CAN WE AVOID IT? 🎵 Metallica Blackened Reaction
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My old music teacher said that, if they were alive today, Mozart would be a huge pop star, but Bach and Beethoven would be metalheads.
No less than Stewart Copeland himself referred to Wagner as the Metallica of opera. So I am all on board with that sentiment.
For sure. Even know you can play Apocalyptica's 4 cello covers of Metallica and people who've never listened to Metallica will think it's classical music.
*Even now* --Damned predictive text & autocorrect.
Interesting
XDD yesss. They'd be playing and dressing like Yngwie Malmsteen
Biggest memory of this song: in a car with a few friends jamming to this album/song while a giant black storm line was moving across the sky, we were trying to make it home while it was "chasing" us...we were goin nuts screaming "WE'RE GONNA DIIIIIEEE" ..having a blast in 1992! Memories 😂
That blackened storm is gonna color your world blackened bro, be careful lmao
@@Hieraldrich truth
mine was actually in 13th row, tripping.
I have memories of this song from the early 90’s riding around in my buddies 79 Camaro…
I have a similar memory but with the song “Twilight of the Thundergod” by Amon Amarth.
Brad will never love metal it seems, but I appreciate his willingness to listen and understand.
At least hes not pretending that he immediatly is a fan and makes stupid ass faces for the sake of views
I don't get why they always try to figure out they lyrics. I never really cared about the lyrics in Metallica songs. I always liked the instrumentation.
@@taylorriccelli4062 Definately check out the lyrics, James is not only a beast of Downpicking, but also a beast of writing a hard, gut punching lyrics
He's too deep into the lyrics while Lex is just feeling the music
@@Randomeris1 I'm a guitar player, so when I listen to Metal, I just get into the guitar riffs and drums. I never try to decipher the lyrics, I just jam out to the music. Seems like it takes away from the music trying to do that.
The song is about nuclear warfare and the devastation of our planet so when Lex said it was about nukes at the end, she was right!!!
is about man destroying mother earth, nuclear war, pollution, exploiting the world till it is black while we all dance till we are gone leaving nothing in our wake.
@@randyreynolds4252
What Randy said. It's not just about nuclear warfare. It's about destroying mother earth in general.
We all had our breath held...
Lex seems to be right most of the time when reacting to metal. The guy not so much.
@@roberthampton730 It is ok though I like both perspectives, if we were keeping track Lex figures it out i think 90 percent? Im guessing but master of puppets, she is like DRUGS in the first 30 seconds or something, she always gets it, why this channel is amazing. She even gets the timing riff in the beginning without knowing guitar theory and that riff is some heavy timing right hand pyrotechnic stuff. She is a born metalhead...Look at that fucking smile =) \m/ She even snarls at the right places in the riffs, lol the places as a performer we would snarl
I love how Brad really tries to delve into the lyrics and work out the songs meanings, yet misses...while Lex bounces around paying more attention to the vibe and musicality of the songs...and gets it every time.
Its interesting you point that out. I thought the same thing. I think it might be a rap thing. I mean I’m not into rap but from what I’ve listened to, the lyrics have a very literal and direct message and the art is really the flow and how they bend and fit words into the music and rhythm. Metal on the other hand is really about singing very clever shit in a very loud and incoherent manner. It’s very thought provoking and usually has more to it than what it seems (obviously not always the case). It’s just different worlds and different styles. Both are awesome. Metal is a lot to take in and I think Lex just vibes on it more which makes it easier to soak it all in and get it. Of course I could be miles wrong about the hip hop comment and i know there would be some extremely clever rap music too, but that’s my view anyway.
@@christosgazaris1158 You both are wrong about Brad. He gets most of the songs. Sometimes he gets fixated, he actually stated that it was about the end of the world.
He has liked Metallica before and has liked other metal bands. Hell, he loves Pantera. And all my love to Lex, but she rarely gets what the song is about because she is TOO into the song.
Mix them together and you get your average metalhead.
And yet he couldn’t resist the headbang
@@christosgazaris1158 Both are big on similes. Rap uses "like" a lot to directly point out their similes. "I'm slamming niggas like Shaquille, shit is real", "Now let me welcome everybody to the wild, wild west
, A state that's untouchable like Elliot Ness", etc. Metal uses similes too but also are heavily prone to metaphors and personification. They sing lyrics from the point of view of not just objects but ideals and concepts. They sing from the point of view of nuclear weapons "Some people risk to employ me
, Some people live to destroy me", war "Soldier boy, made of clay
, Now an empty shell
, Twenty one, only son, But he served us well", deities and devils, serial killers, and even evil itself.
I mean all that shows is we each perceive music differently and that's the whole magic of it.
Nicotine: when in doubt, always go with “it was a metaphor”. 😊
Yup…..You beat me to it.
Always haha
i was going to say all these years I never thought it was about smoking. Then again this is the first time I noticed the word nicotine was in the lyrics. lol
@@TheDeadStretch I never noticed it either. It kind of shook me a little bit 😆
Nicotine sulphate is a pesticide that in large does kill even humans. I always thought that's what he meant.
This whole album is a masterpiece
Except the “Newsteding” of the bass in the mix
Absolutely
Totally agree. Not a bad song. I miss those days. 😔
@@jon-pauldupont5746 the remasters have a better mix so its aight 😄 imo it is their best project for sure
I love the look of true joy on Lex’s face as she jams along. Your reactions are 🔥. I always look forward to the next one!!!
