Metallica - The Call of Ktulu (Pianist continues his exploration of heavy metal)
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2023
- Pianist reacts to Metallica’s The Call of Ktulu.
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His face when that first bass growl comes in 😂. Cliff was a maniac, a genius musician
Cliff was the epitome of Metallica. Any other album after Master of Puppets wasn’t as good
It's amazing how he can just hear the entire songs and recreate them like he does on the piano! Highly trained ear and highly skilled musician! Awesome!!!!
I can do that with bass or drums. Same with a song I have never played on an instrument but know the song well enough from memory and hear the song in my mind then replicate the drums or whatnot.
@Defensive_Wounds I can do that with guitar. But seeing it on piano is just amazing to me. And I certainly can't call out the notes or chord structures. I learned to play by ear but never really learned exactly what it is I'm doing (well not all the way). 30 years and still learning lol
When we started discussing doing this channel, I told him I wanted to do a trial run with one song and see how it goes. No cameras, no pressure, just listen to the song and give me some feedback. I played him “The Package” by A Perfect Circle. By the middle of the first verse, he was playing it on the piano and breaking down the structure of it. All I could think was “we have to at least try to do this”. 🤘
@Gr8_Measures I'm so glad you did! It's awesome to watch! To see him listen, process and apply it to the piano, is truly cool. Music is just an awesome universal language! I love it. Definitely got a subscriber out of me!
The dude comes off like a mad genius
In this song Cliff plays his craziest bass parts, I've ever heard of him. It's so unique and amazing. And think about it, they where about 21, when they wrote this Masterpiece
He was a genius of music, rip best bassist this world had 😢
You said this already
Yup. Cliff is rocking a wah pedal with distortion, so he's basically playing the same thing James and Kirk are, but then flexing the pedal in the middle giving that growl.
@chrisdobbs9155 there are several parts where he goes off on his own it's kind of hard to hear in the mix unless you listen to just the bass track alone (highly recommended) then you can hear the parts op is talking about
The bass is the voice of kthulu. And in the thing that should not be. The guitar solo of kirk is the voice
This song delivers that Lovecraftian feel like no others. Cliff truly understood both the menace and grandeur of Cthulhu emerging from the depths (at least this is how I perceive it).
Mustaine is largely responsible here, check out the Megadeth songs Hangar 18 and When.
@@christopherh2563people act like that riff was penned by Mustaine but listen to enough NWOBHM and you’ll hear it all over the place
Yeah. This and "The thing that should not be" are the best Lovecraftian songs in my opinion. Metallica understand that HPL works are not exactly grand or pompous, but strange.
The point is that this song had another name "When hell freezes over". They changed the song name during the recording sessions in Denmark.
@@christopherh2563 "When" is basically a cover of Am I Evil though.
Imagine being 20- something and composing masterpieces like this.🤯
I like how these instrumentals can tell a story. Lead you through. The guitars speak, sing, cry and scream. Build the whole landscapes you immerse into
You guys are killing it. Love the awkward energy.
Thank you! 🤘
I heard Ktulu live for the first time two weeks ago. I damn near cried.
The acoustic intro was written by Dave Mustaine. He uses these chords later on in his songs Hangar 18 and When. I also believe he re-used a chromatic section of this song in the chorus for Public Enemy No. 1.
The otherworldly bass parts are what make this song stand out above anything else. It's like the fabrics of time and space disintegrating musically and spawning forth the end times. I listen to this song and it just always evokes this feeling of reality unraveling. I absolutely love it.
wormholes man! bought this is 85. \m/ my back patch to this day!
To me Cliff is the highlight of this track. This is one of Kirk's best solos as well.
Kirk really came out on this album.
I think he had an axe to grind after being made to record mustaines leads on killem all.
@silverjaw9598 yeah they got to truly learn what Kirk had to offer
It’s interesting that you interpreted the opening as feeling like a detective story, when that is basically how the written story by Lovecraft is structured. In it, a man finds a clay bas relief in his great uncle’s belongings, after the man’s death, and the man reads his great uncle’s earlier investigation and sets out to follow the clues and investigate further into this being known as Cthulhu.
I was fortunate enough to hear Metallica play live this past weekend. This song gives me goosebumps every time.
