METALLICA: Clean And Acoustic Riffs (all of them chronologically)

Hey, comrades! In this video, I've played all of Metallica's acoustic and clean guitar riffs throughout their career in chronological order. Let's Clean 'Em All guys!
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[@Faks.09]

Clean 'em all Clean the lightning Master of cleanings ...and cleaning for all The clean album Clean ReClean Clean Inc. C&M St. Clean Clean Magnetic Hardwired... To self cleaning Classic :)

[@dumbinfp7951]

Also the single, I Clean

[@jesus-fv1sz]

and the ep beyond clean

[@starlighter93]

And the infamous Clunu (Lulu, not to be confused with Ktulu) :D

[@jimmypage2994]

enter cleanman

[@ghengisdong6714]

The cleaners are drawing nearer!!!!

[@przemezio]

0:05 Phantom Lord 0:20 Fight fire with Fire 0:53 Fade to Black 1:48 The Call of Ktulu 2:45 Battery 3:23 Master of Puppets 3:42 The thing that should not be 3:58 Welcome home (Sanitarium) 4:42 Orion 5:09 ...And Justice for All 5:31 One 6:20 Harvester of Sorrow 6:31 To Live is to die 8:03 Enter Sandman 8:16 The Unforgiven 9:06 Wherever I May Roam 9:20 Nothing Else Matters 10:21 Of Wolf and Man 10:30 The God that failed 10:40 My Friend of Misery 11:04 Until it sleeps 11:20 Hero of the Day 11:51 Bleeding Me 12:22 Wasting My Hate 12:50 Mama Said 13:20 The Memory Remains 13:34 The Unforgiven II 14:04 Where the Wild Things Are 14:33 Low Man's Lyric 15:41 Fixxxer 16:10 No Leaf Clover 16:37 I Disappear 16:53 Frantic 17:16 St Anger 17:40 Some Kind of Monster 17:56 Dirty Window 18:11 Sweet Amber 18:28 The Unnamed Feeling 18:42 All Within My Hands 19:10 That Was Just Your Life 19:36 The End of the Line 19:54 The Day that Never Comes 20:42 All Nightmare Long 20:59 Cyanide 21:14 The Unforgiven III 21:54 Suicide and Redemption 22:29 Hate Train 22:54 Just a Bullet Away 23:17 Hell and Back 23:33 Rebel of Babylon 23:49 Halo on Fire 24:05 Here Comes Revenge 24:20 Am I Savage? 24:34 Murder One

[@AussieDad79]

You’re awesome!!!

[@mr.selfdestruct2042]

Dude are you okey

[@trainerrrss]

God Bless!!

[@cedcote3224]

at 7:07??? ;-;

[@v1dhn]

@@cedcote3224 same song, to live is to die. In the original song, around 5:00

[@KornMax]

the acoustic middle section of To Live is to Die hits deep in the feelings. What a beautiful piece of music

[@ghengisdong6714]

That entire song is a masterpiece.. severely underrated

[@marcthedashergd6321]

The acoustic section is actually the intro and the middle section is clean guitar

[@mikepollack8277]

Fun to play as well! And pretty easy actually.

[@shiryu8932]

Ktulu too.

[@xvor_tex8577]

I no joke just started tearing up as soon as he played that riff, it's just so beautiful

[@VirgoKing89]

The beginning of Battery has got to be one of the best album openers ever!! Welcome Home (Sanitarium) is a very close second. They’re both always so satisfying to hear. Master of Puppets is definitely their best work (if not one of them)! But of course there are so many bands who have amazing intros (as well as entire tracks) 🖤🖤🖤🔥🔥🔥☺️😉😊👍🏽🙌🏽

[@coledurbin2610]

Go listen to "If 'Battery' was on 'The Black Album."' It almost blows the original out of the water

[@VirgoKing89]

@@coledurbin2610 OK cool I’ll check it out. :)

[@malsawma8408]

I agree

[@unexpectedlybroken8505]

The beginning of Blackened is the one that does is for me

[@junky5627]

It is the best album opener ever sir 🧐

[@MarcieGirl91]

These songs are so ingrained in my head I know the start of each individual instruments.

