Metallica: The Call of Ktulu (Live) [S&M]
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The Call of Ktulu (Hetfield/Ulrich/Burton/Mustaine)
Recorded live on April 21 & 22, 1999 at the Berkeley Community Theater in Berkeley, CA with the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Kamen.
Directed by Wayne Isham
© 1999 Blackened Recordings
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The call of Ktulu is a symphony by itself. With orchestra, it's a masterpiece.
Worthy of the master.
🖤🖤🖤
💙🖤💙
I know. I hate that I didn’t discover it 50-11 years ago 😂
I blame my obsession with Prince.
Damn tunnel vision.
Fire
Jason is just another level. He honoured Cliff very well. That bass melts
😢brought a tear with this one
True, but it's missing the scream of the wah and fuzz
@idkjustahandle-its there, the wah distortion sounds were just mixed really low in comparison to his "DI" track
watch the performance of this song in honolulu from the same year. its way better mixed
I was lucky enough to be there live. My very first Metallica show too. During 'Ecstacy' and 'Ktulu' I just stood there in awe over what I was witnessing. Just unbelievable.
I envy you so much. I was born in 1994, so I was only 5 years old at the time of this amazing show lol.
Congrats for assisting to Metallica's finest Live Gig ever !! watched it first time in VH1 germany in 2000 and was in awe for 1 week ( luckily i recorded it on VHS ) . The thing that should not be on SM is the definitve version
I remember listening live to the NY show over the Internet. The old RealPlayer software iirc. They retitled W&M "Of Wolfgang and Man." Loved it.
Lucky sir
Salute
This is by far the greatest performance of this song. It is like a force of nature. It's soft and mellow at the start but begins to develop a brilliantly eerie vibe, which leads to one of the most powerful and devastating explosions of sound I've ever heard. Its like witnessing the creation and the destruction of the universe at the same time. Just...difficult to put into words any further, really.
Abhishek Tarafdar KEK destroying Moloch
The best description in words!!!
Your comment is astonishing
I totally agree, and for me, S&M is cool, but I think that the orchestra is really out of place for some songs, but this performance is absolutely the exception, and I think it's the best version of the song.
Damn that's a really good description for the call of ktulu. I always imagined it like that with the force of nature being Cthulhu.
orchestra puts this song on another level
IKR
I thought the orchestra was playing a totally different song. Like someone mistakenly switched music sheets. Orchestra sounds like they're playing some 007 James Bond homage song. Love the original, think S&M has great great tunes but this one is just horrible. It's a mess actually ...
mano nao concordo nada, isto da uma aura épica à musica na minha opiniao
Aceito quem não concorde. Afinal é uma opinião. Há de ser sempre uma questão de sensibilidade e de gostos mas esta versão soa-me muito esquisita ... se bem que o original foi escrito pelo Dave Mustaine. Espera lá ...
Marco Geração I had the same opinion on the For Whom the Bell Tolls S&M version as well, the orchestra’s parts just didn’t seem to go very well with the Metallica songs they were for.
This song is all about the bass. Beautiful parts by Cliff and Jason is awesome too.
Uh cliff died in 1986...
@@jeaniejean8200 yeah but cliff wrote the bass parts
@@jeaniejean8200 Cliff wrote the song, well technically the entire band did their own parts, Cliff wrote the bass solos plus the part where he makes it scream like a demon
@Offworlderplayz1960 good to know thanks
In my opinion, Jason did very well with the mini bass solos!
Bet Cliff is proud of him!
One word: Epic! Thank you Michael Kamen for asking Metallica to do this concert and thank you Metallica for accepting his offer!
Was a idea that born in "Black álbum" era... But maybe Lars said as a joke in 1991 when Michael Kamen tell him...
I love this concert. I can imagine being in the orchestra and getting to play this fantastic music with the band.
ok we got it
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The DVD has the make off and there's a woman from the orchestra that says she told her kid she was about to play with Metallica and he went crazy. She did not knew what the band represents to metal at all.
I've very often felt the same thoughts as in my younger days I played baritone. Always imagined dressed to the nines on stage with Metallica playing this piece. Gives me goosebumps every time I think about it.
This is the best Metallica album. I will die on this hill.
Same, absolute masterpiece
Favourite live album ever, no doubt about that 👌
I don't know how I've listened to this for so many years and never appreciated how superb Lars' drumming is in this performance, especially through Kirk's solo section.
this whole concert is one of the best noises ever made on this earth
Fuck yeah
kirk's guitar playing is sick
This is what makes them such a bad ass band, the way they mix metal with orchestra, seriously great artists
Better than version on S&M #2.
More epic, powerful and emotional!
R.I.P. Michael Kamen
To be honest, I like the S&M2 ver, more energetic and felt like an improvement from the S&M version.
