Soad should cover that song

i dont see a S tier

@@paulpv7 Classic is same as S for him

That’s where it came from?

Suicide and redemption might be the best instrumental they have ever done? Stopped listening after that comment.

Well, he can't. But it's okey.

You can easily hear the cut paste production with the drums on that album. It’s obviously a combination of the best takes, rather than one solid take.

@@seanwechsler6783 You do know they played songs off of that album live back then right? lol

Dyer's Eve (and a few other of the fast songs off Justice) had uncredited session drummer.

@@scope81 you know back then Lars couldn’t perform those songs they way they sound on the album. I’ve watched Seattle 89, he can’t play them the same way.

Ruins it imo. Bass isn't supposed to override the rest of the band. If your gonna add bass make it so it's audible but not three times fucking louder than everything else

@@rhyswalsh4483 Bass and Drums are the soul of music.

@@GRA2itous still too much bass doesn't sound right. You feel the bass but you hear the guitar.

Not every video has the bass louder some how the sound just right not to loud or to low.

@@GRA2itous The drums are the foundation and the bass supplements everything. Guitar is supposed to be the soul of rock/metal. It isn’t rap, bass shouldn’t be up front unless. Obviously, Tool and Primus are exceptions.

This the funniest shit ever your Dad sounds awesome

That’s hilarious

Unironiclly one of my top three albums for me

@@ja-nathen Shares my favorite spot with Reload

Probably because it was a load of shit and so was reload lol. the fact that its in the same tier as kill em all makes me question this whole this. Black album was the beginning of the end imo

Especially Whiplash gets an entirely different beast live...Seattle 89 and San Diego 92 performances are insane!

Whiplash is definitely not forgettable lol, But No remorse and Metal Militia are and its sad

@@nickspears3906 The scream in No Remorse it's sooo good... But yeah, it isn't the best.

Phantom lord is in my top 5 Metallica songs of all time.

I’d take any of these songs and leave motorbreath any day of the week.

Both albums deserved to be in Amazing tier

even at 15 years old I knew the Black album was dog shit.

@@TheSaintberzerker …well that’s certainly a take. A horrendously misguided take, but a take nonetheless.

I skipped to the end and saw the black album in classic tier and knew this guy has no fucking idea what he’s talking about lmao

@@SG-qx1fg At least there’s people who can really appreciate a really good work

I KNOW

I heard him say that and then adrenaline started to flow, I started thrashing all around, acting like a maniac…

@@eternalapostle851 I know it just made me want to bang my head against the stage like I never did before

FR! And Metal Militia! That's one of my favorite Metallica songs period, not just on KEM. But hey, that's the beauty of Metallica. Lars said it best that you could line up 10 Metallica fans up against a wall, and you'll get 10 completely different opinions.

Whiplash is the best song on KEA.

ride the lightning has alot of my fav kirk hammett solos in it, in general i love the album

That's my favorite tone of all their albums, and probably my favorite guitar tone ever

Tone? Better? That tone is literal lightning from a guitar

Kirk only has writing credits on two songs on the album. Granted they are Fade to Black and Creeping Death which both include great solos.

@@XoldnewsX He still writes all the solos, the songwriting credits only apply to riffs and arrangement

Besides Lulu😂

facts, even st anger has sweet amber

Discount Lulu and St. Anger and your statement will be 100% accurate. Every album on every other tier list has at least some great tracks.

@@deepenwadhwa4027 listen to some kind of monster off of st anger it's hidden gem

@@iatechristophersliver5240 I have listened to that album a couple of times and it was a very tedious experience both of those times but I'll try listening to that one track once again, thanks!

Exactly, and Mike apparently can't understand this because all he does is worship Dream Theater 24/7 and is too fragile to withstand even slightly raw production. First wave black metal would probably make him cry.

@@rcengineer I think both can be true... an album can sound awesome from a subjective level... where it nails a certain vibe... and yet still be shit from an objective recording quality level.

Kill em all is an amazing album it stands for what they stood for at the time to be loud fast and fucking rock amazing

100% agree with u dude. I was pretty surprised when he put Kill em All that low in the tier list

Kill'em all is like classic Gibson + Marshall tones.