[@vaibhavvasishth4637]

Ikr 😭

[@wurthit1239]

And a beautiful head at that🤘😉

[@jessedriftgod3737]

Same

[@irondoggieyt]

When that main fade to black melody comes in it always hits me hard, so beautiful

[@chrisivan_yt]

Picturing him putting it all together in a room when he was younger ❤️

[@a.t.3192]

The clean riff from End of the Line sounds so mysterious. Bond theme vibes. Man, I love that riff at 21:22

[@XlTanzanitelX]

Me too

[@BTBAM819]

The unforgiven 3 is gorgeous

[@vovahimself]

For the life of me, and I’m saying this as a huge fan and someone who holds Metallica in the highest esteem, I can’t comprehend how they could come up with the intro riff to Fight Fire With Fire. It’s just so complex, beautiful and atmospheric at so many levels.

[@Deathshuck]

The middle section of To Live Is to Die: ""If it wasn't for that riff, our band would not exist." - Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth"

[@xvor_tex8577]

Metallica by far has the best Clean and Acoustic guitar riffs of any Metal band

[@karanXd]

Opeth: am I joke to you?

[@TheDrugFreeThrasher]

I agree. I do believe that dream theater and System of a Down have some really good ones too.

[@danyrszz]

@@karanXd thought that immediatly

[@001ekajredne]

Pantera?

[@michaeltarasov4426]

Porcupine Tree and Opeth, also Ne Obliviscaris has a lot of good acoustic riffs

[@thedancingguy828]

St Anger and Load riffs/clean riffs are underrated, i mean the are underrated at everything but in drums

[@TheSageCookieuwu]

I think the Drums on Both are Underrated. I love the Drum sound on both. (I also find the Drums on AJFA to be Overrated.)

[@marcthedashergd6321]

St. Anger's clean riffs are overlooked because everybody is all about hating St. Anger. Same for the drum beats and the chunky heavy riffs

[@jamescase6465]

@@TheSageCookieuwu the drum sound is just objectively awful

[@KazeAkiyama]

@@jamescase6465 nah.

[@frankiebq5604]

Underrated in drums too

[@강형태-y4b]

I don't know why but intro is so nostalgic. It's like resurrection! Thx for great video. I got gibson flying v recently! I have to try these with that! \m/

[@chrisinch7964]

You make me want to learn every Metallica song 🤘🏻😎🎸

[@xvor_tex8577]

Exactly dude, now I'm motivated to learn metallica songs 🤘🤘🖤

[@Gabrostil]

I'm impressed with you playing the unforgiven II without a b-bender, i normally do with slides because i can't make the bend lol

[@stanjohnson1070]

And the My Friend of Misery interlude

[@drivinsouth651]

I`m impressed by your lack of respect for christianity; awesome, dude!

[@Gabrostil]

@@drivinsouth651 what?

[@Gabrostil]

@@stanjohnson1070 true, i forgot about that my friend of misery

[@drivinsouth651]

@@Gabrostil I was referring to VERMILION`s upside down cross. I don`t like traditional biblical mythology because it makes people worship the devil. Isaiah 45:7

[@fuzzynuts2176]

I'd love to see a megadeth one of these like "Cleaning is my business...and business is good!" or something like that 😂, great job @VERMILION

[@blakebacarella9445]

Now I want to see all the clean parts in peace sells 😂

[@aguileratango]

To live is to die is the perfection of Metallica's clean riffs.

[@mattp8012]

The amount of nostalgia this video gives me as a guitarist is nuts. Amazing video. Keep them coming.

[@facundosoler2200]

Watching this all the way through just made me realize how insanely big and incredible of a band MetallicA is, the amount of creativeness in their songs and variety is just insane !

