Through The Never is not a documentary. It's a movie. A young roadie for the band is sent to retrieve something for them during a concert, but society outside is crumbling. There is concert footing mixed with this kids journey.
There is a theory that, in 'Through The Never', Metallica is talking about 'The Nothing', which is the great evil in the book and movie 'Never Ending Story'. That's an AWESOME movie from the 1980's and had some really deep, thought-provoking stuff going on. :)
If you liked the Some Kind of Monster documentary I highly recommend A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica. It is a massive documentary that follows Metallica during the making of The Black Album and the first leg of the massive Black Album tour. It covers some major events like the Monsters of Rock in Moscow, the Freddie Mercury Tribute concert where James performed the Queen song Stone Cold Crazy with Queen and Tony Iommi, and the ill fated Guns n Roses your where James Hetfield got set on fire from the pyro cannons
4:53 Absolutely love when the song goes to the funky groove after the solo. The reason I love Pantera because they have so many funky hooks in their songs
You always blow my mind with how deep your analysis of the meaning of the song gets. I love the grove of this album so much that I’ve never thought deeply about it’s themes. You’re amazing picking this up in your first listen. I don’t skip a song on this album.
I will usually skip "Nothing Else Matters". Not because it's a bad song or I don't like it. I just heard it WAY TOO MUCH back in the day. Fans who were "just discovering" Metallica for the 1st time. Had a tendency to overplay that song. Because it was mellow and an easy listen. I used to tell them: "You want the REAL Metallica experience? Dive into it by listening to the albums that made them who they are." Anyway... I enjoyed your insights once again and your reaction as a whole. Keep up the GREAT work! 🤘🤘🤘
_"Fans who were "just discovering" Metallica for the 1st time. Had a tendency to overplay that song. Because it was mellow and an easy listen."_ Ohmygodz, YES!! The same thing happened with One. Depending on your age, you may recall back in the day, kids were largely segregated into "cliques", you had you dorks & dweebs, the nerds, jocks & jockettes, and from a music trend standpoint, you had your "headbangers" (sometimes called "heads" or "bangers" before "metalhead" finally was settled on), and the "preps". The latter listened to all the mainstream rock and pop and new wave, and even rap & R&B as it rose in popularity. But the metal clique was largely ignored, shunned, and blamed for all society problems, lol, and we "bangers" listened to "angry noise", according to all who were not us. Never did the two groups - preps and bangers - EVER fraternize... until Metallica, 1988. In my social circles, the cliques were already beginning to interact, but One was that "one" song that quickly bridged the gap between the cliques (and formed a sub-clique known as the "skaters" ; avid skateboarders). Anyway, all the preps who got exposure to Metallica, latched on to "One" almost immediately, and they made that song almost hated by fans cos of the repetition (and the "sellout" accusations at the band for doing their first music video). I used to tote a huge boombox (or "ghetto blaster" as it was called then), so I always had the tunes, and they all nagged me to play "One". If it was coming up next on the tape currently playing, I'd inform them thusly, but if not, I'd say "screw you, I'm not a damn jukebox", lol. But the nagging alone made me, almost hate the song (or just "tire" of it). What was really infuriating was that the preps thought this song and the album was Metallica's first album and they were a "new band"... lol. F*ckin n00bs, eh? So I totally get the Nothing Else Matters thing... only that was worse in a way cos it got overplayed in karaoke pubs (overkill is bad enough but when sung by tone-deaf drunks, it's worse)... Unforgiven was another one, but not nearly as bad... And worse... One made its "overplayed" return via karaoke... almost hated the song all over again.
I love old people metal! My dad would pick me up after school and we would drive in his truck ... dirt bikes in the back on the way to track......and would just jam on Master of Puppets or Sabbath...Priest...Ozzy with Randy Roads... turn it up dad!!!! xoxox
This is Metallicas one and only space song, its about all of us living on a rock thats flying, spinning, twisting and turning through the nothingness of space. Kinda terrifying when you think about it lol Also us humans lack the complete understanding of the universe cause its just too big, maybe endless. Theres a limit to what we can understand and the universe and everything in it is well beyond our limit. Thats what i get from this song, i love space and Metallica too so this song is perfect for me lol And i have no clue what you're talking about with lars drumming, its sounds no different than the rest of the album, the snare is the best sounding of all the albums. I think this particular lyric video has audio quality issues and thats what you're hearing.
The audio quality in lyric videos are usually sub par. Pull the lyrics up on your phone or another screen, and listen to the original audio from Metallica's channel.
'Through the never' was the Metallica 3D concert movie released in 2013, not a documentary... (It BOMBED in theaters 👎) They filmed shows in Canada and cast actor Dane DeHaan as a roadie at the concert who steps outside the venue to witness the apocalypse unfold while the concert rages 😂 It wasn't a very solid story... I would recommend seeing the documentary "A year and a half in the life of Metallica" - it was filmed between 1991 and 1992, capturing the troubled recording sessions for the 'black' album... followed by the grind of a year on tour from the brutal Moscow '91 concert to the ill-fated co-headline tour w/ Guns N' Roses where James Hetfield was hospitalized after a pyro mishap at a Montreal show.
