@@aleksastefanovic.4451 The part Dave "claims" to have written is the galloping chords after this section...except take away the gallops and just play the chords...that's what he played on old jam tape. Not that riff
Load and Reload are pretty underrated and get a lot of unnecessary hate in the Metal community. I’ve always been a sucker for the Bluesier sound on those records. Back in high school those were my two favourite Metallica LPs.
I just love the gallopy nature of the Frayed Ends of Insanity riff, and the pure thrash of Dyers Eve and the bridge riff of Damage Incorporated. But I think that all these songs are great! They all of a special place in my heart.
Man I love the groovines of the eye of the beholder. People nowadays are going for anything that will blow your mind. Something that you just can't understand. But for me, the groove is the essential part of the riff
That damage Inc riff is my favourite Metallica riff! Shortest straw is underrated and No remorse needs more love! Also the struggle within after the solo rocks!
I really like the love for Load/ReLoad riffs. I don't feel like they get enough appreciation from the majority of Metallica fans. The overall sound was a pretty big departure but it's impossible to argue there aren't some killer riffs on those albums. King Nothing is one of my all time favorite riffs to play. It might not be as technically challenging as anything off Puppets or Justice but it's so damn fun to actually play that it's hard not to fall in love with it.
Of Wolf and Man is definitely my favorite underrated Metallica song, it has the same black album headbanging feel to it as Wherever I May Roam and Sandman
Some really stellar riff choices, here, and it's nice you included the bass on the "...And Justice For All" songs! "Disposable Heroes" is one of my absolute favorite songs on "Puppets" and has been since the album's release. Nice crunch tone, too!
I remember being super excited when they released some snippets of riffs that would be in St. Anger. I bet if they re-recorded and released it with a decent production (like Nevermore did with Enemies of Reality), plus some editing to cut out the endless repetition, it would be a banger, even without solos.
great picks! Many of my favourite riffs. Also, thought I was among very few people that like the Am I Savage riff, good to see that riff in the video as well.
Man, I remember listening to Carpe Diem for the first time because I thought I had turned the wrong band on lol. It's almost as heavy as Sad but True and all the blues-ier 🤘. First class example of this video's namesake. Amazing video man. A lot of these amazing riffs get overshadowed by the main hits, so it's nice to see some coverage.
Love it. Great transitions to make this enjoyable as a whole performance! One minor quibble over the “Carpe Diem Baby” verse - those power chords should have a fifth below, too, on the bottom E string (think Rage Against the Machine or the bridge of “Blackened”).
That Leper Messiah has to be one of their greatest riffs ever made ( I was not expecting sweet amber that made me so unbelievably happy to see that song getting love as it’s my favorite off St.Anger)
Thank you so much for this video! That means that I am not the only one who likes these riffs. Literally, accept for Purify, all of them are my favorite!! Thank you, great sounding and playing
Some of the straight up baddest-ass riffs ever conceived IMO. I spent HALF MY LIFE learning to play like this just because these riffs were so awesome and powerful and no matter how much I scoured, there was very little else in this style. Tons of imitators but nothing that really is as potent as this stuff.
Frayed Ends of Sanity may as well just be the most underrated EVERYTHING for Metallica. The song is absolutely fantastic in every way and never got the run that other classics did. That first riff from this video is one of my favorites from the band.
I came here to see the cool guitar in the preview picture. I was pleasantly surprised by and stayed for tightly played metallica riffs with an appropriately dialed level of gain for the first time in youtube history.
I have no doubt in my head you did this very well! I want to get that out of the way from the start. Cleanly produced, played the riffs well, these are some of the more obscure riffs and good choices too… however, the one thing I would like to put on the table: you need to stop rushing. I noticed it right from Frayed Ends, you were always just slightly ahead of the beat. Not enough for anyone other than myself (probably) to notice, and after a while I got used to it, but for me it was a tiny bit off putting and some of the riffs which heavily utilize staccato chords in the right ear while the left is playing the riff got some of their punch and impact taken away just by how ahead of the downbeat you tended to be. Again you played well I have no doubt in my mind, that was just the one thing that lightly nipped at me overall. Probably just a me thing as well. Well done though!
love your work & accuracy of the tones, these are the best riffs out there for sure.. just a humble reminder; you might want to doube check the last verse of the house that jack built ;) Cheers
Awesome stuff man. I totally agree. Personally, I reckon that Fixxxer is their most underrated song! However, at no stage and in nobody's language, has anything on St Anger EVER been a Bonus!🤣🤣
Great playing all the way through. If you want an extra challenge, I’ve seen Hetfield play that Eye of the Beholder riff with all downstrokes. Live at Mexico 1993, during the Justice medley they do
Great job. My kind of tone 👍🎸 Could you explain a little bit about how you are getting your sound and what that device behind you is? Thanks. Are you playing out a tube amp, some kind of modelling?
