Why no Orion live 1986 with Cliff Burton? No Trapped Under Ice in Antarctica? Why use cool riffs for Lulu, and not keep them for Hardwired? Today we discuss the cool opportunities Metallica missed. Below are links to the videos mentioned in the episode.
Author: Andriy
My Friend of Misery could have been another glorious Metallica instrumental, a Ktulu of Jason Newsted. But instead, we have the epic tradition broken and a track that’s been buried in Metallica’s catalogue.
Another couple of dozen curious hidden things in Metallica songs, aka Easter Eggs. This is “geeky” edition, also featuring viewer submissions (thank you all!). Check out part 1 on YouTube if you haven’t.
There are only 8 original songs Metallica didn’t put on the main albums. Half are on Beyond Magnetic EP. And today I’ll rank them from the worst to the best. WARNING: Contains Metallica criticism!
Garage Inc cover album was made literally in just a few weeks. And it went multiplatinum, probably the easiest commercial success Metallica ever had. How did they do it? And what’s the secret to making any tune sound like Metallica?
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/28\ James Hetfield Solos: Why So Few?
Once per album (on average) Metallica treats us with a solo by James Hetfield. The riff god turns out a prolific lead guitarist. We review every such case, and also trying to crack a mystery: does Orion actually have a Hetfield solo?
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/27\ A Metallica Biopic: Future Disaster?
No, Metallica’s not going to make a biographical movie about themselves. Yet. But if they were, and should follow the standard biopic formula – it would be the biggest suck ever! Unless…
‘Metallica Apocalypse Dawn demo 2002’ – do you remember it? Back in the early 2000s, many fans believed that’s a real Metallica demo. Something we thought could’ve been on or instead of St Anger. Turned out it was a fake, but a so well crafted one! Meet its author Steve Allsworth, who will tell the story behind it. Video version too is available below.