Lilly Jane, as you progress listen to this album, you will notice that it is a well-written album, and very well recorded. Bob Rock did a great job of production, mastering by the great George Marino is of very high quality, he knows this topic very well, the mixing and engineering of Randy Staub and Mike Tacci must also be credited. People generally don't recognize these other guys in the final result of "The Black Album", and in the success it continues to have more than 30 years later. It is much better to see the 1992 documentary released in two parts: "A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica", there you can see how the album was recorded, live performances and a few more details. * Yes, Lars is a great drummer when he wants to, but when he doesn't want to... no one can pressure him. That's why Metallica takes years to compose and record their albums.
Also, Lars isn't like other drummers in his genre and a lot of people fail to realize that it was Lars who had the ambition as well as drive to go out there and start his own band that was heavily influenced by not only stuff like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, but Diamond Head, Motorhead, as well as the NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) thing that happened at the tail end of 1979. Hell, Lars got his name out there in the music circles even before Lars had a band, and Lars followed Motorhead when they were playing in California in 1981 before Lars started Metallica. Lars IS NOT Dave Lombardo from Slayer, or Nick Menza from Megadeth, or any other famous metal drummer, and neither should he be. He was more progressive as well as technical with his drumming on the "And Justice for All" album because of the ridiculous peer pressure to be like other metal drummers at the time, and that didn't work for him in the long run because of how much of his drumming for that album he's had to relearn as well as remember. People SERIOUSLY need to do research on Lars as well as how and why he is when it comes to him and his drumming instead of just following the herd of sheep that is the "Lars Ulrich sucks without having a good reason" fan club. This is why I got on Lilly's case about her giving Lars shit.
@@TokusatsuGamingfan I honestly don't mind if Lars or Metallica make simple or complex albums. I am a musician, and over the years I learned that it is better to be a good song writer, and a musician who knows how to adapt well to songs, than just a virtuoso guitarist or drummer. Guys like Yngwie Malmsteen or Tosin Abasi and even John Petrucci bore me after a while, but I appreciate and like the virtuosity of Neil Peart from Rush, Jazz legend Buddy Rich, or Bill Bruford from Yes, King Crimson and all his projects. These latter musicians work to make the songs the main thing, not their virtuosity as musicians. It seems that Yngwie, Tosin and Petrucci don't understand that the song comes first, instead of just showing how fast they can play and how theoretical they can be in 5 or 10 minutes of a song. Many people expect Metallica to return to what they were from 1983 to 1988, but why? They found that simplicity is their strong point, which is why the albums from 1991 until today have been much more successful than their classics. It happens with Thrash Metal, Death Metal and Black Metal that because they are underground, many Metalheads think that the mainstream is garbage compared to the Underground. Even Slayer, Death, Napalm Death, Carcass, or Opeth reached a point of commercializing themselves a little to survive in the music industry. It is a very curious topic, which always surrounds Metallica.
I'm nearly certain the issue she has is the highly compressed TH-cam audio quality. I noticed as soon as I heard the snare. Drums are always the first thing you notice when the audio is compressed so much. 320 bitrate MP3 is CD quality. This sounds like 128. I have the original CD converted to 320 MP3, the recent remastered version and the Pono version that came out in 2014, which is hi-def 24-bit, 96kHz. The Pono version on my nice pair of studio monitors is one of the very best sounding pieces of audio I've ever heard.
@@Vorgaloth No, the real issue is that she chose a lyric video with crappy audio quality. I have the original 1991 release of this album on CD, as well as the recent 2021 remaster, and there's definitely a big difference in audio quality. Granted, I'm not an audiophile, so you might have more insight on that.
@@Vorgaloth You are correct, obviously it will be compressed, TH-cam damages the audio quality a lot when uploading videos, especially if they are audio of songs that are 50, 40 or 30 years old as it is, they usually remaster them for CD and Vinyl, not necessarily for FLV, MP3, etc. Furthermore, Lilly did not take the audio from the band's channel due to the issue of blocking its channel with strikes, and it is assumed that it is a low quality copy. Likewise, she can get an idea of the album, I hope she bought it in physical format like the others that she liked, so she can enjoy them much better.
This is actually one of my favorite songs on this album. Yes... I've seen Through the Never.. It's not really a Documentary It's more of a movie about a guy who was trying to get to the concert and had to go through a bunch of B.S. to get there... I'd only rate it about a 2.5 out of 5.0 It lacked imagination so I only want to rate it a 1.5 but it gets an extra point back for the Soundtrack...