I have long felt that the rest of the band is the sea and the travelers upon it, while Cliff’s bass is the hidden cosmic horror lurking under the surface, perceives mostly by the ripples on the surface, with the occasional snarling acting as a brief moment when some part of the great old one breaks the surface.
" who dunnit " lol 😂. I like that guy
One of the greatest pieces of music ever written.
In this song, Cliff plays his craziest bass parts I've ever heard of him. It's so amazing. And think about it, they where about 21 , wenn they wrote this Masterpiece
One of the greatest rock masterpieces ever recorded.
I love the part when he plays the song on the piano after listening to it just once! Amazing talent!
This is turning into one of my favourite reaction sites.....👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🤘🏼🤘🏼
Thank you! 🤘
As a musician who likes to learn by ear, you my friend are impressive and fun to watch.
I had the pleasure of seeing this very tour in January 1985. Cliff stole the show...
Love the reaction of both of you of course, but i must say Judson's got a pure talent of listening to the new music, absorbing it inside and then showing it to rest of the world in his own way without any time to learn. Huge respect.
It never gets old for me. 🤘
YES!!! I was hoping you would do this one!!
Hope you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching! 🤘
S&M no leaf clover would an awesome reaction, being that it has a whole orchestra
Coming very soon. 🤘
I would love a mirror series of this where classical musician plays classics to metal musician
We’ve discussed it. He suggested putting me on camera and making me react to Phish. 😂
I have read somewhere the reason they spelled Ktulu with a "k" is because the lore is if you speak the name of cthulhu, he will draw nearer. So they mispelled it on purpose to play on that.
That’s cool! 🤘
Had the privilege of seeing them play this live
The more you listen the bass line, The more you'll amazed. This song is a masterpiece!
The reaction at 15:35 is our reaction as well!
For Judson to be able to capture the essence of the piece and get it right after one listen is absolutely incredible.
And no matter how many times you experience it, it's always amazing!
As Mustaine co-wrote THE original composition/version of this song before he was booted, he wrote something similar in the opening of Megadeth “Hanger 18”.
Yeah the beginning of hangar 18 uses the exact chord progressions! I would like these guys to do some Megadeth soon! Mustaine writes some odd riffs, & all the guys he's had play lead, like Marty Friedman, are geniuses with their complex leads!
first two chord progressions are Dave's.
“When Hell Freezes Over”?
Not just hangar 18, but a couple others too, I know he uses the original form of the riff on the song "when"
You can totally hear Mustaine's composition in this song
Glad you guys did this song, such a masterpiece. FYI, they just put up a live version of this song from their European tour in Germany, May 26th 2023 - a must see! Maybe you guys could do a couple live songs from the current tour?
"Sanitarium" is up on their YTube page, and a handful of others. "One" would be great too! They are really killing it live these days! Thanks for another great reaction, looking forward to more! Love the piano work!
Thanks for the suggestions! We’ll check them out. 🤘
Should have played the S&M version with the orchestra in the background. Missed opportunity.
I think we’re going to do that more from now on. We got his reaction to No Leaf Clover yesterday and hope to have it uploaded in the next few days. He loved it! 🤘
We all need to hear the song played on piano by him.
This is feeling like some serious kismet for me.
These three Metallica instrumentals have been some of the most important pieces of music in my life.
Almost exactly 24 hours ago, I found a new one, when I randomly decided to finally watch Hi Ren. It floored me to the extent that I proceeded to spend the rest of the day doing almost nothing but watching dozens of reactions to it.
When I woke up the next day, an hour ago, the first thing I saw was the Hi Ren reaction by this channel.
When it finished, what do I see - this channel just happens to have completed the Metallica trilogy of instrumentals the day before.
This is a 'classical musician reacts' channel.
Metallica is in my top 5 favorite bands, even though I don't care for metal - as a kid, my favorite music was classical.
That's what drew me to Metallica as a teenager - their songs (on these three albums in particular) sounded to me like the classical compositions I had grown up listening to.
Because of this, when I was 17 and their S&M album came out, a performance with my hometown's own symphony, I was completely blown away by how perfect of a fit it seemed to me.
So, yeah, considering my wild day yesterday of being completely consumed by a new intensely personal musical discovery, that it should wind up leading me here, with such perfect timing, seems pretty special.
Thanks for sharing that! We’re going to do Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth) soon as well
Fire 🔥 30 years later can’t be duplicated!
