The call of Ktulu is a symphony by itself. With orchestra, it's a masterpiece.

@thokim84

2 жыл бұрын

Worthy of the master.

@VintageSoul

7 ай бұрын

🖤🖤🖤

@VintageSoul

7 ай бұрын

💙🖤💙

@mztweety1374

5 ай бұрын

I know. I hate that I didn’t discover it 50-11 years ago 😂 I blame my obsession with Prince. Damn tunnel vision.

@chrisknight1856

5 ай бұрын

Fire

orchestra puts this song on another level

@nicolasriveros943

6 жыл бұрын

IKR

@marcogeracao4682

6 жыл бұрын

I thought the orchestra was playing a totally different song. Like someone mistakenly switched music sheets. Orchestra sounds like they're playing some 007 James Bond homage song. Love the original, think S&M has great great tunes but this one is just horrible. It's a mess actually ...

@franciscoadonis1068

6 жыл бұрын

mano nao concordo nada, isto da uma aura épica à musica na minha opiniao

@marcogeracao4682

6 жыл бұрын

Aceito quem não concorde. Afinal é uma opinião. Há de ser sempre uma questão de sensibilidade e de gostos mas esta versão soa-me muito esquisita ... se bem que o original foi escrito pelo Dave Mustaine. Espera lá ...

@FragmentedR_YT

5 жыл бұрын

Marco Geração I had the same opinion on the For Whom the Bell Tolls S&M version as well, the orchestra’s parts just didn’t seem to go very well with the Metallica songs they were for.

I was lucky enough to be there live. My very first Metallica show too. During 'Ecstacy' and 'Ktulu' I just stood there in awe over what I was witnessing. Just unbelievable.

@knocknockify

6 жыл бұрын

I envy you so much. I was born in 1994, so I was only 5 years old at the time of this amazing show lol.

@hollowoxdvox3896

5 жыл бұрын

Congrats for assisting to Metallica's finest Live Gig ever !! watched it first time in VH1 germany in 2000 and was in awe for 1 week ( luckily i recorded it on VHS ) . The thing that should not be on SM is the definitve version

@ConcealedCourier

5 жыл бұрын

I remember listening live to the NY show over the Internet. The old RealPlayer software iirc. They retitled W&M "Of Wolfgang and Man." Loved it.

@cebotet

4 жыл бұрын

Lucky sir

@boesdi3908

3 жыл бұрын

Salute

Jason is just another level. He honoured Cliff very well. That bass melts

@chrisknight1856

5 ай бұрын

😢brought a tear with this one

This is by far the greatest performance of this song. It is like a force of nature. It's soft and mellow at the start but begins to develop a brilliantly eerie vibe, which leads to one of the most powerful and devastating explosions of sound I've ever heard. Its like witnessing the creation and the destruction of the universe at the same time. Just...difficult to put into words any further, really.

@davejones5182

7 жыл бұрын

Abhishek Tarafdar KEK destroying Moloch

@victory4860

6 жыл бұрын

The best description in words!!!

@thejordanschannel4805

5 жыл бұрын

Your comment is astonishing

@hyperbiscuit2284

5 жыл бұрын

I totally agree, and for me, S&M is cool, but I think that the orchestra is really out of place for some songs, but this performance is absolutely the exception, and I think it's the best version of the song.

@thmanoy

5 жыл бұрын

Damn that's a really good description for the call of ktulu. I always imagined it like that with the force of nature being Cthulhu.

Who is stil watching this in 2024?

@user-sk6se9zg4s

2 ай бұрын

Russian 2024😊

@user-el7dz7lx1d

Ай бұрын

Me!

@reviv.k.5732

Ай бұрын

Me, ReviKannan, Kochi, India. 🎸

@carlosrojas9643

Ай бұрын

Paraguay

@mungofinalfi4480

Ай бұрын

I'm still watching this in 4202.

I wish they had done Orion while they had this setting ..

