METALLICA Riffs NOT Written by James Hetfield
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- Опубліковано 9 січ 2024
- You are not crazy, I just added more stuff.
Reminder: King Nothing was written by James, the guitar riff which people claim to be Kirk's is the same as the bassline written by James.
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8:25 Of course there is a mistake. It is supposed to be "My Friend of Misery" instead of Wolf and Man, sorry lol.
And also we all know the fucking MOP post-solo riff is inspired on Andy Warhol song by Bowie. Not saying that its everyone but some say this thinking they are too smart, while almost everyone know this, stop commenting this, please
Even though they aren't James's riffs, he Hetfields the riffs to make them better 😎
Forgot important things! More than 80 percent of their music is plagiarism!
My friends of misery no Wolf and Man 😊..
@@DmitryLevin the good stuff, anyway!
@@AtacamaHumanoid Metallica are thieves who stole materials from little-known bands! And the level of musicians is very low and sometimes shameful! I don't understand the people who worship them at all, is this a religion or something? Do you have your own head at all?
Man, this Dave Mustaine seems a pretty cool guy for lending all this riff. If it were me, I' d probably go apeshit and create my own band and call it meganerf or something.
But his riffs didn't make them big
@@truthhurts79Really? Without Dave's music they wouldn't have had enough material for neither of their first two albums
@truthhurts79 wow that's a stupid comment
@@tubisi Not my point. In order to be in the position to record those albums, they first had to to the previous ones. AND, for that to happen, they needed Dave's material. Both KEA and RTL would be EP length without the stuff he contributed to, and Megaforce wouldn't have that. Heck, they complained about RTL having only 7 tracks despite being 43+ minutes long, hence Escape!
@@tubisiTFA was Dave’s and it’s one of their most popular early songs
Dave sure made some memorable riffs at the start of Metallica.
Arguably set a certain tone that was a big influence of the Metallica sound. Love Dave’s asthetic.
@@phadrus Yep, for the worlds most successful metal band. I like 80's Metallica a lot, but i were always a bigger fan of Megadeth.
@phadrusAlthoygh James and Lars already had Metallicas sound before Dave, and Kirk was doing similar things in Exodus at the same time. All these guys were creating similar musical movement at the same time
Dave claims more riffs than what has been officially confirmed. He alludes that he wrote "big chunks" of both RTL and MOP. We'll probably never know. 🤷♂️
@@dee-taylor The only one he's ever claimed that he hasn't got credit is 1 riff in leper Messiah which Metallica denies. Apart from that he's never claimed anything he didn't get credit for.
As awesome as they are just imagine what kind of music they would've produced if Cliff hadn't passed. He was a genius.
While they still would've likely gone in the various directions they went, Cliff would've made them all sound a lot better. AFJA especially.
He would have probably quit. As soon as Bob Rock got involved.
@@deathmetalchili6902maybe Bob Rock wouldn't have gotten involved
@emerealm3779 that's also quite possible.
I just couldn't see Cliff being cool with the whole Corperate Music Schill of Bob Rock's approach to making music a product.
He'd probably tell them all to "F@ck off....if he's in, I'm out"
Hahaha
But I could be totally wrong.
@@deathmetalchili6902 I feel as if they'd choose cliff over Bob rock
There needs to be some alternate universe where:
- Dave was never fired but still started Megadeth anyway;
- Kirk was still hired but still contributed to Exodus;
- Metallica always being supported by Megadeth and Exodus for sake of touring necessity;
- Jason still contributes his 3 bits to Metallica
- And above all: Cliff never died.
be in 2 bands? you're crazy?
Alternate Dave would be sportin a goatee.
And one where Les Claypool's audition goes well in 86
Oh and don felder never gets fired from the eagles !
@@artxv524 Gary Holt of Exodus was in Slayer for a while at the same time. It's not unreasonable, and both bands put out some absolute headbangers with Holt. I could see a similar situation with Mustaine in some alternate timeline
Being in a band with James fuckin Hetfield, itd be easy to be overlooked as a riff writer. But god dammit kirk can write some monster riffs.
