South Of Heaven VS ... And Justice For All (1988 Thrash Metal Albums Guitar Riffs Battle)
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- Опубліковано 24 кві 2024
- So here is a new battle ! This time two of my alltime favorite albums (both from 1988) :
Slayer "South Of Heaven" and Metallica "...And Justice For All".
Hope you guys like this one.
0:00 Intro
0:03 Slayer - South Of Heaven
0:20 Metallica - Blackened
0:45 Slayer - Silent Scream
1:07 Metallica - ...And Justice For All
1:30 Slayer - Live Undead
1:51 Metallica - Eye Of The Beholder
2:13 Slayer - Behind The Crooked Cross
2:35 Metallica - One
2:55 Slayer - Mandatory Suicide
3:21 Metallica - The Shortest Straw
3:41 Slayer - Ghosts Of War
4:03 Metallica - Harvester Of Sorrow
4:25 Slayer - Read Between The Lies
4:49 Metallica - The Frayed Ends Of Sanity
5:12 Slayer - Cleanse The Soul
5:36 Metallica - To Live Is To Die
6:00 Slayer - Spill The Blood
6:23 Metallica - Dyers Eve
I'm a bigger Slayer fan, but.......both of these albums are killer. This was awesome to see and hear. Reign in blood and Master of puppets. That would be cool too!!!!
Rust In Peace vs Master of Puppets would be the ultimate argument starter lol
Most of the songs from AJFA are faster than SOH. People complain about the lack of bass on And Justice For All , BFD. The Vocals on South of Heaven are weak AF . The Judas Priest cover would have been great if Tom would have used the Voice he apparently lost on Reign in Blood. His guru chanting style on South of Heaven luckily was a one time only deal. South of Heaven was the slowest Slayer album
Nothing wrong with AJFA, I even love the sound with less bass, it's so sharp and... metal. This isn't Skinnyrd, it's Metallica.
Both of these albums are awesome. There is something about the lead singer in Slayer that I always liked. I'm sorry but I would choose Slayer over Matallica.
@@kylewilson9189 when he actually had range, and power Tom Araya was great. His Vocals were pretty weak on South of Heaven, almost as bad as Tom Warrior's Vocals on Into the Pandemonium
Hanneman and Hetfield, undisputed riff kings!!
...And Justice has that much sentimental value to me. Listened to it so much on cassette when I was younger then spent so long with my guitar and the tab book in front of me. So many magic riffs crammed into the songs.
Same for me !
When I got my first guitar I also bought the tab books for kill em all up to the black album...learned how to read tab out of the back...James and Kirk basically taught me how to play guitar
It's their best album by a long ways.
Only cassette I ever wore out. Stole it from my Mom and stepdad's shelf stereo and never looked back.
Cause your soft brain can't understand the riffs,kid.. people are so retarted..wow
In my over simplified summation, Metallica’s riffs were chuggier and powerful. But Slayer’s were more evil sounding and had more character. So who wins? Me at the gym with my earbuds.💪🏻🤘🏻
It's that evil tri-tone. Mustaine taught King how to play it in like '83, and it was in every slayer song after that.
@@terryschilling5320
No shit? Now that I think about it, you do get that same vibe on Megadeth’s first 3 albums.💪🏻🤘🏻
@@terryschilling5320 funny enough, Megadeth seems to never use it preferring blues scales instead
Ajfa still sounds ahead of its time even now, truly unique,groundbreaking brilliant album,that guitar tone man🔥
Fuck you bro, your fucking profile picture scarred me. I was about to fucking sleep😭
@@valerios4569 just a picture of me after a night out man
super boring album the songs last too much and at some point just became a loop
@@mathias1663 I respect your opinion but you're wrong
I dream about that face every night and I wake up so refreshed 😌
And Justice For All is my favourite album by Metallica. It has such a brilliant display of riffs, lyrics, solos and drum playing. It has a bad luck of being released between Master Of Puppets (which is their most critically acclaimed album) and Black Album(their most commercially successful album) so mostly it gets overlooked by media and some fans even though it is a classic record . This also can be said for South Of Heaven, it is kinda squashed between Reign In Blood and Seasons In The Abyss so it doesn't gets enough recognition as a great classic record.
as far as im concerned South of Heaven is Slayers best album.