I'm with you there. That's my favorite album while my favorite single is MOP

Agreed completely.

Same only song I don't care for from ride the lightning was trapped under ice. The rest are amazing.

@@butter2221 im surprised. thats one of my favorite tracks from the record. oh well! do u, man :)

@@butter2221 it’s my favorite album and one of the reasons is I never really remember Escape or Trapped under Ice, but it’s only because everything else is so good so when I listen to the album those two are still brutal Every album has some meh songs but the meh on Ride the Lightning the Meh songs are amazing

Sorta, people tend to forget how horrible the lyrics are on both those albums, it just sounds awkward

The vocals and a lot of structure definitely isn’t salvageable, though at least for St Anger (which I’ve seen live performances of) but it does sound far better live when the drums aren’t fucking trash cans

What’s a good live version of ‘Frantic’ and ‘St. Anger’ you like?

@@deathless2554 Check out St. Anger from Manchester 2019. Under sheets of pissing rain, the song , slightly trimmed, and sounding tight and right under a good PA sounds good. Theres a HQ vid of it here to see. Any proper official video of Frantic from the same Euro Stadium tour again, sounds good!🤘🤘😁 Listen without any associations or bad feelins' to the song and hear it as brand new. Much better live, within the context of the live set. They played St Anger and Frantic on their outdoor Euro tours and those songs got a great response. Im Irish, saw them here in '19, and was amazed at how good Frantic sounded. It was like a whole new recording. Again, if people still dislike the songs despite the better appearence live, thats cool. Each to their own. But theyre worth a look and relisten. 🤘

@@harrisonbishop1832 honestly I think the vocals are the most raw and defining characteristic of that album. Like, 14 year old me hearing St. Anger for the 1st time bonded to it in a way that I just couldn't with other albums. It got me through the lowest of lows, kind of like what it did for Metallica

Especially the bridge in creeping death

Creeping Death is probably the most loved Metallica song in hardcore Metallica fans. I agree with RTL as the best Metallica album, top 5 greatest metal albums ever, but the MVP is the title track for me. MOP is a close second tho.

Most of you probably already know this but there’s a reason Metallica never plays escape live. I think they’ve played it only like once or twice

@@lewisgrant7622imagine you go to see Metallica live for the first time and they play Escape💀💀💀

​@@RadicalRockerwould be amazing

guess you could say lulu should.... jump in the fire?

hey

Or Corey Taylor’s CMFT

The writing is what makes me hate it…

Badass, that album is really good, lots of well written songs and chunky riffs 🤘

I've always been on the fence with Load/Reload. Taking the highlights from each and turning them into one release... and I think you have a killer rock album. But I think on a lot of tracks they come across as imitating a loose, southern bluesy thing without really nailing the vibe. For lack of a better term, those albums needed to be a little more sloppy and a little less precisely produced. But in the grand scheme of things, I do think they've aged better then a lot of the "thrash only" fans give them credit for.

It's at #3 for me after AJFA and MOP. The production is obnoxious tho

I agree.

there are also some parts in certain songs that just go on for a few more bars than they need to tat make it longer than it needs to be imo. The riffs are sick as tho

The only thing with DM is it feels like they wrote 7 minutes songs for the sake of writing 7 minute songs.

It would be my favorite album of theirs if they just made the songs shorter. So much bloat but great material

He's never been smashed against the barricade directly in front of James starting that opening riff. His mind would change.

I did that with Results May Vary by Limp Bizkit and I was absolutely infuriated when I was done listening to that album.

That's not true. Only elitist and close minded people say that. I know plenty of people that love all their albums, and I'm one of them.

@@MikeysMorgue you cannot seriously argue that the black album onwards are “unanimously agreed upon as good”

@@bostonvh A lot of people say the first 4 or 5 albums are all that matters then they fell off. I'm just saying that I don't agree with that at all. Load and ReLoad are excellent to me, and I like all of their other albums. But the first 7 are genuinely excellent to me. It's all opinions anyway. Like the guy that made this video, saying people are stupid or chuds for their opinion and then saying don't get mad at his. Pretty funny.

