Album is sped up. His vocals are sharp, as is the entire album. It is NOT in E Standard tuning. There was a reason for this, I dont remember, i think the rumor was that, the anvil that they used for, For Whom the Bell Tolls was slightly sharp when they recorded it, the band wanted to keep the sound, the producers went "well, fuck, the only way it will be in key with the song is if we pitch correct it". The only way to do that back then with analogue recordings was to SPEED up the master recording. Ever try to cover any songs from this album in E Standard tuning and find something slightly off? The whole album is a semi tone SHARP
I’m the total opposite. I’ll always have a soft spot for L&RL because I was a 90’s kid, but I could never stand Escape. It always just sounded like Trapped Under Ice’s retarded little brother, and TUI was far from my favorite Metallica song itself. No hate though, just another fan’s thoughts. Would still take either over 95% of Megadeth’s work though!
It's not the best metal album of "ALL TIME." Careful how you use the term,"Of ALL time." I'm not going to lie, I am a huge Metallica fan! They are definitely my favorite band of ALL TIME! It's DEFINITELY one of Metallica's BEST albums of all time! But in MY opinion, their best album or should I say Metallica's best albums of all time is Master of Puppets and, In Justice for all. They are a tie for best Metallica albums of all time.
Except it isnt his REAL voice per say. The album was sped up which pitch shifted it a semi tone higher. All of the instruments and vocals are not in E standard
This was the album that made me a fan. My cousin had a tape with mixed songs and said he was going to play the worst song he’d ever heard to me. It was Fight Fire with Fire. 🔥 I was hooked at once! Still, my favorite album with Metallica is Master of Puppets which is a masterpiece in every aspect. That’s when all the stars aligned and James’s riffs was not from this earth, that’s how perfect they are still to this day. 🤘🏻🇸🇪🤘🏻
It’s funny you mention that on this video, as Lightning and Puppets could be a double concept album! You have the whiplash-inducing opener (see what I did there!?), the title track, the “slow bruiser”, and the ballad on the first side. Side two opens with another neck breaker, a mid-tempo number, and yet another neck-breaker interspersed with an instrumental (in opposite order on said albums).
The first song I ever heard and loved by them was For Whom the Bell Tolls. I remember staying up late at night to record it on my boom box stereo off of Metal Shop, the radio show. Took me years to find out who they were.
As much as I love ride the lightning, I like master of puppets more. The reason why? Well one word "taste", I like the overall sound and songwriting more with master of puppets, and again thats just my taste if you like ride the lightning more, I completely understand, it is a killer album!
Mustaine wrote two riffs from the title track and part of Call of Ktulu. That's it. Mustaine fanboys give him WAY too much credit for his contribution to Metallica. He literally only wrote two songs. Jump in the Fire and Mechanix. Mechanix was obviously reworked and became Four Horsemen because Dave's lyrics were terrible. He also co-wrote Phantom Lord and Metal Militia with James. And they used a couple of his riffs on RTL. That's the end of it. They credited him for all of his contributions and he still gets royalty checks for them to this day.
It would be closer to say Kirk wrote the whole album as Kirk wrote more riffs than Dave for the album but of course the high majority of the music was written by James.
Imagine being the son of a rich tennis player and being so selfish that you let your band "colleagues" (not friends, he's too narcissistic for that) sleep in an attic while you're probably in a villa in your own Bed. Lars Ulrich is just an asshole.
Another interesting fact about Cliff Burtons intro to For Whom The Bell Tolls. That lick was something he composed before ever joining Metallica. I came across a video some years back, its here on YT. He is playing in a band called Agents of Misfortune and busted out with that lick at one point during the video. I also remember reading once that during this time period there was consideration given to replacing Lars with Dave Lombardo. I dont know how accurate that story was but it was in a book a friend of mine had about the history of Metallica written back in the 90s.
How could you not know that??? That’s been common knowledge since its release, it was the first time they were produced by Rasmussen and how good it turned out is why they used him again for Puppets.