@ShadyM3tal

7 жыл бұрын

johnny wright or to live is to die

@Albert-Freeman

7 жыл бұрын

Orion its an instrumental song. But its SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO diferent

@user-sl1ht4fr2d

7 жыл бұрын

Not without Cliff.His bass solo in the beggining can't be copied, and will not sound good if it isn't him.

@stevenbaksh5545

7 жыл бұрын

Marko Petkov Robert does it ok

@stevenbaksh5545

7 жыл бұрын

johnny wright I think they wanted to do Orion but they didn't want Jason to play bass or Michael Kamen tired to fit orchestra into it but it didn't work

In my opinion, Jason did very well with the mini bass solos!

Better than version on S&M #2. More epic, powerful and emotional! R.I.P. Michael Kamen

@deensaid7762

Жыл бұрын

To be honest, I like the S&M2 ver, more energetic and felt like an improvement from the S&M version.

@anakinlowground5515

11 ай бұрын

And, R.I.P. Cliff Burton

@ProjectHMF

4 ай бұрын

​@@deensaid7762But Kirk doesnt do it this well

This song is all about the bass. Beautiful parts by Cliff and Jason is awesome too.

@jeaniejean8200

2 жыл бұрын

Uh cliff died in 1986...

@sawyertilley6209

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeaniejean8200 yeah but cliff wrote the bass parts

this is arguably lar's best performance ever.

@glenwertz2391

8 жыл бұрын

Seattlle 1989 says otherwise

@TheStaggaz32

8 жыл бұрын

His work on Battery on S&M is pretty damn fine too.

@jaymz

7 жыл бұрын

his tempo is way too good here. 1989 is uncontrollably fast

@frankm5150

7 жыл бұрын

He's playing to a click track in his ear. That's going to def help a guy like him. Not hating on the guy, just saying

@RandyBoBandy.

6 жыл бұрын

Alex Lovato completely agree. He's spot on. They all sound amazingly tight. Fantastic display of musical ability.

cliff would have love it

@alvarodoinguez1218

9 жыл бұрын

I will cry :(

@maggotmusic757

6 жыл бұрын

It was kind of his idea in the first place

@LSweet2007

6 жыл бұрын

Cliff would have thrown up at Jason’s playing. 🤮

@Blinkingplanet

6 жыл бұрын

LSweet2007 nah

@ynvch

6 жыл бұрын

Yup, but he would have play Orion 😁

Lars' drumming is extremely exceptional this whole concert

@Aureas133

Жыл бұрын

He finaly had a conductor to keep him in rhythm.

@atothef

Жыл бұрын

Probably the show where he said "farewell" to the ride cymbal. Unfortunately...

@christran2484

Жыл бұрын

@@atothef this is my favorite cymbals setup with the ride & splash

@JuanPablo-vz7xd

5 ай бұрын

James Hetfield famously said “He’s not even the best drummer in Metallica”

3 ай бұрын

@@JuanPablo-vz7xd no he didn't

R.I.P Michael Kamen

@juanmarcelinocruzarce3776

9 жыл бұрын

:(, porque murió, era un gran director, :(😞😨😱😢😪😭

@deatontelevision6355

7 жыл бұрын

Ben Farrell '03

@tojiroh

7 жыл бұрын

Fuck me, '03? I've loved this guy's scores for ages! FUCK YOU 2016

@Bryan8329

6 жыл бұрын

What I loved about his work here is that it was more reminiscent of his work on the Die Hard and Lethal Weapon movies than his other work in the Rock area with people like Pink Floyd and Eric Clapton.

@tieukhavu8832

3 жыл бұрын

And Cliff. He has also some classical roots

One word: Epic! Thank you Michael Kamen for asking Metallica to do this concert and thank you Metallica for accepting his offer!

@josemojicaperez4436

Жыл бұрын

Was a idea that born in "Black álbum" era... But maybe Lars said as a joke in 1991 when Michael Kamen tell him...