And, R.I.P. Cliff Burton
@@deensaid7762But Kirk doesnt do it this well
@@deensaid7762 I agree, whole band seems more energetic. Also bass is improved lot
Lars' drumming is extremely exceptional this whole concert
He finaly had a conductor to keep him in rhythm.
Probably the show where he said "farewell" to the ride cymbal. Unfortunately...
@@atothef this is my favorite cymbals setup with the ride & splash
James Hetfield famously said “He’s not even the best drummer in Metallica”
@@JuanPablo-vz7xd no he didn't
Simply majestic. The brass instruments fit perfect with the song's dark apocalyptic atmosphere
R.I.P Michael Kamen
:(, porque murió, era un gran director, :(😞😨😱😢😪😭
Ben Farrell '03
Fuck me, '03? I've loved this guy's scores for ages!
FUCK YOU 2016
What I loved about his work here is that it was more reminiscent of his work on the Die Hard and Lethal Weapon movies than his other work in the Rock area with people like Pink Floyd and Eric Clapton.
And Cliff. He has also some classical roots
I wish they had done Orion while they had this setting ..
johnny wright or to live is to die
Orion its an instrumental song. But its SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO diferent
Not without Cliff.His bass solo in the beggining can't be copied, and will not sound good if it isn't him.
Marko Petkov Robert does it ok
johnny wright I think they wanted to do Orion but they didn't want Jason to play bass or Michael Kamen tired to fit orchestra into it but it didn't work
When you write a song and you put in as much to it possible to make rich and full, it takes a genius mind to add something else that you the song writer never thought of
RIP Michael Kamen
I just love the whole atmosphere that the symphony brought to this concert.
+Daniel Carneiro Holy shit dude, you look like Matthew Santoro.
remember when I was I kid, my father and brother and I used to watch this concert on vhs... that times come across to my mind today..... and my dad passed away 5 years ago...how I wish we can sit together to enjoy it again.
I have no doubt when you listen to this album concert your dad is right with you all the way!
God Bless
Fantastic!!! Almost 17 years... and still one of the most memorable days in Rock History!!!
Silvio Moraes I havent been able to get into a metallica album since load. reload was ok. But in my opinion this was a great set.
I know bands evolve. I used to think people who gave up on them when the black album were crazy, now i get it.
when the Black album came out I was telling my friends Metallica should play with an orchestra and they laughed at me and thought I was crazy :-)
Your Friends got their mouths shut
After 9 years
He who laughs last...
you were right then ? :) Orion would've fit perfectly.
Miller Any instrumental would've
Imho, this is the song where the orchestra truly shines in this concert. The arrangements are beautiful and haunting at the same time.
It feels extremely evil. Like the song itself is going to summon the Cthulhu on its own.
Listening to this song in the middle of a thunderstorm is on my bucket list
If you live in South Florida you have several opportunities to do that all the time
Remembering that Lars was an all out thrash drummer in their beginnings really makes you appreciate how far he's come as a drummer here
This song still gives me chills from beginning to end. I love the original version but the S&M version is just... amazing.
Love this song, by far the best perfomance of it ever, all 4 guys were right in the spot...specially Jason..
For me best Rock/Metal instrumental ever .
kirk always nails the solo on every rarely played songs
like goddamn he always nails Call of Ktulu's solo every performance
Lol what. Kirk hasn't "nailed" a solo since the early 90's.
Bro listen to To live is to die from their AJFA anniversary concert. I totally respect Kirk as a guitarist but the section with the bends sound so goddamn off
@@canocek3502 Kirk was a great solo composer; his solos were always written very well, and his live performances used to be very good.
Somewhere along the way he decided to stop playing note for note solos and try to improvise them but he ends up getting too far out of time. I'm thinking right now of the time they played Frayed Ends of Sanity and there's so many key changes under the solo... And he got off time and it ruined what is a great solo that highlights the changes very well... It ended up sounding awful. At least to me.
Kirk looks like a vampire in this song
This album and the other s&m album is the only live I will listen to
Bass with distortion = Love
Fuck if you try you can hear the bass so clear and even more! I could listen to that Bass scream "WAHH" (6:31 at this moment I was having an eargasm) but the orchestra and the other instruments have buried it, at least... Newsted was and is a fucking bassist :o
Metallica mixers (maybe influenced by Jaymz and Lars) always would bury the bass
You can't hear it in this version though.
I can hear the bass with wah loud and clear in the main riff
I was introduced to metal and neo classical through this concert, we didn't have internet back then it was expensive but we were exchanging CDs and the CD fell on my lap. I watched it all with awe and amazement ... metal music is so powerful and it heals me every time
When I was in like 6th grade my mom picked up this album and this song instantly became my favorite. Being that I played violin in my school orchestra, and loved the old school metal my mom introduced me to, it was pure perfection. Still in my top 3 favorite Metallica songs, even though my music taste has expanded so much.