I take this back I’m a little bit surprised. Where is that footage coming from at the 3:55 everybody’s in the studio, Cliff is in the background?! where is the rest of all this video stuff specifically…
The first Metallica album I bought on cassette! Still sounds fresh to this day, and one of the few albums I instantly loved on the very first listen! Great facts too! Shit, my frying pan has just caught fire whilst typing this. Shall I fight it with fire? 😂
James song on that clip from 1985 fade to black is PERFECT !! that excactly video is the one that captures the REAL soul of Metallica... look at james face when singing and hes smile while lookin at the crowd ... look at Lars banging when the hard heavy parts begin right after James sings : Goodbyeeee... look at burtons banging all the way.. but especially in the solo part.. where he is takin a break and lars snaredrum wakes him up and drag him along again Fade to black from 1985 is, despite the bassdrum killing most of the sound.. the TRUE Metallica !! ...and BTW .. Escape is an amazing song !
You can also tell what other riffs Dave Mustaine wrote for the song CALL OF KTULU when you listen to the song WHEN on MEGADETH’s THE WORLD NEEDS A HERO album.
I found a quote from James Hetfield: James Hetfield: "Part of the deal with Sweet Silence [in 1984] was that they feed the band, so we'd be at Flemming's house every night for dinner. His poor wife; she was constantly cooking for these four greasy americans and complaining very openly to Flemming how much she disliked that: "Get these fucking guys out of here." Of course, she'd speak Danish, and Lars, being the only one in the band who could understand, would look a little freaked out. The rest of us would be smiling, like, "Hey, how's it going?" We'd sleep upstairs in the tape vaults. Or try to sleep, We moved around constantly. "You go over here, I'll go over there". "Fuck you, this is my spot for an hour". You get sick of one guy, but another's snoring, or it's not dark enough. Cliff couldn't sleep unless it was pitch black, and I needed to have a little light. Sometimes we'd just give up and wander through the tape vaults: "Oh my god, look, there's Deep Purple." We'd find these old, master tracks that Flemming would play for us the next day. That part was really cool."
I actually knew 80% of that, but I'm an absolute freak about Metallica. Everything I can do on guitar is thanks to them. I even know how to modify Marshall amps because I've spent an unhealthy amount of time tone chasing after the first 2 albums lol.
Me: I’m in a Metallica cover band. Her: Cool. What instrument do you play? Me: ⚓️🔨 I know that’s an anchor and not an anvil. But there’s no anvil emoji, and at least an anchor is a heavy hunk of metal.
The only people that didnt like James s voice back then were the snobby this aint my metal Priest fans. But us instant thrashers knew and loved it immediately. And hes never sounded so raw and savage since.
RIP Magazine Presents Metallica being then the Vol. 1 No. 1 issue. You see and some of you might remember or probably not? That 6,000 mail orders for this issue was omitted. How many of you real Metallica fans have this official copy... Besides me?! 💯🤘🏻😎
I love RTL! Some more: Kirk wrote the riff behind the "Die!" part in Creeping Death while he was still in Exodus. Mustaine wrote the intro to Megadeth's Hangar 18 based on the same riff as he wrote in Call of Ktulu. Probably as a FU to Metallica lol John Bush not joining Metallica was a sane decision as his band Armoured Saint was doing well at the time he was asked to join. Fact 4: I heard RTL a few days after release when I was 15 and I was blown away!
The thing about them spelling Ktulu that way isn't true. That was just a fan theory. They spelled it that way because they didn't think people would know how to pronounce it. They regret it now. So... I guess people didn't know ALL of it since that part was incorrect.