I know some of my favorite riffs are written by Kirk
Interestingly the Sandman riff was sub par untill Lars rearranged it. They show how it was written in the Howard Stern interview.
@@xwhite2020it’s still sub par, just like most everything after the first 4 albums.
@@FleshOnGear Well that's just your opinion man.
@@FleshOnGearthe black album is amazing and I’d take it over kill ‘em all any day all day.
The Call of Ktulu is really something of genius by Mustane.
I remember when trying to learn that song. Thinking to myself, "Who the hell could even come up with something like this?!"
Then I learned.
All he came up with was a generic chord progression.
@@captainjefferies9047generic? it’s amazing. you don’t need to diminish his achievements because you don’t like him
@@Samford_ That isn't what happened. It's literally a generic chord progression. You can find it in dozens of other songs. Metallica only gave him a writing credit because they are generous.
@@captainjefferies9047 maybe its in dozens of other songs because he pioneered it and those took inspiration from it..
Did not realize Kirk is responsible for so many bangers. That pre-verse Disposable Heroes riff is S+ tier in my book.
Hell yeah! That Damage Inc riff is my all time favourite Metallica riff.
@@nessy9022 One of my fav Metallica riff ever too, it makes me feel the thrash so hard, it rivals some Slayer riffs (which is a huge compliment, as I'm a much bigger Slayer fan).
@@severed111 I'm more partial to Slayer too 🤘
@@severed111 slayers just overhyped
They only had couple of hit songs
@itsu8643 Their point was not to have "hit songs". Yes, a lot of posers come and go, that goes in for every band, I doubt you listened to every album/song. There's a hidden "hit" that could have played on radio on Show No Mercy, Crionics, it hits on everything that was hot shit in 1983, very Maiden-esque. I'm a big fan of other bands too, Metallica is more mid than Slayer due to all of their terrible albums (Load, Reload, St-Anger, Lulu), still, their first 4 are still in that first 30 albums on that 150 best thrash albums of all time list that goes around on the net and I don't dispute it, I just get tired of listening to Metallica, even MoP and Justice, too much repetition in too long songs. But I still give respect, which you do not, which means you probably weren't born when Diabolus in Musica was released...
Jason nested wrote one of their heaviest riff and his bass was muted😢
Kirk doesn't get nearly enough credit for his killer riffs
He does, he gets credit for all of them.
@@TheLotusMachineI think he means the credit from the fans and the music community in general, he's kinda underappreciated.
It's probably because James was the most consisten of them in the studio, as far as double and quadruple tracking goes, so people just assumed that he wrote them all, even though we all know now that that wasn't the case.@@empty_set_
@@TheLotusMachineexactly, he is credited in every song in the video. Guy must think he deserves a statue or something, but in terms of conceptual and intelectual property, he is properly credited.
Kirk doesn't get nearly enough hate for his all other riffs and solos.
So Jason wrote my all-time favorite Metallica riff (Blackened)? I‘m amazed, didn‘t know that. Props to him!
blackened is such a good song! when i was in elementary school i used to play street hockey at the local playground with a bunch of high school kids and that was my introduction to metallica, ...and justice for all over and over and over. and being the youngest kid there, my job was to flip the cassette over every time a side ended.
@@user-yn1sf9mq3z According to Jason, he was kinda pushed away from contributing much, which is a shame I guess. Maybe it was to avoid having him credited on a lot of stuff??? who knows, but his bass was mastered low on AJFA.
I heard Jason played those riffs for James and James told him they sound like an album opener. Well he was right!
Y’all notice that it’s the “and Justice for jason” version? The bass actually exists.
Damn... you gotta be second generation Metallica fan if you think AJFA is better than the first 3 albums 😂
Kirk's breakdown riff in Battery is one of my favourite riffs of all time and I never even knew he wrote it!
I don‘t think it‘s Kirk‘s Riff. There is no credit for him on Battery…
It is his riff thats like saying lars isnt credited on the songs even though he wrote the drum parts@@holgerritzenthaler4405
@@holgerritzenthaler4405 they do not credit to kirk because its part of guitar solo.
No wonder I always liked Megadeth! Dave has always written dope ass riffs!