Regarding the intro, can you play drums? I can. I re-listened to that intro to Through The Never I have heard maybe 1000 times since 1993 when I first heard it, just to see if I felt what you heard with my decades of XP knowing this song and adding my last 13 years playing drums in case I missed something - - I did not notice anything... What are you talking about? Is it the tone? No phasing? It literally matches the rest of the CD!!!!! 5:10 - Lars drumming here is semi simple but it is so over looked as always in Metallica songs as to the syncopation he adds that allows the guitars to add more that 'everyone' magically notices but not WHY the guitarist did that guitar bit....ugh. YOU NEED TO WATCH THE """""THROUGH THE NEVER''''''''''' FILM!!!!!! It is NOT a documentary ANYTHING like the St Anger one. This is a concert they are playing at and a roadie is asked to piclk up something for the band outside on the other side of the city they are playing in, Armageddon happens outside - meanwhile it is METALLICA playing a show live!!!!!! It goes to and fro seamlessly and the stage is in the Guinness world records as the biggest LED screen that was walked upon.
ive noticed people cant relate to the different time signatures that people use outside of the normal 4/4 time. this is an uptime beat, so the snare snaps faster as a two-step beat but in rock. theres quite a few old rock and pop songs that do this if you try something like drum and bass, you'll hear this as the main beat. Lars made it more punk, but slower, they are big Discharge fans and this is their beat. Metallica covered Discharge and other punk bands and you can hear where it comes from i love this song. i'm used to hearing this kind of noise, and his trash sounding drums work well with the song, but maybe not what you expected. with the heavy riff and the words above it, its a great thrash song within a record that was more tailored to all audiences, while still bringing some of the old heavy for the supporters i always skip Nothing Else Matters. when i was in middle and high school this was everywhere on the radio and on people's playlists. i'm not a big fan of power ballads. i like more folk and progressive soft sections. like Opeth
The video you watched it through made the song sound a little saturated or something. Maybe the drums sound a little better in the studio recording. P.S. You still haven't reacted to Crown Of Barbed Wire on 72 Seasons😂
This is one of a catchy riff. I love to play it. Amazing reaction video. And if you don’t like the drum sound in this one I recommend you the album st anger it has an amazing drum sound😂. But jokes beside st anger is an amazing album that aged pretty well. One of my fav from this album is frantic. The song is definitely worth a listen. For a better drum sound you should watch a live performance 😎🎸🤘🏻
Enter Sandman and Nothing Else Matters are the two songs I always skip. They're not necessarily bad songs, it's just that I've heard them so many times that I'm now bored by them.
The drums on this album were recorded as such: Lars was in one room playing and the sound was sent to another room with a mic'd speaker to get the sound to be bigger that it actually is. Perhaps that is the source of your dislike.
She will after "Of Wolf and Man" Remember, she's reacting to the entire album, song by song woth the exception of the 3 songs she's already reacted to.
have absolutely no issues with sound production nor the mix-down on the Black album. All in all, the album hasn’t aged too well. The spectacular sound captured fortunately saves the album for the weak-ish songwriting - what happens to be most memorable. The follow-up Load is far more focused and musical with similar outstanding production and sound engineering
Through the Never would have been a great movie if it was pure documentary/concert. The movie scenes interjected between concert footage spoils it imo - they tried to do too much.
The drum sound on this song is exactly the same as the rest of the album. Whoever said otherwise doesn't know what they're talking about, and it just infected your thinking as well. Should also be considered in regards to production, you're listening to low quality youtube videos. Everything sounds bad. This particular video sounds even lower quality. Can't trust quality of the originals from youtube videos, some people upload horrendous low audio quality. The album version, let's even say, a 320k mp3 of this song sounds perfectly fine.
There's ABSOLUTELY NOTHING wrong with Lars' drumming on this song or this album. My best guess is the audio quality that was used for the lyric video that you chose for the reaction video. Don't go blaming Lars here when the real issue is the crappy quality that the uploader chose for their lyric video. And I'm again going to very strongly disagree with you here about this song. This song is one of my favorites on this album because this is Metallica getting philosophical here while at the same time, making us aware of how small mankind is in the grand scheme of things. Nobody has done that before, to have us realize how small we are when it comes to our place in the universe, especially with the stuff that the James Webb Telescope has been discovering. The "Never" in this song's case is space, as well as our universe. Even with all of the great scientific minds we have out there pouring over what both the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes find out about our universe as well as how it works, we aren't going to know everything about it. And without Lars, THERE WOULD BE NO METALLICA!
@@Gary_M Without Lars, Metallica wouldn't even exist! ever think about that? That's what I can't stand about people like you who just ride a fucking bandwagon without doing any kind of research whatsoever. Also, do you think that you can do better than him? I seriously don't think so.
@@Gary_M Wrong again! I'm someone who's using something called common sense, which is something that you seem to be extremely lacking in for whatever reason. As well as something called truth! And it's also very clear that you just jumped on some ridiculous bandwagon when it comes to hating on Lars without doing any type of research whatsoever.
