Whiplash (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Whiplash


Artist = Metallica
from Album = Kill 'Em All
B-side = "Whiplash (Neckbrace Remix)"
Released = July 1983
Format = 12"
Recorded = May 1983
Genre = Thrash metal Speed metal
Length = 4:06
Label = Megaforce Records
Writer = James Hetfield
Lars Ulrich
Producer = Paul Curcio
Johny Zazula
Certification =
Last single = -
This single = "Whiplash"
(1983)
Next single = "Jump in the Fire"
(1984)

"Whiplash" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica. It is credited to James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich and was the sixth track and first single from their 1983 album "Kill 'Em All". The song has been covered several times, most notably by Motörhead whose version won a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.

The song is about the feeling one experiences when headbanging. ("...thrashing all around, acting like a maniac, whiplash!..")

Covers

*Motörhead covered this song for the Metallica tribute album "" and won their first Grammy in the awards of 2005 in the Best Metal Performance. [cite web |url=http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/2005/grammys.htm |title=47th Grammy Awards - 2005 |accessdate=2007-02-11 |format= |work=Rock on the Net archive]
*Whiplash is also on Tony Hawk's Underground 2.
*It was covered by Billy Milano, Scott Ian, Philip Soussan, and Vinny Appice for "Metallic Assault: A Tribute to Metallica".
*Pantera, using the joke name "Pantallica", performed the song live with Jason Newsted on bass, and members Dimebag Darrell (guitar) and Philip Anselmo (vocals) switching roles.
*Destruction has covered this song on some editions of their album All Hell Breaks Loose as a hidden bonus track.
*Stone Gods covered this track on their Knight Of The Living Dead tour.

Track listing

# "Jump in the Fire" (Hetfield, Ulrich, Mustaine) – 4:41
# "Whiplash" (Hetfield, Ulrich) – 4:10
# "Seek & Destroy" (Hetfield, Ulrich) – 6:55
# "Phantom Lord" (Hetfield, Ulrich, Mustaine) – 5:01

External links

* [http://www.metallica.com/Media/Albums/album_1_lyric.asp#6 Whiplash lyrics]

References