Technically the Soviet Union didn't collapse until later that year but its sphere of influence especially in Eastern Europe broke apart after the Soviet Leadership ceased funding the Soviet puppet governments there. Country after country broke loose and opened its previously strictly secured border starting with Hungary. Socialist Regiemes in those countries basically ceased to exist in a matter of weeks.
This was one of the first Hard Rock/Metal concerts that was permitted to take place,because these types of venues just weren't allowed in Russia up until this point in history.It was a HUGE deal to these folks because not only were some of the best bands performing live for the first time in their country,it symbolized Russians finally having the freedom to take part in things that were strictly forbidden during their entire lives before this event.This was most definitely a damn good way to celebrate what they've been fighting so desperately for!😃
No, it was just a very big concert they didn't enjoy before like many other people on Earth. They had freedom for those things, whatever laws did say. People, dont write this bullshit, you know nothing about this place.
You stop with your spin bullshit on all of these comments. Were you KGB? Some people had 1st account knowledge of how the USSR treated their satellite countries and you call them lies like you know better. Your ex-KGB chief on charge is trying the same crap now...starting with controlling the media which controls your views on things and then spilling over into Ukraine.
Enter Sandman.... yeah, you'd have heard it before. Dozens of places, and nobody ever seems to know it's Metallica until they look for it :) Harvester of Sorrow from this concert is just flat out POWERFUL.
7:45 LMAO he's got the stank face, that's when you know you're becoming a metalhead man. This song is played pretty often at football/hockey games, might be where you've heard it.
What a great video! When the magnitude of the size the crowd hit you... that was awesome! A lot of the soldiers said fuck it and joined the crowd. The attendance numbers are all over the board. I've heard anywhere from 500K to 1.6 Mil no mater, there were hella people there lovin it.
Yea at that time, the backstory as it goes, Metallica was very strictly limited on what they could and could not do while performing lol...for instance they weren't allowed to get the crowd too riled up for fear of revolt and uprising or some shit lol nice review dude
Just say rock or metal. They are, in no way, alternative. “Alternative” as a genre is a term that is no longer used. It was used to describe a particular musical movement in the early 90’s that grew quickly as an “alternative” to glamour metal and pop.
As much as I love Metallica, it is the Pantera Domination song at the same concert that stole the show as many people know. That is pure energy wrapped in a youtube clip. Nice reaction btw.
The cops had no idea what was going on in the show and they just beat people left and right... There were hundreds of rapes going on and thousands of stabbings in the crowd. It was just off the cuff and crazy and James Hetfield (the lead singer/rhytm guitarist) has said that if they knew that this shit was going to go down, they would have stopped playing. But man, that 1+ million people in the crowd... That was a literal sea of people... One crazy show for "some" crazy people! They were advised to not go to Russia for a show, but they did regardless and this epicness was what followed.
Timo Metsänoja please, stop spreading false information. At least add resources, but you won’t because there aren’t ones. Your surname looks Finnish? That pretty much explains it.
I’m from Australia and I don’t care if this sounds racist cause it’s not. Bro American black guys have the most genuine and best reactions. Especially you with this video man. Loved this so much
This is from the Monsters of Rock tour in 91 it was ACDC Metallica Guns n Roses on the same night it was insane the UK leg at donnington is where ACDC drop the best version of thunderstruck ...2 of the greatest live versions of them songs came from this tour
1.6 Million people....and this is 3rd on the all time list of crowds at an open air concert. #1 is Rod Stewart at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with a crowd of 3.5 Million in 1994. #2 was Jean Michel Jarre in 1997 also in Russia, like that Metallica show, with 3.5 Million.
If you was a wrestler fan back in the late 1990s early 2000s and you remember a wrestling organization called ECW one the wrestlers used this song as his entry song his character was called sandman
Actually ,the system we got now there is a lots scarier ;) And watching this actually I think-yes-thats when the Western filth entered! The life was simpler but truer back then.Ppl were still humans,not machines for money and whores ready to sell their own mother for the goddamn money!
