And its worth it.

There's drums

The whole album is a bass backing track

Nice

@@Wind-nj5xz oh hey it’s you! Remember me?

😂😂😂😂😂😂

bass *guitar*

But I can’t hear the bass at all...

bwgti I don’t wanna get wooshed but that is the point

@@adenarrington7607 woosh

Yup

I kept filling in the drums where I could lol

You know it!!

im hearing James in my head, and those tasty drums Lars had for a lil while.

I bought this album when it was released so yup, I can hear the entire song with just the guitar track.

It's the sound of a Mesa Boogie Mark IIC++ to be precise.

@@andrew6978 …and quadtracking for all

The sound of no mids lmao

@@Hieraldrich Scooped mids gives the best toan

@@chadfreeman5283 *depends

Yes, so many great riffs

They dont exactly have a lot of albums lmao

Metallica has recorded 10 studio albums.

@@cliffanderson7544 and that is hilariously low compared to so many other bands around for just as long. Metallica’s heroes, Rush, recorded 23 albums in the same amount of time. How about iron maiden? 16. Metallica have been hilariously unproductive particularly after the black album when they became so dysfunctional bc of james.

@@cliffanderson7544 seriously, 10 freakin albums in 40 years. Unbelievable.

Yess, I love them so much.

Lol

The 0s in the verse riff just fucks my head The dun dun dun dun (when James sings "Humanity!) Too

Hetfield is a guitar God, plain and simple.

I totally agree me as a Wanabee guitar player have gotten good at palm building at the right time and even picking. The bad part for me and the reason I don’t have a KZfaq channel with me playing if my left hand is injured and it can’t keep up with my right hand. However it doesn’t stop me from loving music that’s made by bands like Metallica iron maiden Megadeth And so on.lol. I guess I’m stuck singing horribly in my car when no one’s looking and playing air Guitar with one hand while rocking out to amazing metal music. LOL

Kirks best I think. It’s like a build up

@@AndJusticeForAll...1985 its a harmony, James written it

Harmonies in AJFA are something different. Hits hardest in To Live Is To Die

ZerefeL makes me shed a tear every. Fucking. Time

One Man Tent are you sure about that? So James wrote it and Kirk recorded it?

Thanks a lot man!!!!

@@FlyingV555 no problem

This should be pinned!!!

The harmony solo is probably my favorite guitar lick of anything.

5:33 Main riffs (offbeat)

😂

Hi Hats are there so you can quantize this track over drums if you wanted to remix it. Kinda like the slate in film. still funny tho

@@epso9944 when i edit my videos, i turn on a microphone for the playstation and the one i actually use together, then i clap 4 times and turn off the one of the play, that way in premiere i sync the claps and i know the rest will be synced

@@epso9944 I'm pretty sure those are added in by Harmonix, to count the player and fret board in for the user interface. (Rock Band)

I was thinking it was a que for when to stop holding that fade in note and start the harmonized melody of the intro

It's an awesome riff. Although after listening to the Justice riff tapes I realized James did two little but recognizable changes to the riff: he added one more note to the "tail" of the riff (as Lars would call it), making it sound thicker/tighter (you have to alternate on the 5th string really fast when you play it haha, kinda tricky to get it fully right) and the Bb on the second run of the riff (6th fret on the 6th string, those of you who have played the riff on guitar will know which note I'm referring to) avoiding the riff getting too repetitive. I also feel the way James played it is slightly different, more aggresive, maybe because Jason wrote the riff kinda "goofing around" with his bass and the guys liked it, so probably that's why it has that more "joyable" feeling on the riff tape played by Jason. Anyway, Jason's best musical contribution to Metallica in my opinion. What a riff!

RodHammett95 by far Jason’s best contribution, the main riff is way too fucking sick.

This riff gets your adrenaline rushing the the extreme

@@RodHammett95 j

@@RodHammett95 j

The vocals are not part of the finished product.

@@tonysandwiches7298 you're right, but he's making a joke about the bass line

@@tonysandwiches7298 I wish they weren't.

Abinav Venkatagiri Vocals are not part of the finished product?

Dave DD Neverrrahhhh!

Yooo same

😏

Yep it got me too lol

It just got me actually, as I was reading this comment.

🙌

I especially like 4:32

chills everytime man

@@DyersEve2022 ong

Can someone loop this shit??

Sorry to hear that, hope you get well enough to get out of bed.

@@bronson1392 I'm good, thanks. Just returned from a wedding

Jeremy Murphy amen

its been 3 days, are you out of the bed?

I got that same blood in me

Easily the best part of the band

"The Human Metronome" also sings over this.

That's why he is my idol. With all due respect to mister Dave Mustaine (and without taking his credit off) who is also a great musician, but James is a great guitarrist and a great singer and songwriter and plays guitar so perfectly that it 'hurts'. Probably the Lord Cliff Burton also has credit on his teachings to him. 😆😆💪

he is not a metronome this is all made in the studio.

