classic double edged sword. People are realizing that Master Of Puppets is a cool song again, but now they won't shut the hell up about it.

These kids had the courage to get up in front of their peers and shred. That's good enough for me.

Metallica did reply to one twitter post of someone gatekeeping the band, they just said everyone is Welcome to be a Metallica fan.. classy response actually

Cant wait to be labeled a poser for being young and liking metal

I picked the literal worst time to learn Master of Puppets because now I look like a Stranger Things stan.

Mike! I’m the “other” guitarist from the first band, the ginger that was in the shadows. Wanted to clear up some stuff with that night. This was our first time onstage. Ever. For all of us. Absolutely zero onstage experience for anybody. We were asked to play right after the intermission ended, so everybody going back and forth really valued skittles and Diet Coke. The “cameraman” was our lead guitarists mom. They had just gotten back from vacation, he hadn’t touched a guitar in 2 weeks up until the day before the show. We still roasted him for being sloppy, which didn’t matter when we ended up winning. 100 bucks was pretty great for us then. 10 years later, not only are all 4 of us still great friends while living in different parts of the world, the drummer and I are currently in a metal band called Lethal Dose. Our most recent single is “Lizards Grip”. I’ve always appreciated this channel and seeing this is a massive full circle moment for me. Much love from Virginia man ❤️

oh those High school days. I had a friend that had a band. they mostly played metal and punk. they decided to enter the talent show but they had to turn in a sample of what they were going to play to those in charge. they couldn't make up their minds and every time I would ask what song they were going to play he wouldn't tell me. finally the day came, they were the only ones with actual instruments. everyone else was either using taped music or doing dance acts or a comedy act. From the moment they started playing my best friend and I recognized that intro. Megadeth's Holy Wars...The Punishment Due. Shit it sounded like the real deal. Everyone went nuts. When the singer started, people lost their minds. they performed the hell out of it. these girls sitting below us noticed we knew the song, so they asked us what it was. we told. that day megadeth had two new fans Oh, and my friend and his band one first place.

"In this video, I will show you how I can barely play these parts better than a buncha teenagers." - Mike :p

9:23 the reason they skipped that part is because their school probably wouldn’t allow them to fully play an 8 minute long song, it would take up too much time and they needed more time for other acts

Just want to say that while the title says "roasting", you did a great job of NOT roasting them and bringing your own experiences and struggles into their story.

Boomers complain about old music not being popular, than get SOOO mad whenever something new happens and a song they loved gets popular. I’ve liked Metallica for the last 3 years but idc how anybody finds out about it.

Love your vids man, I’m the guitarist on the left from Apocalypse. I’m super grateful for being in the video even though we played like trash. ❤️

I think that the more kids influenced by Metallica the better. Id rather listen to a beginner with an out of tune guitar try to play master of puppets than hear em walking down the street rapping to themselves. The more the merrier.

Nothing give me more pleasure than seeing Mike being so arrogant while roasting the e Kids playing and at the same time playing Master of Puppets wrong himself

I kinda dont get that " metallica fans being gatekeeping" cause metallica fans are usually the ones being gatekeeped by metallica haters , metallica fans are acused of being posers cause metallica is like the most mainstream metal band , so when i heard that " metalluca fans where gatekeeping " i found it really weird

Going to jump into oncoming traffic if I ever hear someone refer to MoP as the "song from stranger things."

When you said "We see the problem. We have a Ramones fan" I audibly cackled. Great content as usual 👍🏻

The "Barrier To Entry" you speak of is soooooo true. I performed three times in my high school talent show because the teacher in charge found out we had a "band" and she had no other acts. We were terrible but damn if that auditorium didnt eat up every second. Theres a huge disconnect for those who arent musically adept and they just see a guitar, dry ice, and lights and instantly submit. I wish I had the video to share... its absolutely hilarious.

Something that was pointed out in another comment on a different video is that Stranger Things S4 is set during spring break 1986, which is typically mid-March. Master of Puppets (the album) was released on March 3, 1986. Because there was no Internet to search for tabs or how-to-play videos, he had to learn to play "Master of Puppets" by ear in about two weeks. Between school, homework, friends/family, and sleep, that is a miracle.

Master of Puppets will always have a special place in my heart because it was the song that inspired me to get good at guitar.

The first time I ever heard my favorite piece of music of all time, Chopin Ballade in G Minor, was in an anime. If Stranger Things brings in a bunch of new fans because they fell in love with Master of Puppets, bring them in. And I love seeing high schoolers rush and goof up the song it brings back some great memories.