This was the one i would skip, and the next 3 to get to the best on the album.! 🤣 I did listen to it all the way through the first time i played this album.
Lyrically, this is a song about the philosophies of Nihilism vs. Metaconsciousness... The ideas of a total lack of meaning vs. meaning by consciousness alone.
No, lyrically this song is about how small we are in the grand scheme of things compared to the vastness of the universe as well as humanity's never-ending quest for knowledge and to know everything.
More than one song I tend to skip lol. Holier Than Thou, Through the Never, Of Wolf and Man. Best on this album, to me, are Wherever I May Roam, Nothing Else Matters (yes, it gets played alot), The Struggle Within and my fave...My Friend of Misery. Death Magnetic...now that is their most underrated album...again IMO
Sweetheart if you thought that Lars Ulrich‘s drum set sounded out of tune in this song. Believe me, you have another thing Comin because every song on their album St anger is exactly like that. Like Lars actually makes his snare sound way out of tune, and it sounds like he’s banging on an oil drum. By the way St anger terrible album.
This hasn't been the first time where she gave Lars shit when it wasn't even his fault. She did the exact same thing when she reacted to "Blackened" on the Justice album.
And you’re a music composer. Damn girl, how long have you been even listening to music?? Do you understand what goes into the making of a song. Please let me know. I’m wanting to learn. Was you even born when this album came out 😂😂😂
I’m with you LJ…. This is one of my least favorite on the black album. There’s three tracks I tend to skip on the black album. Through the Never, My Friend of Misery, and Struggle Within
"Through the Never" "My Friend of Misery" and "The Struggle Within" are some of the deeper cuts that don't get played enough live and always get skipped for the more popular songs on this album. They did play those songs when they played The Black Album live to celebrate the 30th anniversary, which was awesome, but those songs need more attention when Metallica plays live.
It's about being finite beings whipping through space on a rock (Earth) with our infinite curiosity. The juxtaposition of thirsting for all knowledge, while existing only within the blink of an eye on the cosmic scale of time.
Through The Never is not a documentary. It's a movie. A young roadie for the band is sent to retrieve something for them during a concert, but society outside is crumbling. There is concert footing mixed with this kids journey.
I wish that was just a concert footage. that show was amazing
There is a theory that, in 'Through The Never', Metallica is talking about 'The Nothing', which is the great evil in the book and movie 'Never Ending Story'. That's an AWESOME movie from the 1980's and had some really deep, thought-provoking stuff going on. :)
If you liked the Some Kind of Monster documentary I highly recommend A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica.
It is a massive documentary that follows Metallica during the making of The Black Album and the first leg of the massive Black Album tour.
It covers some major events like the Monsters of Rock in Moscow, the Freddie Mercury Tribute concert where James performed the Queen song Stone Cold Crazy with Queen and Tony Iommi, and the ill fated Guns n Roses your where James Hetfield got set on fire from the pyro cannons
I don't skip any...
4:53 Absolutely love when the song goes to the funky groove after the solo. The reason I love Pantera because they have so many funky hooks in their songs
I love the movie, "Through The Never". It's kind of like a long music video with a plot. The cherry on top is the live performance of Orion. So good.🤘
I don't care what others think: Bob Rock is a fantastic producer. Metallica sounded huge in the 90's.
This one I would call one of my favorites on the black album.
Ditto!
The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know. That's the message is take from this.
You always blow my mind with how deep your analysis of the meaning of the song gets. I love the grove of this album so much that I’ve never thought deeply about it’s themes. You’re amazing picking this up in your first listen. I don’t skip a song on this album.
@Pepsolman Yes mate. She's taught me a thing or three. Very clever and astute young woman .
the drums sound amazing
the drums are massive on this album more massive sounding then on Load or St. Anger
they are all pretty good lol. wolf and man, my friend of misery is awesome
Oh I've waited a long time for this
This song is one of my favourite of the album.
Same here!
I will usually skip "Nothing Else Matters". Not because it's a bad song or I don't like it. I just heard it WAY TOO MUCH back in the day. Fans who were "just discovering" Metallica for the 1st time. Had a tendency to overplay that song. Because it was mellow and an easy listen. I used to tell them: "You want the REAL Metallica experience? Dive into it by listening to the albums that made them who they are." Anyway... I enjoyed your insights once again and your reaction as a whole. Keep up the GREAT work! 🤘🤘🤘
_"Fans who were "just discovering" Metallica for the 1st time. Had a tendency to overplay that song. Because it was mellow and an easy listen."_
Ohmygodz, YES!! The same thing happened with One.
Depending on your age, you may recall back in the day, kids were largely segregated into "cliques", you had you dorks & dweebs, the nerds, jocks & jockettes, and from a music trend standpoint, you had your "headbangers" (sometimes called "heads" or "bangers" before "metalhead" finally was settled on), and the "preps". The latter listened to all the mainstream rock and pop and new wave, and even rap & R&B as it rose in popularity. But the metal clique was largely ignored, shunned, and blamed for all society problems, lol, and we "bangers" listened to "angry noise", according to all who were not us.