Couldn’t have said it any better & nice analogy on both releases, they’re sandwiched between more known classics, AJFA is my favourite Metallica release too, I would even say it was their peak musicality, just the solemnity & technicality while maintaining the heaviness.
Lars downright fears the Silent Scream of Slayer and drum god Dave Lombardo
Too bad we can't hear the bass on the original AJFA
@@JG31392 hahaha Lombardo shreds, but Lars’ playing on AJFA is genius
You really nailed that Justice tone and riffs! Damn! Impressed.
Thanks a lot !
Internet says JH used a Marshall JCM800 but it sure sounds like a Mesa Mark III
Metallica songs are not hard mate😂
@@danielogsemen7874 just checked your channel but I’m not seeing any videos on the subject? Please kindly provide us with some so we can judge your tone shaping and interpretation of Metallica songs. Thanks!
@@rockarena666 I have many videos on my channel, you should probably check your internet connection?
Even without being able to hear the bass, And Justice For All... is a masterpiece till this day
no bass on slayer records either lol
It's tribute to Cliff Burton to know how it's sound without bass
@@zalhazimm7006 worst tribute of all time, basically saying "who tf needs bass?"
Jason just followed the guitars so you’re not missing anything.
@@6md I think the first two Slayer albums have a more audible bass, especially on Hell Awaits.
...And Justice For All is my favourite Metallica album. It's at their angriest and best.
I saw Slayer twice with the original lineup. Love both. Awesome!
Justice for All, despite it's lack of bass it's still so heavy. The tone of the guitars are just heavy unlike any other. You nailed that tone btw. I love Slayers dark melodies 🤘
Yeah whatever dipshittery they were into for the entire tone of that album is still odd. I remember listening to it when it was new, and I had to give it about 5 listens before I got it. Live recordings from that time frame sound pretty good, but the studio album is not great. The guitars are almost all mid range, and the guitar is a mid range heavy instrument so that gets weird. There is no bass, because of many reasons, i.e Newkid usually copied Jaymz rhythms, plus they were hazing him hard because he wasn't Cliff (we all probably know the story by now). And the drums sound like crap too, and unfortunately influenced some bands to copy that clicky drum sound (Testament, I'm looking at you). Contrast that with Garage Days Re-Revisited, which had bass and a decent drum and guitar tone despite a lack of polish, and it's really weird. But yeah, it's still heavy AF.
Slayer is faster and heavier IMO, but AJFA is more technical and has longer songs, which I also like
Both are great, but are a bit different and I wouldn’t compare them, but this is still a good video and I like the idea of just comparing 2 albums rather than just bands or genres
Thanks mate !
AJFA guitar tone crushes South of Heavens imo. Def heavier.
@@philliprobinson129 i think harvester of sorrow and one and justice are 100% heavier than anything from south of heaven too but both are good
How the hell is AJFA more technical than South of Heaven??? 10 min power chord sleeping pills 😴
@@wolfmauler er... South of Heaven is a technical masterpiece? Hahaha
Straight outta the 80's! This is fuckin' killer! Slayer was always heavier, Metallica had catchy killer tunes during the 80's, Nice work dude!
Slayer is Definitely more evil but I don’t know about being heavier
@@davidmadden6775 I dunno, Metallica becoming the corporate dynasty they are today and releasing Lulu and symphonic stuff is a bit more evil than lyrics about satan
This was the album that Metallica was heavier on than Slayer. South of Heaven is Slayer Lite. South of Heaven, Ghost of War, and Spill the Blood are the only songs on SOH I'm really a fan of. I'm not a big fan of the mix. The guitars are too muted. If they were more in your face like earlier albums I'd probably like it more.
No way that the title track or Mandatory Suicide is heavier than Harverster of Sorrow.
That ghosts of war riff though...
