What if ...And Justice For All was on Ride The Lightning? | Metallica Album Crossovers

The Drums Are Programmed.

Had another song cooking for 3 months now. It was a challenging feat trying to record while I'm doing internship at the time lmao. Wanted to get this done on my birthday a few days ago, but it is what it is.
I went all out with this project, having super varied tempo throughout the song and went out my way to write new riffs that would fit the RTL vibe. Needless to say, I think it was a good effort. Thanks for listening!

Special thanks to:
- @GreenmiIe for providing the AI vocal script again! This video wouldn't have been possible without his insane works!
- Semtex, for letting me use his sweet album cover design once again!
- kirkhammettwannabe, you know who you are. Thank you so much for supporting my work throughout the years! I was able to push through my writer's block and finish this piece in due time!

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[chauncyquest]

No joke, as I started playing this driving home, lightning started going off in the distant mountains. Epic.

[IgorGabriel-uojj]

the tone and vocals are just perfect, and having real drums is so much better than the programmed ones most "what if" channels use

[jaymann]

Wow!! This song sounds so much better with bass!! Just shows how AJFA is lacking without Jason's part.

[TGPilar]

Babe wake up a new banger just dropped

[KBXband]

Sounds cool. Reminds me of their cover of The Wait.

[rogerowo]

1:30 I CAN'T BELIEVE
I CAN'T BELIEVE THE BRYCE!!!!

You did it again, my dude 🔥 I'll always thank you for existing. The Metallica community truly wouldn't be the same without you on here 🙏🏼💙 You're THE one and only GOAT

[GreenmiIe]

Everything, to the last part, went hard. But 1:59 fucks so good.

[VincentiusTheSecond]

This is one of the most accurate ai vocals I've ever heard plus that guitar tone is identical man also how tf are you so good at changing the riffs to how they wouldve been played bruh you're insane 🤯

[YeahWhiplash]

Damn this is some cool art, would love it on a shirt!

[marcotabone]

Absolutely incredible like wtf, its as if you cracked open a portal in the multiverse and just stole the master from them in that timeline💀

[gustavsjoblom]

This just captures something about Ride the Lightning that i can´t put my words on. Vibe, sound, all of it just on POINT. Good fucking work man!

[zogames]

Bro I always thought this song was kinda overrated but if it sounded like this it would genuinely be in my top Metallica songs

[arickuntz]

This is such a clever compositional take on the song. It really nails the vibe of RTL. Hats off, this whips ass and owns bones

[fclefjefff]

I generally think stuff like this is a goofy waste of time, but I gotta hand it to you, this is pretty amazing. I’d love to hear the whole album “fixed” like this 🤘

[ThePlamzJoker]

It's incredible how close this captures the Ride The Lightning sound. The way people like Bryce and StateOfMercury have managed to replicate the tones of Metallica's best albums are impeccable, and I absolutely love it!

[danysharma]

Huge fan of RTL tone and specially James voice..

[Atroz]

0:11 Ride the lightning intro
1:12 Ride the lightning chorus
3:33 amazing bass riff (tabs pls)
3:57 Guess what, another ride the lightning reference (90% of the solo is from this song lol)
5:23 Creeping death bridge (WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK DID YOU SMOKE TO CREATE THAT MONSTER!?). Also, the sounds behind reminds me of the call of ktulu
5:49 Ciff's f*ck easter egg on for whom the bell tolls




Pls, do Frantic on Master Of Puppets

[ztenfurz]

Finally a version with a bass on it 😁 Amazing version!! 👍🏻

[CooperWitzberger]

Always excited to hear something from THE Bryce Barilla

[WTWTA]

I'm just shook, the tone (as usual) is spot on but the addition lf vocalsas well as the drums, make it such a better song.

Also, the composition !! The real riff mania that's going on that is staple of early metallica, so great, love the reference to all the different RTL songs too, like you always do ;)

I f0Okin love it