Roasting Teens playing Master of Puppets 

These kids had the courage to get up in front of their peers and shred. That's good enough for me.

Metallica did reply to one twitter post of someone gatekeeping the band, they just said everyone is Welcome to be a Metallica fan.. classy response actually

classic double edged sword. People are realizing that Master Of Puppets is a cool song again, but now they won't shut the hell up about it.

oh those High school days. I had a friend that had a band. they mostly played metal and punk. they decided to enter the talent show but they had to turn in a sample of what they were going to play to those in charge. they couldn't make up their minds and every time I would ask what song they were going to play he wouldn't tell me. finally the day came, they were the only ones with actual instruments. everyone else was either using taped music or doing dance acts or a comedy act. From the moment they started playing my best friend and I recognized that intro. Megadeth's Holy Wars...The Punishment Due. Shit it sounded like the real deal. Everyone went nuts. When the singer started, people lost their minds. they performed the hell out of it. these girls sitting below us noticed we knew the song, so they asked us what it was. we told. that day megadeth had two new fans Oh, and my friend and his band one first place.

Mike! I’m the “other” guitarist from the first band, the ginger that was in the shadows. Wanted to clear up some stuff with that night. This was our first time onstage. Ever. For all of us. Absolutely zero onstage experience for anybody. We were asked to play right after the intermission ended, so everybody going back and forth really valued skittles and Diet Coke. The “cameraman” was our lead guitarists mom. They had just gotten back from vacation, he hadn’t touched a guitar in 2 weeks up until the day before the show. We still roasted him for being sloppy, which didn’t matter when we ended up winning. 100 bucks was pretty great for us then. 10 years later, not only are all 4 of us still great friends while living in different parts of the world, the drummer and I are currently in a metal band called Lethal Dose. Our most recent single is “Lizards Grip”. I’ve always appreciated this channel and seeing this is a massive full circle moment for me. Much love from Virginia man ❤️

"In this video, I will show you how I can barely play these parts better than a buncha teenagers." - Mike :p

Cant wait to be labeled a poser for being young and liking metal

The "Barrier To Entry" you speak of is soooooo true. I performed three times in my high school talent show because the teacher in charge found out we had a "band" and she had no other acts. We were terrible but damn if that auditorium didnt eat up every second. Theres a huge disconnect for those who arent musically adept and they just see a guitar, dry ice, and lights and instantly submit. I wish I had the video to share... its absolutely hilarious.

Just want to say that while the title says "roasting", you did a great job of NOT roasting them and bringing your own experiences and struggles into their story.

Nothing give me more pleasure than seeing Mike being so arrogant while roasting the e Kids playing and at the same time playing Master of Puppets wrong himself

Something that was pointed out in another comment on a different video is that Stranger Things S4 is set during spring break 1986, which is typically mid-March. Master of Puppets (the album) was released on March 3, 1986. Because there was no Internet to search for tabs or how-to-play videos, he had to learn to play "Master of Puppets" by ear in about two weeks. Between school, homework, friends/family, and sleep, that is a miracle.

I think that the more kids influenced by Metallica the better. Id rather listen to a beginner with an out of tune guitar try to play master of puppets than hear em walking down the street rapping to themselves. The more the merrier.

When you said "We see the problem. We have a Ramones fan" I audibly cackled. Great content as usual 👍🏻

I kinda dont get that " metallica fans being gatekeeping" cause metallica fans are usually the ones being gatekeeped by metallica haters , metallica fans are acused of being posers cause metallica is like the most mainstream metal band , so when i heard that " metalluca fans where gatekeeping " i found it really weird

The first time I ever heard my favorite piece of music of all time, Chopin Ballade in G Minor, was in an anime. If Stranger Things brings in a bunch of new fans because they fell in love with Master of Puppets, bring them in. And I love seeing high schoolers rush and goof up the song it brings back some great memories.

Master of Puppets will always have a special place in my heart because it was the song that inspired me to get good at guitar.

I was into Def leopard and iron maiden at 15. My friend gave me a bootleg master of puppets. Changed my life forever. It makes me proud to see those kids aspiring to play mop regardless of the result and I will always encourage anyone to try it before criticising anyone.

The kick volume issue has pervaded throughout talent show history, in my senior year we played three songs and my vocalists dad had to mic our drummer’s kick lmao

9:23 the reason they skipped that part is because their school probably wouldn’t allow them to fully play an 8 minute long song, it would take up too much time and they needed more time for other acts

7:54 Love the mouth movements lmao😂

Honestly, the biggest flex is to play Yngwie Malmsteen or Jason Becker songs in school talent shows

Glad more people listen to the music

When I first watched the MoP scene in ST, the first thing that came to my mind was, “Mike’s going to do a video about this.”