I love this video! surreal crowd! Sevendust - "Unforgiven" th-cam.com/video/f_qScOrrR-s/w-d-xo.html My favorite band seen them live twice! Blind Guardian - "Valhalla Live" th-cam.com/video/CZ_VFJn2kJM/w-d-xo.html Watch till the end of the video to make sure you see a great crowd Jinjer - "Pisces" th-cam.com/video/SQNtGoM3FVU/w-d-xo.html Simply terrific!
Bro, real talk, if you're going to do Metallica, you have to check out the official music video for "One", and also the song Master of Puppets ( a DEEP real ass song about addiction)
There are other video interviews of the band....they were asked about this concert....they were scared stiff that people would be hurt....and how low that helicopter was flying.....they were preoccupied by the crowd and you can see it in their faces from time to time.
This was the Monsters of Rock show not long after the Berlin Wall came down, uniting East and West for the first time since before World War Two. These kids had never got to see a live show for the most part, much less listening to any music like this without being jailed...or worse. The BEST thing about it was the bands all did it for FREE. Watching history being made... estimates were anywhere from one and a half million to three million depending on the source for the duration of the show. But, I doubt how one could come up with any number that is close to correct. Awesome....when Metal met vodka.
This is an old post so don’t even know if you’re following the comments on it anymore. While your slightly off on the timeline of what was going on.. The tent city testimony at the beginning was about the failed military coup from several months before that marked the collapse of the Soviet Union. This concert was held a bit later. Regardless of how accurate you were of the fact in the moment, you certainly got the emotional vibe of the entire crowd down pat. The way I explain it to people who did live through it/ watch it live on TV.... imagine the LA riots after Rodney King , the unrest after travon Martin, Eric garner, what went on in St Louis and Detroit, the Watts riots, what happened in Selma. Imagine all that rage and frustration and disparity. Now imagine instead of being racially oppressed you you were being oppressed by your OWN PEOPLE. Now imagine all that rage and without weapons and without hope of surviving the night and you stood should to should with people you didn’t even know but in THAT moment you were brothers and sisters FOR LIFE and you stared into the muzzles of hundreds of tanks and through sheer rage and despair and courage you made THEM back down and toppled the largest empire in history. And now you are here in this field and this is your first taste at what freedom has to offer. That is the emotion coming from every person there rolling down like waves and hitting these for guys on this stage playing a song they have played almost every night for the last 2-3 years. That’s what this video is about
That was sick!!!! Idgaf if you do $b or not I’ve grown to love this channel, I loved it, grew up on metal I wish I could hVe seen them with their long hair! Late 90’s baby lol #rudeones
You've heard this song at any number of sporting events! It is amazing to think that music that used to be taboo is used at pro level sporting events all the time. You've also heard Crazy Train too.
There's a cd and DVD on the concert Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden is in about the troubles Bosnia. They say the longest siege in Europe's modern history. Bruce said Metallica decided not to go. It was very bad in Sarajevo.
Imagine having to listen to your favorite music in secret for fear of reprisal. Being completely unsure of whether your country will have a government tomorrow. A lifetime of stress. And then ... Some of the greatest rock bands of all time show up to play for you and half a million friends. The epitome of catharsis.
first time i saw this video, my reaction is the same,, i seem to have heard the song before but i just can't remember when. looks like most people have the same reaction too 😅
Bare with me real fast" lol...oxymoron....im diggin your channel bub. A drunk front moved in over alabama and im passing time.... "Do not look down" by meshuggah is a good one
2 years before this I was patroling the Soviet border up in the north of Norway for the Norwegian army, we wanted to keep them out, they wanted to keep em in...
I've only seen them once and they are a band worth seeing if they're ever coming to town. There might be lots of white people dressed in black but if you look around there are always black people rockin out to their shows too.
Welcome to the end of the "Cold War". I was USAF 1984-1987 and sent a few jets up to escort Russian bombers away from our coast. If you lived in the USSR back then anything American would have put you in the gulag (hard labor prison). Once the wall fell in 1989 it opened the freedom everyone wanted there. People take our freedom for granted but it cost us to have it. Salute 07
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Fun fact, Metallica is the only musical artist ever to have played in all 7 continents, including Antarctica.