It’s gets even better half way through
Check out the Hatebreed cover and vid too... it's heavy
also their cover or MEtallica Escape in Drop C here
My absolute favorite there, on an album already full of killer songs
Loved it! High School Senior memories here. I left my "South of Heaven" cassette at a friend's house, which is where his family had a local "Youth for Christ" meeting for kids at my school. His Mom found it downstairs and did not care for that evil cassette being in their house. She called my Mom and my Mom gave me a good scolding. Although I DID win her over with the lyrics to "Silent Scream", a very Pro-Life song...but all the skulls, inverted crosses, and pentagrams, and Satan stuff didn't win her over. I tried though!
My mom burned a Slayer shirt of mine my Sophomore year in high school! I never understood how she could make a “sacrifice” but then buy me the Metallica shirt that read “Birth- school-Metallica-Death” on the back!? Christians!!! 😂🤘🏼
Thanks for doing this. I remember when my friend introduced me to Metallica.. first words from my mouth were, "have you heard Slayer?". I've always been a one-upper.
Both albums are great but Slayer all the way. Slayer’s riffs are so much heavier and sinister and that’s what excites me the most in metal.
0:03 Slayer - South of Heaven
0:20 Metallica - Blackened
0:46 Slayer - Silent Scream
1:08 Metallica - …And Justice for All
1:30 Slayer - Live Undead
1:52 Metallica - Eye of the Beholder
2:14 Slayer - Behind the Crooked Cross
2:36 Metallica - One
2:57 Slayer - Mandatory Suicide
3:23 Metallica - The Shortest Straw
3:43 Slayer - Ghosts of War
4:05 Metallica - Harvester of Sorrow
4:26 Slayer - Read Between the Lies
4:50 Metallica - The Frayed Ends of Sanity
5:14 Slayer - Cleanse the Soul
5:38 Metallica - To Live is to Die
6:02 Slayer - Spill the Blood
6:25 Metallica - Dyers Eve
Este ...And Justice For All se escucha las pistas de bajo
Both albums kick ass!
Why didn't he play Dissident Aggressor?
@@botany500kojakvery good point
@@botany500kojak it’s a Judas Priest cover
You nailed Slayer's tone!
Live Undead has the best riffs ever, IMO.
Super underrated tune.
Great work, man!
Favorite song on the album for me. Great riffs, that haunting feel that is SoH. I love the fast bit at the end with Tom's final "live undead"
@@morbidslayer666 Couldn't have said it better. Haunting song, for sure. Best on the album and one of their finest tracks in general. Cheers!
Imo Justice is the best and most underrated album of Metallica.
I never understood why none is talking about it. Technically, sound, arrangements, everything top tier. Still everyone has the mainstream "Black Album" in mind when thinking about Metallica.
Also, basically every song on Justice is a masterpiece. Usually you get your 3 songs with the rest fillers. Here every one is a blast and well written.
Very good playing :-) like always
AJFA got a lot of flak for the absence of bass and the overall low sound quality, slower pacing and also because of the relative success of One, which greatly displeased some fans who equate successfull with sell-out.
it's not underrated....
it sold 8 million copies and is certified 8xplatnium in the USA alone.
@@ad1170 Good to hear that :-) I mean in my surroundings and something like that. I hear no one talk about this. Maybe "One", that one know ppl but the rest i rarely hear mentioned.
You weren't really there, were you?
@@theslay66 i agree, bass sound isnt the best. I forgot to mention that i mostly see this from the guitar guys perspective.
But i think sound is always a very personal thing ^^ Maybe the record in itself doesnt have the best quality but the guitar sound itself is killer imo. Very distinctive and characteristic, one can immediately tell what it is by listening just a few seconds.
But then, i like Death`s Valvstate sound, maybe my ears just dont work right hehe.
Both albums released on the same year by 2 very influential bands but yet so different in their own different ways. I remember being 17 and running to the record store to pick these 2 masterpieces upon their release. Great video, dude. Hornz and Hailz!! 🤘🤘
Seriously that sounds amazing. That must have felt awesome picking up both of these albums in the same year.
