Whiplash (Metallica song)
| Whiplash | |
|---|---|
| Metallica | |
| publication | July 25, 1983 |
| length | 4:10 |
| Genre (s) | Thrash metal , speed metal |
| Author (s) | James Hetfield , Lars Ulrich |
| Label | Megaforce Records |
| album | Kill 'Em All |
| Cover versions | |
| 1998 | Abaddon |
| 2002 | Destruction |
| 2004 | Motorhead |
Whiplash ( English for: " whiplash, whiplash ") is a song by the US metal band Metallica . It was first performed live in 1982 and appeared on their debut album Kill 'Em All in 1983 and was releasedin a remix version asthe band'sfirst single . The lyrics are considered to be the possible origin of the name of the Thrash Metal genre, which was initiated by Metallica's debut.
Music genre
Whiplash is based on a fast riff with a “thicket of sixteenth e-notes”, Lars Ulrich's “agile snare pattern” and the “heart stopping moments where everything stops and James 'Whiplash!' barks ”. The piece also contains a long, central, instrumental section where the tempo is first slowed down and then a solo follows, but no really slow passages. Joel McIver describes the music as “really unsophisticated” and playable after a maximum of six months of guitar experience, but very fast and very entertaining live.
song lyrics
Tom King called the lyrics ridiculous with verses like "Bang your head against the stage like you never did before / Make it ring, make it bleed, make it really sore" . According to Joel McIver, these verses say something about the level of her 1983 compositions.
reception
Tom King referred to Whiplash in the book Metallica - Uncensored On the Record as "[o] hne another the most memorable song" on their debut album, their fastest song to date "and at the same time the most lyrically ridiculous". As a consistently fast track, Metallica established it as a thrash metal band. It had a significant impact on numerous listeners. Former Morbid Angel singer and bassist Steve Tucker first heard it at the age of 12 and was inspired to become a musician himself; up until then he had listened to a lot of Iron Maiden , but did not know any music comparable to Whiplash .
Jan Fleckhaus and Christof Leim, the authors of an article in Metal Hammer about Kill 'Em All and Slayer's debut album, describe Whiplash as a “classic” and “perhaps the most important original Thrash song ever”. In this article Scott Ian from Anthrax said that, as good as the album was, "sometimes [...] it seems as if the record only really starts with 'Whiplash'", and Marcel "Lubricant" Schirmer from Destruction responded to the question “Best Thrash Metal album and why” Kill 'Em All and justified this with the fact that the album was “the beginning of the movement”: “The word' Thrash 'was born (in the song' Whiplash ') . ”His band covered Whiplash for the 2002 tribute sampler A Tribute to the Four Horsemen . Venom's Abaddon covered the song for The Blackest Album - An Industrial Tribute to Metallica ; Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann from Rock Hard accused Abaddon of having “ read the word ' industrial ' in a foreign dictionary at most [...]. Sorry, ABADDON. Please write new Venom songs instead of rape Whiplash ... ”The song was also covered by Motörhead in 2004 for Metallic Attack - The Ultimate Tribute , for which the group received an award in the Best Metal category at the 2005 Grammy Awards Performance received. It was the first and only time that the band accepted the award.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d e Joel McIver: Justice for All: The Truth About Metallica . London: Omnibus Press 2009, accessed December 14, 2012.
- ↑ Jan Fleckhaus, Christof Leim: The origin of hardness . In: Metal Hammer , No. 3, 2008, p. 34.
- ↑ a b Kill 'Em All or Show No Mercy? . This is how the protagonists of the scene think of the two albums . In: Metal Hammer , No. 3, 2008, p. 39.
- ↑ a b c d e f Tom King: Metallica - Uncensored On the Record . Henley in Arden: Coda Books Ltd 2011, accessed December 14, 2012.
- ↑ Jan Fleckhaus, Christof Leim: The origin of hardness . In: Metal Hammer , No. 3, 2008, p. 35.
- ↑ Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: The Blackest Album - An Industrial Tribute to Metallica . In: Rock Hard , No. 139, accessed July 25, 2013.
- ↑ Best Metal Performance Award Winners and Nominees