[@thedam1012]

Absolutely brilliant!!! A side of Hetfields playing that doesn't get enough praise

[@loganpriest6029]

To live is to die has got to be my favourite. Perfect melody written by cliff as well I believe

[@Zwellop]

That's some dedication right there, playing all those riffs perfectly :D

[@kelbefresh_3026]

It's definitely overshadowed by more clean melodies or harmonies but Phantom Lord just showed you how talented Mustaine was and still is as a rhythm guitar player...TO THIS DAY !!

[@master_jake]

All the clean sounds it's so relaxing, because you feel the history with a perfect sounds and then makes you want to play with inspiration!!!

[@rhys.cunningham4179]

Sick video my friend, big fan of metallica’s clean riffs, especially fight fire with fire, fade to black and one

[@kadinleblanc]

another gojira fan i see?

[@jacobs1390]

And here we are

[@r.b.ratieta6111]

The Master of Puppets interlude is one of my all time favorite repetitious riffs in all of rock. It's so repetitive yet so catchy. The kind of melody that sets your mind at ease.

[@anatolydyatlov4103]

They are all masterpieces. Thanks for this great work.

[@birtum]

Tapes off!!!!! Welcome back dude. So good to see one of your videos again. Awesome video as always, keep up the good work 💪🏽

[@illxs]

Cool video, love the tones! The second riff in Call of Ktulu is one of the darkest acoustic riff ever!

[@luizcauduro]

Kill 'Em All (1983) -Phantom Lord (0:06) Ride The Lightning (1984) -Fight afire With Fire (0:20) -Fade To Black (0:53) -The Call Of Ktulu (1:48) Master Of Puppets (1986) -Battery (2:44) -Master Of Puppets (3:23) -The Thing That Should Not Be (3:41) -Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (3:58) -Orion (4:42) ...And Justice For All (1988) -...And Justice For All (5:09) -One (5:31) -Harvester Of Sorrow (6:21) -To Live Is To Die (6:31) (7:06) Metallica/Black Album (1991) -Enter Sandman (8:03) -The Unforgiven (8:16) -Wherever I May Roam (9:05) -Nothing Else Matters (9:19) -Of Wolf And Man (10:21) -The God That Failed (10:29) -My Friend Of Misery (10:39) Load (1996) -Until It Sleeps (11:04) -Hero Of The Day (11:20) -Bleeding Me (11:50) -Wasting My Hate (12:22) -Mama Said (12:50) Reload (1997) -The Memory Remains (13:17) -The Unforgiven II (13:32) -Where The Wild Things Are (14:03) -Low Man's Lyric (14:32) -Fixxxer (15:41) S&M(1999) -No Leaf Clover (16:10) I Disappear (2000 - M:I-2 Soundtrack) (16:36) St. Anger (2003) -Frantic (16:32) -St. Anger (17:16) -Some Kind Of Monster (17:36) -Dirty Window (17:55) -Sweet Amber (18:11) -The Unnamed Feeling (18:27) -All Within My Hands (18:41) Death Magnetic (2008) Beyond Magnetic (2011 - EP) Hardwired...To Self Destruct (2016)

[@NotAChair]

You can tell the opening to Fight Fire with Fire was a Cliff Burton composition. One of the greats, RIP.

[@burakakbulut3352]

wow I see you are getting well happy for you thank you for your dedication

[@gudluckskeleton]

i was really impressed by the bend you did for the unforgiven 2 riff, it's so annoying to do for me! great video!

[@FullConcerts100]

It’s meant to be played with a B bender. Makes it 10x easier. Same for the My Friend Of Misery clean part.

[@efeoktay244]

Awesome work. Imho this also shows the growth and regression of Metallica musicly. Listening the old goods was amazing. Thank you.

[@Blufferb00r]

7:07 gets me evry time...

[@Coolhand7]

The clean lead-up to the duet solo (and the solo itself) on My Friend of Misery is just... I have no words. I love it.

[@pacovl46]

21:47 given the state of your fingertip you should’ve definitely thrown Frayed Ends in there! 🤪 Great playing, mate!