This song, from this particular performance, was my reason why I'd started to listening metal when I was 14
Best live, love all this symphonic songs version, unforgettable
when the music reached the perfection
Definitely the best symphonic arrangement on S&M
Then reached the peak when they released S&M2 ver of Ktulu
cliff would have love it
I will cry :(
It was kind of his idea in the first place
Cliff would have thrown up at Jason’s playing. 🤮
LSweet2007 nah
Yup, but he would have play Orion 😁
When I first heard Metallica in the 80s I instantly loved their music, but never in a million years would of thought them playing with a symphony. This is a masterpiece!! It’s beautiful and music at it’s best. Lars killed it!!!
The Late Michael Kamen was a Genius along with James that put this Masterpiece together! Unreal! I love the Orchestra Version because of the added Intensity
to Metallica's Music!!
Out of this world.. not only is this the best live performance of this song, it may be one of the best performances by Metallica period.. an epic fusion of the band and the symphony that resulted in a perfect progressive rock masterpiece.
sounds like a really epic Bond song....
What ?!?! Someone that had the same thought I had when I listened to this song ?!?! Man, I agree with you all the way. The orchestra arrangements really sound like coming from a Bond movie sound track. IMHO, it destroys the dark mood the original song has. Most of the people don't get this at all. Glad I'm not the only one ...
It sounds like reading the short story it’s based on. Ebbs and flows like the cosmic horror of Lovecraft.
@@Robman0908 Exactly. This is fitting for the idea behind the song. Granted it's not what typical metal fans expect or accept, but it is fitting the the idea of the rise of an ancient god who will crush humanity as though it were nothing but a microbe on a flea...
Epic. It is epic.
@@Jayjen35 this is easily the best ever version of this song. And yeah it does sound it belongs in a movie. That's what makes it awesome
for me it could be the soundtrack for some kind of monster movie like godzilla
Jason Newsted is a fucking beast
Lol i skipped basketball practice and quit the day i saw this on VH1 and focused on guitar and trumpet when i was in the 6th grade! This concert changed my life forever…
7:15 goes so perfect with the orchestra
It's almost like Cliff had this in mind when he wrote it. The man was ahead of his time and he is greatly missed.
Metallica definitely knew what they were doing when they collabed with SFSO. It is truly unbelivable what happens when classical music is combined with rock music.
What a blend of styles, brings out the best in the band and Orchestra in my opinion! 🤘🔥🙌👏💖
This is one of the greatest things I have ever seen, along with witnessing both the creation and destruction of the universe at the same time.
After scrolling through the comments, I'm astonished that not a single person gave made props to Bob Rock for having to produce this amazing album as well. Bob had just as much influence on the sound of this epic record as the band and symphony. I couldn't imagine the task of having to record, yet alone mix and master all of this sonic intensity. I'd love to see what S&M2 would have sounded like with him at the boards.
This is one of the many reasons metallica is the best of the best...
The best bass performance, he played it like a damn beast ... only jason can play the bass louder than the band and a whole symphonye hh Big up duuuude
Hossam IZMAOUENE Great performance. Too bad they buried the bass. AGAIN
It's a deeply haunting, grand and dark song.
I’m so glad I was there. Still gives me goosebumps
My favorite concert of Metallica by far of all time. The orchestra just put the icing on the cake. And Call of Ktula by far my favorite all time Metallica song and again, the orchestra mixed in makes this the best version I've ever seen and heard. Phenomenal.
God this is such a masterpiece
Greatest piece of music ever created
I love how it goes back to the intro riff at the end, such a beautiful composition.
I would have liked to see Fade to Black played at this concert ;(
Thats my favorite song
and Orion
@The Mind Is A Powerful Thing Unless they play it at the S&M2 concert
they wanted to but found it didn't do well with a symphony.. same with Unforgiven
they will. for sure in the upcoming S&M 2 (;
This fucking song, nay, this PERFORMANCE, brings me to tears every single time. This is top-form Metallica firing on all cylinders, and Michael's orchestra brings the whole piece to the level of cinematic masterpiece.
God I hope they come out with a remastered high-definition bluray of this concert for the 25th anniversary in 2024.
I used to play this song when I am alone at the office, depressed, stressed, in high volume.
I feel an adrenaline injection.
Classical music was the world's first taste of metal
The best version of this song. The original does not stand out from other Metallica songs, but the orchestra is like from thriller movie. I love this
I love that Jason used his wah effect on this one, sounded more badass
And to all the symphony people who did an incredible job at this concert!
