METALLICA Riffs Written by JAMES HETFIELD (+Riff tapes)

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Riffs written (and played) by James Hetfield. And some lead stuff/melodies.
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There is a lot of compilations with Kirk Hammet, Dave Mustaine, Jason or Cliff. But to my surprise I didn’t find any of James Hetfield when I searched for: ”Metallica riffs written by James Hetfield”. So here it is 🤘
It only showed results with everyone else that has ever been in Metallica. But not JAMES HETFIELD himself? 😏 (At least not for me)
Anyway, this is only some of James guitar stuff, and only from 3 albums. He has written a lot more then this! Let me know if any of it is not his stuff. (But most of it is on James riff tapes!)
Or just enjoy the MASTER and his playing 🎸🤘
Check out my instrumental THRASH METAL Tracks on my 2nd channel here: • THRASH METAL/DEATH MET...
00:02 Damage Inc.
00:14 Shortest Straw
00:42 Holier Than Thou
01:04 Eye of the Beholder
01:23 Sad But True
01:56 Leper Messiah
03:35 To Live is to Die
04:34 Damage Inc.
05:03 Battery
05:56 Blackened intro
06:03 …And Justice for All
07:26 Master of Puppets
09:18 The Struggle Within
10:13 Frayed Ends of Sanity
10:43 Dyers Eve
11:50 Don’t Tread on Me
12:25 Unforgiven
13:01 Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
16:02 The Thing That Should Not Be
16:42 The God That Failed
17:32 Disposable Heroes
18:16 Dyers Eve (Again)

[@JohnnyRockG]

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[@Stagnant_Gravy]

The Shortest Straw demo sounds like Pantera 💀

[@jacksonlee1631]

Pretty sure the demo was tuned to C# standard so yeah lol (could be wrong)

[@prod.sull3n666]

more like slipknot

[@wolfgangdiaz2360]

Other way around

[@romans003]

That album was out way before Pantera, Pantera use to attend Metallica shows, when they were a glam band

[@_metal.militia]

@@romans003pantera formed in ‘81? This album came out in ‘88

[@steve_pooch]

Holy shit that original harmony in 'Leper Messiah'.... that's one of my favorite riffs and my first time hearing it harmonized

[@user-md7je3pp6n]

Dude the demos sound more devilish and heavy than the normal😂

[@uchicha666]

It's pretty common for metal demos

[@BassSoloT8kOne]

it gives black metal vibes bc of the audio quality

[@burkie7]

5:45 that riff is so heavy i wish it wasn’t hidden under the solo

[@Liece45]

Dude, that battery solo riff is so brutal that the solo itself couldn't hide its power

[@IvlivsSosae]

Best riff I ever heard

[@dirtyandnasty9011]

The shortest straw sounds brutal in D ! And that fanfare version of Unforgiven is... Surprising... 😅

[@francollanosvasquez241]

Its precision is very good!

[@m4krozz216]

precision you mean?

[@francollanosvasquez241]

@@m4krozz216 my autocorrect brother! hshs thanks for letting me know

[@NUCLEARDASH]

Master of puppets solo in the demos sounds oddly good

[@noahschwartz3526]

it sounds so beautiful to me the way james played it, idk why but it’s so pleasing so my ears

[@ReeceyBoy_4]

Brilliant this pal, appreciate it ❤

[@nykterion7]

Leper Messiah demo sounds sick

[@gabrielshelwood3072]

I’m so appreciative for videos like this 🔥

[@FLOURISHFAMILYENT]

Genius

[@jasonwilcox6637]

I've always thought Leper sounded like an Exodus riff.

[@NOSFERATU_ONE]

you mean all of them he IS Metallica with a sprinkle of Lars

[@ReeceyBoy_4]

James is the riff master brother

[@BreadboiEVA01]

not ALL of them lol

[@RHAC97]

Kinda the opposite man, Hetfield IS a downpicking god, and the best frontman, but Lars is the mastermind, and main responsible for pretty much every song arrangement in 'tallica.

[@DayCMeTrollinGaming]

Kirk wrote many of their iconic riffs too but gets overshadowed cause of the down picking god Hetfield it kinda blew my mind finding out that Kirk wrote some amazing riffs

[@RHAC97]

@@DayCMeTrollinGaming Yeah right!? Blew my mind when I find out that, my favorite riffs were kirk's and Dave's 😂

[@Ryu_Ake]

Nice job

[@soynicolasvarela]

Wow, The Unforgiven was going to be faster

[@Benja_H.]

8:00 What happened here?

[@Nero12323]

He thinks about Dave Mustaine

[@rodrigost.3324]

2:16 / 3:03 the Demo version is much better! pitty that they took off the harmonies ... But as far as i know, Hetf didnt know nothing on harmonies at that time !

[@Will-sp7ws]

What’s the riff at 0:04 ?

[@kboct2641]

Verse riff from Damage, inc

[@Nissardpertugiu]

Shortest straw was detuned on demo ?

[@maiky5724]

yeah, it should be in c#

[@JohnnyRockG]

@@maiky5724yes, definitly not a common tuning when he played that in 1986…

[@JohnnyRockG]

It might be a ”drop c” tuning

[@averagepinkfloydfan]

@@JohnnyRockGit's C# tuning

[@JohnnyRockG]

Maybe, but now I checked with the app ”Moises” and it says ”D”!? It sounds more downtuned, but this app just never got it it wrong for me before. And I have no instrument now so I can check for sure.

[@JohnnyRockG]

All my HETFIELD influenced/stolen riffs in this thrash metal backing tracks playlist: (2nd channel) kzbin.info/aero/PLa8S_SAH_0xJPltErFIK2rvydfeFlUnP9&si=32Inrfu-DwvwKC-K

[@jaso4562]

Then after the Black album all the riffs are written by Lars 😂😂

[@xrt7874]

All guitar solos.

[@ligamentpull1]

Who wrote the Acoustic intro to Battery?

[@JohnnyRockG]

Probably James since he recorded this demo in 1985 :-) kzbin.info/www/bejne/mH3akqyuaMijkJIsi=LKwDV6Ar6gd9bK3-

[@JohnnyRockG]

And only James and Lars has writing credits on Battery.

[@garfieldfan3892]

​@@JohnnyRockGmakes sense since battery is basically intro, pre-solo and two riffs

[@IsraelSocial]

Leper messiah sounds better men 😲 james is a genius

[@Harv917]

Why do they legit sound like Nirvana when James sings on his riff tapes 🤷‍♂

[@b_uddy]

Trruuuthhhh I always thought that about the AJFA riff tapes

[@Nexcroo]

There’s a million vids of this

[@JohnnyRockG]

Well you would think… But not if you actually search for ”metallica riffs written by james hetfield”! 😉 My video is already #1 on this, probably because there was not ”millions” of compilations like this if you search for that… For me: (in ”incognito”) #2 ”Metallica riffs NOT written by James Hetfield” (#1 before mine) #3 ”Riff Precision 99,8% - James Hetfield was NOT human” (This one is very short and its only about his playing, not who wrote the riffs) #4 ”10 Metallica riffs NOT written by James Hetfield” #5 ”32 Metallica Riffs NOT written by Hetfield” I scrolled down 20 videos and not a single one was about ”Riffs written by Hetfield”. (Until now)

[@simonon60fps60]

so what

[@Nexcroo]

@@simonon60fps60 poser

[@victorparata9059]

Wonderful