Hip Hop Fan Reacts To Metallica - Am I Evil Cover

[@janhanmer4830]

Hetfield didn't write any of this. In fact you mentioned at the start it was a Diamond Head song, but seemed to forget this immediately!

[@MKLST2]

it sounds so Metallic(a)

[@haniffat]

@@MKLST2 one of my fav by them, they did an amazing cover imo

[@Nightmare_Texas]

You took the words right out of my mouth I was about to comment the same thing

[@charlescox86]

The intro is from "Mars God of War" part of the planets suite by Gustav Holst. I remember playing it on the sax in band when I was in middle school lol.

[@keithgraham8588]

Also the fact that Lars writes just as much stuff as James.

[@deletedhero5579]

Thanks to this cover metallica totally reinvigorated Diamond Heads career and gained them more royalties and fans than would get before

[@gvehar]

They covered this and Blitzkrieg as B-sides for Creeping Dearh, but they do fit right in sonically for Kill Em All. After Cliff died they got Jason and did the Garage Days EP. This caused quite a stir back in the day because the song choice was so original and they were so good. Helpless was another Diamond Head song. The Small Hours was a Holocaust song, taken from a live album because Holocaust never even recorded it during the life of the band. The Wait by Killing Joke shows their punk influence, and Crash Course In Brain Surgery was their first Budgie cover. Then there was a Misfits medley of Last Caress/Green Hell. Everyone in my high school knew Last Caress, even non-metal girls knew that song and sang it in the hallways. All these bands except Killing Joke had broken up by the time Metallica did these songs, and all reformed later due to the attention received. Just last night I got the 2022 remaster of Diamond Head’s first album and they write about how they now play some songs the way Metallica does them now.

[@mattharvey968]

That first Garage Days is killer!

[@irish14500]

Killing Joke is THE BAND! Geordie can create walls of sounds.

[@SoSlinky]

This track is also on "Garage inc." album where they do amazing covers. They mention that this album contains all the riffs they wish they had created themselves.

[@Pingkonk]

Another cover you should check out is their cover/medley “Mercyful Fate” which is like a 9 min medley of songs from the band Mercyful Fate. It’s awesome. Just a bunch of bad ass riffs and solos

[@Bushanie24]

oooof crazy good

[@RoadLessTraveledMedia]

this was actually a Diamond Head song originally...but fitting for this album as a cover/tribute. There are some cool concert videos where bands play this together in homage. Great react!

[@homersimpson8414]

This is one of the very rare examples when a cover version is much better than the original.

[@RoadLessTraveledMedia]

@@homersimpson8414 completely agree. there are times when that's the case, e.g., I would argue that Disturb's sound of silence cover lends a completely different quality to the song. This one, I think, and much off Garage Inc., reflects that

[@janicepriest6578]

I love this cover but I have an attachment to the Diamond Head original. There is a video of the Big Four, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax closing the 2010 show with “Am I Evil”. It’s short but pretty f’n cool. Love the reaction

[@christinebouchard7434]

Love that one too, all the extra instruments make it something else. Except for what's his face that didn't know the words.

[@gregoryhartung5646]

2 bonus tracks. The other is called Blitzkrieg.

[@RoadLessTraveledMedia]

blitzkrieg was one of my favorites when I first got this album as a young teen

[@Aymungoos]

I love blitzkrieg especially metallicas live version in Canada 1986 right after cliff died

[@gregoryhartung5646]

@@RoadLessTraveledMedia so fucking thrashy

[@ShadowsMusicShed]

This was actually from the Ride the Lightning sessions and was included in the "Creeping Death EP"

[@randycomerford2038]

Man I really love your reactions, and the way you break down the song, both musically and lyrically.

[@vass0922]

Back in the cassette and vinyl days occasionally you'd buy a single song, you'd get the b-side track in the opposite side. Some of my favorite b sides from Metallica are 'so what' and 'killing time' - a queen cover. So what was apparently a cover from the anti-nowhere league.

[@SantamanitaClauscaria]

Their Queen cover was Stone Cold Crazy. Great cover. Killing Time was originally performed by the band Sweet Savage, one of the NWOBHM bands along with Iron Maiden and Diamond Head, but never got nearly as famous. Their founding guitarist ended up playing in Dio and then Def Leppard.

[@vass0922]

@@SantamanitaClauscaria damn yep you got me, but stone cold crazy was damn awesome too

[@Hilariumosis]

A fantastic cover indeed. I can't think of a bad cover by them atm. I love "Turn The Page", "Whiskey In a Jar", "Stone Cold Crazy", "Breadfan", "It's Electric", "So What", "Mercyful Fate", "Blitzkrieg"... Man.