Never did the two groups - preps and bangers - EVER fraternize... until Metallica, 1988. In my social circles, the cliques were already beginning to interact, but One was that "one" song that quickly bridged the gap between the cliques (and formed a sub-clique known as the "skaters" ; avid skateboarders).
Anyway, all the preps who got exposure to Metallica, latched on to "One" almost immediately, and they made that song almost hated by fans cos of the repetition (and the "sellout" accusations at the band for doing their first music video). I used to tote a huge boombox (or "ghetto blaster" as it was called then), so I always had the tunes, and they all nagged me to play "One". If it was coming up next on the tape currently playing, I'd inform them thusly, but if not, I'd say "screw you, I'm not a damn jukebox", lol. But the nagging alone made me, almost hate the song (or just "tire" of it).
What was really infuriating was that the preps thought this song and the album was Metallica's first album and they were a "new band"... lol.
F*ckin n00bs, eh?
So I totally get the Nothing Else Matters thing... only that was worse in a way cos it got overplayed in karaoke pubs (overkill is bad enough but when sung by tone-deaf drunks, it's worse)... Unforgiven was another one, but not nearly as bad...
And worse... One made its "overplayed" return via karaoke... almost hated the song all over again.
I love old people metal! My dad would pick me up after school and we would drive in his truck ... dirt bikes in the back on the way to track......and would just jam on Master of Puppets or Sabbath...Priest...Ozzy with Randy Roads... turn it up dad!!!! xoxox
Probably my favorite song from this album. And that intro riff is sick!
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She knows that she accidentally skipped it, and will get to it AFTER she finishes The Black Album!
First ever Metallica song I heard and still my all time favourite song of theirs. \m/
As far as the faster songs on the black album go, I think Struggle Within is the best.
Through the Never is a great movie! I love it and highly recommend it!
Through the Never show is like a cinematic concert.
My favourite riff from this song is the breakdown's riff, right after that sick Kirk's solo
Fub fact: Kirk wrote THAT RIFF
Epic vocals. Lots of swagger
Through the Never is actually the Metallica Movie!!! Not a docu. It's pretty good, as long as you're a Metallica fan anyway, lol.
Hope you're doing good 😊 I just got done listening to this song.
I saw Metallica in concert when they were touring this album.
After the comment about abusing a trash can? I read the lyrics "Too quick to criticize". One of my favorite lyrics in Metallica history.
No the drumming sounds good as usual. I think you have been lied to by Lars hater's and psychologically have heard something that isn't there
Lilly just chose a lyric video with terrible audio quality of the song, that's all.
Yes I saw "Through The Never" on DVD. My thought Lar's drums are supposed to sound discordant at the beginning.
This is Metallicas one and only space song, its about all of us living on a rock thats flying, spinning, twisting and turning through the nothingness of space. Kinda terrifying when you think about it lol Also us humans lack the complete understanding of the universe cause its just too big, maybe endless. Theres a limit to what we can understand and the universe and everything in it is well beyond our limit. Thats what i get from this song, i love space and Metallica too so this song is perfect for me lol
And i have no clue what you're talking about with lars drumming, its sounds no different than the rest of the album, the snare is the best sounding of all the albums. I think this particular lyric video has audio quality issues and thats what you're hearing.
Through the Never is part movie part concert. Not a documentary at all.
5:06 such a slow, heavy stomping riff
The audio quality is probably 64kbps mp3.
I think the drums are perfect.
My Favourite song from The Black Album
My favorite
React to "Of Wolf & Man" cause I think it's legit their best song oh the black album‼️💯😊
🤘🔥🔥🤘 great song
Ive never skip all songs of the album
🤘👍👍🤘ed
The audio quality in lyric videos are usually sub par. Pull the lyrics up on your phone or another screen, and listen to the original audio from Metallica's channel.
'Through the never' was the Metallica 3D concert movie released in 2013, not a documentary... (It BOMBED in theaters 👎) They filmed shows in Canada and cast actor Dane DeHaan as a roadie at the concert who steps outside the venue to witness the apocalypse unfold while the concert rages 😂 It wasn't a very solid story...
I would recommend seeing the documentary "A year and a half in the life of Metallica" - it was filmed between 1991 and 1992, capturing the troubled recording sessions for the 'black' album... followed by the grind of a year on tour from the brutal Moscow '91 concert to the ill-fated co-headline tour w/ Guns N' Roses where James Hetfield was hospitalized after a pyro mishap at a Montreal show.
I love this song because it is the closest to earlier Metallica! (The black album is great, but I do prefer the earlier stuff)
Loved the movie. What's your guess about the bag he carries for the band? Cliff's?