I love this concert. I can imagine being in the orchestra and getting to play this fantastic music with the band.

@kooky1109

7 жыл бұрын

ok we got it

@fcza4346

7 жыл бұрын

oc

@rafaelrp07

5 жыл бұрын

The DVD has the make off and there's a woman from the orchestra that says she told her kid she was about to play with Metallica and he went crazy. She did not knew what the band represents to metal at all.

@ronlefty

6 ай бұрын

I've very often felt the same thoughts as in my younger days I played baritone. Always imagined dressed to the nines on stage with Metallica playing this piece. Gives me goosebumps every time I think about it.

sounds like a really epic Bond song....

@MrCroky123

7 жыл бұрын

What ?!?! Someone that had the same thought I had when I listened to this song ?!?! Man, I agree with you all the way. The orchestra arrangements really sound like coming from a Bond movie sound track. IMHO, it destroys the dark mood the original song has. Most of the people don't get this at all. Glad I'm not the only one ...

@Robman0908

4 жыл бұрын

It sounds like reading the short story it’s based on. Ebbs and flows like the cosmic horror of Lovecraft.

@Jayjen35

4 жыл бұрын

@@Robman0908 Exactly. This is fitting for the idea behind the song. Granted it's not what typical metal fans expect or accept, but it is fitting the the idea of the rise of an ancient god who will crush humanity as though it were nothing but a microbe on a flea... Epic. It is epic.

@tylercady3985

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jayjen35 this is easily the best ever version of this song. And yeah it does sound it belongs in a movie. That's what makes it awesome

@dieweissehand

3 жыл бұрын

for me it could be the soundtrack for some kind of monster movie like godzilla

Bass with distortion = Love

@eiilos98

7 жыл бұрын

Fuck if you try you can hear the bass so clear and even more! I could listen to that Bass scream "WAHH" (6:31 at this moment I was having an eargasm) but the orchestra and the other instruments have buried it, at least... Newsted was and is a fucking bassist :o

@conradsz

6 жыл бұрын

Metallica mixers (maybe influenced by Jaymz and Lars) always would bury the bass

@furioussherman7265

5 жыл бұрын

You can't hear it in this version though.

@samuka.smksound

3 жыл бұрын

I can hear the bass with wah loud and clear in the main riff

This is the best Metallica album. I will die on this hill.

@Agostoic

Жыл бұрын

Same, absolute masterpiece

@dimitrioskokkas8703

Жыл бұрын

Favourite live album ever, no doubt about that 👌

when the Black album came out I was telling my friends Metallica should play with an orchestra and they laughed at me and thought I was crazy :-)

@Brokenface

6 жыл бұрын

Your Friends got their mouths shut

@vintovkasnipera

6 жыл бұрын

After 9 years

@cornellgreen3692

6 жыл бұрын

He who laughs last...

@acadia5898

6 жыл бұрын

you were right then ? :) Orion would've fit perfectly.

@vintovkasnipera

6 жыл бұрын

Miller Any instrumental would've

Jason Newsted is a fucking beast

I just love the whole atmosphere that the symphony brought to this concert.

@LuchoCastle_11

8 жыл бұрын

+Daniel Carneiro Holy shit dude, you look like Matthew Santoro.

I would have liked to see Fade to Black played at this concert ;(

@joshfrench4549

5 жыл бұрын

Thats my favorite song

@TheKartoffel101

5 жыл бұрын

and Orion

@BaileyBisson

5 жыл бұрын

@The Mind Is A Powerful Thing Unless they play it at the S&M2 concert

@chrisvaccaro229

5 жыл бұрын

they wanted to but found it didn't do well with a symphony.. same with Unforgiven

@dpedrosoliano

4 жыл бұрын

they will. for sure in the upcoming S&M 2 (;

I don't know how I've listened to this for so many years and never appreciated how superb Lars' drumming is in this performance, especially through Kirk's solo section.