Yeah Dave is quite a proficient player
I liked Megadeth only because I loved thrash metal, but I listen Metallica till now, but Megadeth was always boring to me.
dave is the legend
@@evgenysemenov6051
That's an interesting perspective.
Megadeth's sophomore album is heavily infused with jazz and if you listen to isolated tracks for any given instrument on that album, you will notice how creative some riffs actually are.
Pair that with the incredible Gar Samuelson on the drum kit and you could surely appreciate the complexity of packing a lot of content in just a single song!
@@evgenysemenov6051you dont need to mention you like something without thrashing another band yk
Kirk and Cliff arguably wrote the best parts of the Master Of Puppets song
Intro, main riff, verse, chorus and first bridge were hetfield which are the parts that make or break that song
@@theproletariat8723 posers = intro, main riff
Gigachads = post-solo riff
@@SergeantMasinospit 🗣️ 🔥
@@SergeantMasinothis guy knows
@@pipocadocs5994 and im not even that huge Metallica fan lol
2:18
Holy shit it's the first time i hear this riff isolated, i cant believe how underrated Trapped Under Ice is
i believe Exodus use this riff or a very similar riff in one of their songs
@@goodini026just saw a clinic where Gary Holt said Kirk stole it haha
@gentelmanjunkie542 I mean Exodus was Kirk's band so...did he really steal it? Lol
@@gentelmanjunkie542Didn't say he stole it as it's Kirk's riff he was annoyed as exodus were going to use it but Kirk took it to Metallica. Kirk also says riffs not he first Exodus album were his and he didn't get credit but just left it
The most underrated Metallica song
“Dave got violent drunk, we got silly drunk.”
And Dave made them millions...
I’m blown away. Been a Metallica fan since ‘87 and never really knew how much Kirk contributed to the song writing. This is impressive. This for posting this!
This for posting this!
I never knew Dave had riffs on RTL either lol
@stevenscott same here. Since early 87. I guess you unfortunately didn’t buy the same magazines as I did cause I knew who wrote a few of these earlier classics. For example, I always knew Newsted wrote that MONSTER riff in Blackened. Always loved that. And I always remember Hetfield saying Cliff wrote the main riff and intro for ‘To Live is to Die’.
Cheers!
@@Purpleskyshorizonthanks for that. I was 11 when I first heard Master of Puppets in 87. That’s the album that got me into real metal (listened to hair bands like Skid Row, Warrant, and Bon Jovi previous to that). You’re right about the magazines: I never really read any back then. When I started learning guitar at 15, I bought and read Guitar World because it always had sheet music and tabs of songs of different bands in the back. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
I like how every time there are some pretty crazy harmonies going on, you can bet your sweet ass Cliff is responsible for it
He loved that stuff. Thin Lizzy was an influence from what I understand.
@@SaintKines in addition to Thin Lizzy, Cliff listened to everything from punk to classical to 60s rock, ZZ Top, Rush, Motörhead, Sabbath, Misfits, R.E.M., and God knows what else.
That’s what made him so unique.
Yes but not only that James Hetfield said quote He was king 🤴 of that he always had different lots of ideas that were layered because it had its own character because it was bass guitar and he was genius of harmonies and layered not your typical rockstar but he’d would push it a extra little something and that was so unique about him and I’m surprised he didn’t choose guitar 🎸 because he only chose the bass guitar 🎸 when he’s about thirteen years young in 1975 after playing his piano 🎹
@@user-uz1si3fu1i I saw another clip where Mustaine said that Cliff pretty much taught the whole band about melody, song structure and how a rhythm section works.
The best thing they ever did was draft Cliff into that band.
@@SaintKines It's insane how much talent was in that band at some point - James, Cliff, Mustaine and Lars back he really played drums well still.
Lars also gets way to little credit for all the behind-the-scenes stuff, deals, negotiations, networking and stuff like getting Rasmussen to produce RTL and MOP.
It would have been awesome to hear Kirk and Dave Mustaine write riffs together. Their riffs together were peak Metallica. Not to say James Hetfield wasn’t a master in his own right, but man those RTL riffs are amazing.