@@bostonvh You can't seriously argue that there are more people that hate Black Album rather than liking it. Though I'm convinced whatever is possible since people also hate AJFA, quite a few I read about that one actually.

@@MikeysMorgue The Black Albun sucks outloud. Death Magnetic is better in every way.

I'll at least agree Blackened is fucking fantastic

I don't dig that album, but I agree so much Blackened is incredible. So much so that despite being a classic (I think) it's seems underrated compared to their other mighty classics. PS- I think that album would have been Metallica's greatest album (greatest thrash album?) if it had a brighter production with more depth (and some bass wouldn't hurt) because in order to appreciate richness of complex intricate music, you should make it more attractive for a listen to really pour the listener in, like Rush, Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis, King Crimson. The bloody production sucks the blood out of this great work that I can't and many more can't appreciate.

@@BecomeTheKnight that riff for me is right up there with Master of Puppets, Seek and Destroy and the mid riff of Ride the Lightning. It's broken!

The thing I dislike the most about AJFA is how many chokes are there, just look at the self-titled song (tan tan tan tan tan tan trrrrrra trrrrra)

​@@umcorinthianoguitarrista my actual biggest problem with the album, so many pointless breaks and weird rhythms, breaks a lot of flow and bores to listen.

Can you review acid bath when the kite string pops

Yeah, but then he has the Black album ranked higher? Lol. I mean, I agree with what he says about all the morons shouting it down as a sell out. It's still a good record but it absolutely PALES in comparison to Puppets.

Hi Rocked!

Thank goodness he gets it. MOP deserves the crown

Id swap garage with hardwired but other than that its perfect

@@BBL_Burger_ this one makes more sense than the video

i almost agree 100% but i love kill em all, so i'd put it in S

I’d put AJFA in S but other than it’s perfect

That's exactly what I was expecting.

Then why didn't he put it higher ? It's because the rest of the songs are pretty bad.( confusion, dream no more, Am I savage? etc)

@@stavros2656dream no more is awesome what are you on

Hardwired Atlas rise, Halo on fire is pretty good. SPit out to bone is fucking excellent. Other songs are crap.

@@justempty7036 now that we're dead my dear...

he's said he conserves himself due to their touring schedule. I guess with what the world is like now, he doesn't play as often so can actually put (more) effort in per set. Also, he might have gotten more fitter during their off time when the pandemic first hit (I don't know just guessing)

This. They sound absolutely fantastic

He still sucks ass, but I think they're playing to a click now so he doesn't do any shit like speed up 20 bpm during the intro to Enter Sandman or some shit.

@@LordofDiamondsMetal check out this performance of damage inc from last night kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iZqgY6ae27nKn2g.html&ab_channel=JBBassin they all sound really tight

I saw them twice at Rockville and they weren't that great the first night but they were a lot better the second night. They seemed to enjoy performing more the second night too so maybe that had something to do with it.

When I was 12, I heard that and listened to the “dear mother, dear father…” lyrics, it cemented Metallica as my favorite band of all time forever

With the correct mix it might be their best album. At the time I certainly thought it was. After hearing ...And Justice for Jason though, I have a hard time listening to vanilla AJFA.

It's fuckin ' terrible, outside of One and Dyer's Eve. It's like their Rust in Peace. 2 decent tunes, the rest is bullshit filler.

@@vorpalblades Oh I agree with you on RiP. It's shite. We'll agree to disagree on AJFA.

It is their greatest album though, the only album where it's impossible to get bored. The tempo and dynamic changes are just perfect.

@@nodastsakonas8296 I understood that reference

i agree, i love the 80's albums but i usually find myself going back to Hardwired and DM

The problem that I have with Ride The Lightning is that I feel like it's tracks "Trapped Under Ice" and "Escape" are fillers compared to the rest of the album but outside from that I think that it belongs to Metallica's holy trinity together with "Kill Em' All" and "Master Of Puppets" ("Master Of Puppets" is my favorite Metallica following "Kill Em' All" and then "Ride The Lightning")

That's why you watch the channel 👍

Who wants those though?

