Metallica - The God That Failed - Bass Cover with Play Along Tabs

This is the song that made me want to play bass, however accurate tabs are hard to come by and even the version in the official black album tab book is sketchy so I tabbed out a version using the bass and drum track thats available here on YouTube. Hope this video helps someone out there to learn this song and play the bass 🤘

Song: The God That Failed
Artist: Metallica
Album: The Black Album
Original Bassist: Jason Newsted
Bass: Spector Legend Classic 6 String
Strings: MTD Stainless Strings
Bass Signal: Clean DI signal from bass to Focusrite Scarlett 2i2
Tuning: Half Step Down (Bb Eb Ab Db Gb B)

"The God That Failed" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica, from their 1991 self-titled album. The song was never released as a single, but was the first of the album's songs to be heard by the public. It is one of Metallica's first original releases to be tuned half a step down.

Composer and lyricist James Hetfield described the song as "very nice... Slow, heavy and ugly." Lead guitarist Kirk Hammett recalls the inception of his solo in the song: "I had this whole thing worked out, but it didn't fit because the lead was too bluesy for the song, which is characterized by real heavy riffing and chording." According to Hammett, he and producer Bob Rock worked out his guitar solo on the song. Together they composed a melody to which Hammett wanted to add harmony. The producer suggested that this would make the song sound too "pretty", and instead recommended playing the melody an octave higher. The final guitar solo was put together from over a dozen performances by the guitarist during the recording of the album. Hammett calls the resulting work one of his favourite solos on the album.

The central theme of the song is faith and human reliance on it, and of unrewarded belief in a God that fails to heal. The lyrics and song material were inspired by Hetfield's anguish on the circumstances surrounding his mother's death. She died of cancer after refusing medical attention, solely relying on her belief in God to heal her. Hetfield felt that had she not followed her Christian Science beliefs, she could have survived.

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