7:54 Love the mouth movements lmao😂

I mean, this is not an easy song, and it is harder if you're down-picking the hell of the entire song without feeling your arm is about to fall off. Thumbs up to them

I was into Def leopard and iron maiden at 15. My friend gave me a bootleg master of puppets. Changed my life forever. It makes me proud to see those kids aspiring to play mop regardless of the result and I will always encourage anyone to try it before criticising anyone.

Still think they shoulda used Creeping Death lmao. Edit: Yeah, you’re right about the vocals. James just ended up with the role because somebody had to. Exact same situation with Dave Mustaine as well, whether that end result be positive or negative(probably mostly negative lmfao)

The kick volume issue has pervaded throughout talent show history, in my senior year we played three songs and my vocalists dad had to mic our drummer’s kick lmao

Honestly, the biggest flex is to play Yngwie Malmsteen or Jason Becker songs in school talent shows

Cringes over a bunch of teenagers playing sloppy Metallica covers but can barely play the parts himself 😂 Nice one, mate…

I hate when people Gatekeep Metal. Let people enjoy metal. Let people spread the word of Metal in the youths of today

Glad more people listen to the music

I remember Master of Puppets before Stranger Things was even a thing. Good Times.

When Mike becomes Lars at 7:53. Mike, you need to pay attention to your editing man. There is an, I assume, unnecessary black screen at 18:15 and another at 19:43. Look at *me* being the snob. lol

It's cool that a lot of kids from this new generation are discovering how fucking awesome Metallica still is; music belongs to everyone.

I've always lived by the whole "listen to whatever you want, music is subjective" category. just don't be an asshole about your taste in music. liking a band doesn't make anyone better or worse than anyone else

When I first watched the MoP scene in ST, the first thing that came to my mind was, “Mike’s going to do a video about this.”

VERY FALSE, James took singing lessons before even owning a guitar, he was shy to do lead vocals but after the first Kill Em all Gig Kirk said his personality could finally shine

If strangers things played dyers eve instead of master of puppets, there would be 90% less talent show performances LOL

it took me while to learn that if you loosen up have fun you ultimately get more in the zone and your playing actually improves 100%

subscribed!! Awesome video man!!

This was both an incredibly entertaining and insightful video. Great stuff

It literally took a whole new generation of kids to get Metallica to finally revisit their origins.

The Master of Puppets craze making people want to play guitar reminds me of guitar hero and how it inspired kids to play the guitar.

I love your laughh! so genuine makes me smile

Very entertained by this. Well done.

Just ruthlessly tearing these kids apart! That's what I'm hear for!

Still haven’t seen any of these kids attempt dream theater. But then again, which song is going to get them the most women.

My dad had a similar philosophy on gear, he bought me a $500 dean vendetta in olive green with a Floyd Rose bridge for my 15th birthday. Gave me his hand me down 12" single speaker Beringer amp with built in effect board and pedal. And a single 1/4in cable. I've bought 2 guitars of my own since then, a ibenez 8string and telecaster semi hollow kit that I put together/ wired myself, and a big muff fuzz pedal. I'm not an experienced guitarist by any means but I like to play casually and I like extended ranges and alternative tunings, so I'm content with having an easy to tune guitar, a guitar that holds standard until a string breaks, and a guitar in a heavy metal configuration that I like with an amp that can do all three with a couple of knob adjustments.

Darkness imprisoning me all that I see absolute horror 19:50

Jeez, this guy must be fun at parties

Titanic was a ship from that James Cameron movie

Kids are literally impressed by almost anything

I imagine the master of puppets album is selling out everywhere now. May sell more than when it was realesed.

How could you be a Steve Vai fan and not dig the whammy bar bro?

You aren’t much better

That bit about James becoming the vocalist because no one else would was pretty inspirational, thanks

Taking a positive spin, respect! 👊 dont see alot of that these days🫶

I'll be honest, Stranger Things did reawaken my love for metal. I wanted to play electric for literally my whole life but never got the balls to even try. Grew up on ACDC, Metallica, Guns & Roses, etc. Like I was 7 and playing (badly) DnD and listening to ACDC all the time. So Eddie really felt like a callout of my childhood. And all of highschool I dreamed of playing guitar, getting all the badass tattoos, and being so fucking cool. So Idk.... I finally got an electric guitar after Stranger Things. So heres to learning how to play at 24 years old with only a hope to learn songs like this. Maybe the kids are cringey, but fuck it, we're being real and living our best lives! Who cares, long as we're passionate, proud, and making music, even if it's cringey and not perfect. :)

Im more of a “for whom the bell tolls” guy. But even that I learned through modern media, zombieland

Love the positivity in this one Mike

Love the shirt - "Samiri guitarist " , I watch his videos too. Great job 👏 👍

every third post in a dungeons and dragons facebook group I'm in is something with either Eddie (both the character and Iron Maiden's mascot) or Master of Puppets, or both.