@@justgaming4fun82 2 years(1986) before that Master Of Puppets and Reign In Blood came out from these 2 legendary bands as well.🤘🤘
@@greggillings9454 another good year. Also two masterpiece albums
for me it will always be 1986 that resonates. The ferocity of Reign in Blood and the epicness of Master of Puppets was just so damn good. This has made me realize how much I underappreciated South of Heaven tho, it had some absolute stomper tracks, its just getting over the fact that there wasn't going to be a reign part 2 that was hard back when i was a silly teenager. the lack of bass put a bit of a downer on justice even tho it probably is that little better than puppets in some ways
Excellent comment! You had to be there to know. Those of us who were there laugh mockingly at the state of the world these days.
Exactly! We all kinda waited for Reign in Blood II and were kind of disappointed with South of heaven. It took me some time to get used to the idea that there will never be an another Reign. Ever! Same with Ride the Lightning and Master. Nothing would ever come close to compare. Not that some other albums are bad, just that these were right out of this world.
Peace Sells came out that year too!
Dark Angel "Darkness Descends" & Kreator "Pleasure to Kill" also came out in 86
I settled for Decade of Aggression CD box set and played the shit out of them.
Big up for your Jeff Hanneman look (RIP man), Slayer still over the top, and as always : fuc☠️☠️ing sound 🤘
Amen, man! Slayer's Cleanse the Soul - perhaps the finest song on South of Heaven, is the pick of the songs from this riff battle. Just awesome. Share more!
I’m 43 years old and I still love and listen to both bands and albums all the time to this day!..
This dude kicks serious fucking ass!! Always look forward to a new Suffocater vid.
Cheers from Canada eh
SLAYER 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
For they're a totally different thing. Classic albums btw, beast stuff, the peak of creativity with the heavy music in general was the late 80s to the middle 00s.
Que recuerdos de juventud!!! Compré los dos viniles en su momento cuando recién salieron a finales de los 80's. Los dos álbumes son grandiosos, cada uno con un estilo especial y partícular. Saludos desde la CDMX.
Personally i feel like it’s difficult to compare the two albums, but I absolutely love both of them🤘🏻
I no longer remembered how good these two albums are !!! I love the sound you have given to the guitar with the and Justice !!!!. You have managed that tonight I have to listen to these two albums 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
I didn't want to help ruin the 66.6k subscribers but I had to subscribe, your channel is great. This is my favourite video of yours so far, and they're all great. Wish you a good day mate 🤘
Thanks a lot Christian ! Welcome to my channel !
.. And Justice For All! From the sick riffs, tone and artwork, fucking epic album.
Man, '88 was a banger year for metal, tons of great albums that year, my personal fave for '88 was Razor
violent restitution.
SLAYER.. 🤘🏼
Love all your videos man! Every time you upload I get inspired to keep practicing 🤘🏽
Lombardos drumming is absolutely unreal on South of Heaven. True art on that one.
Ulrich on justice... At least he tried I guess.
That's BS. On AJFA Lars's drumming is amazing. Lots of tempo and time signature changes. Stop the hate 😜
@@tiscover haha its amateur hour stuff
What a load of cr@p.
LoL,,I reckon lars would have a heart attack tryin to play the drums on south of heaven
Perfect as usual 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻😍😍😍🔥🔥🔥
1988 is an interesting year as it is the only year each band in the big 4 released a studio album and what makes it more interesting is that they're generally regarded as weak albums in each bands respective catalog (even though they're some of my favorites of all time) Next should be State of Euphoria vs So Far So Good So What!
I’ve never known anyone say AJFA was a weak album despite the inaudible bass.
Great video as always. Both classic albums
High quality content, thank you so much 💯💯🔝🔝🔝
Man I love both these albums. I loved trying to figure out how to play them as a 15 years old in my bedroom with my cheap guitar and no internet!
Both required good right wrist discipline and as a 15 year in my bedroom................
Anyway, thanks for the reminder of how good the riffs are from both albums. Top playing as always.
Playing slayer solos in my underwear on the corner of the bed....
Good times
Ruthless playing as always! Great albums, it would be cool to see more like this! 😁🤘👏
Edit: And justice and for all is my all-time favorite Metallica album for sure 🤘
Spiritual Healing VS Cause Of Death ?