Peak Metallica songwriting is justice which hetfield largely wrote so no
@@kylehoulihan3875 no peak metallica songwriting is whenever cliff was in the band. since he was gone the band only got more and more criticism and strayed further from their thrash roots
A lot of their riffs were written by other bands
UA-cam
Ride the plagiarism
@@Mango-cp1im justice has their best songwriting it’s a fact. Also cliff wasn’t the reason they were a thrash band and they would’ve 100% steered away anyways. Also who gives a shit about criticism they put out great records after his death
@@kylehoulihan3875 Almost every song on Justice is far longer than it should be. The songwriting on AJFA is bloated and boring.
That damage inc riff is probably one of the most underrated badass riffs in the entire thrash genre
I like how you used the “and Justice for Jason” version of blackened. Can hear the bass!!
Nice to see that you used the bass enhanced version of Blackened to show us Jason did a great job on it!
jason added just one note to it
no wonder they cut him out of the mix
killer riff though jason!
listen to pre justice bass lines and compare them to post justice, such a big difference
sadly they buried cliff in the mix on the albums
@@garfieldfan3892Okay. Sober up.
You can tell Dave wrote some of these so damn easily. He’s got a style that is just really unique but not my cup of tea. Kirk gets shit on a lot but imo I find his riffs to be great and some of the most memorable.
His riffs are all great, his solos on 72 however…
@@phadrus i kinda liked darkness had a son solo. Not the best and its kinda ripetitive, but i liked it.
The fact with Dave is that he wrote mediocre riffs for Metallica. Not only because it was the beginning for him, but there wasn't much space since Mustaine's style is Megadeth and not Midtallica. And of course he had limitations between song writing since there was two masterminds in the band, him and Hetfield.
So Mustaine gave the best results of his capabilities only once he formed Megadeth.
A lot of their riffs were written by other bands
UA-cam
Ride the plagiarism
BS
Kirk actually wrote quite a few of Metallica's most memorable riffs!
Kirk is an absolute monster and it really shows in RTL and why it’s the best album
Btw I this video, bass is heard easily 🎉🎉🎉
Kirk! Dave Mustaine wrote most of RTL Riffs, get your facts straight! Kirk just played Mustains parts!!!
@@michaelmccutchen7278 💀???
@@michaelmccutchen7278LMAO calm down
@@michaelmccutchen7278 Mustaine's riffs were only used on one or two tracks. Best one, Creeping Death, sounds nothing like Megadeth.
Kirk wrote the best 72 Seasons riff, and it was Chasing Light main riff.
Nah man.
I agree, by far the best riff on the album.
Real ones know that’s the best riff on the album - jk everyone has their own opinion but I knew it was the best the second I heard it.
That’s my fav riff too. Only one I had even a little interest in learning. Good for Kirk to bad the solos are as boring as the rest of the album.
Most fun riff on the album to play too. Love it. No idea Kirk wrote it.
Rob wrote a riff in screaming suicide (idk which one, I believe its the breakdown park), he also has writing credits on sleepwalk my guess is for the opening bit. Also I thought Kirk said in an interview he came up with the part in shadows follow that sounds like batmans theme
Man all members are really killer. And damn Kirk is underrated af at riffs
Равно, как и Джейсон Ньюстед. 😏
@@user-rc8uo3rn7cбратан, можешь порекомендовать русские метал-группы?
Man, I had no idea that Kirk wrote almost all my favorite riffs!
Cliff´s musicality... So beautiful and interesting. Adding pretty cool ideas to a thrash metal band.
he was the prog master mind of the metal underground, the things he did within the underground metal scene was wild, he put so much work into those first 3 metallica albums
Some of his acoustic stuff sounds medieval in nature
Клифф увлекался благодаря отцу и брату совершенно разными жанрами, блюзом классикой, вроде даже джазом, с помощью такого разного музыкального вкуса он и смошг делает такие необычные риффы
@@joesmith9216mind blowing he was only 24 when he died
Bleeding me has such a great riff. The song needs more love
Agreed.