Plus they did all 7 in the same year
in sthe same year
But I'm taught in the school that there are 6 continents, 'cause Europe and Asia are ONE supercontinent
Zealandia?
Didn’t they realize they had all 6 and they’re like fuck it let’s go for the 7 in Antarctica.
Estimated 1.6 million people in attendance
For the entire festival - probably 500K while Metallica was playing. Ginormous crowd either way.
@@kdbadk that's still a fucking crazy number of people.
@@kdbadk To bad you dont see these numbers in any list of most visit concerts...
this number seem to go up everytime i see someone comment on it.
There is a legend in Russia. And it says that someone is still coming home from that concert in Túshino.
The concert was a free event as a gift to the Russian people after the fall of the Iron curtain and the Soviet Union.
AC/DC headlined, Pantera opened.
I have to say that is awesome of these bands to do this for them. No wonder so many people came out to see them.
Technically the Soviet Union didn't collapse until later that year but its sphere of influence especially in Eastern Europe broke apart after the Soviet Leadership ceased funding the Soviet puppet governments there. Country after country broke loose and opened its previously strictly secured border starting with Hungary. Socialist Regiemes in those countries basically ceased to exist in a matter of weeks.
Wernher von Kerman I didn’t realise that, thanks!
They were stealing from those poor nations. My Grandfather was working as inspector or rail line. In side cans of pain they found MEAT
@@hermanbruner9406 Ohhh fuck you. We were keeping them well and stable.
Those aren't police. They're Russian soldiers.....
Soviet solders ...
Soviet Police!!!
communist regime, with communist enforcers.
Rumor has it that there are people still going home from that concert today.
A mate of mine got back from it last weekend wearin a neck brace.
Many unofficial reports have recorded this show as the largest concert in the history of humanity.
1.600.000 people right there in a live show god bless mother russia xd
Magic PT Боже, благослови мать Россию
false number
it was way under 500k audience at the Metallica show
Also this song is probably the most popular metal song of all time. I'm not surprised you've heard it before
He probably heard it at any professional sports game.
@@patrickcollier9393 NBA uses Enter Sandman, last time in finals raptors warriors.
you basically had a small country at this concert. I wish i was there. just amazing. I grew up listening to Metallica. Its still on my workout list
I reckon you’ve heard that song at sports games.
This was one of the first Hard Rock/Metal concerts that was permitted to take place,because these types of venues just weren't allowed in Russia up until this point in history.It was a HUGE deal to these folks because not only were some of the best bands performing live for the first time in their country,it symbolized Russians finally having the freedom to take part in things that were strictly forbidden during their entire lives before this event.This was most definitely a damn good way to celebrate what they've been fighting so desperately for!😃
No, it was just a very big concert they didn't enjoy before like many other people on Earth.
They had freedom for those things, whatever laws did say.
People, dont write this bullshit, you know nothing about this place.
You stop with your spin bullshit on all of these comments. Were you KGB? Some people had 1st account knowledge of how the USSR treated their satellite countries and you call them lies like you know better. Your ex-KGB chief on charge is trying the same crap now...starting with controlling the media which controls your views on things and then spilling over into Ukraine.
Creeping death from the same concert next?
fuck yes!
And then Harvester of Sorrow from the same concert
Shit yeah
I c forsen1
Enter Sandman.... yeah, you'd have heard it before. Dozens of places, and nobody ever seems to know it's Metallica until they look for it :)
Harvester of Sorrow from this concert is just flat out POWERFUL.
7:45 LMAO he's got the stank face, that's when you know you're becoming a metalhead man. This song is played pretty often at football/hockey games, might be where you've heard it.
What a great video! When the magnitude of the size the crowd hit you... that was awesome! A lot of the soldiers said fuck it and joined the crowd. The attendance numbers are all over the board. I've heard anywhere from 500K to 1.6 Mil no mater, there were hella people there lovin it.