@@steveryder8499 haha no shit what a logic...back then you had to play guitar all the way through in time

believe it or not, it's actually Jason's riff. And James turned it into the song

​@@elpelotero why wouldn't someone believe it? jasons a beast!

I'll say it and i don't care what anyone says. Jason could've be a perfect replacement for Cliff, if only Metallica gave more space to him at the time and he didnt left the band

But in my opinion he still remains a perfect replacement for cliff, my favorite bassist so far

​@@ExecutionerOfPoserstrue

It's so beautiful.

To be fair he didn't sing and play at the same time when recording and he obviously isn't as tight when doing both but yeah just the fact that he *can* do both and still be tight af with such complex riffs is amazing

@@settratheimperishable4093 “isn’t as tight when doing both” lmao what? Have you seen them play this song at literally any live show? Hetfield does it flawlessly

@@Kyled78 well yeah he is tight playing live but no where near as focused as on this recording

@@nick_terrorx I’m confused by what you mean by “focused”, of course he’s not gonna sound the same as the studio recording but I have yet to hear someone play it live better than het, Im not a guitar player myself so I may not be hearing something that you are but hetfield does it pretty amazing in my opinion

@@Kyled78 oh yeah of course he does it better than anyone, I’m a guitarist myself and I’d say I can play the song pretty well but Hetfield nails all the hidden stuff I can’t pick out in the recording

They played it higher then standard like 445hz why when you try to play with the album in standard it sounded off even worse on ride the lightning they played even higher in pitch on for whom the bell tolls to match the pitch of the bell lol

its in the combination of those fire breathing Mesa Boogie MarkII C+s they had + EMGs pickups + James' tight af playing and palm muting + a lot of overdubbing. this can make anything sound heavy as all hell regardless of tuning!

I really miss that era of their tone. I just do not understand why they changed it.

@@TempleGuitars 'Cause he broke his voice on the next record and had to adapt it and not get hurt. After the Black Album they turned down 1/2 step their tuning for studio/live

@@surfinsatch7096 doesnt really have anything to do with their guitar tone. Yeah in Load onwards theyre half a step down. Their guitar amps changed from iic+/quad preamp to mkiv

@@Jez3134 This is not me saying that, just James Hetfield in a video documentary while he tried to warm up his voice before live

Master of Puppets and AJFA have Metallica's heaviest guitar tones, and I would even put the Garage Days Re-visited EP right up there too.

Lol

Hmm.. Could it be cause the bass track sounds exactly the same, playing or paused?

I can even hear it when i go sleep

Horseshit this has been claimed for years now but Jason tore it up on this track. You people are deaf. You can hear the bass.

@Andrew Le big : Way back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and cheap azz Mellenials could not steal music, you actually had to buy it. I bought the CD in 1988 when it was released. My buddy and I both agreed "the new guy is ripping it up". The bass is an accent and not meant to be the focus of a song. Unless the band is Iron Maiden or Rush, the bass is not the star of the show.

No shit

no it hasnt you cringelord

Do you want silence

@@KyleDesharnais it’s supposed to be a joke lmao

@@bunghole1968 ik

Definitely

lol my guy nobody will be around to appreciate this 500 years from now. The end of this century is even rosy.

@@MuscleDad420 the world will turn..... BLACKENED!!!

we aren't going to survive is what he is saying

Yea before the World turns Black.

Agreed. It’s fucking sublime. For some reason the riff reminds me of an instrumental track by In Flames, “The Jester’s Dance”. Something about the melody and picking. You might enjoy it, check it out. It’s from the era when In Flames was actually a good band too :)

Its like the best clasical music you ever heard :)

Metallica was always a better song writing band than their comparison of Megadeth who to me was all technique and frenetic energy. Metallica wrote songs that would make you wanna bash somebody and in that same song, share a beer with.

@@gabee3993 well said mate. I love both bands but you are right .

Agreed! One reason Justice is my favorite album is the guitar harmonies. The harmonies on Eye of the Beholder, Frayed Ends, To Live is to Die... I love when great metal bands can write songs so heavy yet so emotive.

Blackened. ...next to Pantera Domination ..Best Breakdown....Heavy as Fuk

Jason has made it his mission

YES!!

Insanity!!! Most people miss how a rhythm track helps define the solo

My most favorite chugging riff, ever!!

It's possibly the greatest moment of musicality in all of Metallica's back catalogue. So fucking simple, but such a profound effect on the groove - whilst still requiring you to pay attention so you can sink back into the original emphasis when they switch it back. The riff sounds so different by just switching it by half a beat. It's unbelievably satisfying. Bach would be proud.