James always says how much he loves that song when they play it. One of Kirk's most underrated solos IMO as well
It’s part of the big four, along with outlaw torn, fixxxer and imorata 😊
Best song on the album
Kirk really seemed to do a lot of those great breakdown riffs. Really added an extra dimension to Metallica's faster songs.
The acoustic intro from „To Live is to Die“ is written by Kirk, too. I’ve read somewhere that he wrote it on a holiday in Italy inspired by some renaissance music.
Part can be found on James' riff tapes though so i doubt it and also Kirk isnt credited songwriter, but it definitely wasnt written by Cliff
@@stimit46 yeah, makes sense. I might have confused this with the intro of fight fire...
Lars also wrote the One machine gun riff and AJFAs main riff
Maybe they're not here since he wrote them in the drums lol
@@ingongo25 Well he got credits for Ride the Lighting intro so he can get mentioned in One
he wrote the drum parts and riffs were written by james Hetfield based on the drums
@@saulmorris9639 It's documented that Lars wrote the Justice riff and sang it and showed it to Hetfield on the drums. Lars does a lot of the riff writing.
yeah he also said on the masterclass video that he wrote the One riff so idk why he shouldnt be credited
Most of my favorite riffs were written by Kirk, good to know lol
I already knew about Dave Mustaine and Cliff Burton, but I had no idea how many riffs Kirk wrote, I'm impressed.😮
Jason writing that blackened riff is pretty outstanding coming into a new band and laying down a riff that rages and never gets old
Wow, Kirk and Jason wrote all the best riffs off the black album
He contributed very little... hetfield will always be the mastermind of Metallica
Jason only wrote 1 riff on the album
Yeah the best one 😹@@imagereflection4826
It's increible how in 11 albums and more than 12 hours of music, only 14 minutes of riffs aren't composed by Hetfield, his creativity is beyond logic.
That’s a bit of an exaggeration lol
I mean a lot of these riffs are repeated multiple times in a song so it's definitely more than 14 minutes hahaha, but the point still stands that like 80% of riffs are from James
Huge mistake. They are putting just some fragments of the riff, so it does not add up to 12 hours.
@@Fixin_good that's the point I'm trying to say, my bad I have exaggerated a little...
@@cypi6210More than a bit. It’s a fucking giant turd of a take.
I never realized just how many of my favorite riffs were written by Kirk. And the riff that blew me away when I was 11 years old that turned me in to a metalhead for the last 28 years? Jason Newstead with Blackened \m/. I don't blame Dave for always harboring some hate for Metallica all these years though. I knew about Metallica using his riffs on Kill 'Em All but not Ride The Lightning too. Now that its pointed out to me, clearly you can hear Mustaine's playing style. Awesome video \m/
Why would Mustaine be mad for receiving royalties for Ride the Lightning sales without actually playing on it?
6 songs. That's all.
The interlude in Orion will always be my favourite from Metallica… is just beautiful
Also, My Apocalypse is easily Kirk’s best riff.
One of my fav all time Metallica moments
When that riff hits for the first time just on its own in that song you know shit is about to go down
underrated
Creeping Death stuff is the best
Cliffs inspiration of many of those harmonies was from his love for thin lizzy who pioneered the twin guitar attack sound
thin lizzy was before judas priest?
@@user-yn1sf9mq3z same year but thin Lizzy was harmonizing the first album
Its actually pretty funky. Both bands got their start in '69, but Lizzy had 3 albums recorded and released before Priest had one.
Coincidentally, they each added a second guitarist in '74, for Priest's debut (Rocka Rolla) and Lizzy's fourth (Nightlife).
Im racking my cobwebbed brain for Lizzy songs on the eponymous debut, Shades, or Vagabonds that used harmonies when only Eric Bell was playing guitars and nothing is coming to mind in thay phase before Gorham and Robertson joined when Bell left.
Lizzy had far earlier prominent positions in the public consciousness, though, as they had a hit single (their rendition of "Whiskey in the Jar", to make an appropriate reference in the context of this video...) before Priest ever had anything in the can, and certainly had harmonized guitar *hits* before Priest was a known quantity for much of the world. I mean, _Jailbreak_ came out the same year as _Sad Wings of Destiny_ and while "Victim of Changes" fucking rules, it had none of the cultural cachet of "The Boys Are Back in Town" (still doesnt, I'd hazard a guess).