Oh yeah, falls on James in large riding the album, trapped under ice and creeping death for Exodus songs creeping death was die by my hand and trapped under ice was hell’s breath
"turning down metallica is like finding a million $ and not picking it up" that statement couldn't be more literal cuz lars gave robert a million $ when rob joined metallica
Me being the obsessed Metallica fangirl watching the video and already knowing all the facts: Welp…looks like I didn’t learn anything new today. Also, HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT ABOUT MY JAMIE BEAN’S VOCALS!! Nah I’m just kidding that’s your opinion. But personally, James’s vocals were the best during the Cliff Era. Well his voice has always been amazing but during that time era, perfection. Also, at 3:54, where did you find the clip from? I’ve never seen that before.
Welp, apparently here's something you didn't know... they actually spelled "ktulu" like that because they were worried people wouldn't know how to pronounce it. The thing about "using its name gives it power" was just a popular fan theory. It's not actually true. They actually ended up regretting changing the spelling.
Not true. For Whom The Bell Tolls was a Hemmingway novel. They didn't change the spelling of that. Lol. They changed the spelling because they were worried fans wouldn't be able to pronounce it. They ended up regretting that decision.
@@rubemortenson1724 I dunno man i think we can't really know what happened, but yeah i think you have a point. There are a lot of songs that are inspired by books and movies in this album and metallica at all.
The correct name Cthulhu is copyright. As for the book they got the name from that would be "Green Mile" where death row inmates final act would be electrocution after walking the "Green Mile" to the electric chair hence, riding the lightning. Now back to my Nickelback.
James was supposed to be the stand in vocalist for the time, but after Cliff passed he accepted the role. Another fact, a keyboard was used in Fade to Black to help James stay in key. Somewhere around 3:10 for the isolated vocal track, you can faintly hear it. Only time this was done to my knowledge.
im not sure if i would put RTL as being the best metal album of all times but its certainly up there at least in the top 10! its a monstruous album, it was the first time Metallica ventured into doing songs that were more epic but also really heavy and it showed such a LEAP of maturity since KEA. its an amazing album and the metal genre wouldnt be complete without it and the next two that came after: MOP and AJFA
Mustaine only wrote two songs on his own. Four Horsemen and Jump in the Fire. That's it. He co-wrote Phantom Lord and Metal Miltia with James and they used a couple of his riffs on RTL and Call of Ktulu but he didn't write anything else. He was credited in the album notes for everything he wrote and he still gets royalty checks for them.
@rubemortenson1724 Bullshit. Mustaine invented Metallica entire song structure and wrote most of Kill em all, ride the lightning and master of puppets. He's credited with a few solos on puppets too. He and Cliff were the masterminds that got Metallica where they are. Kirk just took the credit.
Hearing that Lars let them sleep on the floor while crashing into other people beds is the Larsiest thing I ever heard.
James never sounded better than this record. His vocals were the best
I agree with that. I think it’s their best album.
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@@babayaga3640 they aren’t talking about a show. They are saying the vocals on the ALBUM is the best, not a certain show.
Album is sped up. His vocals are sharp, as is the entire album. It is NOT in E Standard tuning. There was a reason for this, I dont remember, i think the rumor was that, the anvil that they used for, For Whom the Bell Tolls was slightly sharp when they recorded it, the band wanted to keep the sound, the producers went "well, fuck, the only way it will be in key with the song is if we pitch correct it". The only way to do that back then with analogue recordings was to SPEED up the master recording. Ever try to cover any songs from this album in E Standard tuning and find something slightly off? The whole album is a semi tone SHARP
@@Headbanger9000 I don't give a fuck what key it's in
ESCAPE does not deserve the hate. Better than the corporate buttrock they put out in the 90s.
I’m the total opposite. I’ll always have a soft spot for L&RL because I was a 90’s kid, but I could never stand Escape. It always just sounded like Trapped Under Ice’s retarded little brother, and TUI was far from my favorite Metallica song itself. No hate though, just another fan’s thoughts. Would still take either over 95% of Megadeth’s work though!