7:15 goes so perfect with the orchestra

Simply majestic. The brass instruments fit perfect with the song's dark apocalyptic atmosphere

this whole concert is one of the best noises ever made on this earth

@Agostoic

Жыл бұрын

Fuck yeah

When you write a song and you put in as much to it possible to make rich and full, it takes a genius mind to add something else that you the song writer never thought of RIP Michael Kamen

God this is such a masterpiece

Imho, this is the song where the orchestra truly shines in this concert. The arrangements are beautiful and haunting at the same time.

@anakinlowground5515

11 ай бұрын

It feels extremely evil. Like the song itself is going to summon the Cthulhu on its own.

Best live, love all this symphonic songs version, unforgettable

@yazidknopfler8640

5 жыл бұрын

when the music reached the perfection

@mrkremko1

5 жыл бұрын

Definitely the best symphonic arrangement on S&M

@deensaid7762

Жыл бұрын

Then reached the peak when they released S&M2 ver of Ktulu

Total masterpiece! There isn't a band out there that can do instrumentals like metallica. This is tried and true since the late 80's.

Fantastic!!! Almost 17 years... and still one of the most memorable days in Rock History!!!

@goalie2998

7 жыл бұрын

Silvio Moraes I havent been able to get into a metallica album since load. reload was ok. But in my opinion this was a great set. I know bands evolve. I used to think people who gave up on them when the black album were crazy, now i get it.

remember when I was I kid, my father and brother and I used to watch this concert on vhs... that times come across to my mind today..... and my dad passed away 5 years ago...how I wish we can sit together to enjoy it again.

@SusieJohnson-jj6tp

4 ай бұрын

I have no doubt when you listen to this album concert your dad is right with you all the way! God Bless

kirk always nails the solo on every rarely played songs like goddamn he always nails Call of Ktulu's solo every performance

@Fourthirteen82

5 жыл бұрын

Lol what. Kirk hasn't "nailed" a solo since the early 90's.

@canocek3502

5 жыл бұрын

Bro listen to To live is to die from their AJFA anniversary concert. I totally respect Kirk as a guitarist but the section with the bends sound so goddamn off

@Fourthirteen82

5 жыл бұрын

@@canocek3502 Kirk was a great solo composer; his solos were always written very well, and his live performances used to be very good. Somewhere along the way he decided to stop playing note for note solos and try to improvise them but he ends up getting too far out of time. I'm thinking right now of the time they played Frayed Ends of Sanity and there's so many key changes under the solo... And he got off time and it ruined what is a great solo that highlights the changes very well... It ended up sounding awful. At least to me.

@lous2187

3 жыл бұрын

Kirk looks like a vampire in this song

Play these incantatory riffs to summon your cosmic gods Necronomicon is obsolete.

RIP Michael Kamen

This song still gives me chills from beginning to end. I love the original version but the S&M version is just... amazing.

Remembering that Lars was an all out thrash drummer in their beginnings really makes you appreciate how far he's come as a drummer here

It's a deeply haunting, grand and dark song.

Love this song, by far the best perfomance of it ever, all 4 guys were right in the spot...specially Jason..

I used to play this song when I am alone at the office, depressed, stressed, in high volume. I feel an adrenaline injection.

This is what makes them such a bad ass band, the way they mix metal with orchestra, seriously great artists

They should do another, but last, S&M show with Robert in the line-up & play songs they didn't play in the 1st one like The Four Horsemen, Fade to Black, Sanitarium, Orion, ..And Justice for All, all 3 The Unforgiven, The Day that never Comes to name a few

@danielnahuelpi

10 жыл бұрын

Those songs would sound epic with an orchestra \m/

@junky5627

10 жыл бұрын

yeah the first four you said would be epic, but what i still don't understand is why they didnt play Orion the first time!!!

@MetallicaRules

10 жыл бұрын

All of those songs would be great, but I don't think they would do it because Michael Kamen is dead, so they wouldn't want to bring in someone new.