KEA > RTL > AJFA > MoP imo

@@jables9229 I get that. Justice has some of their best, most progressive and complex compositions. Ride the Lightning's my favourite Metallica album but I love the rawness and punk metal energy of the debut. James' vocals are so fucking raw and unpolished and youthful I love it.

Yeah ranking kill em all anywhere under classic tier is just objectively wrong. That album literally invented the thrash metal genre (slayer at that time was closer to first wave black metal and anthrax was more traditional heavy metal). Songs like seek and destroy, no remorse, hit the lights, four horsemen, motorbreath, and whiplash are not only some of the best metallica songs, but some of the most important metal songs ever released. The entire tracklist is legendary. It's considered one of the best debut releases by any band in history. Also the production fucking kicks ass, especially considering when it was released. In 1983 that guitar tone was mind blowing. Even by today's standards it still sounds pretty good. If it had "better" production, it would not be nearly as heavy. The rawness is as much part of the songwriting as the riffs themselves. I don't see how anyone can think it sounds bad unless all they listen to is overproduced djent shit that's compressed to hell. Kill Em All is what a REAL band sounds like. It's a bunch of dudes picking up real guitars, plugging into real amps, pressing record on the tape and playing the absolute SHIT out of them. No plugins or DAW's needed. That's what true metal is about

@@howler9171 wrong exodus are credited as being the first thrash band

UPDATE THE VID MIKE!!!!!

I don't think James Hetfield would work in Dream Theater tho lol. Just like James LaBrie wouldn't work in Metallica.

Ice cold take

In other news, the water is wet

Just no

Their vocals are so different, I couldnt compare.

Damn, and that version's not on Spotify??

I think the iTunes version is also like this, because I have DM on my iPhone, and it sounds SO MUCH BETTER than the CD and Spotify versions.

I think Metallica didn't use any of GH mixes even though they allowed them being made... There might be some article about it but maybe just some outside work for the Web of one.

Mabey cuz the album cover looks like the toilet after a taco bell

@@BBL_Burger_ I like the album cover. Always thought it was supposed to be like flames or something until I found out what it really was

So bloated. Great songs but way too bloated.

And cut some filler parts on the tracks as well

For better AND for worse, dude's got a big mouth.

That part really made me wish more people recognized the extreme subjectivity of music. This is not "THE" metallic list. It's his opinion, which is very valid, but so is everyone's in regard to what music they personally love, lol...

@@zamboslambo5243 couldn’t agree more

What are you trying to say dummy ?

​@@Nichwar19 you're mad 😂

Reversed immediately by the trashing of Shortest Straw!

@@robbieclark1784 lolol

​@@robbieclark1784 the shortest straw is probably the weakest on the album, but I don't get the hate on harvester of sorrow

First album kinda sucked but I do fucking love seek and destroy. Ride the lightning is their best album.

no hatred for the first album here... although I will agree with Neil that Ride the Lightning is the best

As of now, I plan to do a reaction to the new PT track 👍

@@BecomeTheKnight i’m eager to hear your opinion on it. i really love it, not because it’s new porcupine tree song, but because it’s an excellent song. i’m not very well versed in music theory, and i’m a young musician, so i’d love to see your perspective being a seasoned musician.

yep. The slayer albums around that time and the first megadeth album, etc all had some rough production

Woooorrdd. I'll have to check it out!

Woah, that's a cool idea about DM being AJFA 2.0 - I can kind of see that! AJFA is my #1 with KEA+MOP close behind. I wouldn't raise DM to excellent but I'd put it in good tier.

AJFJ still didn't get the bass right, it's a little to high. I get that the creator was allowing the bass to get through so we could hear Jason's art but it's still wasn't quite there. As in the Goldilock story, AJFA was too cold, AJFJ was too hot, maybe someone can get it just right next time.

@@morphinmartian6266 I could agree to a certain extent. While A.J.F.F may be a bit excessive I still find the added bass an overall big improvement.

I feel like Mike puts a lot more emphasis on the production and the complexity of the material than most other ppl.