For a throwaway song, it's got some good parts in it.
the quality of this video for only 47 views blows my mind
Fr fr man
Well let's be honest, these are all well-known facts
If you didn't know them then you probably listen to Justin Bieber and stuff like that
47k now
@@Raspberryfanta72 48k
It's not the best metal album of "ALL TIME." Careful how you use the term,"Of ALL time." I'm not going to lie, I am a huge Metallica fan! They are definitely my favorite band of ALL TIME! It's DEFINITELY one of Metallica's BEST albums of all time! But in MY opinion, their best album or should I say Metallica's best albums of all time is Master of Puppets and, In Justice for all. They are a tie for best Metallica albums of all time.
Lightning is and always will be to me their best sound, especially James’ voice.
Excellent, video and commentary…
Except it isnt his REAL voice per say. The album was sped up which pitch shifted it a semi tone higher. All of the instruments and vocals are not in E standard
KEA is the same (one semitone up), and MOP is one down
Man the 80s omg ... i wish i was in the 80s
The energy , the rawness ...
You cant replicate this anymore
This was the album that made me a fan. My cousin had a tape with mixed songs and said he was going to play the worst song he’d ever heard to me. It was Fight Fire with Fire. 🔥 I was hooked at once!
Still, my favorite album with Metallica is Master of Puppets which is a masterpiece in every aspect. That’s when all the stars aligned and James’s riffs was not from this earth, that’s how perfect they are still to this day.
🤘🏻🇸🇪🤘🏻
It’s funny you mention that on this video, as Lightning and Puppets could be a double concept album!
You have the whiplash-inducing opener (see what I did there!?), the title track, the “slow bruiser”, and the ballad on the first side.
Side two opens with another neck breaker, a mid-tempo number, and yet another neck-breaker interspersed with an instrumental (in opposite order on said albums).
The first song I ever heard and loved by them was For Whom the Bell Tolls. I remember staying up late at night to record it on my boom box stereo off of Metal Shop, the radio show. Took me years to find out who they were.
Awesome video about awesome album. My favourite album. Masterpiece of Mettallica.
As much as I love ride the lightning, I like master of puppets more. The reason why? Well one word "taste", I like the overall sound and songwriting more with master of puppets, and again thats just my taste if you like ride the lightning more, I completely understand, it is a killer album!
Escape is my fav metallica song! Those lyrics really express the way i've lived my life the passed 35+ years🤘
This is the album that really got me into thrash. Right around 16 years old blew me away
Of course Mustane wrote it.
Two riffs lol
Mustaine wrote two riffs from the title track and part of Call of Ktulu. That's it. Mustaine fanboys give him WAY too much credit for his contribution to Metallica. He literally only wrote two songs. Jump in the Fire and Mechanix. Mechanix was obviously reworked and became Four Horsemen because Dave's lyrics were terrible. He also co-wrote Phantom Lord and Metal Militia with James. And they used a couple of his riffs on RTL. That's the end of it. They credited him for all of his contributions and he still gets royalty checks for them to this day.
It would be closer to say Kirk wrote the whole album as Kirk wrote more riffs than Dave for the album but of course the high majority of the music was written by James.
This album is their BEST EVER! 😝🤘🤘
Imagine being the son of a rich tennis player and being so selfish that you let your band "colleagues" (not friends, he's too narcissistic for that) sleep in an attic while you're probably in a villa in your own Bed.
Lars Ulrich is just an asshole.
Why doesn’t this this have more views
James's voice had improved dramatically compared to a year earlier. Practice makes perfect!
Another interesting fact about Cliff Burtons intro to For Whom The Bell Tolls. That lick was something he composed before ever joining Metallica. I came across a video some years back, its here on YT. He is playing in a band called Agents of Misfortune and busted out with that lick at one point during the video. I also remember reading once that during this time period there was consideration given to replacing Lars with Dave Lombardo. I dont know how accurate that story was but it was in a book a friend of mine had about the history of Metallica written back in the 90s.
Lombardy is a beast on the drum kit, I can only imagine what could've been if he had replaced lars
That video was amazing
Of course Ride the lightning was recorded in Denmark.