Pantera domination Moscow 91 is another good one from the same show
Love the response from Hetfield when another band said they were selling out. Yes we are....every show!!!!
1.6 Million metal heads there!!🤘🤘 One poin fokn six M I L L I O N! !
it was way under 500k audience at the Metallica show
Yoooo thanks so much for reacting to this. You probably heard this song in any tv show, movie, radio, or even video games such as Rock Band.
React to Metallica - Master of puppets live in Seattle 1989
And Metallica- so what original version.
Yea at that time, the backstory as it goes, Metallica was very strictly limited on what they could and could not do while performing lol...for instance they weren't allowed to get the crowd too riled up for fear of revolt and uprising or some shit lol nice review dude
My fave reaction ever on any yt channel out there. Brilliant mate x
With all of those people jumping around, I wouldn't be surprised if the ground sunk in a little bit in that area. XD
Just say rock or metal. They are, in no way, alternative. “Alternative” as a genre is a term that is no longer used. It was used to describe a particular musical movement in the early 90’s that grew quickly as an “alternative” to glamour metal and pop.
yea i agree with you...it was punk and pop/hiphop mixed or punk and heavy metal mixed.
No auto tune , no production effects, just metal. They wrote their music, they played their music. STILL DO!
That's Metallics first time performing in Russia. It was free and opened to the public
As much as I love Metallica, it is the Pantera Domination song at the same concert that stole the show as many people know. That is pure energy wrapped in a youtube clip. Nice reaction btw.
When Heavy Metal was the most listened to music in the world.
"I know I've heard this song before, I don't know where though".
Answer:
Pretty much every sporting event since 1991.
Go Ducks!
Tirpitz was going to say the same thing!
The cops had no idea what was going on in the show and they just beat people left and right... There were hundreds of rapes going on and thousands of stabbings in the crowd. It was just off the cuff and crazy and James Hetfield (the lead singer/rhytm guitarist) has said that if they knew that this shit was going to go down, they would have stopped playing. But man, that 1+ million people in the crowd... That was a literal sea of people... One crazy show for "some" crazy people! They were advised to not go to Russia for a show, but they did regardless and this epicness was what followed.
Timo Metsänoja please, stop spreading false information. At least add resources, but you won’t because there aren’t ones. Your surname looks Finnish? That pretty much explains it.
"Creeping Death" or "Harvester of Sorrow" from the same show!!!!
Yeah, late 80's early 90's feel is the best! Things are over produced nowadays
I disagree
@@hutch2811 tell us why bro
I’m from Australia and I don’t care if this sounds racist cause it’s not. Bro American black guys have the most genuine and best reactions. Especially you with this video man. Loved this so much
This is from the Monsters of Rock tour in 91 it was ACDC Metallica Guns n Roses on the same night it was insane the UK leg at donnington is where ACDC drop the best version of thunderstruck ...2 of the greatest live versions of them songs came from this tour
1.6 Million people....and this is 3rd on the all time list of crowds at an open air concert. #1 is Rod Stewart at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with a crowd of 3.5 Million in 1994. #2 was Jean Michel Jarre in 1997 also in Russia, like that Metallica show, with 3.5 Million.
Your face when you saw the size of the crowd. Hahaha priceless
imagine being there?? fuck...must of been wild. i wish someone who was there would give a long detailed version of the events.
If you was a wrestler fan back in the late 1990s early 2000s and you remember a wrestling organization called ECW one the wrestlers used this song as his entry song his character was called sandman
your reactions are dope yo!
Please react to another from this gig. Harvestor of Sorrow is my favourite from this gig.
The best one for sure
The pause before "all have said their prayers" is epic
Cas
This is why communism is a scary scary thing. What’s more horrifying is there are a lot of folks that want that here in the U.S.
Actually ,the system we got now there is a lots scarier ;) And watching this actually I think-yes-thats when the Western filth entered! The life was simpler but truer back then.Ppl were still humans,not machines for money and whores ready to sell their own mother for the goddamn money!
