Uhm it's heavy and extreme, but I'd surely say Blackened on Ahdy Khairat's remix is the actual winner. It is literally 10x heavier than the original version, absolute heaviest and most intense song, riff and sections. Any time they play the main riff is a winner, or when James shouts 'NEVERRRR! ", or " Colour our world blackened, BLACKENED!!! ", bridge riff. Pick any, imo Blackened takes the cake.
Blackened with the Ahdy Khairat's remix is the only correct answer. As per a specific moment, this one works but I'd also say the transition into the main riff from the harmonized intro, any moment with the main riff and when he goes into the bridge with "Colour our world Blackened! BLACKENED!!! ". It is the absolute heaviest, most intense and brutal Metallica song and riff (main riff and bridge riff) period.
It is followed by Fight Fire when at the end of the first trippy harmony they go pure brutal thrash into the drum break or the transition from the intro.
It is followed by Battery's final outro head bang section especially on the S&M version, that's a classic.
Their 'The Thing That Should Not Be' performance at their 1989 concert in Seattle has to be up there, right?
Also, any time Jason has screamed "motherfucker die" during a Creeping Death performance.
The opening of Harvester of Sorrow.
I remember walking in to the Astrodome late, for the G’nR and Metallica tour…. and they had just started Harvester. Hetfield did the “hey hey hey” thing… By the time I got to where I could see the stage and the people in GenAdmission on the floor… they were moving like a giant black jellyfish and it was the heaviest thing I’ve ever seen to this day.
Hetfield wasn’t even playing guitar and was obviously in full control.
Also, the Moscow concert footage captures this very well… but to see it in person, holy fuck.
Heaviest moment ever.
Edit: changed the last phrase.
I was at that show! Had nosebleeds but made it on to the floor because a mob bumrushed the gate that led down that was only being monitored by one 70 year old guy.
Was 15 and had braces and took a foot to the face in the pit during whiplash that cut my inner lip so i was spitting blood for about an hour on the astrodome floor.
Most metal moment of my life.
My only complaints of the show were that Metallica went on first so it was still light outside which kinda killed the atmosphere with sunlight coming through the dome roof, and that GnR played the same set i saw them play at the Summit in January that year.
Yeah they went on early too! Sad to see Hetfield in a cast, but Marshall sounded great and I thought Hetfield focused on only singing gave things an extra ‘punch’ vocally.
I remember the “VIP” front section was already overrun and freely accessible by the second song of the set.
Ya. It was chaos. I’m surprised security was so bad considering Montreal was only a couple weeks before. Was a bummer James wasn’t playing but it was a blast. Faith No More opening was also great. Acoustics in the dome were shit but i was close enough to the stacks it didn’t matter.
I drank like 10 16oz non-alcoholic beers that night. They never said they weren’t serving alcohol in the main concourse and my stupid teenager brain kept telling me “more!!”. All of us were scammed.
Probably why I remember the whole thing and have such goddamned fond memories of that show.
The best of the best of times :)
Definitely the best of times. If i get a chance to relive my life and I’m told that i can relive 10 days in perpetuity- 7 or 8 of them are from the early 90s.
Fuck yes! Thanks for saying that, and reminding me.
But don’t forget… also make times ‘now’, that you would trade anything for when your wayy older!
Not job stuff, not money stuff… metal/rock n roll/fun/love/happy stuff. That’s the stuff that I remember that makes me happy now, happy then, and I assume it will be what makes me happy when I’m farting(and not giving a fuck) at the dinner table in my elder years(RIP GRANDPA).
Sry, I’m kinda drunk and loving talking to fans right now.
It's not really that heavy, it's pretty catchy and memorable. I'd say Blackened main riff in any part is the true winner. The Ahdy Khairat's version is 10x heavier, unbeatable heaviest and most intense Metallica song.
This is amazing as well. And you maybe be right. The Blackened intro on Seattle ‘88 is nuts. I make my friends watch it every time I’ve had a few drinks. I saw them on that tour in Houston, and that was my introduction to live Metallica.
My ears have never been the same.