"20 *underrated* riffs" : Nothing from the first four albums can be called "underrated"... "Lepper Messiah", "Frayed end of Sanity", "Shortest Straw", "Dyers Eve", "Eye of the Beholder", "Damage Inc", "disposable Heroes", "No Remose", "Phantom Lord" , "Trapped under Ice"; "Call of Ktulluh"... no matter what riff or isolate material you take off, they're part of a wide consensus of canonicity...They're classic. Admit it, the tiltle was just an excuse to play your favourite riffs. And you play them well with a very nice guitar tone btw.
omg yes, amazing video. i loved all the riffs, but essentially my all time favourites are eye of the beholder, trapped under ice, wasting my hate, ain't my bitch, the judas kiss, am I savage and (for me) the most underrated Shoot me again!!
I might have been dragged into the metal scene by Puppets and Sandman, but I stuck around for the deeper cuts. It's honestly such a shame to see so many of their songs never get the popularity that they deserve, and even more so to see entire albums wiped from setlists, save for a song or two. My favourite album was and likely always will be St. Anger, and people look at me with disgust when I say it. They never give me the opportunity to explain myself, and shun me away thinking I'm trolling them. St. Anger (resigned to being a meme album forevermore, evidently) was perfectly serviceable. It isn't that hard to tune yourself away from the snare and gleam onto the positives; namely, the most unhinged vocal performance James has (and will ever) put down. This is literal do-or-die stuff, and the screws only get looser the further into the album you go. (LuLu also wasn't entirely terrible, Pumping Blood is pretty darn good and most of the songs are fine or decent even without the meme value of The View, regarding a certain band member's fascination with cosplaying as a certain four-legged piece of furniture -- usually carved from wood, designed for placing items or objects on top of it.) We all know that this album is in Drop C for the most part, but they went bonkers changing tuning on nearly half the songs on the album. C#? Sure. Dirty Window it is. A#? Unnamed Feeling is your cup of tea. Drop G#...?! (Wait, what?) Yeah, that's right. Drop G#. Metallica were pulling a Meshuggah and djenting in 2003. I've driven my housemates mad playing all the riffs from that song hundreds of times. In a row. On a loop. It's so fun. Basically, so long as you approached it in the right mindset. It's an album that hates you, and you hate it. You channel that hate and push forward doing whatever you want to get done quickly. You might not like listening to it, but absolutely ranks as a 11/10 workout playlist. I've never done reps quicker or with more gusto.
Solid List The Bonus one from ST.Anger even though the Album is Usualy erry low on a :Best MetallicA Album tier list, that Album has solid riff and Okay Songs
Killer job man!
Hi Mike. We meet again.
Wow, rare for another person with a channel to comment on another channel.
Agreed
Not really
Nobody talks about that Leper Messiah riff but I consider it one of their very best. Rock on! 🤘🏻
@@aleksastefanovic.4451 No
@@aleksastefanovic.4451 The part Dave "claims" to have written is the galloping chords after this section...except take away the gallops and just play the chords...that's what he played on old jam tape. Not that riff
@@aleksastefanovic.4451 Bruh why you all mustaine fans saying he wrote everything u guys annoying as hell
@@utu_be cause that's his riff lmao
@@xaviermoyssenalvarez4419 no hate for Dave but y'all megadeth fanboys gotta stop believing shit he says.
Load and Reload are pretty underrated and get a lot of unnecessary hate in the Metal community. I’ve always been a sucker for the Bluesier sound on those records. Back in high school those were my two favourite Metallica LPs.
I just love the gallopy nature of the Frayed Ends of Insanity riff, and the pure thrash of Dyers Eve and the bridge riff of Damage Incorporated. But I think that all these songs are great! They all of a special place in my heart.
How's that a gallop🤔
@@youreadopted3960 The notes in between the hammer-ons and pull-offs are gallops, right? Gallop or not it’s still a cool riff.
@@WFStanton the notes in between the chords are just B's
@@SpywareVA those are gallops lol idk what you guys are on. that strumming pattern is a gallop.