[@milan.0363]

*VERMILION GOD* nice one. this no.1 fav band of all time.

[@hugoxd1901]

God I never ask you for anything but I ask you to never stop making these videos )); 🖤

[@tarikbugrad]

Hero of the day and to live is to die always get me chills

[@tuckerfyffe4999]

I could listen to that Fade to Black intro all day. Also, anyone know what song is at 7:08? The title isn't showing up for me for some reason.

[@melendrez367]

That’s ‘To live is To Die’ from And Justice For All. The mid portion I think.

[@mikepollack8277]

One of my favorite pieces of music. Been playing it for 20 years .

[@apersonok8426]

That’s the interlude of To Live Is To Die.

[@vaibhavvasishth4637]

I guessed the song by the tone of the guitar 😭

[@realmetalhex]

Imagine starting out your career with something as creative and technically mesmerizing as the Fight Fire with Fire intro.

[@musicminute2004]

All Metallica clean and acoustic riffs. Also Vermilion: 16:58, 18:09, 19:00

[@rafaeljefersonbarzotto8887]

At least my baby daughter didn't wake up in that parts xD she sleeps listening to this video

[@IgorNafynski]

Great Video, i can see you’ve put a lot of effort into It. There are some songs you left out tho. If you’re intersted they are: - King Nothing (post solo) - Thorn Within (verse) - ManUNkind (intro) But again that’s just me being nitpicky. Awesome work bro.

[@PenguinzFTW]

ManUnkind intro is played on bass by Robert I believe, not on a guitar, just thought I'd let you know

[@IgorNafynski]

I know. But There’s also a higher part that is played by James.

[@PenguinzFTW]

@@IgorNafynski oh that's cool, I didn't know

[@TheNothing6]

Some of the most beautiful clean and acoustic riffs of all time!

[@samuelebenyacar3821]

So many intros, so many pieces of art, so many real pueces of our lives

[@Jasonk89]

Awesome dude, sounds great! One little nitpicky thing: your high e-string sounds a wee bit off, as if it's just a tiny bit detuned.

[@metallicoustic6733]

It is and it was bugging me too man

[@nicksprung1741]

Ughhhhh the switch in call of kthulu is so gorgeous

[@DrThrax-qb9lv]

Great vid! Can't wait to see Top 10 AILD in your channel someday.

[@dbo4506]

Good luck narrowing that down to 10 riffs. The riff gods of metalcore drop 10 bangin riffs per song haha

[@WinterwarOfficial]

Love the tone on Kthulu!

[@AlexShelly21]

I was worried about your hand the whole time I was watching haha. I missed your videos and I’m glad your back to playing again!

[@slashwannabe2k]

Cracking vid man + You fixed the snare for the St. Anger tracks 🙌

[@moscas85]

Where The Wild Things Are - the most underrated Metallica song

[@rickmcclain1037]

I absolutely love "Where the Wild Things Are". It sent a shiver up my spine hearing that song on this video

[@csaenz14]

the clean riff on the call of ktulu always reminded me to a Zelda Song

[@vashusan1984]

Been a minute since I've listened to all these tracks. Reminds me heavily of high school years. Thanks for the reminder of how great this stuff is. Well performed!

[@cemshetfield]

13:18 here is your replay button. also mine

[@Dusty72-mp2ok]

Love how when it gets into the st anger stuff he keeps playing the distorted riffs after

[@blasbembi]

You made me cry, thank you.

[@erickcamacho5116]

That transition between master of puppets and the thing that should not be was sooo smooth

[@vasya.vasya24]

10:40 for me is most beautiful place of all Metallica

[@FromDesertTown]

I did not expect that Fight Fire with Fire intro, very nice!

[@jbasti227]

Can you please do this for Mastodon?

[@shinnim7865]

really amazing riffs...

[@mrshaneyt43]

Damn KZbin , nearly missed this one ☝️ …..returning stronger 💪

[@ChillBlossoms]

Such wonderful acoustic riffs.