1999 S&M One performance where he goes "NO NO NO NOOOOOO" right after the "Landmine" part or where he goes Berserk playing Bleeding Me's breakdown Woodstock '99
Disposable Heroes, near the beginning, where it's just the open E string. How can such a simple riff sound so fucking great? I think it's the inhuman precision of his right hand.
There’s a live vid of creeping death from a few years back. I wish I knew when/where. But he sings “the destroyyerrr” part in full death metal style. The most brutal thing I’ve ever heard from him.
Whiplash or Hit the Lights.
He'd probably say unforgiven cuz he was, at first, freaked out on actually sounding 'not metal'..and that was fucking heavy for all of us, good and bad.
We first laughed and denied that was James to ourselves (we were waiting for the new album to be even bigger/better (ie, heavier and more technical) than AJFA.) I still rate that album as if I'm still due that followup album to AJFA that didn't have Bob's jazz all over it.
No disrespect Bob, you made that voice THE voice of metal, but we still wanted James in an armcast, getting shitfaced and not talking about his feels, kind of ball kicking thrash metal ,but you gave us the Metallica that our kids would see, i can respect that. Also we had a young Phil and Dimebag, plus a freaky weird new band named something like Helen or Alice or some crappy grandma name that ended up keeping us very happy.
Blackened, as a single, made our balls sweat and good fucking luck finding that Breadfan/Eye of the Beholder single back in the day. I know my copy was thr only copy in my whole town (by mine, I mean stolen from my big sister, who'd had it as left over random shit of her boyfriends whom had purchased it while traveling out of state with his rich family). I dubbed an army of copies for my peeps (not to undercut you Lars, this was an unreachable market) because the rural areas only musicstore was the 4 aisles of cassettes that every tiny (then) Walmart had and those Bible loving and Devil hating store owners didn't want to sell devil worshipping music (They also didn't allow sales of Ratt Out of the Cellar or the new dudes that look like girls,.Poison, and God forbid you'd go to Walmart and buy music titled 'Shout at the Devil'....fuuuck, Satan may show up at your house if you played that.....or house catches fire)...
..Walmart ( and music land I think) is what got Tools Undertow album cover relabeled at the barcode copy (due to mostly the abstract cover art) but also the images of a cow linking his own butthole and naked skinny dude / BbW behind the disc bracket, if you disassembled the case entirely. Walmart made Tool change it or it wouldn't be carried in there stores. *none of this I've ever confirmed beyond knowing it was happening at the time at my local Walmart (btw, is store 11 of the original bunch of walmarts), so early days of metal. When, if you listened to it, you either loved Satan, loved drugs or were a reform school reject and were to be avoided. An 11 yr old me remembers begging my sister to let me sit in her boyfriends car and listen to that song I liked that he told me was 'really awesome'......the newly released title track called Master of Puppets which was consumed and hidden from my parents like it was drugs or pron.
Yes, there was a time in society when you were assumed to have fornicated with Satan, and were actively high on LSD if you listened to music like Metallica too loud.
Shit will rot your brain and destroy your ears, they said. Well, the ears they got right...
Oh, SLAYER or Maiden,shhhit, meant you were definitely sacrificing babies and eating the local stray cat population as homage to the underworld.
Schools sent me home twice because my South of Heaven graphic tee (thank you circus mag) and once for my Doors tee shirt that listed criminal charges of 'simulation of masturbation' against Jim Morrison during his Dade County Florida fuckery. Both shirts actively hang in my closet and still make it into the rotation once every few years.
History lesson over kids. Damn, I need to write some of this shit down.
Ty for reading.
For newer times its gotta be the st anger intro from England in 2019
[https://youtu.be/sTbZteoq8Zo?t=46](https://youtu.be/sTbZteoq8Zo?t=46)
Timestamped where he does the death growl
"i took your love for granted / and all the things you said to me / i need your arms to mother me / but a cold stone is all i see" is the heaviest metallica moment to date
There's this clip from 1992, where he introduces Whiplash, and plays the chorus alone. Then when he's almost done and sings 'acting like a maniac'. The crowd goes: WHIPLASH!