@thebigcheese3611

10 жыл бұрын

dalzelljack yeah, Michael Kamen was the one that make this concert epic, another thing that would be epic is that they make the two songs that were created for this concert with out the symphony

@Tannerr24

10 жыл бұрын

this idea is definition of the day that never comes. :D

For me best Rock/Metal instrumental ever .

I love that Jason used his wah effect on this one, sounded more badass

And to all the symphony people who did an incredible job at this concert!

@canocek3502

5 жыл бұрын

...and only one was a Metallica fan

@lakejizzio7777

2 жыл бұрын

@@canocek3502 Which one

@abdi9437

Жыл бұрын

​@@lakejizzio7777the harp player lol

This song, from this particular performance, was my reason why I'd started to listening metal when I was 14

Amazing talent on all sides.

It's almost like Cliff had this in mind when he wrote it. The man was ahead of his time and he is greatly missed.

Orion would've fit so perfectly in it. R.I.P Michael Kamen

@grantmayberry7358

5 жыл бұрын

What a shame

When I was in like 6th grade my mom picked up this album and this song instantly became my favorite. Being that I played violin in my school orchestra, and loved the old school metal my mom introduced me to, it was pure perfection. Still in my top 3 favorite Metallica songs, even though my music taste has expanded so much.

I hope those 57 dislikers are devoured by the Cthulhu.

@sovietapples6122

4 жыл бұрын

The call of it will be the last thing they hear

@lous2187

3 жыл бұрын

The sky will erupt and the Cthulhu will come

The best bass performance, he played it like a damn beast ... only jason can play the bass louder than the band and a whole symphonye hh Big up duuuude

@conradsz

4 жыл бұрын

Hossam IZMAOUENE Great performance. Too bad they buried the bass. AGAIN

This is one of the greatest things I have ever seen, along with witnessing both the creation and destruction of the universe at the same time.

When I first heard Metallica in the 80s I instantly loved their music, but never in a million years would of thought them playing with a symphony. This is a masterpiece!! It’s beautiful and music at it’s best. Lars killed it!!!

6:28 CTHULHU COMES!

The best version of this song. The original does not stand out from other Metallica songs, but the orchestra is like from thriller movie. I love this

After scrolling through the comments, I'm astonished that not a single person gave made props to Bob Rock for having to produce this amazing album as well. Bob had just as much influence on the sound of this epic record as the band and symphony. I couldn't imagine the task of having to record, yet alone mix and master all of this sonic intensity. I'd love to see what S&M2 would have sounded like with him at the boards.

Listening to this song in the middle of a thunderstorm is on my bucket list

Lovecraft and Burton would have love it

@LageYouTube

3 жыл бұрын

Lovecraft not so much

@lous2187

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I think HP Lovecraft would like this as well as Burton

This is one of the many reasons metallica is the best of the best...

Jason really nailed it!

I’m so glad I was there. Still gives me goosebumps

Clicking on this was a good idea.... The epic unfathomabl greatness of this is so indescribably vast and incomprehensible that to put it into words would crush the feeble human psyche.

@riphopfer5816

8 жыл бұрын

+Hloden Devourer of the Sun Nice Lovecraftian comment. You were close. How about, 'The sounds that emerged from the chamber were so bizarre and chilling as to suggest to the listener hideous visions of unfathomable gulfs of night-black terror from aeons long before man first crawled timorously from the jungles of primaeval Earth.'

@bacterialover

8 жыл бұрын

Shut up.

I discovered Metallica with S&M 1... it was in 1999 (17y old)... and we are in 2021

@naimchouana2183

21 күн бұрын

2024*

Metallica definitely knew what they were doing when they collabed with SFSO. It is truly unbelivable what happens when classical music is combined with rock music.

