young metal creators. Master of Puppets or possibly and Justice for All was the end of Metallica as I knew it. I just fed into the various other metal artists in the 80's back then; Kreator, Destruction, Slayer, Omen, Celtic Frost, Hellhammer, Omen, Agent Steel, Pariah, Mercyful Fate, Fates Warning and the like. We were never short of 'real' metal bands; Metallica sold out for known status. They took their own path and real metal faded out of view for Metallica once that crappy 'Black' album was unfortunately released; that's when Metallica started playing Abba and Bread songs. They have and will suck for the rest of their tenure as they attempt to return back to 'Master' days and 'Lightning' days, 'Ride the Lightning' has the ability to hold up to Celtic Frosts 'Morbid Tales,' and possibly 'Kill em' All' and 'Master of Puppets' in all retrospect, nevertheless what Metallica has written in the last thirty-five years has by far sucked major crap. They should have hung up their music after '...and Justice for All' became complete. And for that matter, Celtic Frost should have given it up after 'Into the Pandemonium,' although 'Vanity/Nemesis' and 'Monotheist' is also two exceptional albums in their tenure as well. So to make a long story short both of these bands were gone in the 80's, one seeking major stardom while the other ran out of idea's. -Jeff Henneman-

As humiliating as having to change your band name because you banged all your bandmates's gfs? Jk love you Warrior keep it metal \m/

So basically, if James was some kind of social justice activist instead of a hunter they wouldn’t have cared.

Woulda been nice if you added the songs to the feed or maybe even gave the links in the post for it.

The irony is that Celtic Frost have used movements of Metallica songs on their own songs. Hypocrite.

That stuff that Rob and Kirk do is a joke and it's absolutely horrible. It kills me to see what they do because they are incredibly gifted musicians. I wish Rob would get out already and return to his infectious grooves and suicidal tendencies roots.

Celtic Frost was one of my favorites I'd listen to on a walkman walking around town as a teenager.

It's shit like this that reminds me why the industry is in the shape that it's in.

holy shit! celtic frost is still around???

This just inspired me to start a metal band and call ourselves "Hunting Bears". lol!!!

Bro. If even one person became a fan of Celtic frost because of this it did more good than bad.

What song was it? I didn't hear the title mentioned. EDIT: Never mind. Found it. The horror. The horror...

I'm not taking any sides here, but has anyone seen and heard Celtic frost on stage? They make slayer look friendly. Of course they hate anything Metallica dose or stands for because Metallica took metal mainstream

Tom G Warrior has more metal in his pinkie than all of the fingers of Metallica put together. The last good Metallica album came out in 1988. The Triptykon album that just came out this year (2020) kicks total ass.

HE spoke TRUTH 💫✊💫

nice :) love it! A lot of truth to a lot of Metallica live covers being junk.

I love celtic frost & I love hunting....especially bears

omg is he really talking about that video form the black album era where James is hunting that video is almost 30 years ago

Says the man who created Cold Lake!

Is this guy that same guy from Stevie T poppunk video?

Ok, so it wasn’t a very good cover of the song. But no need to get that angry about it. I love Celtic Frost/ Triptykon But take a deep breath Tom. It’s not the end of the world.

I'm so metal that I hunt bears... with fvcking bears!!

Doesn't even mention the song. Wtf?

I love both bands. I will have to look into the bear hunting aspect

I can respect someone who hunts. I have very little respect for Metallica, tbough.

*WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO CELTIC FROST?*

So what song did they cover? Im pretty sure its not dying god, isnt it?

Tom should be proud

Great job. I love this channel that is Claw Feed.

I didn't think anyone would ever take Rob & Kirk's onstage doodles seriously. The short covers are done in good fun and aren't meant to be incredible (heck, I'm not sure they even rehearse them). Tom is just complaining for the sake of complaining. Besides, why did he even need to bring up James's politics or pastimes in this? It quite literally has nothing to do with the subject at hand, lmao.

I love Celtic Frost, I used to own a cassette album of Emperor's Return. The last album that I liked from Metallica is Ride the Lightning. Metallica should not be doing a cover without permission from the bands that they want to cover, and if they cannot play it like it was originally played.

I'm mexican and I just say: *No mames*

You can tell this is nothing but a cry for attention

leave your politics out of music and be glad that a band that more than 6 people know the name of gave you some stage time

Celtic Frost = Cold Lake + Cherry Orchards

what was the song?

This coming from a band that wore faster pussycat tee shirts and singing cherry orchard

I always assumed that bands like Celtic frost were molded from the same clay as bands like Mayhem, Dissection, Immortal...etc who are considered extreme black metal as they embrace chaos and all things evil. But hearing how Tom despises the killing of animals for sport shows me that although bands like Celtic Frost (Tom Fisher specifically,) may have an extreme views in their music, generally they’re good guys. I can definitely respect that.

Dude Metallica is my favorite band... But Tom hit it on the head when he said they lost the ability a long time ago to really thrash I to out, st. Anger on just isn't Metallica.. (load and reload were more of an experimental thing and it's kinda catchy

Mayhem's reaction was much better to Man unkind.

CELTIC FROST 👍👍👍. METALLICA 😟

There just 2 different bands!!!! One is popular around the world and 2 band is pure black metal difference minds

Oh! it's the RamnstEEn guy!!

Hahahahahahah.... CLASSIC!!!🤜

Thomas Gabriel Fisher has a lot of nerve saying anyone "lost the ability to play metal" after the mental relapse that was Cold Lake.

You can hunt any animal as long as it's legal and keeps nature on balance Some bears in certain parts of the world are overpopulated and in those areas need to be hunted to keep the numbers in check

who cares if metallica will never covers a Celtic Frost song again... the last album I bought from them (metallica) was the Black. I gave it away to someone in a couple days just because I hated it so much. I was wrong. Actually that was their best album since then.

Whatever happened to Celtic Frost? I heard that they got Lost! 🤣

A lot of people out here disrespecting Celtic Frost or pointing out they don’t even know them, just to give y’all some context: Celtic Frost is one of the most important metal bands as they paved the way for Extreme Metal and played a big part in the development of Black Metal, CF and Tom’s previous project HellHammer have been respected names and huge influences in the underground metal scene. I got nothing against Metallica and i’m sure the guys really love CF but i have to agree they did kinda butcher the song a little and played it to an audience that clearly doesn’t know a thing or two about Extreme Metal. I’m sure it was all good fun but come on, no need to disrespect either band, especially since CF has some real metal pedigree and are certainly a heavier but also more obscure band compared to Metallica.

I would be happy if Metallica cover my song(if i have a band😂) even Rob singing it😂

Lol.metallica fans aren't even metalheadsxD they don't know who is celtic frost

Wonder if james likes the song countdown to extinction lol

Metallica should cover another one of their songs just to spite them😂

Celtic Frost is still around?

Tom G. Warrior Rules

They butchered every song they played on that tour. 'Balls to the wall' was sickening to hear.