[@timothyjamessarsfieldjr7041]

U play the songs perfect man! Awesome!!

[@shlomo2409]

Finally, another log riffs of Metallica.

[@beavisbrowne3497]

Very enjoyable, thank you🙏

[@kevinryanpunkgitty]

Lot of sadness and beauty instilled in all of those

[@IsnardLopes]

That’s a incredibly great work man. Superb stuff!

[@WHYFISHTAKEN]

this is why metallica is my favorite band

[@agestor4483]

You know every time i play Orion similar to the one you play. After the first three notes I always hold my pink on the 9th fret 4th string and then strum 3rd string 7th, 9th fret 4th (with the pinky down) back to 7th, now putting my ring finger in front of my pinky while holding the string down, the same fret on third string, and continue rest. It gives the ring it needs and I highly suggest trying it. Sounds way better

[@siamakut]

You nail it ❤❤👋👋🤘🤘 your guitar playing is very accurate and technical 👌👌👌🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@mungofinalfi4480]

I never knew there were clean guitar parts in Orion.

[@danteeldante1383]

The iconic ones from the first 4 albums and at such a young age.

[@martingrtlien4929]

Ahh the sound of my youth! Try hitting the open high E string on the 6th note of the ktulu intro.

[@philipdeppen2890]

To live is to die is such a beautiful melody.

[@Cthulhu_Awaken]

Well that's impressive!

[@xcharli707x]

The tone was perfect for each song 👌

[@mungofinalfi4480]

Nah.

[@mobeus84]

Id say Most Memorable clean riffs in Metal, but 'Best' is subjevtive. Best is meant for things with data and on the same level. Like here u say Metal music. 10 ppl have 10 different ideas of what 'Metal' is and who is. Love this video tho bro. Well done recording. Audio and Video. I know the time this took so to hell w Metallica Props to Vermilion!!!

[@IntheDeadofDarkness]

Phenomenal job, sir! Thanks for this!

[@AmitSharma-kd7rj]

6:07 13:18 this where Metallica knows how to do magic.

[@Maic512]

Me alegro mucho que estes de regreso y recuperado de la mano. Abrazo desde Uruguay !

[@rambosambo95]

Awesome! Nice touch of Ghost around the neck too ;)

[@elysiane449]

"METALLICA: Clean and Acoustic Riffs (all of them chronologically)" - plays aggressively Frantic main riff with distortions @16:59 love it

[@mikedegracias8616]

Good to see back with your hands recovered. Keeps rocking!

[@Tawfiq001]

So basically you're telling me that cliff and james are awesome composers. ❤

[@Blueesteel_]

What company is your black acoustic??

[@JohnRambo-mf2xr]

I'm late but. . . Glad to see your hand (fingers) is better. Loved the video your really good at what you do!

[@clairounemetalla]

A masterpiece. Thank you for this moment out of time.

[@blackcupp6727]

The Day That Never Comes is the saddest to me

[@fenolco]

James loves that Am chord very much 💖

[@lukzriffs1564]

This is your best Video ever! That fight fire with fire ist just awesome 👍

[@andremouraajr]

Phantom lord ❤🖤🤘🏼

[@eclipsedzeppelin]

My life changed when I heard the intro to And Justice for All

[@GibsonFender]

7:08 THE GREATEST MELODY AND BEST RIFF HETFIELD OR METALLICA EVER WROTE, FOR ME…. THAT IS THE BEST THING THEY EVER WROTE

[@serguei666]

👏👏👏...Impresionante!!! 25' of history of Metallica, bravo!!! Metallica is "atemporal", a song of year 1982 sounds totally present!!! Graciñas e saúdos☠️🤘

[@OscarHernandez-mz7vt]

Fade to black my favorite by far

[@brydenmelendrez3257]

All those tones are pretty much immaculate

[@Annihilator2001]

what a strong return, mate!!! keep it up