So, as a bass player, I’ll let you know the technical stuff that is behind some of the wild sounds Cliff got. Most of the song is played with a Morley Power Fuzz Wah, so he has both a fuzz type distortion and a wah pedal to accentuate certain parts. Single note runs accentuated with the wah make that wailing sort of sound, and the snarls that come out of the mix on a regular basis in the first half are an A with an A and octave up and an E a fifth above that (so, a 13th over the root, I think?) while really pushing the wah down hard and fast. With distortion and wah, a chord on a bass comes out like that.
Forgive the question coming from a bass player who is trying to catch up his long neglected theory, but that chord would be an inversion of a power chord, yes?
What percentage of rock/metal bassists use a wah, in your opinion?
@@bryanmack5410 I’d have a real hard time making that estimate. Some players are pretty well known to use wah a fair amount, like Cliff Burton, Geezer Butler, Justin Chancellor, etc, but how many do and aren’t as noted? How many don’t ever use one? I’ve got no idea. You could even get into a whole different set of weeds based on whether a bassist uses a regular wah, or one that’s made intentionally for bass, because that has a pretty big effect on how it sounds when it’s used.
If you’ve got a particular bass player you’re curious about, Google can tell you a lot about the gear that is used by musicians. A quick search just told me, for example, that Steve diGiorgio has been known to use two different models of envelope filters, but no wah pedal is listed. If you aren’t familiar, an envelope filter is similar to what is called an auto-wah, but is volume triggered, rather than timing based. So at some point, for some music, he clearly had a use for a wah-type effect, but not a manual pedal controlled one.
what a thoughtful reply. Thanks! @@matthewconner7800
One of my favorite elements of this instrumental is Lars’s use of the cymbals. Every instrument accompanied by constant cymbal crashes reminds me of a violent storm with surging waves crashing against jagged rocks, lightning, and thunder. Then a reprieve followed by a dramatic end. It totally goes with the Cthulhu theme.
That main riff back and forth back and forth- sounds like a straight up horror movie!! Ever seen Psycho the movie? The build up? You know something is lurking- that’s what it sounds like- just brilliant!!!
17:15- you say “we get it,” but I actually really like hearing him play the piano version after hearing it only once. Having an ear for music, while being able to play it on an instrument like the piano, I’m completely fascinated with. You can tell he’s been playing for quite sometime and I respect that a lot. Let him play that piano of some riffs man! Lol 🤘🏼☕️
It blows my mind every time. I’ll let him keep going from now on. 🤘
I love this guy on the piano, thank you kind sir for your thoughts
Dave Mustaine is indeed credited as one of the co-writers of “The Call of Ktulu” by Metallica themselves on the cd insert for the album. He got co-writing credit for the song “Ride The Lightning” too.
You can totally hear the typical Mustaine chords progression in this song, I am never tired of It even if he used It on hundreds of songs 😂
@@mattmoves5920and the NWOBHM bands used it all the time, before Mustaine probably ever picked up a guitar
@@WarcraftIsForVirgins And the composer of James Bond soundtrack did It before them 😂
hangar 18
@@mattmoves5920the ascending sequence at 4:30 is Hangar 18. Exact same chords as the Hangar 18 intro. Dave totally had a hand in this.
Always reminds of "Hall of the mountain king". That evil thing lurking behind you, trying to catch you. Music gets faster/louder and more intense.
If you show him Master of Puppets, please show him the S&M 1 version. 👌
What cliff does in this song with his bass is so tasty and genius
I love this kind of content! It's always very interesting to me what a classically trained musician thinks of some of these metal classics!
Thanks for watching! 🤘
This song will bring forth emotion to anybody that listens to it! Guaranteed!!
You ought to take a crack at Ne Obliviscaris - And Plague Flowers The Kaleidoscope (Live in Colorado 2016). Six peerless musicians and a song so complex that it's taught at the Sydney Conservatorium For Music, as part of the Compositions coursework
100%. This ⬆️. It’s truly staggering.
I used to fall asleep to this song every night as a kid. It always gave me the feeling of flying upwards through the clouds, in the middle of a lightning storm, in a battle with some unknown force of darkness.
And it still does 😎
Very well done analysis! Thank you guys and just subscribed!!!