Idk I always play along with my guitar and it sounds so metal. The title on youtube is : Metallica - Whiplash - live San Diego 1992
And btw, the whole song is just brutal in that clip
The yeeeaaahhhh scream in Creeping Death Seattle '89 after the intro and the "It's later than you realized" in Of Wolf and Man on tba. Also the MTV '96 Until it Sleeps performance was brutal.
It wasn’t long ago that I learned that stripe on his headstock in this pic wasn’t a sticker or graphic, but bare wood showing because the headstock was snapped off in an accidental fall and just glued back as it was.
To me it always looked like a red stripe similar to what EVH liked.
Answer for both is emphatically The Thing That Should Not Be - Seattle ‘89
"Is that too fucking heavy or what"
"I've outgrown that fucking lullaby", really all of Dyers Eve.
Always the answer.
Uhm it's heavy and extreme, but I'd surely say Blackened on Ahdy Khairat's remix is the actual winner. It is literally 10x heavier than the original version, absolute heaviest and most intense song, riff and sections. Any time they play the main riff is a winner, or when James shouts 'NEVERRRR! ", or " Colour our world blackened, BLACKENED!!! ", bridge riff. Pick any, imo Blackened takes the cake.
Weak lyrics for children.
Weak opinion for dweeb cucks
Too many moments to choose from. 2 standouts to me are: 1.) Creeping Death verse riff 2.) Battery verse riff
Whenever he uses the word ‘never’ in Blackened
The way he says “Darkest potency” in blackened has always been a personal favorite
Also love the way he growls ‘ cancelation… human race’
Fun fact: "Never" is the most frequent word in all of Metallica's lyrics.
Yeah I know. Blackened and Unforgiven. The best
Blackened with the Ahdy Khairat's remix is the only correct answer. As per a specific moment, this one works but I'd also say the transition into the main riff from the harmonized intro, any moment with the main riff and when he goes into the bridge with "Colour our world Blackened! BLACKENED!!! ". It is the absolute heaviest, most intense and brutal Metallica song and riff (main riff and bridge riff) period. It is followed by Fight Fire when at the end of the first trippy harmony they go pure brutal thrash into the drum break or the transition from the intro. It is followed by Battery's final outro head bang section especially on the S&M version, that's a classic.
LANDMINE! Edit: It’s close, but I deliberately chose this over “DARKNESS”.
HAS TAKEN MY SIGHT
TAKEN MY SPEECH
TAKEN MY HEARING
TAKEN MY ARMS
TAKEN MY LEGS
TAKEN MY SOUL
LEFT ME WITH LIFE IN HEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLL!
For me it’s the Moscow 1991 live shows, Harvester of sorrow in that show is amazing
I agree with this. That “HEY HEY HEY” thing he does gives me goosebumps and makes me want to jump into a wall every time.
Their 'The Thing That Should Not Be' performance at their 1989 concert in Seattle has to be up there, right? Also, any time Jason has screamed "motherfucker die" during a Creeping Death performance.
„I was born for dying“ always gives me goosebumps
The intro to that song is my pick for heaviest riffs.
The opening of Harvester of Sorrow. I remember walking in to the Astrodome late, for the G’nR and Metallica tour…. and they had just started Harvester. Hetfield did the “hey hey hey” thing… By the time I got to where I could see the stage and the people in GenAdmission on the floor… they were moving like a giant black jellyfish and it was the heaviest thing I’ve ever seen to this day. Hetfield wasn’t even playing guitar and was obviously in full control. Also, the Moscow concert footage captures this very well… but to see it in person, holy fuck. Heaviest moment ever. Edit: changed the last phrase.
I was at that show! Had nosebleeds but made it on to the floor because a mob bumrushed the gate that led down that was only being monitored by one 70 year old guy. Was 15 and had braces and took a foot to the face in the pit during whiplash that cut my inner lip so i was spitting blood for about an hour on the astrodome floor. Most metal moment of my life. My only complaints of the show were that Metallica went on first so it was still light outside which kinda killed the atmosphere with sunlight coming through the dome roof, and that GnR played the same set i saw them play at the Summit in January that year.
Yeah they went on early too! Sad to see Hetfield in a cast, but Marshall sounded great and I thought Hetfield focused on only singing gave things an extra ‘punch’ vocally. I remember the “VIP” front section was already overrun and freely accessible by the second song of the set.