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I didn’t know you also tuned drums. Damn🔥
Lilly Jane, as you progress listen to this album, you will notice that it is a well-written album, and very well recorded. Bob Rock did a great job of production, mastering by the great George Marino is of very high quality, he knows this topic very well, the mixing and engineering of Randy Staub and Mike Tacci must also be credited. People generally don't recognize these other guys in the final result of "The Black Album", and in the success it continues to have more than 30 years later.
It is much better to see the 1992 documentary released in two parts: "A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica", there you can see how the album was recorded, live performances and a few more details.
* Yes, Lars is a great drummer when he wants to, but when he doesn't want to... no one can pressure him. That's why Metallica takes years to compose and record their albums.
Also, Lars isn't like other drummers in his genre and a lot of people fail to realize that it was Lars who had the ambition as well as drive to go out there and start his own band that was heavily influenced by not only stuff like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, but Diamond Head, Motorhead, as well as the NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) thing that happened at the tail end of 1979.
Hell, Lars got his name out there in the music circles even before Lars had a band, and Lars followed Motorhead when they were playing in California in 1981 before Lars started Metallica.
Lars IS NOT Dave Lombardo from Slayer, or Nick Menza from Megadeth, or any other famous metal drummer, and neither should he be. He was more progressive as well as technical with his drumming on the "And Justice for All" album because of the ridiculous peer pressure to be like other metal drummers at the time, and that didn't work for him in the long run because of how much of his drumming for that album he's had to relearn as well as remember.
People SERIOUSLY need to do research on Lars as well as how and why he is when it comes to him and his drumming instead of just following the herd of sheep that is the "Lars Ulrich sucks without having a good reason" fan club.
This is why I got on Lilly's case about her giving Lars shit.
@@TokusatsuGamingfan I honestly don't mind if Lars or Metallica make simple or complex albums.
I am a musician, and over the years I learned that it is better to be a good song writer, and a musician who knows how to adapt well to songs, than just a virtuoso guitarist or drummer.
Guys like Yngwie Malmsteen or Tosin Abasi and even John Petrucci bore me after a while, but I appreciate and like the virtuosity of Neil Peart from Rush, Jazz legend Buddy Rich, or Bill Bruford from Yes, King Crimson and all his projects.
These latter musicians work to make the songs the main thing, not their virtuosity as musicians. It seems that Yngwie, Tosin and Petrucci don't understand that the song comes first, instead of just showing how fast they can play and how theoretical they can be in 5 or 10 minutes of a song.
Many people expect Metallica to return to what they were from 1983 to 1988, but why? They found that simplicity is their strong point, which is why the albums from 1991 until today have been much more successful than their classics.
It happens with Thrash Metal, Death Metal and Black Metal that because they are underground, many Metalheads think that the mainstream is garbage compared to the Underground.
Even Slayer, Death, Napalm Death, Carcass, or Opeth reached a point of commercializing themselves a little to survive in the music industry.
It is a very curious topic, which always surrounds Metallica.
I'm nearly certain the issue she has is the highly compressed TH-cam audio quality. I noticed as soon as I heard the snare. Drums are always the first thing you notice when the audio is compressed so much. 320 bitrate MP3 is CD quality. This sounds like 128. I have the original CD converted to 320 MP3, the recent remastered version and the Pono version that came out in 2014, which is hi-def 24-bit, 96kHz. The Pono version on my nice pair of studio monitors is one of the very best sounding pieces of audio I've ever heard.
@@Vorgaloth No, the real issue is that she chose a lyric video with crappy audio quality. I have the original 1991 release of this album on CD, as well as the recent 2021 remaster, and there's definitely a big difference in audio quality.
Granted, I'm not an audiophile, so you might have more insight on that.
@@Vorgaloth You are correct, obviously it will be compressed, TH-cam damages the audio quality a lot when uploading videos, especially if they are audio of songs that are 50, 40 or 30 years old as it is, they usually remaster them for CD and Vinyl, not necessarily for FLV, MP3, etc.
Furthermore, Lilly did not take the audio from the band's channel due to the issue of blocking its channel with strikes, and it is assumed that it is a low quality copy.
Likewise, she can get an idea of the album, I hope she bought it in physical format like the others that she liked, so she can enjoy them much better.
This is actually one of my favorite songs on this album.
Yes...
I've seen Through the Never..
It's not really a Documentary
It's more of a movie about a guy who was trying to get to the concert and had to go through a bunch of B.S. to get there...
I'd only rate it about a 2.5 out of 5.0
It lacked imagination so I only want to rate it a 1.5 but it gets an extra point back for the Soundtrack...
James❤️😍
"Lars sounds like he's abusing a trash can....something is off about it..."
LOL, oh man Lilly. Just wait until St. Anger.......
Oh my god... it's going to be long ...so long....to listen to...
The only time I've ever had a problem with Lars' drum sounds was St. Anger... and his switch from ride to china.
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There is no song to skip on the Black album..