[@markyates1116]

Absolutely! I dare to say all their covers are better than the original

[@mattharvey968]

The Wait, Crash Coarse in Brain Surgery are couple more!!🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@LittleBombbuilder]

Totaly agree , when they do a cover , they do it with so much heart , passion and respect to the original, that some of their covers belong to my favourit Metallica tracks . One of my absolut favourit alltime top10 songs is the "merciful fate medly" since i'm also a huge king diamond/merciful fate fan 🤩 (i was lucky enough to see him live back in 2006 on the 6th of june (6.6.6.🤘😈) in Essen, germany , which was one of the best concerts in my life) .

[@robertparker6280]

Uhhhhh what about "Tuesday's Gone"?

[@justindevoe9556]

Every copy of Kill Em All since the original pressing in 83 has included this and their cover of the song Blitzkreig

[@lou3778]

Am I Evil & Blitzkrieg came out as B sides on the Creeping Death EP. Still have it!

[@mattharvey968]

Want another great Metallica remake check out Crash Coarse in Brain Surgery!🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@marsupialsr]

Love that song, 2nd half is awesome how it picks up. Props to Diamond Head for the original.

[@timperluss7270]

Love Metallica covers. Garage Days Re-Revisited was the first cassette I ever purchased

[@Aymungoos]

Metallica were the best at covers. Check out the song "the prince" where they are covering another song from the same band that made am I evil

[@markyates1116]

Love this song. Pretty cool you went back for it after the comments!

[@peterwilmarth4523]

Blitzkrieg was another cover song on the original album. Kill 'em All

[@mattsabath]

This guitar solo originally written by Brian Tattler of DiamondHead and played almost note for note by Kirk here and Dave before him is one of the most kickass solos ever imo.

[@EMal-mf9pc]

The music in the very beginning paints images of a ww2 kamikaze pilot marching towards his Japanese Fighter Jet with a 1000 yard stare

[@davidwillard8908]

Words and music by Brian Tattler and Sean Harris of Diamondhead. This is a pretty faithful cover. Check out the original. Metallicas original record label was Megaforce Records. After the Ride the Lightning tour they were signed by Electra Records. At that point Kill em All was reissued and added Am I Evil and Blitzkreig. Both songs part of their live set years before. Eventually those cover songs were moved off of Kill em All and released on Garage Inc in the late 90s.

[@eirikrdberg1161]

Time for a Dylan album reaction. Highway 61 revisited a safe solid masterpiece from 65. 7-8 others as good or close, but I would go for Highway 61. Hope you do one of his albums. Happy no matter which one you choose. I know there are a lot of bands and artists to get to and you can’t get to everything at the same time.

[@MotoKringles]

There is another track that you are missing from this album. ''Blitzkrieg'' .. this song is also a good one!

[@martingrey2231]

@3:05 They owe that to Diamond Head. And DH is worth more than just Am I Evil?, son 🫠

[@TheDoctorFlay]

This track also features on their "Garage Days" collections of covers This is where you get to hear them having fun with the songs that inspired them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garage_Inc.

[@jco207]

I'm a beginner guitarist. After hearing all these riffs I feel like learning this song would be like going to heavy metal university.

[@litonyayo1666]

Anvil metal on metal. schools in!

[@iamnoone7711]

This album had one more cover “Blitzkreig” by the band of the same name. My personal favorite cover by Metallica is “Breadfan” by the group Budgie

[@madmartigan9006]

If anyone’s cares….the beginning of the song is Gustav Holst; The Planets - Mars.

[@souquiant5206]

Metallica has a special capability that anytime they do a cover, they make it sound it as their own, because even when I like DH I rather listen the Metallica version of this song

[@C_mao]

I had this track on the 'Garage Days Revisited' album, i didn't have it on my Kill Em All vinyl album. The Band Diamond Head wrote, produced this one, Metallica liked it so they covered it as a tribute. The whole Garage Days album is covers of songs from other bands they liked. (tributes)

[@GeekFurious]

The great thing about this song and that Metallica covered it and other songs from this band is that Diamond Head was probably going to be just another forgotten band in the history of metal. And instead they will forever be part of the grander arc of thrash metal because they so heavily influenced Metallica.

[@Hoscitt]

This isn't from K.E.A. It was a B-side on Creeping Death....

[@gvehar]

It’s not on the original album but later versions have it. I bought mine on CD in 1991, upgrading from cassette just to get those songs.

[@metallicoustic6733]

He says at the beginning it's on a foreign re-release of the album

[@volbeatrules6528]

You missed two. I had Blitzkrieg on my cassette along with Am I Evil. Which is why it was my favorite album till all the rereleases came out! Blitzkrieg is the bomb

[@homersimpson8414]

VERY TRUE!

