Metallica - The Thing That Should Not Be (Loud Bass Version)

[@gasmaskedbassist1538]

I love the fact people make bass boosted stuff for like every bass song Cliff plays

[@Da_Swifta]

he deserves it, dude was a beast

[@NACHON-bl7wf]

Jason’s ones too… at least at …And Justice For All

[@Dinrad360]

The bass tone is just MONSTER

[@morzatt]

This damn song is heard much better with a demolishing bass like this, it gives even more air of Lovecraft!

[@hernanariel3464]

Agree!! Cheerss🍺🍺🍺

[@evildead167]

Sounds amazing. Also, thanks for the information. I didn't realize that it was Cliff Burton who was the H.P. Lovecraft fan in Metallica.

[@alextamulis]

Yeah, Cliff was a bit of a bookworm, hehe. I highly recommend the book To Live is To Die: the life and death of Metallica's Cliff Burton, it's got tons of great info. www.amazon.com/Live-Die-Death-Metallicas-Burton/dp/1911036122

[@razor8j270]

Bass makes everything sound so much better 🤘🤘🎸

[@rayswoodshop4467]

This song always reminds me of the beast in final fantasy X lol. Alex thanks for the remixes you do and the sounds we all knew were there !

[@ST-ln6jx]

Really loud and deep bass, I almost lost my heart!

[@jfcooking]

Bass? Thats cthulhu's voice itself 🤘🎸🔥🐙

[@robbiepeterh]

Imagine Metallica created a song like this on their next record; just a genuinely incredible song. It’s mysterious how artists peak and don’t seem to be able to find that kind of magic again. They haven’t done anything inspired since the black album, but for a short run with master and justice they were untouchable... a timespan of only two years.

[@zackjericho7108]

I personally hate all those Loud bass mixes, But this, i actually like it.

[@gregkosinski2303]

I don’t think the loud bass Burton mixes would be my ideal final mixes, but I think they’re great for showcasing Cliff’s genius.

[@TheBlackKnight1o1]

The Cthulu image is really cool, but I believe this song is more based on The Nameless City. Nonetheless an awesome tune, I appreciate that you boosted the bass so that it could be appreciated!

[@alexzipperer]

Guess it's about Cthulhu, even though it has references to the Necronomicon. "Insanity He watches Lurking beneath the sea Great old one Forbidden site" These passages are about Cthulhu without a doubt. "Crawling chaos, underground Cult has summoned, twisted sound Out from ruins once possessed Fallen city, living death" These ones are about the cult trying to wake him up in the corpse city of Ry'leh, which is an underwater city that only appears if there's an specific planet alignment "Timeless sleep Has been upset He awakens" Cthulhu is dreaming eternally, sending messages to the cultists through his (its) dreams, so he can be awaken when the stars are aligned. In the story, he's awakened, but the ritual fails since the cultists are killed by some random seamen and the thing is never completed. As far as I remember, there's no Great Old Ones in Nameless City and no one is lurking beneath the sea, because it is a story set in a desert. The antagonists in this story are reptillian/fish people coming after the main character, but it's open to interpretation if he's really being attacked or if it's just hallucination.

[@SGodThor]

1986 I very often dreamded about this Settings on my Mag I always tryed to amplify the bass parts but newer fits like this . Anyway you nailed it ! in my way now Huge thanks for that amazing sounds ! Waiting for more stuff like this :) Very Good Job Alex!

[@EdZam21]

GREAT SOUND!!!

[@Joel-xy7qg]

Sounds ten times heavier than original version

[@gasmaskedbassist1538]

When you only turn up the presence knob and everything else gets messed up

[@gregkosinski2303]

Thanks for doing these!

[@alextamulis]

My pleasure, I'm glad you liked it!

[@bw9757]

The intro to this song creeps me out for some odd reason

[@vincentmasterbassist6784]

Grey Jedi Order thats a good thing right?

[@internetuser9342]

It's supposed to do that. Actually I think a soundtrack off doom or doom 2 took heavy inspiration from it. Can't really remember which level

[@bollweevil1976]

God damn man that sounds awesome 🤘🤘

[@AJEDDY97]

Personally, I don't like it, but hey, to each their own. I know that I don't have the tools or skills to do it, so respect to the uploader.

[@chuckyspell]

Now it really sounds like the father of "Enter Sandman".

[@cerealkiller7143]

In reality, it is the father of "Dream no more".

[@chuckyspell]

@@cerealkiller7143 fair enough if it is. I divorced myself from following whatever they do for decades so you're the authority on post-Burton stuff. Thanks for replying.

[@ashleighsalinas8526]

Yet everyone says Cliff would have hated the direction Metallica took. I think he would have gotten tired of fame but he was the more experimental one in the band. Their sound would have changed regardless, but I'm certain that if Cliff had lived OR they let Jason have more creative license their post 80s work would be better. Too many cooks spoiled the stew but no such thing when it comes to writing and recording..

[@jbmiles5329]

This is music for all the people not a select group !!!!!!!!

[@Goodooga100]

Metallica sound great with louder bass. I feel that Cliff always had his bass so you can hear it. Now days it seems you can't hear Rob unless it a individual or intro. I know this is a bass boost, but I think you could still hear Cliff on the normal tracks.

