[0:01] Metal Massacre was released in June 14, 1982 (not 1981) (During October 1981 to February 1982, the band particed, until their first show in March 14, 1982 at Radio City, Anaheim) NOTE: Hetfield only used vocals during the early shows until May 1982 on Back Bay High School (Lloyd Grant stayed in the band for a while, to record the first demo of Hit The Lights) In the show in Back Bay High School in Costa Mesa, Hetfield played guitar and sang for the first time, and so Hetfield sings and plays guitar to this day.
I can understand and agree why James didn’t like his voice in the first 3 albums. Everything from AJFA sounded much in tune to the respective notes of whatever song is being played, and I could hear it from that album onwards
My favorite era of James’ vocals is between And Justice For All and The Black Album. It sounded so badass, and the melodic parts on the ballads were also very beautiful. In the modern era his voice became a bit more high pitched, which I didn’t really like, but he’s still a good vocalist in my opinion.
Fun Fact: James actually used autotune in the album S&M. You can hear bits of it in the songs shown here. By far the one and only time autotune was used
@rossen7392He hasnt used autotune in the other albums except only in the s&m albums the first s&m was autotuned alot but the 2nd wasnt auto tuned as much
@rossen7392There is absolutely no autotune on Death Magnetic. Whoever told you that wants you to think James was incapable of reaching those highs and ambitious notes, which he absolutely could.
Ive been a fan of Metallica for years, and I have a couple hot takes that I know people will argue with me about. First, Load and Reload are great albums and I think they have the best vocals. His clean and "regular" vocals on both albums are incredible and I think those albums get alot of criticism because they took a left turn and did something else. Second, I think St. Anger isnt that bad. Yes the snare sounds like garbage, literally, but you get used to it. Lars even used that sound on I Dissappear. The songs on St. Anger are good. Listen to Sweet Amber, Frantic, All Within My Hands, Dirty Window, and some more songs on the album. They have good lyrics and sound really good. Im sorry for the long rant but I wanted to say this.
@@RWEHORSE it was a compilation that was released every year with fresh new metal bands everytime, and Metallica was in the 1981 edition with Hit the Lights, with 2 versions of it being out. The compilation also revealed Slayer, Overkill etc Just for curiosity, in this version James played bass, and it is the only recording with Lloyd Grant as guitarist
The isolated vocals made me realize he’s always used more vibrato than I thought.
What is vibrato
When you vibrate your voice, same effect when you play guitar, for example, and you shake your finger on the note, it wiggles
@ oh ok thank you
1:27 bro I can’t unhear it 💀🙏
😭😭
No😭😭😭
I love the ferociousness and control of James' voice on 72 Seasons. All that vocal training paid off, of course.
Once he got voice training his voice changed so much🤘🤘🤘
yeah
It saved his entire career, if he didn’t get training around late 92-93 his voice would have been done for.
@@goldenwolf8081 yeah he couldn’t even speak after the black album
My most favorite is his voice from AJFA. But having said that, I really like James's ordinary talking voice, like when he is doing interviews.
Even before having vocal training James always had a very nice natural vibrato in his singing, these isolated tracks further prove it
From Power Metal to Heavy Metal
Power to Thrash to Heavy
[0:01] Metal Massacre was released in June 14, 1982 (not 1981) (During October 1981 to February 1982, the band particed, until their first show in March 14, 1982 at Radio City, Anaheim)
NOTE: Hetfield only used vocals during the early shows until May 1982 on Back Bay High School (Lloyd Grant stayed in the band for a while, to record the first demo of Hit The Lights)
In the show in Back Bay High School in Costa Mesa, Hetfield played guitar and sang for the first time, and so Hetfield sings and plays guitar to this day.
I can understand and agree why James didn’t like his voice in the first 3 albums. Everything from AJFA sounded much in tune to the respective notes of whatever song is being played, and I could hear it from that album onwards
The transition from The Unforgiven (which surely is among James' softest vocals) to King Nothing was very stark. King sounded gritty and thicc
My favorite era of James’ vocals is between And Justice For All and The Black Album. It sounded so badass, and the melodic parts on the ballads were also very beautiful. In the modern era his voice became a bit more high pitched, which I didn’t really like, but he’s still a good vocalist in my opinion.
6:02 what happened to james hair 😂
He's look like Johnny Napalm from Guitar Hero
The camera caught him at the wrong time when he must've headbanged or turnt his head too fast, giving him a Mohawk lol
Load/Re-Load best balance, but justice is Awesome agressive tone!
I love James sm ❤
Idk if you did this already, but ranking every guitar solo by metallica will be a dope video (including bass solos)
1988 and 2023 prime for me
james vocal best era (master-reload)
Fun Fact: James actually used autotune in the album S&M. You can hear bits of it in the songs shown here. By far the one and only time autotune was used
@@salvadormeridian halo on fire really sounds like he used auto tune
he’s used autotune on studio albums as well since Death Magnetic
He doesn't use any autotune, whoever mixed the album etc used some pitch correction in post
@rossen7392He hasnt used autotune in the other albums except only in the s&m albums the first s&m was autotuned alot but the 2nd wasnt auto tuned as much
@rossen7392There is absolutely no autotune on Death Magnetic. Whoever told you that wants you to think James was incapable of reaching those highs and ambitious notes, which he absolutely could.
in sanitarium you can get voice from verse 1
AJFA is my personal favorite
Metal massacre James 😭😭😭😭
@@IrishMerauder he really wanted to sound like diamond head
Nice video. And James, in my opinion, best metal singer. I would like see same with Dave Mustaine))
2023 better than 2008 for sure
His voice is perfect during Load era
Metallica rocks!!!!!!!🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥🔥
Where can I get the isolated vocals?
@@andreylucass most of songs except for htsd got official tracks from guitar hero, rock band, fortnite festival etc.
Ive been a fan of Metallica for years, and I have a couple hot takes that I know people will argue with me about. First, Load and Reload are great albums and I think they have the best vocals. His clean and "regular" vocals on both albums are incredible and I think those albums get alot of criticism because they took a left turn and did something else. Second, I think St. Anger isnt that bad. Yes the snare sounds like garbage, literally, but you get used to it. Lars even used that sound on I Dissappear. The songs on St. Anger are good. Listen to Sweet Amber, Frantic, All Within My Hands, Dirty Window, and some more songs on the album. They have good lyrics and sound really good. Im sorry for the long rant but I wanted to say this.
What's metal massacre?
@@RWEHORSE it was a compilation that was released every year with fresh new metal bands everytime, and Metallica was in the 1981 edition with Hit the Lights, with 2 versions of it being out. The compilation also revealed Slayer, Overkill etc
Just for curiosity, in this version James played bass, and it is the only recording with Lloyd Grant as guitarist
is it still a thing
@@RWEHORSE i think it ended in the 80s, it had about 5 compilations i have no idea
should’ve included no life til leather
Why are some of the vocals so crusty. The GHM stems sound fine to use.
S&M was autotuned.