Whiplash (Metallica song)
1983
Whiplash is a song by American band Metallica. It was first performed live in 1982 and released in 1983 on their debut album Kill ' Em All and as a remix on a single. The song text is considered a possible origin of the name of the initiated among others by Metallica's debut genres Thrash Metal.
Music style
Whiplash is based on a fast riff with a " scrub from sixteenth - I-notes ," Lars Ulrich " gewandtem snare pattern " and the "the heart of halting moments where everything stops and James, Whiplash !" Barks ". The piece also includes a long, central, instrumental section where the tempo is only throttled and then followed by a solo, but not really slow passages. Joel McIver describes the music as " really unsophisticated " and playable by more than six months guitar experience, but very fast and very entertaining live.
Lyrics
Tom King described the lyrics with verses like "bang your head against the stage like you never did before / Make it ring, make it bleed, make it really sore " as ridiculous. Joel McIver According to these verses say something about the level of their compositions in 1983.
Importance
Tom King called the book Whiplash Metallica - Uncensored On the Record as " [o ] ithout further the memorable song" on her debut album, her hitherto fastest song ", while the lyrical ridiculous ". As consistently fast piece it established Metallica as a thrash metal band. It had a significant impact on many listeners. The former Morbid Angel singer and bassist Steve Tucker heard it for the first time at the age of 12 years and was inspired by itself to become a musician; he heard up to that much Iron Maiden, but knew no comparable Whiplash music.
January Fleckhaus and Christof glue, the authors of an article of Metal Hammer on Kill ' Em All and Slayer's debut album, Whiplash refer to as " classic" and " perhaps the most important primal thrash song ever ". In this article, Scott Ian of Anthrax was on, it seemed to him, as well the album is also " sometimes [ ... ] as before, as if only with, Whiplash ' really kick plate", and Marcel "smear" Schirmer of Destruction gave to the question " Best Thrash Metal album and why " Kill ' Em All and justified this by saying that the album "the beginning of the movement" is: "The word' thrash ' was born ( in the song, Whiplash '). " His band coverte Whiplash published for the 2002 tribute compilation A tribute to the Four Horsemen. Abaddon of Venom coverte the song for The Blackest Album - An Industrial Tribute to Metallica; Wolf -Rüdiger Mühlmann from Rock Hard threw Abaddon before, this was "the word, Industrial ' most times read up in the dictionary [ ... ]. Sorry, ABADDON. Please write "Dear new Venom songs, instead, Whiplash ' to rape ... " The song was also by Motörhead 2004 Metallic Attack - The Ultimate Tribute gecovert what the group at the Grammy Awards 2005 an award in the Best Metal category performance received. It was the first and only time that the band accepted the award.