Metallica: Chi (The Making of "Spit Out the Bone") 

- "People will headbang" - Hetfield - "We made the world a better place" - Ulrich These boys never lie.

4:39 "Just don't write any ri-" "MY GOOOD!" *writes a riff* I love that part so much

So glad metallica adopted Robert Trujillo. He's an amazing bass player and such a chill dude.

Is anyone else low-key obsessed with Metallica’s HQ? I feel like they bought a warehouse, built a studio in it and called it there adult-hangout spot. So fucken cool man.

"Just don't read the comments" - James Hetfield

Lars - "Don't write any riffs!" James - *pulls an e🅱️ic riff out of his ass*

2:10 Hetfield.exe has stopped working

Hetfield is a riff factory. The man's brain is made for this...such a creative soul.

Lars "don't write any riff" James - "MY GOOOOD (???)" *plays random riff out of nowhere*

I love how Kirk just comes in out of nowhere, hears what they've done so far, says "wow", then just hammers out a face melting solo like it's nothing.

It was a headbanger when it came out. Was the best track on the album IMO.

11:35 That distorted bass was great. It reminded me of Cliff's solo performance. It's ironic that my two favorite bassists end up playing for the same band.

4:20 rob using a pick 4:44 a riff worthy of to be in kill em all

holy shit, James still has the "EET FUK" guitar from Seattle '89

They so finally delivered on this one, go back to the studio and feed us more of this

1:04 -"People will headbang" - If you play it live, for fuck's sake

4:46 It's Kirks missing phone!

5:51 That explains why they didn't know we wanted them to play "Spit" live for over a year

2:39 "it doesnt have an identity yet" little did they know at the time, this would be arguably thee best thrash track theyve released since puppets. Unbelievable track, unbelievable album 6 years later still listening to it almost everyday.

Lars: "chi militia.." Lars: "CHI MILITIA!!!" >:( larsno

Wait, what are we going to complain about now??

4:39 "don't write any riffs" "Mah Gawd" *writes potential kill em all riff*

13:57 love that part, so glad they kept it in.

5:51 "just don't read the comments" this applies on every Metallica video

Holy crap it finally arrived... off to the next best 15 minutes of my day

13:42 does literally no one else see the tiny James on the les Paul?

14:46 man it’s so satisfying listening to him sing that growly bit

14:43 *CLASSIC PAPA HET RIGHT THERE!*

It's amazing how simplistic songwriters they are. They have no real tactics beyond just trial and error and "Finding pieces that connect", you'd think after all these years they'd have a process but its just like getting with your buddies and jamming. Very humbling.

Robert is there almost every day and people still call him a session musician. Yet, Kirk just shows up for his solos. Robert is part of Metallica. The band is better for it

Long live machine! The future supreme! Man overthrown! kirk lose his phone

It's always nice to see the "Eet Fuk" guitar

MAN OVERTHROWWWNN

13:00 “it’s almost 7 o’clock? It’s not even 6” “in an hour it will almost be 7 o’clock” 😂

I’m so happy to know that the “EET FUK” guitar is still alive, I thought that after all this years that guitar was gone

4:57 "God's recording it." I bet that's what Kirk told himself when he threw away his phone.

VIDEO GUIDE: 1:23 & 2:54 --- Lars offers some professional input. 2:17 --- Lars thinks he struck gold. 2:19 --- Unimpressed guy thinks otherwise. 5:50 --- James knows the score. 6:06 --- Rob is so deep into the music that he fails to notice the 72-year-old stray dementia sufferer who randomly sat down next to him. 6:25 --- James offers some professional input. 10:20 --- I love that roll. 10:41 --- Not so much. 11:36 --- Walking around with a toothpick, asking Metallica about whether or not they "want to rock the fuckin' distortion part"? Sick job, dude. 12:35 --- Toothpick guy uses solo samples to drown out Lars' attempt to pull the old call-in-sick-whilst-already-at-work trick. 13:10 --- Kirk says something about his energy. All is well in the universe. 14:00 --- EET FUK \m/ \m/

Never met these guys and yet they have had more of a bearing on my life than most of the people I HAVE met. James, Kirk, Lars, Cliff, Jason, Rob - I love you all. Some of the most formative moments in my life had your music set to the background.

And to think, these guys almost broke up during the recording of St. Anger. It's so awesome to see how far they've come and how compatible they are today. The jokes, the camaraderie, the creativity, and the overall vibe was just awesome. Some Kind of Monster showed us that St. Anger had basically _none_ of that, and it was so depressing. We were watching a band just tear themselves and each other apart for personal and creative issues between all of them. The biggest obstacle being James' sobriety, trying to recover his life and band from his devastating Addiction. I dont think he laughed or even smiled one time during the whole movie :\ And now look at them. They just enthusiastically bounce off each other's vibe and ideas the whole time, making great music and most importantly, they're having FUN. TOTAL comeback, both musically and personally. Let's all give these guys a round of applause 👏 Thank God they stuck together! I will never stop loving Metallica! 🤘

That section where Rob is recording the bass just shows how important bass is for songs

4:11 lars' smile while james riffing. flathead and the mighty het. after 35 years they can still write so fucking great thrash riffs. i think lars was thinking this right there. he just looked his old friend and smiled.

I can’t believe this was two years ago. How time flies 🤘🏻

what people think Lars lacks in ability he more than makes up for in his unbelievable ability to put a song together.

When Metallica wants to really go full-on thrash, they can still do it better than any other band out there, and this song is the proof.

"People will headbang." Yes, yes they will.