I always thought it had that epic European feel of power metal the others had lacked.
Puppets was recorded in the same studio.
@@rubemortenson1724 It didn't sound as epic.
How could you not know that???
That’s been common knowledge since its release, it was the first time they were produced by Rasmussen and how good it turned out is why they used him again for Puppets.
@666Buzzsaw K.
Sorry I've not been into Metallica since they turned to shit post and Justice
Escape is such a great song
Woah! that 'M' in the lightning..... my mind is fried
I didn’t make it to the video because I got so pumped to listen to RIDE THE LIGHTENINGGGGGGGG
My favorite Metallica album too. I guess James and I share the same musical taste. Epic
Only 1.8 thousand views over two years? Dude, put in some key words or something for the algorithm to recommend you. This was a top little video.
It has 20,000 views. It literally got 10 times more views in the last month than it did in the first two years. Lol
I take this back I’m a little bit surprised. Where is that footage coming from at the 3:55 everybody’s in the studio, Cliff is in the background?! where is the rest of all this video stuff specifically…
The first Metallica album I bought on cassette! Still sounds fresh to this day, and one of the few albums I instantly loved on the very first listen! Great facts too! Shit, my frying pan has just caught fire whilst typing this. Shall I fight it with fire? 😂
That's crazy, one of my favorite songs was Escape
Id say this is my favorite Metallica album, call of Ktulu, fade to black, and the title track 👌🏼
My first Metallica album nd still my favourite 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
James song on that clip from 1985 fade to black is PERFECT !! that excactly video is the one that captures the REAL soul of Metallica...
look at james face when singing and hes smile while lookin at the crowd ... look at Lars banging when the hard heavy parts begin right after James sings : Goodbyeeee...
look at burtons banging all the way.. but especially in the solo part.. where he is takin a break and lars snaredrum wakes him up and drag him along again
Fade to black from 1985 is, despite the bassdrum killing most of the sound.. the TRUE Metallica !!
...and BTW .. Escape is an amazing song !
Thank you man
I heard they named it "Ktulu" so people pronounce it easier and understand it or something like that
you underrated asf
That part from call of ktulu sounds like something from megadeth’s rust in peace
This is WAY TOO UNDERRATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!??
I remember hearing somewhere that Cliff played the intro to Fight Fire With Fire. Anyone else hear that?
I think James played it but cliff wrote it
You can also tell what other riffs Dave Mustaine wrote for the song CALL OF KTULU when you listen to the song WHEN on MEGADETH’s THE WORLD NEEDS A HERO album.
love his voice in the early days lol
I like Pastor of Muppets. A great tune Jim Henson did.
My favorite "tallica" album...and i like the song escape...
Says a lot about lars. He sleeps in a comfy bed while his brothers slept on the floor.
nice
I think maybe it would have been called 'Trapped Under Ice'. Definitely my favourite Metallica song.
The biggest one is the final mix was sped up. The album is slightly sharp. It is NOT in E standard. Cant believe you missed the elephant in the room
I always heard the bell was from Hells Bells and then Emperor also used the same bell track too🤷♂️
I love heavy metal! ACDC rocks!
i read somewhere that they named it ''the call of ktulu'' so people pronounce the name correctly
I love "escape"
Considering Metallica gave Robert Trujillo $1M as a sign on bonus? So John Bush literally found $1M and didn't pick it up.
I swear Fleming Rasmussen said the bell was from a record of sound samples.
I found a quote from James Hetfield:
James Hetfield: "Part of the deal with Sweet Silence [in 1984] was that they feed the band, so we'd be at Flemming's house every night for dinner. His poor wife; she was constantly cooking for these four greasy americans and complaining very openly to Flemming how much she disliked that: "Get these fucking guys out of here." Of course, she'd speak Danish, and Lars, being the only one in the band who could understand, would look a little freaked out. The rest of us would be smiling, like, "Hey, how's it going?" We'd sleep upstairs in the tape vaults. Or try to sleep, We moved around constantly.