I hate when people Gatekeep Metal. Let people enjoy metal. Let people spread the word of Metal in the youths of today

It's cool that a lot of kids from this new generation are discovering how fucking awesome Metallica still is; music belongs to everyone.

I imagine the master of puppets album is selling out everywhere now. May sell more than when it was realesed.

I'll be honest, Stranger Things did reawaken my love for metal. I wanted to play electric for literally my whole life but never got the balls to even try. Grew up on ACDC, Metallica, Guns & Roses, etc. Like I was 7 and playing (badly) DnD and listening to ACDC all the time. So Eddie really felt like a callout of my childhood. And all of highschool I dreamed of playing guitar, getting all the badass tattoos, and being so fucking cool. So Idk.... I finally got an electric guitar after Stranger Things. So heres to learning how to play at 24 years old with only a hope to learn songs like this. Maybe the kids are cringey, but fuck it, we're being real and living our best lives! Who cares, long as we're passionate, proud, and making music, even if it's cringey and not perfect. :)

My dad had a similar philosophy on gear, he bought me a $500 dean vendetta in olive green with a Floyd Rose bridge for my 15th birthday. Gave me his hand me down 12" single speaker Beringer amp with built in effect board and pedal. And a single 1/4in cable. I've bought 2 guitars of my own since then, a ibenez 8string and telecaster semi hollow kit that I put together/ wired myself, and a big muff fuzz pedal. I'm not an experienced guitarist by any means but I like to play casually and I like extended ranges and alternative tunings, so I'm content with having an easy to tune guitar, a guitar that holds standard until a string breaks, and a guitar in a heavy metal configuration that I like with an amp that can do all three with a couple of knob adjustments.

Darkness imprisoning me all that I see absolute horror 19:50

Titanic was a ship from that James Cameron movie

Just ruthlessly tearing these kids apart! That's what I'm hear for!

Bro, you say they're fuckin with you? It's you, fucking with us!

That bit about James becoming the vocalist because no one else would was pretty inspirational, thanks

Still haven’t seen any of these kids attempt dream theater. But then again, which song is going to get them the most women.

It literally took a whole new generation of kids to get Metallica to finally revisit their origins.

Im more of a “for whom the bell tolls” guy. But even that I learned through modern media, zombieland

My middle school talent show we play “Machine head” by Bush….. our singer forgot the words so he just kept saying “Breath in, Breath out” 😂

You aren’t much better

3:22 Dave mustaine did that after not finding a good singer through auditions but James might have as well idk

Some of these are really good attempts to be fair, it is a very difficult song.

is that larry in the record store vid from 1989 on the thumbnail 😭

I can hear my guitar teacher from 30yrs ago, " Tighten it up ". Not bad though considering how nervous they must have been.

😅My daugther 12 years was a vocal to "Master of puppets" 3 weeks ago in a small town. I don't know anything about Metallica, but my Girl was Cute. 😂🤩

I played this at school and kids kept asking me if it was the Eddie Munson song

I’m glad that a metal song is cool… more people on mainstream media should embrace it

I love your laughh! so genuine makes me smile

9:28 I mean keep in mind this was a talent show. I'm sure they had some time constraints and probably needed to remove at least one section

This is reminding me just how tight Metallica are together when they play live these days. It’s so precise

Yeah, I got a few old VHS tapes of our high school talent show performances. I refuse to go back and watch them because all I remember is us absolutely killing it, and that's probably not what's on those tapes.

You're making the first part of the solo more difficult than it really is.. Pretty sure Kirk uses a blend of pull-offs in the lick. And if not, fuck it, that's how I play it and it ends up actually sounding fairly decent

Im deciding whether to play mop or kimb for a talent show, guess i gotta find out then

I literally got the Yousician Metallica commercial when I clicked on this video Sometimes RU-vid nails it ... Sometimes

that first video he watched is literally almost 10 years old

6:04 literally the best advice I’ve heard honestly. Not sarcasm either

As a gen Z, I’ve never really listened to rock or 90s or 80s music, I’m starting to actually like these songs

LOL your mouth when you're trying to do the fast solo...

very good of the adults to make fun of children..you make the metal community look so good, dork.

that first one is an old video, but fucking baller

1st video were metalheads in the making. i saw the video years before episode 1 of strangerthings. They were probably in awe the first time they heard metallica. the kids may now be in college as of this writing and probably more skilled.

Im going to get those tiny amps that you can hold with both of your hands but is powerful enough

Hey that’s Larry!!

This guy seems miserable. Why is he making fun of teenage guitar players when he can barely play himself.

I do love how you give legitimate advice and constructive criticism unlike some people who shit on these kids who are just getting into it

Those kids are awesome.

I've been a Metallica fan since February, and I can't stand all these new posers pretending to be fans. Us oldtimers gotta stick together.