Yea john our system is much scarier than people being starved to the point of going insane and eating their children (holodomor). Marxists are morons.
I love this video! surreal crowd!
Sevendust - "Unforgiven" th-cam.com/video/f_qScOrrR-s/w-d-xo.html
My favorite band seen them live twice!
Blind Guardian - "Valhalla Live" th-cam.com/video/CZ_VFJn2kJM/w-d-xo.html Watch till the end of the video to make sure you see a great crowd
Jinjer - "Pisces" th-cam.com/video/SQNtGoM3FVU/w-d-xo.html Simply terrific!
Bro, real talk, if you're going to do Metallica, you have to check out the official music video for "One", and also the song Master of Puppets ( a DEEP real ass song about addiction)
Oh, you want old school? Look up Anaesthesia (Pulling Teeth) live in Chicago 1983. They all look about 12 (they would have been around 20).
There are other video interviews of the band....they were asked about this concert....they were scared stiff that people would be hurt....and how low that helicopter was flying.....they were preoccupied by the crowd and you can see it in their faces from time to time.
This was the Monsters of Rock show not long after the Berlin Wall came down, uniting East and West for the first time since before World War Two. These kids had never got to see a live show for the most part, much less listening to any music like this without being jailed...or worse. The BEST thing about it was the bands all did it for FREE. Watching history being made... estimates were anywhere from one and a half million to three million depending on the source for the duration of the show. But, I doubt how one could come up with any number that is close to correct. Awesome....when Metal met vodka.
There is a bluegrass cover of this song, it is really good, I am not really a bluegrass fan but they make it their own!
Metallica “Call of Ktulu” its an instrumental
I got one that will blow your mind!! Nightwish 2013 live and the track is Ghost Love Score! You will have what is called a FLOORGASM!!!
Dude been watching you fer years now, you still got the wig...lol.
Love yer shit, we're the rude ones...still watching this shit bro 🤘🤘🤘
The sound of freedom.
Bro, you gotta react to Thy Art Is Murder - Holy War
Great lyrics, great instruments, just all around great. Very meaningful lyrics.
He should do whore to a chainsaw before any of their new stuff. Really give him a shock lol
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the intro is ectasy of gold from the good bad and the ugly movie
Great video man 👍👍
its hard to wrap your mind around seeing that many people in a crowd
We need to watch and listen. Coming soon to 🇺🇸
It was Mariano Rivera's entrance song for the Yankees when he came out of the bullpen....fans went CRAZY every time!
What funny is allot of the soldiers who were there to maintain order said fuck it and joined in with the crowd.
Fun fact Metallica black album is the #1 album sold in last 20 years period any artist look it up!! Even Michael Jackson’s and Celine dion album
Can we just take a moment to appreciate Jason's windmill of doom. No wonder he had neck and shoulder issues lol
This is an old post so don’t even know if you’re following the comments on it anymore.
While your slightly off on the timeline of what was going on..
The tent city testimony at the beginning was about the failed military coup from several months before that marked the collapse of the Soviet Union. This concert was held a bit later.
Regardless of how accurate you were of the fact in the moment, you certainly got the emotional vibe of the entire crowd down pat.
The way I explain it to people who did live through it/ watch it live on TV.... imagine the LA riots after Rodney King , the unrest after travon Martin, Eric garner, what went on in St Louis and Detroit, the Watts riots, what happened in Selma.
Imagine all that rage and frustration and disparity. Now imagine instead of being racially oppressed you you were being oppressed by your OWN PEOPLE. Now imagine all that rage and without weapons and without hope of surviving the night and you stood should to should with people you didn’t even know but in THAT moment you were brothers and sisters FOR LIFE and you stared into the muzzles of hundreds of tanks and through sheer rage and despair and courage you made THEM back down and toppled the largest empire in history. And now you are here in this field and this is your first taste at what freedom has to offer. That is the emotion coming from every person there rolling down like waves and hitting these for guys on this stage playing a song they have played almost every night for the last 2-3 years.