Realistically, the actual approach was plenty established before either of them, just not as a *persistent* technique for an act or a core element of any act's sound.
@@FangsFirst their debut album even had harmonies and their first hit whiskey in the jar released in 72 also had harmonies
Amazing that all my favourite 90s Metallica riffs were all written by Kirk.
Another little nugget of info re. Enter Sandman: the riff was originally shorter but Lars told Kirk to extend it to repeat the lick a few times which is what became the one in the song. I think that probably says more about Lars’ arranging skill rather than writing but worth noting.
Amazing that you found any of Metallica’s work even remotely interesting in the 90’s when they started their dad rock phase
It’s really cool to see who the creator is for some very familiar and loved riffs. As much as I was like really respecting everyone that isn’t James for their riffs, one thing to not overlook is that fact that James freaking wrote EVERYTHING ELSE!!! That’s crazy. James Hetfield is a metal madman. Much unrealized kudos to him for not just being your average lead singer “rhythm guitar” player.
Next time I see the "Dave wrote em all" meme I am linking to this video
According to Kirk in the Gibson icons video he also says the verse riff to master of puppets is his.
I love that they used a version of Blackened with the bass included. Jason’s bass parts were face melting, dude I so wish you could hear then better on the album
damn, kirk does some great fukin riffs
5:06 Cliff and Kirk took the post-solo riff from a Bowie song, since they were big Bowie fans
Not true, and not true
@@unknownkingdom It is true. It's taken directly from the song "Andy Warhol". Hammett himself tells the story in an interview.
@@FarukAhmet it's funny reading a lot of classic bands casually describing plagiarism, my fav is Deep Purple members attitude to ripping off this or that.
@@unknownkingdom its true, do your research before being wrong
Huh really? Interesting. That's by far the best part of the song imo lol. Gonna have to listen to that Bowie one now
The harmonized intro to Damage inc. is so damn beautiful it brings a tear to my eye, i play guitar but Cliff is my biggest inspiration not just at guitar but music in general, he made me pick up the bass as well and he inspires me to keep playing and i hope one day i can write something close to what he was able to. R.I.P Cliff
The Day that Never Comes is such a killer track that's rarely give the credit it's due IMO
The ending sucks though
Yeah yeah
The Orion interlude has since the 1st time always been otherworldly and I'll never get tired of it, truly was Cliff's magnum opus in my opinion. Hopefully they'll play it at my funeral one day as well.
i forgot how genuinely beautiful Cliff's writing was. legend!
It's interesting that we have so much insight into the members' contributions. I can't think of many other bands where that's the case. You usually just see the vague writing credits, without any further context.
The most important riff here is the Metal Militia one.
That was written prior to the No Life 'til Leather demo from July 1982.
I think it's the first PURE THRASH riff ever written, and the main riff to Whiplash - by James, was written soon after.
The debate over "who pioneered Thrash" has gone on for decades - there are a number of other riffs that paved the way before that riff - Witching Hour by Venom being one. But the Metal Militia riff definitely feels to me like it finally crosses the line from Speed Metal to Thrash Metal.
I credit Dave Mustaine for pioneering Thrash Metal for this reason - but it was probably inevitable anyway because it was just a matter of time - people were pushing riffs to be faster and tighter for years prior to that.
I mean, you just conveniently forgot about Diamond Head. Not saying you did it on purpose, but still, man...
Motor breath is more thrash,and no songs on kta is faster than fight fire with fire
It's also the worst riff in metaliicas catalogue. It's like what a child would play when they pick up their dads guitar for the first time
V8 inventó el thrash metal
@@aguaraguazu8461no digas pelotudeces esos ni en su mejor día llegaron a ser inspiración para el thrash 🤣🤣🤣
I love the difference between each bassist. Burton being "classical theory" oriented, Newsted being Edgy and Darker, and Trujillo with Solid & Strong riffs.
You can have a favorite, but all of them are amazing in a different way.