@@chemikalfluffy well duh I know that, I'm just confused about the pull offs
The "The House that Jack built" riff is insane, also many from Re Load & Saint Anger are great, the "Sweet Amber" riff is killer ♫
Fixxxxer is such a fantastic riff. Always loved it. Wasting my hate was another hidden gem
Love that riff from Trapped Under Ice, definitely one of my favourite Metallica songs
And for some mysterious reado they didn't play it in Antarctica!
@@gbottesini Still a missed opportunity, it would’ve been perfect
Its so fun playing it on guitar
Some kind of monster holds a dear place in my heart. So heavy. Yet so catchy.
as long as the notes in between dont fuck with you
0-3-5
Man I love the groovines of the eye of the beholder. People nowadays are going for anything that will blow your mind. Something that you just can't understand. But for me, the groove is the essential part of the riff
It is always a pleasure to visit all metallica riffs from time to time. It is great that you included some riffs from Load and Reload.
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For me the most underrated riff is definetly My Friend of Misery, this song is overall just a total banger man
That damage Inc riff is my favourite Metallica riff!
Shortest straw is underrated and
No remorse needs more love!
Also the struggle within after the solo rocks!
I really like the love for Load/ReLoad riffs. I don't feel like they get enough appreciation from the majority of Metallica fans. The overall sound was a pretty big departure but it's impossible to argue there aren't some killer riffs on those albums. King Nothing is one of my all time favorite riffs to play. It might not be as technically challenging as anything off Puppets or Justice but it's so damn fun to actually play that it's hard not to fall in love with it.
I’ve always loved 2x4 and House that Jack built
Of Wolf and Man is definitely my favorite underrated Metallica song, it has the same black album headbanging feel to it as Wherever I May Roam and Sandman
so in love the trapped under ice one!
Some really stellar riff choices, here, and it's nice you included the bass on the "...And Justice For All" songs! "Disposable Heroes" is one of my absolute favorite songs on "Puppets" and has been since the album's release. Nice crunch tone, too!
that one trapped under ice riff has always been one of my favorites, nice to see it getting some attention
I absolutely love Bleeding Me! Currently learning this as my first song and it’s been a good experience so far🤞
Ya Bleeding Me is one of the top songs on Load for sure.
How’s it going? One year late to the party
You gave the deserved attention for Load and ReLoad awesome riffs! Fixxxer, Carpe Diem Baby and The House Jack Built are insane riffs!
I remember being super excited when they released some snippets of riffs that would be in St. Anger. I bet if they re-recorded and released it with a decent production (like Nevermore did with Enemies of Reality), plus some editing to cut out the endless repetition, it would be a banger, even without solos.
great picks! Many of my favourite riffs. Also, thought I was among very few people that like the Am I Savage riff, good to see that riff in the video as well.
Nice playing, James is such a inspiration, the Best rhytm dude ever
The House Jack Built is literally one of Metallica’s greatest riffs
i agree
Love how grungy it is
Shame they haven't ever played it live.
It’s very Alice in chains that one
Sweet Amber's bridge riff is one of the best riffs from post-Black Album era and it's actually pretty underrated.
Man, I remember listening to Carpe Diem for the first time because I thought I had turned the wrong band on lol. It's almost as heavy as Sad but True and all the blues-ier 🤘. First class example of this video's namesake.
Amazing video man. A lot of these amazing riffs get overshadowed by the main hits, so it's nice to see some coverage.
Love it. Great transitions to make this enjoyable as a whole performance! One minor quibble over the “Carpe Diem Baby” verse - those power chords should have a fifth below, too, on the bottom E string (think Rage Against the Machine or the bridge of “Blackened”).
That Leper Messiah has to be one of their greatest riffs ever made ( I was not expecting sweet amber that made me so unbelievably happy to see that song getting love as it’s my favorite off St.Anger)
I have the same opinion 🤘
So many great choices and mentions in the comments. One I personally like that I didn't see was 2x4 off of load. It's got a bluesy heavy swing to it.
Thank you so much for this video! That means that I am not the only one who likes these riffs. Literally, accept for Purify, all of them are my favorite!! Thank you, great sounding and playing
Man great choice of riffs. All are great
I was actually ezpecting some more from DM or HTSD... especially ManUnkind's main riff or Revenge's intro. But great job anyway
People do really be forgetting how heavy for an E Standard "Am I savage?"'s Riff. Nice choices for the video man,great work
Man this brings back memories! These are the riffs that taught me to play guitar. And it’s confirmed - Het is the all time riff master. Nice work.