@mysticalxproducer

Жыл бұрын

What a blend of styles, brings out the best in the band and Orchestra in my opinion! 🤘🔥🙌👏💖

Out of this world.. not only is this the best live performance of this song, it may be one of the best performances by Metallica period.. an epic fusion of the band and the symphony that resulted in a perfect progressive rock masterpiece.

a Track like this will sadly never be created again i think

@nequedetestari1631

7 жыл бұрын

Frank Dux Yes, because it already exists. Get over it and enjoy this masterpiece! :)

@frankdux6005

7 жыл бұрын

Intransigente 45 very wise answer Sir....:)

@isaacverrall8782

4 жыл бұрын

Wont for metallica seeing as dave mustaine wrote this 😂

@ronpaul1082

3 жыл бұрын

@Anemia dave wrote the beginning and end . it was a composition he called WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER . metallica added the middle of the song . if it was just one riff metallica would surely replace it and not have to cut dave a check but dave wrote the whole foundation of this song .

OMG *JNewstead* deserves *SUCH* a huge hug after this they did such a great job💕😗

@furioussherman7265

5 жыл бұрын

You can't hear the bass though.

@datukareemaralling4832

3 жыл бұрын

Late reply 😅 I can hear the bass but it's too low 😓

2018 🙋🏻‍♀️, still amazing.

You can actually feel the horror coming out of the sea in this version... Amazing!

I love how it goes back to the intro riff at the end, such a beautiful composition.

Greatest piece of music ever created

I have been listening this since very young. Amongst all versions of The Call of Ktulu, I love this the most.

@DOHCG

3 жыл бұрын

The bass dont scream...too bad

@Hard_Boiled_Entertainment

5 ай бұрын

​@@DOHCGThe strings are pretty much doing the screams.

It is beyond me how they didn't perform Orion with an orchestra...the song is absolutely made for it.

I need to hear this again. It's a transcendent cacophony of sound

@_nurmi06

5 жыл бұрын

S&M 2 is coming...

Still mesmerizing after all these years!

El nivel de Lars en esta época era extraordinario. Creatividad pura en esos fills.

This video gave me chills just imagining if cliff was there rocking it. Jason is a monster too no doubt.

What an absolute compliment to the original. Enough to make me prefer this version over the original. I say that as someone who has their star M tattooed on my body. Always have and always will be forever in love with these people. 💪🏼👍🏼🤘🏻

Perfection.

This was better than the S&M 2

The best S&M song!

This fucking song, nay, this PERFORMANCE, brings me to tears every single time. This is top-form Metallica firing on all cylinders, and Michael's orchestra brings the whole piece to the level of cinematic masterpiece. God I hope they come out with a remastered high-definition bluray of this concert for the 25th anniversary in 2024.

One of the masterclass band that i never see

PURE ART, making music combinations like this based off of traditional instruments and few modern electronic!

@tiffanyvalencia8415

5 жыл бұрын

ALWAYS WILL REMAIN EPIC.

METALLICA CALL OF KTULU, ISSO SIM É QUE MÚSICA. 20 ANOS DE METALLICA, HEAVY METAL

@boneor...7022

2 жыл бұрын

he'll yeah brother!

2 decades later, this is still one of the most besutiful sounds that you will ever hear...

Whenever I listen to new Metallica stuff, or their live videos, I miss the Ride cymbal

Una de las canciones mas grandiosas de la historia de la musica en general !!! Obra maestra!!!!

Rest well Michael Kamen... you turned a great song into an epic with your score.

Damm!! The best instrumental combination... Ever.!!

Truly a masterpiece

Jason Bass playing is badass

You know the solo is one of the best parts

Man, this is so beautiful.

Only my soul knows what I experience listening to this masterpiece, it is literally a mystical experience for me. My soul leaves my body and I physically feel a slight ecstasy.

James played the intro here tighter than he did on the studio recording.

Lars using a ride cymbal after 1984 is miraculous.

@SonOfANurse

8 жыл бұрын

He used it in 2009 during Bleeding Me and in 2014 during When the Blind Man Cries