[@goldlessbassist]

Yippie Ki Yay Mister Burton!

[@yobrethren]

Honestly, that bass centered solo section sounded surprisingly more cohesive and heavy!

[@alextamulis]

Thank you for letting me know, yobrethren! :)

[@jeffreywebb7932]

Total bad ass

[@thegrungegod7463]

Where's the guitar howling at 4:11

[@bowswindle8701]

how to get this tone?pedals? settings? bass mids and treble?

[@alexjonatas4779]

FUZZ!!!

[@madden7732]

Okay, I love Metallica and this song and the work done behind this, but to differ a little bit what says in the description, Master Of Puppets was obviously not the heaviest album at that time lmao. There was Reign In Blood, Morbid Visions, Pleasure To Kill and many more albums heavier than MOP. Not saying MoP wasnt heavy, but regarding the amount of thrash (and metal in general) albums released that year, MoP stands in a lower position in terms of heaviness. But hell it made history!

[@nicolaemadalinboboc6704]

Honestly I feel that people really confuse heaviness with being extreme in general when it comes to metal. Reign in Blood and Pleasure To Kill are more agressive and faster, but that does not make them heavier, if anything they sacrifice heaviness for speed and agression.

[@madden7732]

@@nicolaemadalinboboc6704 you've got a point, but still the fact that MOP wasnt the heaviest album at the time stands up.

[@nicolaemadalinboboc6704]

@@madden7732 I would say something like Epicus Doomicus Metallicus was heavier, but overall the extreme thrash at the time was more about speed and extreme vocals.

[@joshkaye5303]

Slow it down 10-15% and tune it to C

[@yakisamak6374]

Layan je bro.....

[@sadsabbath]

The bass that should not be so loudly

[@canibalcorpsedead]

1986 heaviest album . hell no!

[@darchendon7926]

Primus beat you to this, Alex.

[@AdamWarrPhotography]

This sounds like primus's cover lol

[@funnyguise]

They should have sacrificed Lars instead

[@eduardobinotto4818]

Not Cliff playng. Listen this since 1987 , in vinil. Sounds diferent.

[@elvergalarga3908]

This is the classic sound sound of Cliff

[@nielsvanheteren1662]

It's cliff

[@sandraroberts9965]

d

[@Josh-o]

well yes it's cool but it's too loud now

[@fcrfortes]

Bass sounds way too simple to be Cliffs

[@gasmaskedbassist1538]

It was him, 3rd song on Master of Puppets if I remember correctly

[@FyRaka]

Thats because the song is really simple. Not much happening, except the solo. But it fucking works

[@elvergalarga3908]

The bass doesn't have to be complicated to sound good, Listen Ride the Lighting and even For whom the bell tolls, those are easy riffs but great

[@darrylstein187]

The bass sounds floppy... Idk I effing love cliff but this sounds sloppy and too guitarish. It would be 1000x better if he follwed the bass drum, use a pick and more palm muting. Imho

[@ihatecesar7069]

Well, as I do not know the channel creators process for remixing the song, I can only guess he tweaks the EQ and compresses it. So you can hear the little idiosyncrasies of Cliffs personal playing style. But you have to admit, Cliffs style fits the style of music he plays, but I'm not saying that it doesnt fit other "thrash music" p.s. I think it sounds "sloppy" because of the type of strings Cliffs uses. I think you can find out but searching it up his signature Bass guitar from Fender

[@internetuser9342]

Pick??

[@ldanielfch]

IDK, but this seems to be fake, the sound is not Cliff

[@andykromer3529]

He's using his Rickenbacker with a Mudbucker instead of his Aria, which is why it sounds different

[@shytownmofo]

And it's tuned down a whole step. Makes it sound heavier

[@andykromer3529]

shytownmofo I think its in Drop D

[@shytownmofo]

I don't think they messed with dropped tunings until St Anger. Pretty sure it's d standard

[@andykromer3529]

shytownmofo I'll take a look at live versions. If they bar their power chords its in drop d Edit: Yep you're right. D standard.

[@doomtank666]

Sounds like a mess

[@robbiepeterh]

Imagine Metallica created a song like this on their next record; just a genuinely incredible song. It’s mysterious how artists peak and don’t seem to be able to find that kind of magic again. They haven’t done anything inspired since the black album, but for a short run with master and justice they were untouchable... a timespan of only two years.

[@lapinus]

"They haven’t done anything inspired since the black album" no

[@BluGrass-uy4ss]

@@lapinus agreed

[@lapinus]

@@BluGrass-uy4ss Yea that guy probably didn't listen to metallica's other 5 albums, they're all great. Load and reload was full of weird shit like talk boxes, Kirk and James playing different riffs on 2 sides of the track, slapped fretless bass, lots of oriental instruments and generally 2 very underrated albums. St anger was simple as fuck and I just love that snare, combined with the downtuned guitars it just makes you wanna go djent lol. Death Magnetic and Hardwired are just back to the roots and I really appreciate those.

[@ChristTheSword]

Absolutely. Before they sold out they were untouchable. It's incredible to listen to their compositional prowess prior to Bob Rock. Once they commercialized their sound and went country rock with the Load/Reload disaster, they could never recapture the magic that defined their first four albums.

[@DarkHallwayz]

@@ChristTheSword yawb