Regarding the intro, can you play drums? I can. I re-listened to that intro to Through The Never I have heard maybe 1000 times since 1993 when I first heard it, just to see if I felt what you heard with my decades of XP knowing this song and adding my last 13 years playing drums in case I missed something - - I did not notice anything... What are you talking about? Is it the tone? No phasing? It literally matches the rest of the CD!!!!! 5:10 - Lars drumming here is semi simple but it is so over looked as always in Metallica songs as to the syncopation he adds that allows the guitars to add more that 'everyone' magically notices but not WHY the guitarist did that guitar bit....ugh. YOU NEED TO WATCH THE """""THROUGH THE NEVER''''''''''' FILM!!!!!! It is NOT a documentary ANYTHING like the St Anger one. This is a concert they are playing at and a roadie is asked to piclk up something for the band outside on the other side of the city they are playing in, Armageddon happens outside - meanwhile it is METALLICA playing a show live!!!!!! It goes to and fro seamlessly and the stage is in the Guinness world records as the biggest LED screen that was walked upon.
She just chose a lyric video that had terrible audio quality, and then gave Lars shit when it wasn't even Lars' fault.
Have you reacted to "Don't tread on me"?
Yes, she has already reacted to that song. It was her previous reaction. Check her video section of her channel.
lol first person I've heard say they don't like the drums sound on this album
ive noticed people cant relate to the different time signatures that people use outside of the normal 4/4 time. this is an uptime beat, so the snare snaps faster as a two-step beat but in rock. theres quite a few old rock and pop songs that do this
if you try something like drum and bass, you'll hear this as the main beat. Lars made it more punk, but slower, they are big Discharge fans and this is their beat. Metallica covered Discharge and other punk bands and you can hear where it comes from
i love this song. i'm used to hearing this kind of noise, and his trash sounding drums work well with the song, but maybe not what you expected. with the heavy riff and the words above it, its a great thrash song within a record that was more tailored to all audiences, while still bringing some of the old heavy for the supporters
i always skip Nothing Else Matters. when i was in middle and high school this was everywhere on the radio and on people's playlists. i'm not a big fan of power ballads. i like more folk and progressive soft sections. like Opeth
The audio you are listening to is off. Don't blame Lars here.
The video you watched it through made the song sound a little saturated or something. Maybe the drums sound a little better in the studio recording.
P.S. You still haven't reacted to Crown Of Barbed Wire on 72 Seasons😂
She will get to it after she's done with The Black Album.
This is one of a catchy riff. I love to play it. Amazing reaction video. And if you don’t like the drum sound in this one I recommend you the album st anger it has an amazing drum sound😂. But jokes beside st anger is an amazing album that aged pretty well. One of my fav from this album is frantic. The song is definitely worth a listen. For a better drum sound you should watch a live performance 😎🎸🤘🏻
Never
Such an underrated track.
Enter Sandman and Nothing Else Matters are the two songs I always skip. They're not necessarily bad songs, it's just that I've heard them so many times that I'm now bored by them.
The drums on this album were recorded as such: Lars was in one room playing and the sound was sent to another room with a mic'd speaker to get the sound to be bigger that it actually is. Perhaps that is the source of your dislike.
the song I always skip is nothing else matters, even though it's a cool song
The file your listening to is a bit dodgy. It’s not a very clear audio file. The cd version is way crisper
Reporter: "Is Lars the best drummer in the world?"
Hetfield: "Lars isn't even the best drummer in Metallica."
Please! Do "The God that Failed"
She will after "Of Wolf and Man" Remember, she's reacting to the entire album, song by song woth the exception of the 3 songs she's already reacted to.
have absolutely no issues with sound production nor the mix-down on the Black album. All in all, the album hasn’t aged too well. The spectacular sound captured fortunately saves the album for the weak-ish songwriting - what happens to be most memorable. The follow-up Load is far more focused and musical with similar outstanding production and sound engineering
Through the Never would have been a great movie if it was pure documentary/concert.
The movie scenes interjected between concert footage spoils it imo - they tried to do too much.
Monopoly on sorrow suicidal tendencies give them a try
You should really listen to enter Sandman by Metallica. You won’t regret it.
that happened ages ago
She's already reacted to it. Check her Metallica Playlist!
The drum sound on this song is exactly the same as the rest of the album. Whoever said otherwise doesn't know what they're talking about, and it just infected your thinking as well. Should also be considered in regards to production, you're listening to low quality youtube videos. Everything sounds bad. This particular video sounds even lower quality. Can't trust quality of the originals from youtube videos, some people upload horrendous low audio quality. The album version, let's even say, a 320k mp3 of this song sounds perfectly fine.
She just chose a lyric video with crappy audio quality of the song which hasn't been the first time that she's done this.
There's ABSOLUTELY NOTHING wrong with Lars' drumming on this song or this album. My best guess is the audio quality that was used for the lyric video that you chose for the reaction video. Don't go blaming Lars here when the real issue is the crappy quality that the uploader chose for their lyric video. And I'm again going to very strongly disagree with you here about this song.