"You go over here, I'll go over there".
"Fuck you, this is my spot for an hour".
You get sick of one guy, but another's snoring, or it's not dark enough. Cliff couldn't sleep unless it was pitch black, and I needed to have a little light. Sometimes we'd just give up and wander through the tape vaults: "Oh my god, look, there's Deep Purple." We'd find these old, master tracks that Flemming would play for us the next day. That part was really cool."
I actually knew 80% of that, but I'm an absolute freak about Metallica. Everything I can do on guitar is thanks to them. I even know how to modify Marshall amps because I've spent an unhealthy amount of time tone chasing after the first 2 albums lol.
Me: I’m in a Metallica cover band.
Her: Cool. What instrument do you play?
Me: ⚓️🔨
I know that’s an anchor and not an anvil. But there’s no anvil emoji, and at least an anchor is a heavy hunk of metal.
The only people that didnt like James s voice back then were the snobby this aint my metal Priest fans. But us instant thrashers knew and loved it immediately.
And hes never sounded so raw and savage since.
RIP Magazine Presents Metallica being then the Vol. 1 No. 1 issue. You see and some of you might remember or probably not? That 6,000 mail orders for this issue was omitted.
How many of you real Metallica fans have this official copy... Besides me?! 💯🤘🏻😎
I love RTL! Some more: Kirk wrote the riff behind the "Die!" part in Creeping Death while he was still in Exodus.
Mustaine wrote the intro to Megadeth's Hangar 18 based on the same riff as he wrote in Call of Ktulu. Probably as a FU to Metallica lol
John Bush not joining Metallica was a sane decision as his band Armoured Saint was doing well at the time he was asked to join.
Fact 4: I heard RTL a few days after release when I was 15 and I was blown away!
Ride the lightninggggggg
I heard it was the amp James mom gave him ..her last gitft to him before ahe passed.
The only people that didn't know this stuff are the Teeny Bopper fans from the Black album onwards.....Much like the Creator.....
The thing about them spelling Ktulu that way isn't true. That was just a fan theory. They spelled it that way because they didn't think people would know how to pronounce it. They regret it now. So... I guess people didn't know ALL of it since that part was incorrect.
Had a front license plate airbrushed of this album cover
My top four:
1. MoP
2. RtL
3. KEA
4. AJfA
Oh yeah, falls on James in large riding the album, trapped under ice and creeping death for Exodus songs creeping death was die by my hand and trapped under ice was hell’s breath
Dave writes the two best riffs
Escape is a great song
0:08 heyyyyy, I like nickelback and I agree with u
I never noticed that the lightning made an M on the album cover lol
3:14 Lars is so dirty ditching the crew 🤣🤣
"turning down metallica is like finding a million $ and not picking it up" that statement couldn't be more literal cuz lars gave robert a million $ when rob joined metallica
Ktulu is misspelled because they didnt want to get a copyright lawsuit from H.P. Lovecraft
Well it was an anvil but they slowed it down
Anthraxes Jon bush era was great
Dave mustaine actually wrote a bit of leper messiah on master of puppets
No he didn't, the bridge riff has a vaguely similar chord progression to an old jam with Dave but no he didn't write it.
I’m gonna go out my way to find an anvil
Better than Master of Puppets
Me being the obsessed Metallica fangirl watching the video and already knowing all the facts: Welp…looks like I didn’t learn anything new today.
Also, HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT ABOUT MY JAMIE BEAN’S VOCALS!! Nah I’m just kidding that’s your opinion. But personally, James’s vocals were the best during the Cliff Era. Well his voice has always been amazing but during that time era, perfection. Also, at 3:54, where did you find the clip from? I’ve never seen that before.
Welp, apparently here's something you didn't know... they actually spelled "ktulu" like that because they were worried people wouldn't know how to pronounce it. The thing about "using its name gives it power" was just a popular fan theory. It's not actually true. They actually ended up regretting changing the spelling.