@@TheSuffocater I’m thinking Cannibal Corpse or Dying Fetus VS (Insert band here) lol! If you were to ever do one like that, that is ☺️
@@TheSuffocater that would be amazing
Love the comparison of the two albums, played awesomely side by side with two killer guitars. 🤘
Great Video. Wish EVERY RIFF was Dropped in there but it would take all night and day to see that! 🤘🏽🔥⚡️
For the Slayer stuff just check my Slayer playlist , i almost covered the whole album 😎
2 masterpieces, I love them!
A set of classics playing classics...
Perfect sound! Thanks a lot, man! You're the best! :) \m/
all hail TheSuffocater!!! brought back a lot of memories as i graduated from high school that year n went off to college...thanx brother for the great content, cheers!!!
Thanks mate ! Welcome !
SLAYER for me, but AJFA was a killer album and tour!!!!! My son and I are learning Expendable Youth by SLAYER.. hes 15 on drums, and I'm 50 on guitar.....neighbors love it!!! They think its cool!!!!!😂🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
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Thumbs up for you! Me and my drummer friend were learning this stuff back in 88 at that age and my girl did a Metallica drum cover with me a few years ago when she was 8! /w\/w\ This year for middle sckool she sequestered one of my Metallica shirts and steals my Hemlock hoodie all the time {;o)
For this time Metallica, AJFA is masterpiece
U, sir, represent everything that is right on UA-cam 🤘🔥🤘
Amazing video !! Great comparison 💥
Awesome!! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🔥🔥🔥 Thanks for the 7 minutes of nostalgia. In 1988 it was just a brain explosion 😄
I love the Slayer riffs because they sound dark and haunting, and the Metallica riffs are complex and classic. Different sounds that mostly comes down to your preference. Do you prefer the dark, eerie sound of South of Heaven, or the technical, progressive sound of AJFA? I have room for both, so it all depends on how I'm feeling that day.
Excellent video, thanks for all your hard work. I judge the winner by the album I listen to at the end of your vid. In this case, Justice!!!! That's a killer album...ending it with Dyer's was incredible.
Great video mate. I think this was my favorite vid you've done so far. Keep up the awesome content.
Thanks a lot Jeremy !
Thanks a lot Jeremy
El ganador es Slayer, amigo, gracias y saludos desde Colombia.
HOLY SHIT!!! My head just exploded. A flawless tribute to two of the best metal albums of the late ‘80’s. Phenomenal job!
That was Kool!!!!
Do it again!
For me anything put next to JUSTICE, just fails. I love the effort you've put into this amazing content. I can tell you have a true passion! Thank you sir . SUB EARNED!
Thanks mate ! Welcome !
Guitar tones so accurate!
Slayer riffs have always been better to my ears, but the craft of making a memorable song goes to Metallica. KEA thru AJFA era is one of the absolute foundations of all metal.
Well....the first floor, anyway. The foundations of all metal were mostly laid by this little band from England you may have heard of called Black Sabbath. They had help from bands like Led Zeppelin (who have been labelled as an early "metal" band, but really weren't....they were too married to the blues to REALLY be a metal band).
Metallica open the door for more extreme/faster heavy metal (thrash, death metal etc)
@@philpennington826 you should know in 70s heavy metal has different meaning than today..Led Zeppelin was the first band labeled as heavy metal band, that's how original heavy metal sound like
Great Video! Keep up the great Guitar Work!
nice trip back in time, kudos 🤘
SLAYER!!!
SLAYER 🤘. TESTAMENT VS EXODUS
Very well played, man!
And justice was only a 6 years old album when i first heard it in 93.
Nostalgic
South of heaven still my favorite slayer album!
I love when someone says that! Mine too ,🤘🏼
Agreed. This was the first SLAYER album I really got into. It was fast and brutal, but the slower tunes with some (gasp!) melodies works really well for a band that is screaming about Satan. And then I got into Reign In Blood and forget about it....
Dos discos que me encantan. Son dos joyas editadas el mismo año. Gracias por el vídeo. Muy bueno.