“Don’t write any riffs!” *writes Kill ‘Em All sounding masterpiece*

That bass with the distortion! ...so badass

I've never clicked and immediately liked a video so fast

14:44 vintage James, the grain of his voice.

Still watching in May 2020 remembering how we were ALL waiting for this particularly “Making Of” video to be released. 😎

Imagine having the power and the balls to say "That doesn't sound right" to James Hetfield

2:21 If Spit Out The Bone was in St. Anger (ignore the guitar tuning)

9:09 - eet fuk! hey there my old friend, long time no see!

14:44 “future supreme” sounds like classic Hetfield from the Justice era 🤘🏻

The fact that Lars' first words when they had to reboot were "DONT WRITE ANY RIFFS" just speaks miles. How many riffs have we not heard that hes randomly laid down lol

1:10 Slim James 1:40 Not so slim

i can die happy now

*IT'S HERE!!*

Some would say this is the best track since Justice. I say it's the best track overall. This is a masterpiece. So many bands say, "the new song is the best we've ever done". You guys have actually pulled it off. Seriously great stuff.

6:20 still love that version of the verse. Hope they can apply it to another song

"You guys can play, we just can't record, so..." "M'kay. Hey, Hetfield. Don't write any riffs ri-" "WHAT? WRITE RIFFS!?" "No! DON'T write any riffs!" "OKAY!" *starts riffing* "I'M GONNA WRITE SOME RIFFS NOW!" "HETFIELD!" "YEEAAAHHH" *riffing intensifies* "GOD DAMN IT, JAMES!"

Lars is a master of song arrangements

He still has it in him! Hetfields vocals at 14:40! Oh hell yeah! \m/ \m/

Kirk says "I'll be at the beach, I got my phone on if you guys need me"

YOU DONT EVEN KNOW HOW LONG I WAITED FOR THIS VIDEO!!!

It took them so long to upload the making of spit out the bone because they were trying to find clips of Kirk😂

Everyone playing their "air instruments" on the couch, listening to the recording together, LMAO.

A banda mais sincera do mundo. Mostram o processo criativo, as tretas, as ideias... Desde sempre são assim. Por isso, sou fã, mais que admirador da música.

Ol' Hetfield is still a riff machine. I love the way Lars hears the riff right around 8:40 or so and just grabs the sticks. Say what you want about the guys' drumming, but if Lars likes something, it's usually damn good -- and this is damn good.

I think these kind of studio peeks really show how Lars Ulrich is far from being useless in terms of songwriting and musicianship

So nice!

Hands down my favorite Metallica song ever. & I've been a fan since the beginning & no other song in their catalog hit & moves me like this song. Amazing! 👊

This is just one of those videos I was hoping would never end. So awesome!!

1:04 "People will headbang" He's totally right, he knows what the fans really like. Long live Papa Het!

11:00 this with Robert is sooooo worth hearing and watching again and again over and over...Awesome just the best of the best.

Just imagine whole album like this song. But I still love the album so much

Metallica just needs to release another Lulu to give the haters SOMETHING to piss on

6:13 FUCK, I LOVE THE VOCALS HERE, THEY NEED TO RELEASE THE DEMOS OF THE ALBUM

By far my favourite song from the latest album! 🤘

Definitely made the world a better place...My Friday go to song \m/...Love this song...True Metal Gods...

damn watching them create this song just proves James is the metal riff genius....awesome how they put this together.

The part where James is explaining to Lars and Rob the concept of "the machine, the greater good...being a part of something but having to give up some individuality for the machine"....that whole quote IS the genius of James Hetfield, and THAT has been what has taken them SO far all these years...true intellectual cerebral genius. I'd love to be inside the labyrinth of that mans brain!! And Lars is exactly the same way as well...that's what makes them such a good band and song writing team...I love it!!!

Best song they have made in 30 years!

I havent watched these videos is a long time but revisiting them has reminded me how much of an amazing and underrated album they put out.

At 14:44 exactly the same voice that James had in his early years

Lars is a legend end of story. He plays a crucial part in Metallica and has always done that. Arranging songs etc etc. He is not the best drummer in the world but he is far from a bad drummer.

these studio writing session videos are amazing

I love that all these years later I can stumble upon something like this and enjoy it as much as I did. To me this is one of the best songs they’ve created in decades. Feels fresh, different and still Metallica. This is why they have been and will always be my favorite band. 🤟

YESSSSSSS

6:32 They got a picture of Charles Mingus on the top left hand corner of the whiteboard with a quote of his that reads, "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple."

Definitely my top 5 songs. It hits so hard and metallica has many great songs but this one just has it going

6:15 this version of the verse is SICK! I like the one that ended up on the track tho

where's kirk? we dont see him much in these videos...

Is this real life?

It is so cool that we can watch this amazing band of legends make a song and to also hear the song come together after hearing the whole song... it’s quite incredible

Not only is this song the best on the album it’s one the best they’ve ever created! I’d put it up with there with all their “classic” hits. It’s genius cause this song combines ALL the great elements of Metallica’s song we love. And James voice!!!! Especially the bridge section “Stop breathing and dedicate to me” Awwww classic and sooo damn good! This song is WAY underrated.

"People will headbang" - James Hetfeild

Metallica always satisfies the whims of their fans. And still, they gonna keep bitchin'

The classic Hetfield "YEAH!" after that last "Spit out the bone!" still gives me chills every time. \m/

This was amazing and so fun to watch, it looks like lars has a really good input and feel for the right sound. Such an epic song!!