The call of ktulu, the song is named like that so it doesn't get copyrighted by the book
Not true. For Whom The Bell Tolls was a Hemmingway novel. They didn't change the spelling of that. Lol. They changed the spelling because they were worried fans wouldn't be able to pronounce it. They ended up regretting that decision.
@@rubemortenson1724 I dunno man i think we can't really know what happened, but yeah i think you have a point. There are a lot of songs that are inspired by books and movies in this album and metallica at all.
Mustaine had a writing credit on Master of Puppets (Leper Messiah) 😬
No, he didn’t. He claims credit for Leper Messiah, but he’s never formally received credit.
No he had no credit for it, he tried to claim he wrote part of it but it's been debunked.
Hell Awaits or Ride the Lightning?
Bush stuck with his brothers dude
The correct name Cthulhu is copyright. As for the book they got the name from that would be "Green Mile" where death row inmates final act would be electrocution after walking the "Green Mile" to the electric chair hence, riding the lightning. Now back to my Nickelback.
The Green Mile was released in 1996, more than a decade after RTL was released.
For Whom The Anvil Tolls?
it was "trapped under ice" that was titled" when hell freezes over".....
No it wasn’t. Look at the demos on the kill em all deluxe
No it wasn't. It was Ktulu
We all know Dave wrote Ride the lightning not just the couple riffs he was credited with.
How do you know this? Are there some sources out there for this? I'd like to know more.
No he wrote the two riffs he was credited with. The other 58 riffs were mainly written by James but a few were cliff and Kirk.
Written by a 21 and 20 James and Lars WITH Dave Mustaine who was how old??
Hey! I like Nickleback. LOL
False, Mustaine has writing credits on the bridge riff on leper messiah
No he doesn't
for the part in fight fire with fire "the gods are laughing" cliff is the one who does that mysterious laugh
Ride the Lightning came from The Stand by Stephen King.
I dont need to like nickleback to know ride the lighting is not the best album of all time.
James almost didn't sing on this album? Really????
James was supposed to be the stand in vocalist for the time, but after Cliff passed he accepted the role.
Another fact, a keyboard was used in Fade to Black to help James stay in key. Somewhere around 3:10 for the isolated vocal track, you can faintly hear it. Only time this was done to my knowledge.
im not sure if i would put RTL as being the best metal album of all times but its certainly up there at least in the top 10! its a monstruous album, it was the first time Metallica ventured into doing songs that were more epic but also really heavy and it showed such a LEAP of maturity since KEA. its an amazing album and the metal genre wouldnt be complete without it and the next two that came after: MOP and AJFA
Lars is a bastard 3:18 always got a place to crash and never offered haha 😂😂😂😂
It's all Dave Mustain
Yea all 2 riffs out of 60
……here’s a graph…..
Rtl was raw, mop was a bit too polished, dont get me wrong mop is a great album but rtl just did it for me
It’s a awsome album!! However I’m still a AND JUSTICE FOR ALL! It was faster and harder ! SPEED METAL AT ITS FINEST
Mustaine wrote their best riffs.
Confirmed.
Yikes
Wrong
@@jesselannigan2300 Nope.
Dave wrote the best riffs and solos.
Mustaine only wrote two songs on his own. Four Horsemen and Jump in the Fire. That's it. He co-wrote Phantom Lord and Metal Miltia with James and they used a couple of his riffs on RTL and Call of Ktulu but he didn't write anything else. He was credited in the album notes for everything he wrote and he still gets royalty checks for them.
@rubemortenson1724 Bullshit.
Mustaine invented Metallica entire song structure and wrote most of Kill em all, ride the lightning and master of puppets.
He's credited with a few solos on puppets too.
He and Cliff were the masterminds that got Metallica where they are.
Kirk just took the credit.
Their best album ever. Thrash metal at its best! I believe they went downhill after this one.
I think these are 10 things even a 5/10 die hard fan would know.