I’m aware that many people hate Load but man, it’s one of my favorites. All of the songs on that album are amazing in their own way.
Damn good riffs on that album ngl
Same for me with the St.Anger. It is probably my favourite album, probably 2nd after Justice. IDK why everyone hates St. Anger so much.
You played some of the best riffs from justice and puppets but that inclusion of the trapped under ice bridge hit really close to home 🤘
That Damage Inc. riff 😍
Some of the straight up baddest-ass riffs ever conceived IMO.
I spent HALF MY LIFE learning to play like this just because these riffs were so awesome and powerful and no matter how much I scoured, there was very little else in this style. Tons of imitators but nothing that really is as potent as this stuff.
Hetfield is the GOAT
Harvester of sorrow olmaması üzdü hocam, yine de tekrar harika bir video 👏👏👏
Siiick! The transition between riffs is savage. And the ending is epic!
That riff of damage, inc is awesome
That was so sick! Def going to learn some of these! Thanks for the tabs too, great vid 💪
Imagine this as a setlist
Your battery riff made me realize how much I like that song 🤘
So many underrated riffs from Load and Reload.
Purify, Sweet Amber, Trapped Under Ice, Carpe Diem Baby. Solid list!!
Ummm hell yeah! Deep Load/Reload cuts that I have always appreciated. That Damage Inc riff though 😵
was hoping trapped under ice would be in here. One of my favorites
A riff I love that no one ever talks about is through the never. It's as fast as master of puppets and its all down picking.
You've got it all!!
Merry christmas and a happy new year ❤
Props for the Load riffs! Great playing, as usual.
Finally!
Someone who actually knows the right way to play Dyers Eve!
Dude your track panning in this video was great.
Grats on 100K! (and thanks for these!)
Great job brother , doesn't get any better, you nailed it!!!!
sıkılmadan zevkle seyrettirdin hocam eline sağlık ;)
That transition from judas kiss to am i savage was perfect
Nice rings bro🤘🤘
Frayed Ends of Sanity may as well just be the most underrated EVERYTHING for Metallica. The song is absolutely fantastic in every way and never got the run that other classics did. That first riff from this video is one of my favorites from the band.
I came here to see the cool guitar in the preview picture. I was pleasantly surprised by and stayed for tightly played metallica riffs with an appropriately dialed level of gain for the first time in youtube history.
great video, selection, playing, editing quality, great job
The Thing That Should Not Be is another song that has killer riffs and is underrated as hell.
I have no doubt in my head you did this very well! I want to get that out of the way from the start. Cleanly produced, played the riffs well, these are some of the more obscure riffs and good choices too… however, the one thing I would like to put on the table: you need to stop rushing. I noticed it right from Frayed Ends, you were always just slightly ahead of the beat. Not enough for anyone other than myself (probably) to notice, and after a while I got used to it, but for me it was a tiny bit off putting and some of the riffs which heavily utilize staccato chords in the right ear while the left is playing the riff got some of their punch and impact taken away just by how ahead of the downbeat you tended to be. Again you played well I have no doubt in my mind, that was just the one thing that lightly nipped at me overall. Probably just a me thing as well.
Well done though!
love your work & accuracy of the tones, these are the best riffs out there for sure.. just a humble reminder; you might want to doube check the last verse of the house that jack built ;) Cheers
Sick video dude
Awesome stuff man. I totally agree. Personally, I reckon that Fixxxer is their most underrated song! However, at no stage and in nobody's language, has anything on St Anger EVER been a Bonus!🤣🤣
Great playing all the way through. If you want an extra challenge, I’ve seen Hetfield play that Eye of the Beholder riff with all downstrokes. Live at Mexico 1993, during the Justice medley they do
Eso es imposible, hasta para James.
the tone sounds great
That was brilliant, well done. Makes me want to pick the guitar up again. Where do you get the backing tracks from? Subscribed!
Thank you, I made the backing track, available on my Patreon, link in the description
Oh nice one, so you made them yourself? Wish I knew how to do all that type of stuff, and have tab on the screen etc.
Great job. My kind of tone 👍🎸 Could you explain a little bit about how you are getting your sound and what that device behind you is? Thanks. Are you playing out a tube amp, some kind of modelling?
Thanks, that device is Axe-Fx III an amp modeler, I use Usa Lead model based on Mesa Mark IV
and preset availble on my patreon 🤘
I love that Fixxxer is in here! Nice job!