Killin it as always!!!
Love all the riffs. Was a bigger Metallica fan at the time. It’s the drums that throw Slayer over the edge though. Great job! Especially on the tone!
Justice guitar tone influenced way more players but that being said south of heaven was the first album I learned to play start to finish so I gotta give it to slayer they are the reason I started to play guitar also they never mellowed unlike James and the boys
AJFA isbetter in my opinion, but Slayer has always achieved that kind of creepy ambience melodies that I really enjoy
Slayer never mellowed but got staled rather quickly
My head hurts from headbanging \m/\m/
😊😊
Listened to and loved those two bands for over 30 years now.
Totally different bands both legendary.
Saw slayer live in Brisbane Queensland Australia about 25 year's ago, it was mind blowing !!!!
As a guitarist I was in complete awe of there precision timing and shredding at the same time, just amazing!!
Fun fact, ID software were massive thrash fans and loved Slayer, Behind the crooked cross was the tune for DooM 🤘😎🤘
This video reminds me of how great Slayer is.! 🤘🏻
slayer
Awesome job!
I really enjoyed this!!
I grew up with both albums with my father,he would blast it in his truck . And justice for all will always resonate with me . That album is a masterpiece even if there’s no bass.
Anybody ever theorize or imagine what Metallica would’ve created if Dave had never been kicked out and Cliff hadn’t died? Of course you’d have to assume that Dave still got clean and all but FU&k! Can you even imagine James and Dave in charge of riffs with Cliff providing guidance on melodies and harmonies? It’s too far beyond my capacity for fantasy.💪🏻🤘🏻
Don’t forget they were planning on kicking out Lars and replace him with Dave Lombardo
@@theethniccleanser1385
Now that’s a new one for me, never heard about that!
@@bigbrutalbassbeer410 this was before cliff died but James decided not kick Lars out after he died. Now image if cliff never passed and they did end up hiring Dave, and not kicking out Mustain. Metallica would be the best metal band of all time.
Mustaine was on the road to ruin, kicking him out saved his life in my opinion.
Would have been interesting nonetheless.
They wouldn't be what they are with Dave.
Both albums are filled with killer fucking riffs man, excellent job.
Such killer riffs from both!!! 🤘
Правосудие на мой взгляд, самый сложный металл альбом. Для настоящих поклонников Металлики он на первом или на втором среди всей дискографии группы.
А слесари в своём деле лучшие!
Even though I think AJFA is a wark record when it comes to riffs I think it wins this battle
good job. I have lots of good memories of these.
Very good video, like always. 🤘
Slayer's peak of complexity was on divine intervention, (killing fields intro for ex), it could be compared as the justice for all of slayer's catalog.
I was listening to killing fields a few days ago and thought the same thing.
you need to hear Christ Illusion, may not be so catchy, but the musicianship is over the roof
100% agree.
You have an insane guitar collection. How many do you have?
12 guitars , there is a picture of all my guitars in my community section, just scroll down a little bit ;)
Man you ARE great guitarrist o love your vídeos
Two phenomenal albums. Brought back some memories! 👍💪👏
When "One" starts, I just don't want it to end.
Slayer because Lombardo > Ulrich. I play drums, wish I could play guitar.
This was the best drumming he ever did with Slayer IMO...the fills were amazing at that time.
Though I think what he did on Testament's The Gathering album is probably my favorite of his work overall.
Silent Scream. That’s all I have to say.
@@JG31392 i dont fucking understand how lombardos legs didnt melt off whenever he played that song
Hell yeah dude this was sick.
Great SHIT!!!!! Both Albums hands down!!!!! I think James and Jeff had Great respect for each other...
They where live within shouting distance of each other Jeff grew up in Buena Park while James and Kerry grew up in Downey Kerry went Warren High while James went to Downey high a mile away.
South Of Heaven all the way! My favorite Slayer album. But AJFA has some great riffs too.
Sepultura vs Kreator
Ooooooh yeeeaaaah
That was really cool!!! Love both your badass got yourself a new follow
Welcome mate !
This inspired me to listen to those two albums again! 😄