Classical Composer Reacts to Blackened (Metallica) | The Daily Doug (Episode 207)

Your honesty and your willingness to step outside your comfort zone are amazing. And then, you candidly acknowledge that your understanding of the heaviness of the music was wrong. I'm so glad that one day, YouTube decided that I needed to watch your iron maiden reaction 😁. Thanks a lot Doug ( and thank you DJ Dan!). R'Lyeh the dead, by Adagio 😊

Doug: “The snare sounds like it’s tinny” St.Anger: ‘Hold my beer…’

Composer listens 2 minutes to Metallica: "Lars is rushing". Pure gold.

This album is a masterpiece despite the lack of bass. The guitar tone is heavy as fuck

AJFA is a very dry sounding album, which also makes it very raw and hard. Perfect.

When you do another Metallica, I strongly suggest Orion.

"listens to metallica for the first time in life" instantly starts bashing on lars

Ppl don't understand how genius the drum structure is in this song. Lars dictates how we perceive the riff. Like he said here, "new riff".

Blackened is my single favorite song of all time. I often times listen to jazz, rock, blues, or classical depending on what mood I'm in, but nothing compares to that raw and unfiltered brutality that Metallica put into this piece. Whether I'm happy, sad, anxious, excited, or angry, whether I've been listening to anything from Miles Davis and John Coltrane all the way to Jimi Hendrix and Aerosmith, it doesn't matter, Blackened always gives me goosebumps every time starts playing to the moment the song stops. The moment when the heavy music picks up in the beginning is like rocketing down the highest point of a roller coaster. Truly masterful piece in my opinion.

Doug: The drums are rushing. Everyone: Welcome to Metallica.

After the solo, it's not a new riff. It's exactly the same but Lars switches to play it off beat and after the fill comes back into it. The guitar stays exactly the same throughout the section.

The intro on the album version is actually played in REVERSE. The other intro on the "Justice for Jason" version is played as it was recorded, then played backwards like the album.

It's a shame Newsted's basslines are practically inaudible because he kills it.

Even if the bass is somewhat missing from the original mix, this album is still one of their finest.

"Is he trying to switch the drums? Is that on purpose?" Yes. Switching from playing the snare on the down-beat, to up-beat, and back to down-beat can create and then release tension. Also, when you listen to the music from the '70s, '80s, and '90s, you'll hear a lot of rushing and dragging because metronomes weren't standard practice like they are now. There are other big-name drummers in the same genre who don't have metronomic timing. Lars is an "easy target" because of Napster. Most people don't even know why they hate him.

To me Dyer’s Eve is the most interesting musical arrangement on Justice.

On the original version, the intro is actually backwards, on the second fan version, they placed the forward version, then the authorized 'reversed' intro. 'And Justice for Jason' overdid it on the bass, there are a few out there are better and in the middle.

The man is obsessed with the drums when Kirk is delivering a killer solo.

The drums of Blackened are amazing, and yes the change up is meant.

Yes James does have the perfect voice for metal…