Just saw them last night, they did an ode to this and while Robert Trujillo is NOT Cliff Burton, he is still an excellent bassist who sounds great in concert...
The musician guy (Justin) is cool as hell! 😊
The 'grand finale' when seeing this song played live certainly hyped me up a few weeks back & wow, Judson is one talented musician to play different parts of the song after just one listen.
Great video guys.. Keep em' coming 🤘🤘
Thank you!
2 great guys.
Keep up the great work!
You are both truly wonderful.
you guys always make me laugh, i love the interaction and banter between you two
Your guys dynamic is so funny 😂. Super excited for this one. So much interesting stuff going on in this one. It’s insane to think of how young they were when they came up with this.
Thank you! 🤘
Hearing it played on a piano makes it sound a lot like Ennio Morricone. Metallica plays his "The Ecstacy of Gold" as the intro to their live shows.
I wanna meet this fella sometime and talk music.
He has a real authentic aura about him.
Dude I love your reactions when he starts playing it right after hearing it.
their best song, and by far
Yes... Cliff could make the bass scream. He was so freakin amazing. THE GOAT!!!
Thank you!
Another banger from you guys, much appreciated :D
Thank you! 🤘
"starts playing the song at the end" shows just how much he liked it.
These two have just such a great friendship, the way anything Judson does or says has Richard seemingly right on the edge of being fed up with his shenanigans, I love it!
😂😂 “Right on the edge” is an understatement. We have fun with it. 🤘
@@Greatmeasures I'm definitely a Judson kinda friend to my friends, and I have/had Judsons as friends as well, so I know exactly how it is on both sides 😁
Maybe "The Greatest show on Earth" by Nightwish live would be interesting? Tampere or Wembley.
First time I heard that.... 🤯
@@keithfreeman7725 hard to imagine that "Nightwish army" did not bombard you with that. I prefer Tampere version due to its purest form and fact that Nightwish plays at home soil. Wembley is more enchanced and grand-ish (if there is such word) but in my opinion less emotional. And booth are worth watching till very end.
You guys should react to the call of katulu live with the San Francisco orchestra
Whiskey in the jar, slane castle ❤
Wait, you heard that just once... and were able to play it from memory on one play? :O You are seriously talented, sir!
You guys should check out the version of this song they did for the S & M concert. Really good.
Really good is an understatement; it’s phenomenal.
Hooah!!! I’ve been waiting for you to get to this one.
Early Metallica was a lot like a symphony. Harmony and flow of the music twist your emotions.
If you want more of an Opera experience might I suggest Iron Maiden. Hollowed Be Thy Name would be a good start.
The "t" is silent in Ktulu, the "Kt" is pronounced as "khal", the first "u" is "ah" and the "lu" is "loo", altogether pronounced "Khal-AH-Lu". The original spelling is "Cthulhu" H.P. Lovecraft wrote the story in 1928. It's a fictional word in a fictional language called R'lyehian and is based on The Kraken in Scandinavian mythology.
Er-All-ee-in = R'lyehian. It's a messed up language, kinda like Klingon.
And Cthulhu’s call, being what it is, doesn’t necessarily spell it out clearly to the human minds it reaches. What it does clearly spell out is madness.
Are you trying to get us to awaken him from his abysmal slumber?
Perhaps the greatest bass player of all time! What he could make it do.
Him playing it on piano at the end is always my favorite part :D
Never gets old 🤘
pls do more songs from this album!!
There are riffs written by Dave on the Ride the Lightning album. Some in The Call of Ktulu. They were written while he was still a member of Metallica and simply repurposed later (which he didn't like at all actually).
I came to see his reaction to the bass in the background and stayed for him playing it on the piano at the end.
Dude's face when the huge tom crescendo in the end happened. :D :D :D :D Loved it. And I haven't listened to the album version for a while. Didn't remember how atrociously HARD Lars hits that drum. Also, I love how Judson learned the damn song from the first listen!
You gotta do the symphonic version. :D
14m33s, after Phish was mentioned, my husband and I had to pause to have a discussion & Both of Us agree that We would enjoy sessions where Richard brings his guitar to intro & Judson introduces new song to the "Metalhead".... already loved the Fiona Apple, Pearl Jam, Beatles, and many more Judson has chosen to play as intros... Great Stuff! Love Yall!!
Forget about the virtuoso's reaction, your reaction to his recreation of bits of the song is the best.