That’s what this video is about
That was sick!!!! Idgaf if you do $b or not I’ve grown to love this channel, I loved it, grew up on metal I wish I could hVe seen them with their long hair! Late 90’s baby lol #rudeones
You've heard this song at any number of sporting events! It is amazing to think that music that used to be taboo is used at pro level sporting events all the time. You've also heard Crazy Train too.
The concert was at an airfield...that was one reason why a helicopter was flying overhead
There's a cd and DVD on the concert Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden is in about the troubles Bosnia. They say the longest siege in Europe's modern history. Bruce said Metallica decided not to go. It was very bad in Sarajevo.
Imagine having to listen to your favorite music in secret for fear of reprisal. Being completely unsure of whether your country will have a government tomorrow. A lifetime of stress. And then ... Some of the greatest rock bands of all time show up to play for you and half a million friends. The epitome of catharsis.
first time i saw this video, my reaction is the same,, i seem to have heard the song before but i just can't remember when. looks like most people have the same reaction too 😅
Virginia Tech foorball uses Enter Sandman as their entrance music at home game. You gotta see it. Freakin awesome.
Bare with me real fast" lol...oxymoron....im diggin your channel bub. A drunk front moved in over alabama and im passing time.... "Do not look down" by meshuggah is a good one
2 years before this I was patroling the Soviet border up in the north of Norway for the Norwegian army, we wanted to keep them out, they wanted to keep em in...
The world came to see them
Not my favorite band but you should react to: Sabaton 40:1 Live Woodstock Poland, great live performance!
Peace sells medley anyone?! Best live ever hahah
Bro you like crowd reaction check out Iron Maiden in Colombia doing run to the hills or the rolling Stones Altamonte California
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Check out Metallica Live 1989 "Blackened" and other songs from that concert. "YOU WON'T REGRET IT!!!!"
love your hair and your humor. im a white guy. fuck racism. love you. let's fiix the world together as 1
1.6 million people only band in the history of music to have that many people at a concert and record hasn’t been broken yet probably never will
Rod Stewart in rio de janeiro Brazil 4.2 Million
They used the Back album songs as the main soundtrack in the 92 Olympic games
I've only seen them once and they are a band worth seeing if they're ever coming to town. There might be lots of white people dressed in black but if you look around there are always black people rockin out to their shows too.
Police and military were essentially the same thing in the USSR
It's not truth
The softer song played before the concert was another song called the Unforgiven.
this song was the #1 on billboard america in 1991 no wonder uve heard it. metallica is THE biggest artist toe ever tour if u look at numbers
You resemble Sly Stone from the 60's and 70's. React to him. He was one of my first concerts.
More than 1 million people that night
If you been on X2 at Six Flags, you heard it haha
Highly recommend pink floyd comfortably numb live pulse tour 1994
Guys pay attention to the beginning of this video. Go look up what was happening......
I was in Moscow U.S.S.R. the week following the military coup....what an experience.
Creeping Death at the same event is even better, if you can believe that.
1.6 Million in attendance.
The Unfogiven intro is so awesome.
Its 1.6 million not 500k
Most Excellent!
You SHOULD have heard this song. It took Metallica to the mainstream back in 1991.
Check out some Stevie Ray Vaughan "voodoo child live in Tokyo". Witness greatness and thank me after.
Collage football plays this song a lot at games.There is a team that comes out to this song
metalheadzone: "LARS ULRICH CLARIFIES THE MYTH THAT 1.6 MILLION PEOPLE ATTENDED METALLICA’S MOSCOW CONCERT IN 1991"
Welcome to the end of the "Cold War". I was USAF 1984-1987 and sent a few jets up to escort Russian bombers away from our coast. If you lived in the USSR back then anything American would have put you in the gulag (hard labor prison). Once the wall fell in 1989 it opened the freedom everyone wanted there. People take our freedom for granted but it cost us to have it. Salute 07
Russians didn`t even speak english at least back then so AWESOME. React to stratovarius - hunting high and low or black diamond
If you want to see an audience reaction, you should look at Creeping Death from this same show.