I have to give credit where credit is due, this video is very well put together and the amount of attention to detail is very impressive. Also being able to identify which artist wrote a certain riff is pretty much proof u have an extensive knowledge of music. Some ppl can easily be like “oh I know which band member wrote that song in specific, but not a lot of ppl have tht good of a memory. U n the other hand r on a whole other level. This immense attention to detail is outstanding.
Thanks for putting this together. Finally learning something new about their music. Greatest Metal Band of all Time
That Creeping Death Bridge Riff is also in the song Die by his Hand by Exodus with Paul Baloff on Vocals! Love that he used that Riff in Metallica🔥
It’s interesting to piece together how much of Metallica’s signature sound came from the supporting players.
Mustaine certainly had patterns of fingering that are recognizable for not only his contributions to Metallica but many of Megadeth’s most recognizable guitar parts as well. A similar idea can be applied to Hammett.
In the end, I think it was Burton’s creativity that was the most subtly unique and irreplaceable, and why Metallica’s records never had the same degree of musical expansiveness since his passing.
But they did replace him. No dis on Cliff, but Jason was a far better fit for Metallica. They didn't know they literally struck gold with Jason in the band. Jason was a bigger force live, and did contribute so much more to the band
@@davidwagstaff47 Not really, Cliff taught the band so much about music which affects their songwriting to this day. Jason was a good live player, but he barely contributed to their actual music. His biggest contribution was the blackened riff, but other than he barely actually wrote anything. If you compare him to cliff or rob you find that he didn't contribute nearly as much on any of the albums he was in. This really isn't his fault, he wasn't given the opportunity to contribute as much, but it's still true.
I think it has more to do with his class and not letting James slip into a country trucker like he did in 90s than actually writing stuff. You know, the band just did more respectable stuff before Load/Reload and St. Anger.
Wow, was surprised to see my video in the description. It's nice to see that even I inspired someone
Fun video, thanks for the upload
You can actually kind of hear in Lightning how some of Kirk's riffs sound a bit like Bonded By Blood, and that Damage Inc riff sounds a bit like Piranha. Never thought about that before
Neither me cuz I don't like Exodus, Testament and those all "true"(boring) thrash-metal bands.
@@jeffersonaraujoelcristiano i really think you could give testament another chance. If you don't like their thrash sounds, you can try starting with their 90s albums, much more towards death/groove metal
@@coldgutoNew Order is phenomenal
@@jeffersonaraujoelcristiano ?? Testament smokes these guys what are you on Abt 💀
Dave essentially wrote all of The Call of Ktulu, that is crazy
He didn't
He wrote the chord sequence at the start which he later used for Hangar 18.
Love that you included the ...And Just for Jason version of Blackened 😀
Great video. Kirk also wrote the 2nd intro riff to MoP. It’s on a demo of him from his Exodus days.
which demo? I wanna listen to it
@spinettagede777 it's called, Die by his Hands.
Very cool, good research. U missed Kirk's intro riff in 72 Seasons, and probably some more:) Still - great vid!
Really surprised that the main riff of Fuel was written by Kirk! That's awesome!
So many chill inducing riffs!
Creio que todos tem suas ideais em uma composição, não tomando como uma máxima a ideia de um único integrante. Pode ter certeza que James está presente em cada um destes Riffs.
Kirk is definitely my favorite member of the band.
Nice video! Metallica was aiming to release no life till leather with all past material, however Dave Mustaine did not want to share credits on two songs that he claims to have written 100% note by note - I believe they are Mechanix and Jump in the Fire - also, another riff that he claims to be his is the Lepper Messia bridge riff, it could be true as the progression of this riff was at the demos from kill and all era, but without the galloping.
The breakdown riff from Damage Inc is my all time favourite Metallica riff, cool to learn that Kirk wrote that!
Thanks for this amazing video.
I see it’s helped a lot of people finally realize how much Kirk has contributed to Metallica.