"20 *underrated* riffs" : Nothing from the first four albums can be called "underrated"... "Lepper Messiah", "Frayed end of Sanity", "Shortest Straw", "Dyers Eve", "Eye of the Beholder", "Damage Inc", "disposable Heroes", "No Remose", "Phantom Lord" , "Trapped under Ice"; "Call of Ktulluh"... no matter what riff or isolate material you take off, they're part of a wide consensus of canonicity...They're classic. Admit it, the tiltle was just an excuse to play your favourite riffs. And you play them well with a very nice guitar tone btw.
Yes you caught me, I love them all and had fun with making these video.
Great job dude😎👍
Great stuff. I Almost forgot about a few of those riffs. Now I need to watch again and play along.
hey man , nice vid! just a note, the leper messiah riff is played 1 string lower and 5 frets higher. check any live vids from kirk
The Damage Inc riff may be one of the best if not the best riff James ever wrote
That riff was written by Kirk, mate
That was brilliant man thanks!
Absolutely cracking riffs!
In my eyes, underrated and overhated Metallica songs are the true MVPS!
People sleep on load and reload too much but they both have alot of fantastic riffs
I was waiting for Sweet Amber. Was not disappointed.
omg yes, amazing video. i loved all the riffs, but essentially my all time favourites are eye of the beholder, trapped under ice, wasting my hate, ain't my bitch, the judas kiss, am I savage and (for me) the most underrated Shoot me again!!
Judass kiss is so fking badass. really love that riff
I might have been dragged into the metal scene by Puppets and Sandman, but I stuck around for the deeper cuts. It's honestly such a shame to see so many of their songs never get the popularity that they deserve, and even more so to see entire albums wiped from setlists, save for a song or two. My favourite album was and likely always will be St. Anger, and people look at me with disgust when I say it. They never give me the opportunity to explain myself, and shun me away thinking I'm trolling them.
St. Anger (resigned to being a meme album forevermore, evidently) was perfectly serviceable. It isn't that hard to tune yourself away from the snare and gleam onto the positives; namely, the most unhinged vocal performance James has (and will ever) put down. This is literal do-or-die stuff, and the screws only get looser the further into the album you go.
(LuLu also wasn't entirely terrible, Pumping Blood is pretty darn good and most of the songs are fine or decent even without the meme value of The View, regarding a certain band member's fascination with cosplaying as a certain four-legged piece of furniture -- usually carved from wood, designed for placing items or objects on top of it.)
We all know that this album is in Drop C for the most part, but they went bonkers changing tuning on nearly half the songs on the album.
C#? Sure. Dirty Window it is.
A#? Unnamed Feeling is your cup of tea.
Drop G#...?! (Wait, what?)
Yeah, that's right. Drop G#. Metallica were pulling a Meshuggah and djenting in 2003. I've driven my housemates mad playing all the riffs from that song hundreds of times. In a row. On a loop. It's so fun. Basically, so long as you approached it in the right mindset. It's an album that hates you, and you hate it. You channel that hate and push forward doing whatever you want to get done quickly.
You might not like listening to it, but absolutely ranks as a 11/10 workout playlist. I've never done reps quicker or with more gusto.
Awesome! Could do 10 Metallica Interludes. I always think Metallica are the Masters of Interludes! 🤘😀🤘
Also, could do Top 10 rhythm under solos! 🤘😀🤘
Hell yeah! Lots of way over looked riffs on load and reload, some of my favorite songs on those 2 albums IMO!🤟🏼
Solid List The Bonus one from ST.Anger even though the Album is Usualy erry low on a :Best MetallicA Album tier list, that Album has solid riff and Okay Songs
So happy someone actually gave some attention to Sweet Amber. Such a sick riff, holy shit.
Showing love for Load/Reload. Freaking awesome.
Beautiful long live the riff masters Metallica
Many of my favourites came up in this, glad to see it
Love your playing, very tight! Fits perfectly with that guitar tone as well
Just found your UA-cam channel, fucking love it dude keep it like that!
Nice work those riffs are great
Underrated by whom? Each riff is pure masterpiece.
2:16 this is my alltime favorite ! Jaymz go!
Outlaw Torn is the most underrated
Metal Militia ve Through the Never olaydı tam döngüye almalık olurdu. Emeklerine sağlık güzel çalışma🤘🤘
I forgot how much I hate the song Carpe Diem, but that is a badass riffe...God that Failed is definitely top 5 favorite Metallica riffs though.
I feel like half of these are iconic riffs instead of underrated though
That riff from Am I savage is their heaviest riff. Makes me like the song