[@lou3778]

Am I Evil & Blitzkrieg weren’t on the original Kill Em All release. They were B sides on the Creeping Death EP.

[@haniffat]

Garage Inc. by Metallica is one of my fav albums ever. So damn good.

[@Kyle_Crayne]

After the studio recordings, you should definitely watch versions of these songs from the legendary concerts in Seattle in 1989 and San Diego in 1992 immediately after. Very powerful show and powerful sound. Do not even watch concert versions of other years. Bad sound and bad vocals. It was in 1989 and 1992 that Hatfield had the maximum expressiveness and fury in his voice.

[@gamleskalle1]

This and Breadfan great covers.

[@homersimpson8414]

The original is from the British band Diamond Head.

[@ResubidorSerial]

Such an underrated track, most Metallica fans don't know this song because it's a cover, in my opinion better than the original

[@deaconj3406]

Maybe the original original but Diamond Head remade it and the new version destroys this. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZ_YoZmErMtpaK8

[@ernieherrera1034]

I agree. It's better than the original.

[@adamgardner2244]

Yes it is. Just like the cover they did of Blitzkrieg

[@loristone9242]

Yes!! SO much better. Metallica does a cover and makes it their own.

[@johnlehtinen1918]

Can't wait until you review Metallica- Spit out the Bone.

[@CousinCreepy]

Don't miss Creeping Death! Another essential early cut!

[@cooperstonebadge2228]

one of my favorites yet i had no idea it was a cover

[@homersimpson8414]

Diamond Head

[@mikegoin6023]

would love to see a side by side reaction to Metallica covering the Budgie song "Crash Course in Brain Surgery"

[@SantamanitaClauscaria]

Check out "Garage Inc." its all Metallica doing covers.

[@stevenwinn3636]

Metallica took the songwriting and musical ideas of so many bands into Kill Em All, Diamond Head in particular.

[@themadcow71]

I know this is a cover but it's one of my top 5 favorite Metallica tracks. So EVIL!

[@markantone7989]

AM I EVIL BLITZKRIEG ON SIDE 2 OF B .33RPM SINGLE SIDE A IS CREEPING DEATH THAT WAS AN IMPORT EDITION. WASN'T UNTIL THE EARLY 90'S THAT THEY INCLUDED BOTH COVER TRACKS ON KILL 'EM ALL. DIAMOND HEAD ORIGINAL VERSION SOUNDS WAY DIFFERENT

[@SimpleKiid]

metallica actually have an entire album with cover songs. Garage inc is the album.

[@MunkeeFWRrng]

Just do a deep dive of the whole Garage Inc. album. It’s a cover album and not a single bad song on there. Most of them better than the original and gave popularity to the original tracks like Am I Evil for example. They Metallica-inized the songs so hard that if you didn’t know better you’d think they were originals 😅😂

[@paulmayden7344]

James didn't write the lyrics for this one. As you said this is a Diamond-Head song. And Metallica does a pretty faithful cover. Diamon-Head was a HUGE influence on them and their style. Really if it wasn't for them Metallica would be a MUCH different band. Diamond-Head were the masters of putting a billion different riffs and grooves into one song. Really the only real difference in this from the original is James is a much more Metal sounding singer. Diamond-Heads singer is much more glam rock sounding even though his band wasn't really a glam rock band.

[@thedrummerking13]

The priduction a d recordimg qaulity is much better than the original diomond head track

[@menotyou8369]

Dude, what part of _COVER_ didn't you get?

[@justiceforyall]

Do 1.25x speed. It gets even better.

[@SUMUAL-PERMESTA]

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[@markantone7989]

HEY MAN , A BIT OFF BAND TOPIC THE DOORS SONGS : LOVER HER MADLY PEOPLE ARE STRANGE GLORIA LIVE WILD CHILD

[@theclawyaww3740]

Ok time for Megadeth do a full album reaction to Rust in Peace. Its mandatory for metal beginners

[@jackshoplock3846]

Ya if he thinks Metallica are the master of transitions wait till he hears Take No Prisoners 😂

[@irish14500]

All played with down stroke picking. Try that and see how tired your hand becomes. Skateboarding was never more fun!

[@caseyjones9359]

Blitzkrieg is the better cover on this album. Imo

[@litonyayo1666]

lol.i think this dude forgot this is a cover.

[@digitalblues01]

You seem to forget they did not write this! Also those riffs and switch ups are all in the original which you should have watched first and should watch now.

[@user-hf4eh2ts3q]

Great reactions! Hey, what kind of audio equipment do you listen on, including headphones? Curious, Im an audio equipment junkie.

[@eazye519]

This blows away the original by Diamond Head . Its not even close

[@journeyman66]

You seem to not understand what a cover is.