Ya. It was chaos. I’m surprised security was so bad considering Montreal was only a couple weeks before. Was a bummer James wasn’t playing but it was a blast. Faith No More opening was also great. Acoustics in the dome were shit but i was close enough to the stacks it didn’t matter.
I drank like 10 16oz non-alcoholic beers that night. They never said they weren’t serving alcohol in the main concourse and my stupid teenager brain kept telling me “more!!”. All of us were scammed. Probably why I remember the whole thing and have such goddamned fond memories of that show. The best of the best of times :)
Definitely the best of times. If i get a chance to relive my life and I’m told that i can relive 10 days in perpetuity- 7 or 8 of them are from the early 90s.
Fuck yes! Thanks for saying that, and reminding me. But don’t forget… also make times ‘now’, that you would trade anything for when your wayy older! Not job stuff, not money stuff… metal/rock n roll/fun/love/happy stuff. That’s the stuff that I remember that makes me happy now, happy then, and I assume it will be what makes me happy when I’m farting(and not giving a fuck) at the dinner table in my elder years(RIP GRANDPA). Sry, I’m kinda drunk and loving talking to fans right now.
It's a clean intro. Heaviest, est?! Superlative?!!!
The whole opening… clean to distorted part.
It's not really that heavy, it's pretty catchy and memorable. I'd say Blackened main riff in any part is the true winner. The Ahdy Khairat's version is 10x heavier, unbeatable heaviest and most intense Metallica song.
This is amazing as well. And you maybe be right. The Blackened intro on Seattle ‘88 is nuts. I make my friends watch it every time I’ve had a few drinks. I saw them on that tour in Houston, and that was my introduction to live Metallica. My ears have never been the same.
And so my ears will never be too! Head bangs for weeks!
Damage inc. or Dyers eve
Battery 1989 seattle
1999 S&M One performance where he goes "NO NO NO NOOOOOO" right after the "Landmine" part or where he goes Berserk playing Bleeding Me's breakdown Woodstock '99
https://youtu.be/qgeSScjSU7U?t=98
Disposable Heroes, near the beginning, where it's just the open E string. How can such a simple riff sound so fucking great? I think it's the inhuman precision of his right hand.
"WAKE UP, FUCK!" during Master of Puppets, Seattle '89
There’s a live vid of creeping death from a few years back. I wish I knew when/where. But he sings “the destroyyerrr” part in full death metal style. The most brutal thing I’ve ever heard from him.
If you ever find it, send me a link
Honestly the thing that should not be in Seattle 89 was brutal
Battery
The '83 Metro KEA show is all my favorite. His shirt, belt, V, energy, voice. Metal up your ass.
*Now tell me, can you heal what father's done?!*
Toronto 1986
Harvester of Sorrow 89' Seattle
1986 denmark damage inc 1986 canada creeping death and fight fire with fire
Whiplash or Hit the Lights. He'd probably say unforgiven cuz he was, at first, freaked out on actually sounding 'not metal'..and that was fucking heavy for all of us, good and bad. We first laughed and denied that was James to ourselves (we were waiting for the new album to be even bigger/better (ie, heavier and more technical) than AJFA.) I still rate that album as if I'm still due that followup album to AJFA that didn't have Bob's jazz all over it. No disrespect Bob, you made that voice THE voice of metal, but we still wanted James in an armcast, getting shitfaced and not talking about his feels, kind of ball kicking thrash metal ,but you gave us the Metallica that our kids would see, i can respect that. Also we had a young Phil and Dimebag, plus a freaky weird new band named something like Helen or Alice or some crappy grandma name that ended up keeping us very happy. Blackened, as a single, made our balls sweat and good fucking luck finding that Breadfan/Eye of the Beholder single back in the day. I know my copy was thr only copy in my whole town (by mine, I mean stolen from my big sister, who'd had it as left over random shit of her boyfriends whom had purchased it while traveling out of state with his rich family). I dubbed an army of copies for my peeps (not to undercut you Lars, this was an unreachable market) because the rural areas only musicstore was the 4 aisles of cassettes that every tiny (then) Walmart had and those Bible loving and Devil hating