Grammy winning S&M version of this is required reading friend. Live and in their prime Metallica with a full symphony behind them, right up your alley correct?
Should've given him a snippet of the enhanced bass version afterwards, Cliff plays some wicked stuff that you barely/don't hear
I absolutely love this channel and hearing thoughts from a classical musician on metal music! If ever you decide to dive into Iron Maiden, I have six fun recommendations:
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Phantom of the Opera
Fear of the Dark
Hallowed be thy Name
El Dorado
Caught Somewhere in Time
Thanks for the recommendations! We plan on getting to Maiden soon. 🤘
This is cool. Fade to black or anything from S&m would be cool. If you venture off from Metallica maybe do Diary of a Madman by Ozzy
excellent reaction man. really. was a pleasure watchin you see and feel the music we came to love also. really happy you enjoyed it as much as we do. im here for all your metallica reactions . you have so much talent. id love to hear your take of this song on piano actually. its also validating to all of us metallica fans when someone of your talent and skill can appreciate what was generally considered crap music. more metallica reactions please. give him the lyrics also if there are lyrics . he may appreciate it more. and your whole format really is entertaining and the sound is great. keep it up
Thank you!
If you did a separate channel covering these songs strictly on piano, that would be amazing. 🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Cool stuff man! So glad to see this reaction, I play piano and guitar and this song is just fun to play along with
I’m sure you gonna like this one🤟🏼
I know I requested this one 👌
I love you guys.
So one night I was listening to the radio and they used to have a program called mandatory Metallica, which means that two requested songs by Metallica would be played at a certain hour. And I heard this. And my respect for them was catapulted to a whole Nother level, because I never knew that they had the capability to write this sort of song. Because I was only shown before then what my brother liked. But it was this one that I think truly drew me into Metallica. It took me a while to get really hooked on those guys, but it was this song and I wish they would write more like it.
The best Metallica reaction channel on UA-cam thank you Gentlemen 🤘
Thank you! 🤘
This by far is my favorite album from Metallica 🤘🏻💥🔥🙏🏻
You gotta check out the 1999 S&M version! It is gonna blow your mind!!!
Wow! I've watched a lot of reaction channels but you guys might be the best. He doesn't hear the music, he feels it. That's awesome to see someone else react as I would. Does that make sense? Lol
Makes perfect sense. Thank you! 🤘
I really love you guys, you are so funny!
Like, for reacting to songs like these. I did learn the basics of playing electric guitar and metal with Metallica, specially this song which probably was one of the first guitar solos I did learn, I consider Metallica my first teachers on how to play metal on guitar and drums. Brings me good old memories of playing this song over and over with my band, along with lots of Metallica's songs. I'm not sure if I want to see more Metallica's songs reactions, at this point I'm kinda bored about those songs, but I will keep Metallica forever in my heart.
The "wild cat bass screams" reaction was hilarious. I still remember myself years ago being puzzled when I found out its Cliff Burton dong this.
Dang.. Dave's stuff really holds up..
This song is WILD when it comes to bass.
It's as if Cliff was playing his own bass solo the entire time. It's a shame that he's barely heard outside of the wild wah swells.
Edit: if you'd like to react and hear audibly EVERYTHING that Cliff plays extremely accurately, check out the bass cover from Djobassful. It's CRAZY what's hidden in the mix.
never saw that channel, will have to check it out. thx for suggestion, I've been watching Andriy's covers for almost a decade now, the guy is/ was obsessed with Cliff
@fattymcgee123 He's got two Ktulu covers. I personally prefer the older one of the two, but both are good.
I also highly recommend checking out his Anesthesia cover. He included parts cliff used to play live at shows. It's crazy good.
Wow, thanks for giving a righteous plug for that bass cover! What an awesome listen!
@pinchesalvaje I highly recommend his Anesthesia Pulling teeth cover, too. It's arguably the best cover on UA-cam. Includes parts Cliff played live.
How he played the piano after was impressive 🎉
This song and Orion are just awesome, can totally escape into the music.
like listening to an epic tale right in a song, three act structure and all.... Just awesome.
And wow, dude has an awesome ear
Agreed! Along with fire against fire! James and Cliff did there thing on this track!
I always felt when cliff made that sound with his bass it was ctithulhu making his scream to make ya go insane