ACADIA the guitar is the same as the main riff. The issue comes from Lars swapping the down beat half way through then back again.

@@FullConcerts100 exact same thing happens right at the end of Battery right?

Always loved this part as well, but I think it came about for them more by accident than anything else. Here's why: The riff is in 7/4, but Lars seems to keep a 4/4 drum over it the entire time. So by the time they "play through" the part twice, Lars is a beat off from the "1" if you will, causing the feel to change completely. They probably fell into it by accident, liked it, and kept it that way. And we all are the better for it.

That part fucked me up so bad for a while because it's the same EXACT riff but sounds totally opposite. When I play along with the song I dont try to play it normally like every other time its played. I cant ignore the drum switch at all so I just said screw it and relearned it by the way it sounds (playing it backwards? Idk it's hard to describe lol)

I mean the main riff is written by Jason

​@KnozLo yeah but this track doesn't have a single weak riff.

The iq of the people that make these jokes is equal to the bass in AjFa

@@Dav6922 You done did yourself dirty

@@mypenisisunbelievablysmall6897 no,ironic

@Akhenaton it really lacks when you put it on good speakers, because the lsck of bass kills the heavyness and the fullness, still one of my favourite albums

@@Dav6922 I dont know whether to like your reply or not. You did the joke, but you also are right.

This has always been what really sets Metallica apart from everything else.

Sounds monstrous even though kind of hidden

Absolutely

LMAO

Well he's human. The other instruments cover it up.

Diapason Dlvg timestamp? This sounds damn tight to me

jonny j The only mistake I’ve noticed in James’ track is right after the third guitar comes in for the main riff (0:57). The rest of that take must have just been so good that he decided to keep it.

I hear a slight mistake at :47. Sounds like there are too many notes in the tail of the riff at that part, which could mean James’ layering wasn’t exactly water tight during that particular part, so it just ever so slightly didn’t match up. Or maybe it’s just the picking that he screwed up. Possibly lost control for a split second and struck one of the strings one or two times more than he intended during that little triplet, and just decided to leave it. This can be heard in the full studio version too though.

@@ozzman1997 its no mistake its magic.

all those years i knew it but thought i heard it wrong, he really starts on 7th fret that just relieved me

how u feel the coldness in your life? how many ways you reached in the end and die from yourself just how?😔🙋💙💖

Jason is well. I just saw him Saturday night. He performed in Florida. I got to see the show and meet him. Still the same Jason!!

Interesting, I'm a drummer too and have always been able to listen to the music as a whole rather than isolating just my drums. I think that's why drummers have such a good ear for what the rest of the band are playing , or not!

Maybe, but I think the reason the guitars sound drier and fizzier here is due to compression and lost bits from the uploading and reuploading onto youtube

IMO I think Metallica was better off with Jason with tighter songs , mostly because I think that Cliffs playing style wouldn’t have been tight enough since he used finger style opposed to pick.

There is basically no bass on AJFA. I wish people would stop trying to force themselves to hear it. There's an interview with the sound engineer who confirms how Ulrich deliberately asked him to keep the bass very low to basically inaudible. You can either accept that or keep pretending the low ends of the rhythm guitars are bass. "without it the guitars sound really dry and fizzy" They sound equally dry and fizzy on the record. "the recording is a lot tighter than this" It's not surprising that you perceive an unplugged guitar track as less grounded and tight than the full track with drums. "slightly different" Killing the bass is not "slightly different." It's entirely shitting on the efforts of an undeserving member in the coldest way possible because they were not mature enough to deal with their problems and decided to take it out on the poor newbie. AJFA is a masterpiece even in its final baseless state, but what they (specifically Lars) did to Jason Newsted was shameful.

Ihsahn Åkerfeldt one thing that I can be thankful for the album tone is how albums shouldn’t me mixed and produced. 90s experimentation in metal imo is better than 80s tone wise since they were still produced well enough so that nothing sounds overpowering or underpowering. Gothenburg and Stockholm DM scene is what I could think of with experimentation that doesn’t ruin the album since it fits so well

@@ihsahnakerfeldt9280 most metal records you can hardly hear the bass so I don't know why so many people have an issue with the record, sounds bloody awesome to me.

no shit, almost like its the same guy 2 years later l

@@yessir6427 you mother and you sisters

Facepalm🙃

EVERYONE plays something wrong on this song.

Flemming hated the justice guitar and drum sound. He just stuck with it cause it’s what James and Lars wanted.

What about cemetery gates?

dunno man, I personally want the rhythm track out

I love the solo, but the rhythm behind the lead is a bit elusive. Can barely hear what's going on.

Go listen the rough mix , there's no Kirk on it at least in blackened and you can listen James track during the solo

Same

The rhythm behind the solo is brutal.

Bass? You mean the bass from drums? I miss these

Kill em' all....