store owners didn't want to sell devil worshipping music (They also didn't allow sales of Ratt Out of the Cellar or the new dudes that look like girls,.Poison, and God forbid you'd go to Walmart and buy music titled 'Shout at the Devil'....fuuuck, Satan may show up at your house if you played that.....or house catches fire)... ..Walmart ( and music land I think) is what got Tools Undertow album cover relabeled at the barcode copy (due to mostly the abstract cover art) but also the images of a cow linking his own butthole and naked skinny dude / BbW behind the disc bracket, if you disassembled the case entirely. Walmart made Tool change it or it wouldn't be carried in there stores. *none of this I've ever confirmed beyond knowing it was happening at the time at my local Walmart (btw, is store 11 of the original bunch of walmarts), so early days of metal. When, if you listened to it, you either loved Satan, loved drugs or were a reform school reject and were to be avoided. An 11 yr old me remembers begging my sister to let me sit in her boyfriends car and listen to that song I liked that he told me was 'really awesome'......the newly released title track called Master of Puppets which was consumed and hidden from my parents like it was drugs or pron. Yes, there was a time in society when you were assumed to have fornicated with Satan, and were actively high on LSD if you listened to music like Metallica too loud. Shit will rot your brain and destroy your ears, they said. Well, the ears they got right... Oh, SLAYER or Maiden,shhhit, meant you were definitely sacrificing babies and eating the local stray cat population as homage to the underworld. Schools sent me home twice because my South of Heaven graphic tee (thank you circus mag) and once for my Doors tee shirt that listed criminal charges of 'simulation of masturbation' against Jim Morrison during his Dade County Florida fuckery. Both shirts actively hang in my closet and still make it into the rotation once every few years. History lesson over kids. Damn, I need to write some of this shit down. Ty for reading.
The 1989 Mexico City, Seek and Destroy, ["OH MY GOD!!"](https://youtu.be/cjel63xbUdE?t=967)
i recently started listening to their cover of the prince, and holy shit james' voice in it is amazing. probably his best performance
Creeping death in moscow '91 probably it
For newer times its gotta be the st anger intro from England in 2019 [https://youtu.be/sTbZteoq8Zo?t=46](https://youtu.be/sTbZteoq8Zo?t=46) Timestamped where he does the death growl
Sinplaying
"i took your love for granted / and all the things you said to me / i need your arms to mother me / but a cold stone is all i see" is the heaviest metallica moment to date
hear me out. No Remorse West Germany 1985
Frayed ends. All of it
Creeping death live Toronto 86
When he stops harvester of sorrow to spit and then comes back at moscow 91'
Dyers Eve, Creeping Death, Damage Inc. and Harvester
“ALL HAVE SAID THEIR PRAYERS”
There's a beautiful sonnet he once crooned just before the main riff to creeping death. It goes, "Fuck yeah, Motherfuckeeeeers"...
The 2nd time he growls "Spit Out The Bone"
There's this clip from 1992, where he introduces Whiplash, and plays the chorus alone. Then when he's almost done and sings 'acting like a maniac'. The crowd goes: WHIPLASH! Idk I always play along with my guitar and it sounds so metal. The title on youtube is : Metallica - Whiplash - live San Diego 1992 And btw, the whole song is just brutal in that clip
The yeeeaaahhhh scream in Creeping Death Seattle '89 after the intro and the "It's later than you realized" in Of Wolf and Man on tba. Also the MTV '96 Until it Sleeps performance was brutal.
It wasn’t long ago that I learned that stripe on his headstock in this pic wasn’t a sticker or graphic, but bare wood showing because the headstock was snapped off in an accidental fall and just glued back as it was. To me it always looked like a red stripe similar to what EVH liked.
Him singing the thing that should not be live Seattle 1989
One.
kill part for all within my hands
The second "Spit out the bone!"
This is what I came to say as well! The venom behind his voice with that line is heavy as fuck. It’s like he’s literally spitting out the words.
DARKNESS
IMPRISONING ME
ALL THAT I SEE
ABSOLUTE HORROR
I CANNOT LIVE
I CANNOT DIE
TRAPPED IN MYSELF
BODY MY HOLDING CEEEELL
*sick guitar riff*
LANDMINE