This song is one of my favorites on this album because this is Metallica getting philosophical here while at the same time, making us aware of how small mankind is in the grand scheme of things. Nobody has done that before, to have us realize how small we are when it comes to our place in the universe, especially with the stuff that the James Webb Telescope has been discovering.
The "Never" in this song's case is space, as well as our universe. Even with all of the great scientific minds we have out there pouring over what both the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes find out about our universe as well as how it works, we aren't going to know everything about it.
And without Lars, THERE WOULD BE NO METALLICA!
One of my favorites as well .
Without Lars, Metallica would be much better.
@@Gary_M Without Lars, Metallica wouldn't even exist! ever think about that? That's what I can't stand about people like you who just ride a fucking bandwagon without doing any kind of research whatsoever.
Also, do you think that you can do better than him? I seriously don't think so.
@@TokusatsuGamingfan Fanboys🙄
@@Gary_M Wrong again! I'm someone who's using something called common sense, which is something that you seem to be extremely lacking in for whatever reason. As well as something called truth! And it's also very clear that you just jumped on some ridiculous bandwagon when it comes to hating on Lars without doing any type of research whatsoever.
The best, and “most Metallica”, song on the album
React to Life goes on by Tupac
A lot of people hate Lars drumming. He's actually pretty good 👍. Not the best though.
No skipping on the Black album dear
U should listen to breadfan👍
This or Creeping death is better?
ABSOLFUKINLUTLY AMAZING ALBUM!🤘THE BLACK ALBUM IS KILLER & 72 SEASONS IS ALSO A MASTERPIECE ALREADY!🤘 KILLER VIDEO!!!
Honestly the video you're watching on youtube just has poor audio quality, which might be why it sounds off.
This was the one i would skip, and the next 3 to get to the best on the album.! 🤣 I did listen to it all the way through the first time i played this album.
NEVER skip a song on this album
She said the drums were out of tune 🤣
On one of the most sonically perfect hard rock albums ever made 😂
You must listen to The God That Failed
She will get to it after "Of Wolf and Man".
Lyrically, this is a song about the philosophies of Nihilism vs. Metaconsciousness... The ideas of a total lack of meaning vs. meaning by consciousness alone.
No, lyrically this song is about how small we are in the grand scheme of things compared to the vastness of the universe as well as humanity's never-ending quest for knowledge and to know everything.
More than one song I tend to skip lol. Holier Than Thou, Through the Never, Of Wolf and Man. Best on this album, to me, are Wherever I May Roam, Nothing Else Matters (yes, it gets played alot), The Struggle Within and my fave...My Friend of Misery. Death Magnetic...now that is their most underrated album...again IMO
I always skip 'Nothing else matters'... and I'm tired of 'Enter Sandman' 😂
Fade to black is their best.
the quality of audio made you not like the drums. to me, is one of their best songs
Great album, but yeah this isn't my fav track on the album. Great reaction Lilly!
Nothing wrong with the drumming here. That starts around st.anger and continues through death magnetic just not as bad.
THE DRUMS ARE TOO LOUD! They shouldn’t be louder than the guitars. Great reaction Lilly Jane!🤘🏻👍🏻
They're not like that in concert. It's all balanced.
Sweetheart if you thought that Lars Ulrich‘s drum set sounded out of tune in this song. Believe me, you have another thing Comin because every song on their album St anger is exactly like that. Like Lars actually makes his snare sound way out of tune, and it sounds like he’s banging on an oil drum. By the way St anger terrible album.
"St. Anger" is definitely NOT "a terrible album". Very far from it.
Bad quality sound the video you pick, try the original one
This hasn't been the first time where she gave Lars shit when it wasn't even his fault. She did the exact same thing when she reacted to "Blackened" on the Justice album.
And you’re a music composer. Damn girl, how long have you been even listening to music?? Do you understand what goes into the making of a song. Please let me know. I’m wanting to learn. Was you even born when this album came out 😂😂😂
I ALWAYS skip Nothing Else Matters. Too over played. Same w/ Sandman.
I’m with you LJ…. This is one of my least favorite on the black album. There’s three tracks I tend to skip on the black album. Through the Never, My Friend of Misery, and Struggle Within
"Through the Never" "My Friend of Misery" and "The Struggle Within" are some of the deeper cuts that don't get played enough live and always get skipped for the more popular songs on this album. They did play those songs when they played The Black Album live to celebrate the 30th anniversary, which was awesome, but those songs need more attention when Metallica plays live.
Ngl I still don't really understand what this song is about
It's about being finite beings whipping through space on a rock (Earth) with our infinite curiosity. The juxtaposition of thirsting for all knowledge, while existing only within the blink of an eye on the cosmic scale of time.
The vastness of space
Sounded like a bad/poor quality upload of that song