Im deciding whether to play mop or kimb for a talent show, guess i gotta find out then

The first one they where definitely on a time limit

Bro, you say they're fuckin with you? It's you, fucking with us!

Some of these are really good attempts to be fair, it is a very difficult song.

At the end of the day an amazing metal song being a sizeable part of the mainstream again is great.

Ive used that tip of thinking of the solo as just the next part you gotta play right that you explained in the video. It actually works great it’s fantastic.

Im going to get those tiny amps that you can hold with both of your hands but is powerful enough

3:22 Dave mustaine did that after not finding a good singer through auditions but James might have as well idk

You're making the first part of the solo more difficult than it really is.. Pretty sure Kirk uses a blend of pull-offs in the lick. And if not, fuck it, that's how I play it and it ends up actually sounding fairly decent

LOL your mouth when you're trying to do the fast solo...

that first one is an old video, but fucking baller

I’m glad that a metal song is cool… more people on mainstream media should embrace it

Honestly, you gotta have some mean chops to play this song correctly. The downpicking skills required....it's no joke. There's no shame in trying this song and failing.

Fucking loved that feedback thing on the first xD who, funny enough, turned out to be performing it the best.

That's exactly why I loop my cable through my strap but what makes you real good is when you can fall right back into it

the funny thing is that those kids f*cking up metallica songs in talent shows are the ones talking sh!t about Kirk's sloppy guitar playing and Lars tempo. But cool,they are keeping metal alive.

9:28 I mean keep in mind this was a talent show. I'm sure they had some time constraints and probably needed to remove at least one section

My middle school talent show we play “Machine head” by Bush….. our singer forgot the words so he just kept saying “Breath in, Breath out” 😂

This is reminding me just how tight Metallica are together when they play live these days. It’s so precise

😅My daugther 12 years was a vocal to "Master of puppets" 3 weeks ago in a small town. I don't know anything about Metallica, but my Girl was Cute. 😂🤩

As a gen Z, I’ve never really listened to rock or 90s or 80s music, I’m starting to actually like these songs

Can someone tell me why the opening lick to the solo is so hard ? I’ve played lots of solos through the years but that shits hard to play up to speed

very good of the adults to make fun of children..you make the metal community look so good, dork.

I'm planning on playing one of my _original_ songs in my school's Talent Show in november and I'm still thinking that it will be a disaster. Seriously, I give much credit for those "kids" (I'm 17, lol), because they choose something big to perform, get up there, and try. Some go quite well, some not so much, but all had the courage to have that experience. It's my last year in school, and I know I'll regret _not_ doing this.

I played this at school and kids kept asking me if it was the Eddie Munson song

is that larry in the record store vid from 1989 on the thumbnail 😭

We played a bunch of covers at a high school like a day before the end of school year a month back with my friends (Death, Megadeth, Metallica, Pantera, Annihilator and stuff...). We played Master of Puppets and almost noone knew the song. Fast forward a week or two, absolutely everyone does. Would've been more fun if people were into it but it's still fun to play live, even with small mistakes

Imagine posting a video roasting high school kids playing this song and you can’t even play it yourself 😂

I can hear my guitar teacher from 30yrs ago, " Tighten it up ". Not bad though considering how nervous they must have been.

"He bullshat the fuck out of that."😂

I've been a Metallica fan since February, and I can't stand all these new posers pretending to be fans. Us oldtimers gotta stick together.

This guy seems miserable. Why is he making fun of teenage guitar players when he can barely play himself.

That kid’s tone is fucking great and he’s going to be a damn beast the more he practices!

I literally got the Yousician Metallica commercial when I clicked on this video Sometimes KZfaq nails it ... Sometimes

We’ve said it many times. Most people aren’t gonna take this as a way to get into metal. They’re gonna take it as a trend. Along with the same people thirsting over fictional metalheads, they’re the same people who bullied us for being metalheads. It was cool to see Eddie in the upside down playing Master of Puppets. Kickass song.

It’s sad that people think Master of Puppets is a stranger things song and they don’t know about Metallica

that first video he watched is literally almost 10 years old

Love when you play guitar man. You should more often. Btw.. What's up with the black screens? Copyright?

Yes, it’s kind of cringe that people JUST discovered Metallica because of this one scene in ST. I mean, come on, it’s fkn Metallica. They’re iconic. But, I’m glad that the show can open people’s minds to some good music.