...and only one was a Metallica fan
@@canocek3502 Which one
@@lakejizzio7777the harp player lol
Orion would've fit so perfectly in it. R.I.P Michael Kamen
What a shame
Rest well Michael Kamen... you turned a great song into an epic with your score.
Play these incantatory riffs to summon your cosmic gods
Necronomicon is obsolete.
You can actually feel the horror coming out of the sea in this version... Amazing!
I have been listening this since very young.
Amongst all versions of The Call of Ktulu, I love this the most.
The bass dont scream...too bad
@@DOHCGThe strings are pretty much doing the screams.
2 decades later, this is still one of the most besutiful sounds that you will ever hear...
Amazing talent on all sides.
Clicking on this was a good idea.... The epic unfathomabl greatness of this is so indescribably vast and incomprehensible that to put it into words would crush the feeble human psyche.
+Hloden Devourer of the Sun Nice Lovecraftian comment. You were close.
How about, 'The sounds that emerged from the chamber were so bizarre and chilling as to suggest to the listener hideous visions of unfathomable gulfs of night-black terror from aeons long before man first crawled timorously from the jungles of primaeval Earth.'
Shut up.
From 7:00, only one word. Orgasmic.
I discovered Metallica with S&M 1... it was in 1999 (17y old)... and we are in 2021
2024*
I was 20 then, and I’m only discovering it now 🤯
RIP Michael Kamen
this is arguably lar's best performance ever.
Seattlle 1989 says otherwise
His work on Battery on S&M is pretty damn fine too.
his tempo is way too good here. 1989 is uncontrollably fast
He's playing to a click track in his ear. That's going to def help a guy like him. Not hating on the guy, just saying
Alex Lovato completely agree. He's spot on. They all sound amazingly tight. Fantastic display of musical ability.
What an absolute compliment to the original. Enough to make me prefer this version over the original. I say that as someone who has their star M tattooed on my body. Always have and always will be forever in love with these people. 💪🏼👍🏼🤘🏻
Only my soul knows what I experience listening to this masterpiece, it is literally a mystical experience for me. My soul leaves my body and I physically feel a slight ecstasy.
It is beyond me how they didn't perform Orion with an orchestra...the song is absolutely made for it.
PURE ART, making music combinations like this based off of traditional instruments and few modern electronic!
ALWAYS WILL REMAIN EPIC.
I love the lighting and the orchestra this is epic Metallica and symphony.
a Track like this will sadly never be created again i think
Frank Dux Yes, because it already exists. Get over it and enjoy this masterpiece! :)
Intransigente 45 very wise answer Sir....:)
Wont for metallica seeing as dave mustaine wrote this 😂
@Anemia dave wrote the beginning and end . it was a composition he called WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER . metallica added the middle of the song . if it was just one riff metallica would surely replace it and not have to cut dave a check but dave wrote the whole foundation of this song .
Cliff would’ve absolutely gone crazy to be part of the orchestra. He loved classical music and the theatrics of it and he definitely would’ve been proud to do a show with live orchestra
Jason really nailed it!
GORGEOUS
The best S&M song!
I had Goosebumps all over my body the first time I listen to this.
Still mesmerizing after all these years!
This must be one of the best concerts ever, if not the best ❤
Whenever I listen to new Metallica stuff, or their live videos, I miss the Ride cymbal
Truly the best performance of this song ever
facts
They should do another, but last, S&M show with Robert in the line-up & play songs they didn't play in the 1st one like The Four Horsemen, Fade to Black, Sanitarium, Orion, ..And Justice for All, all 3 The Unforgiven, The Day that never Comes to name a few
Those songs would sound epic with an orchestra \m/
yeah the first four you said would be epic, but what i still don't understand is why they didnt play Orion the first time!!!
All of those songs would be great, but I don't think they would do it because Michael Kamen is dead, so they wouldn't want to bring in someone new.
dalzelljack yeah, Michael Kamen was the one that make this concert epic, another thing that would be epic is that they make the two songs that were created for this concert with out the symphony
this idea is definition of the day that never comes. :D
Instant masterpiece. The whole album.
This video gave me chills just imagining if cliff was there rocking it. Jason is a monster too no doubt.
I truly think this is the best produced Metallica record
will always be my fav live show ever :")
Una de las canciones mas grandiosas de la historia de la musica en general !!! Obra maestra!!!!
Total masterpiece! There isn't a band out there that can do instrumentals like metallica. This is tried and true since the late 80's.
One of the best things to ever be recorded!
El nivel de Lars en esta época era extraordinario. Creatividad pura en esos fills.
The best live version
I need to hear this again. It's a transcendent cacophony of sound
S&M 2 is coming...