Also, I’ve been a fan since 1987. I bought any magazine I could and, like you, I always remembered James saying that Cliff wrote the main riff for ‘To Live Is To Die’ _and_ I believe he wrote the intro as well. If not, then James did a great impersonation of Cliff. Lol
The riff that Cliff wrote in To Live Is To Die is the clean riff, when there's James' solo
No, that one was actually James. And the bass line is def Jason one, the studio version is a simpler version of the live one, its def Jason's thing
@@Ryu_Ake but there's actually a last demo from Cliff and is the clean part
@@user-ye3lv3gk5m the tape that is called JAMES Riff Tapes? Lol. Or is that one video which is someone covering the clean part? That one was explained a long time ago
Cliff is credited in there because it’s a tribute to him. Also, he showed them the poem part.
James wrote that in tribute to cliff. There is a fake video of cliff demo of it
You are the ChatGPT of Metallica. Thank you, my guy, you make ‘Tallica reaearch so easy
Hahahahahaha.
great video!
That Call Of Ktulu part was later used for “Hangar 18” main riff except he strums all the strings instead of individually picking each string but he also does that in the intro part!
Hearing my best friend play Metallica on his guitar when I was 14 inspires me to pick up guitar... this band inspired me to play forever...
We have similar stories haha
Kirk's stuff is so grandiose and cinematic. Same with cliff. Some of kirk's stuff is also basically straight hardcore punk
Excelente tremendo lpm!! Saludos desde Buenos Aires Argentina
The riff in ”The Unforgiven” is so creative and absolutely beautiful.
Hey great vid!
There will always be debates who is better between Hammett and Mustaine, but I prefer Hammett simply because his riffs are more anthemic and catchier.
I hate how much Mustaine focuses on technicality over catchiness.
@@ripperplaysclon152 I don’t think we’re listening to the same Megadeth.
@@diabeticmonkey maybe he listened megadeth from wish
@@ripperplaysclon152 he has a lot of catchy riffs you just don't know it
@@ripperplaysclon152bro, I could hum to you almost full holy wars punishment due, that's how catchy it is
You forgot to mention the master of puppets intro riff that kirk wrote. After the descending riff part
not confirmed
Probably, it's Hetfield riff
Amazing video!
I absolutely love these kinds of video because they're very informative.
Probably the best video showcasing every riff within Metallica's Studio discography that showcases everything (Besides James lol)
The intro of To live is to die is actually Hetfield`s. Proof to that is his own demo riff tapes for AJFA.
Ive been a HUGE fan since Ride the Lightning came out. And it was today I learned that Kirk wrote a shit ton of monster riffs...some of my favorites and on some of their biggest songs
Great video!
6:33 huge respect to Kirk for writing this badass riff
La meilleure partie 👌
I've always felt that Metallica's sound was really defined by Mustaine, Hetfield, and Burton. So when Mustaine was kicked, and Burton died (RIP), there just wasn't enough left to sustain that sound, hence the switchup after AJFA.
For me, the interlude of Orion, and Phantom Lord, both epitomize the sound that was lost. That Phantom Lord riff got milked all the way through One.
Really it was James's sound but Kirk and cliff added some extra dynamics
Still hetfield IS Metallica
Dave milked that Phantom Lord riff at least twice more in This was my life and another off of Dystopia I can’t remember the name
@@chrissutton2586 kill em all was just Motorhead on speed... It's like Lemmy of Motorhead said... Metallica didn't develop their own style until ride the lightning... which has very little mustaine contributions other than a couple of songs that he didn't 100% write the entire songs
@@truthhurts79 true
Awesome video. In my opoinion you could have skipped the Load's era 😂
Cheers from Portugal 🤘🍺🇵🇹
this shows how cliff was the fucking goat at bass and harmonized intros.
Master of Puppets post-solo riff is a tribute to David Bowie, from one of his songs
Also the song title Leper Messiah was lifted from a David Bowie song too
40 years of the band's existence. 12 studio albums. And you only managed to collect 14 minutes of music that wasn't composed by James 🤣. Well, as you can see, Hetfield is irreplaceable 😎
Cliff loved his harmonies
Man so many great riffs by the band 👍🏾
Well that's the reason why you are a band .
Writting and playing music together.
The fact that all members made awesome riffs shows the talent of all of them.
8:42 is my friend in misery not of wolf