To the bands that had vocalists, when you sing it, SING IT WITH SOME F'ING PASSION MAN, JESUS CHRIST. If your gonna sing a song like Master of Puppets you better put on your big boy pants and sing it with some f'ing conviction and energy.

You totally f-d that up.

I DON'T think Master of Puppets OR Stranger Things put a negative spin on the song...it was used in a kickass show by a kickass band period....as for all the "press".... COOL!!!!!.....I dig it...so now back to your video....

It’s sad that people think Master of Puppets is a stranger things song and they don’t know about Metallica

Just remember, you little Rugrats, there's no safe spaces at a metal show.

My friend is deep in the deathcore end of the pool and even he got re-hyped about Master of Puppets and i’m like “……. Dude?”

This might be controversial - I was responsible for playing Megadeth "Peace Sells" in my high school days (around the time of the coming of the third ice age) at a "talent" show. No Metallica for us! Me on bass, my cousin on guitar knew it like the back of our hands. We had a singer who was into rap, he paced around the stage like some sort of shouty antisocial Pac Man = Brilliant! The drummer (a lot older than us) I'd only met once before, and he promised us for weeks that he had learnt the track - he had never even listened to it! We obviously sounded AWESOME hahaha! The music teacher got banned from staging any more "punk rock" at events from that point on! Great memories!

Not in a gatekeeper way, but something that really upsets me is that if you now listen to Metallica or Master If Puppets, people assume you must’ve gotten into the band through Stranger things. Personally, I never liked the show, never watched it. Now it seems if you like Metallica even some other fans doubt you like them for them and instead of the popularity the show brought them in the past year. It’s a bit upsetting to see that now it’s so mainstream you are automatically lumped into a fandom you don’t enjoy or even associate with.

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Oh, kids are trying to get into Metallica and touch grass and play an instrument. Let’s make fun of them trying their best and rudely criticize them, nice.

You should volunteer to your local high school to teach them kids how to play it after such a gnarly toasty roast...

Yes, it’s kind of cringe that people JUST discovered Metallica because of this one scene in ST. I mean, come on, it’s fkn Metallica. They’re iconic. But, I’m glad that the show can open people’s minds to some good music.

I remember trying to learn the song, I didn’t even finish it, let alone perform it in front of people

That last kid can still sing better than James :D :D

I can say when I attempted to learn Master of Puppets the first time, I was botching it COMPLETELY. I'm so thankful youtube wasn't a thing at that time!

I’m happy for metallica getting the recognition they deserve. But iv loved metallica for a long time and I wore my Jean jacket with patches and deadass someone thought it was a tribute to Eddie Munson. I don’t want master of puppets getting overplayed.

Im so glad stranger things didnt use slayer lol

I had been on a long hiatus from guitar and didnt feel inspired to play. After I heard about the Eddie Munson performance in ST, I had to go watch the clip. Needless to day I felt the urge to plug in and play Master of Puppets again. Fuck it felt good to downpick that song on full blast. So happy other people are getting exposed to an instant classic!

The one thing confusing me is people saying people are “discovering” Metallica for the first time, even though literally everyone on the planet knows who they are. Even everyone I know that hates metal has still heard master of puppets. No one is just discovering it for the first time

it took me while to learn that if you loosen up have fun you ultimately get more in the zone and your playing actually improves 100%

Ironically, Marty Friedman's first band played Ramones covers.

I'm so fucking sick of hearing people play master of puppets on tik tok

YES ALL THE BASS! What I (an intellectual) heard: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US xD

As a drummer, when he said "kick drums" I died, bro.

I found out about the song before Stranger Things played it but the main reason I like it so much is because it sounds like the main theme To doom

They aren't playing Master of Puppets. They're playing 'That scene out of Stranger Things' Which is fucking hilarious 😂

I think that's load on the first t shirt (crazy thing is i never really got into Metallica too much but recognise all their covers by heart)

8:07 i love how he move is mouth back and forth along with the lick😂🤘

The metalhead kid in the thumbnail pic is Larry Marsili and that image is from a video recorded in 1989. His buddy Eric uploaded the video a couple of years ago on his YT channel. The video is titled Metalhead kids in a record store.

these kids playing it now welcomed metallica to a new generation my generation and im happy as hell abt it

Premise of this video, I, a mid to late 20s year old guy who can’t play them damn song all that well, am going to critique a bunch of 15 year olds that have the courage to get up there put there new found talent on display.

Dude called the kid "okay" than cut to him playing it 5x worse

Im upset at the drummer who tried to pass 2 spashes and a single hi hat as crash cymbals

Bro looks like Kevin mccallister from home alone 💀

I actually haven’t seen a lot of master of puppets around actually the only time I see it is on RU-vid