I just can't watch Lex jam out without smiling...not that I want to.
Forests are often called the lungs of the Earth. That's why the nicotine metaphor.
You could see co2 as the nicotine destroying the atmosphere(air/lungs) and creating the greenhouse effect (heat), burning the surface to a crisp and us with it.
Maybe, nobody in Metallica ever said that
@@reekoor You're onto it. This song is about environmental collapse. Everything just burnt out
@@neilpatrickhairless after a nuclear Holocaust…
this
One of the greatest albums of all time. Listen to frayed ends of sanity. Great song
Agreed. Was my favorite of theirs. Loved harvester of sorrow.
Best song on the album
that drumfill at the middle part is eargasm
METALLICAS MASTERPIECE along with the rtest of the big 4. they all released masterpieces at the same time. hard to beat MEGADETH RUST IN PEACE. I WANNA SEE SOME ANTHRAX. CRY FOR THE INDIANS? BELLY OF THE BEAST? CMON BRAD.....THERES PLENTY OF MESSAGES FOR U. AND THE MUSIC WILL GRAB LEX
Frey ends is another bad azz one that folks forget about as is dyers eve
You guys need to watch the documentary “Hypnotizing Power: The Story of Master of Puppets” it’ll open your eyes to the band significantly. Great video.
You’re way too hung up on that nicotine line lol. It’s just symbolism. Metallica is loaded with poetic metaphors, that’s why they’re awesome.
Darmok, his eyes closed...
I’m glad people pointed this out. When he started talking about it, I just skipped ahead.
@@dmanimousprime3858 Ah, a man of culture! 🖖😀
@@dmanimousprime3858 Metallica at Tanagra, Live 2455
Was thinking the same thing. He often thinks too concretely, literally and not abstractly, metaphorically when it comes to lyrics. And, he cracks me up when he chuckles at Lex's takes and more often than not, she's right.
Welcome to one of kirk’s greatest solos. Beast of a song
...and Justice For All is Metallic’s best album. “Eye of the Beholder” is the song that got me into them. Then “Harvester of Sorrow” and “The Frayed Ends of Sanity”. Damn this is a good album! And you already reacted to “One.”
Me too i love eye of the beholder
My favourite album too. I love Dyer’s Eve.
Personally master of puppets is my favorite but i love this album. Just wish there was more bass
On its release it was fans least favorite. Not to mention there was no bass on it, and they were considering them sellouts for final releasing video.
@@dougventura4991 “Fans” least favorite? I already mentioned that this album added me as a fan. This album has sold 15 million copies. 2nd only to the Black album which sold 30 million copies.
The Lead player Kirk Hammett said "This song took a very long time to work out, it wasn't easy."
Kirk's masterpiece solo & my favorite from him of all time. Also the song structure beneath it is amazing. This song also contains my favorite drum fill from Lars (which I've never heard him do live 😕) right after James says "See our mother die"
Fuckin’ KILLER fill 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
AGREED!!! 100%
I am so glad I found this channel. I’ve spent the last 3 hours of my life (that I do not want back) going through your videos love you guys. Keep it up
Fr bro, my marathon is now running for like over 3h and i can't stop lol
im watching their channel for 6 hours... with a little brake. i gues im going to eat tomarrow
As a teenager in the 1980s, the nuclear war meaning of the song was glaringly obvious. It was hardly the first metal song to give voice to the underlying fears of nuclear annihilation during that era (e.g. Iron Maiden's "2 minutes to midnight" and Megadeth's "Set the World Afire" come to mind, as well as it being a running theme in Nuclear Assault's stuff, not surprisingly).
I guess the nuclear war imagery just isn't as potent for generations that don't remember the Cold War and the paranoia of those years.
During the 'And Justice for All' tour they opened with this one. When the opening notes started fading in the crowd went BANANAS. One of the two best shows I've seen in my life. The song's basically about the destruction of the environment. Nuclear war specifically, but I always understood it to cover all of the jacked up stuff we do to the planet.
This song is off the album ‘And Justice for All’, their most complex album up until then. The song ‘frayed ends of sanity’ hadn’t been played live up until recently. Hope one day you two get to react to that song (you’ll definitely need to take a few breaks in between)
Best Metallica song ever written.
Seattle 89 needs to be watched
I think Brad was a metronome in his previous life. The only motion he can of doing when he is trying to catch the groove is side to side, like a mechanical metronome.
Stop it!!! 😂😂😂
Swaying when he should be rockin!!
It is so sad, over 30 years after this song was recorded, and humans continue to destroy our only home, Mother Earth.
In search of another, new world to destroy...
It's sad but true.
🤣😂🤣😂Couldn't tell if you guys were jumpin on the couch, or it was me shaking my tablet,cause I was jumpin on my couch. Awesome classic Metallica!! Yesshh!!
It’s about nuclear war, there are references to nuclear winter, the nicotine reference is just a metaphor. The picture they are painting is of the world dying in nuclear fire.
A thing you two have to remember is the context of the cold war when you react to music from the 80's/90's. We had been living under the threat of global extinction for almost 50 years at that time, it was starting to wear on people.
@@JonnyPhive Yes exactly, I know it was a large part of my life growing up. We actually expected the missiles to fly at anytime, and since I lived close to an Air Force Base, all I expected to see was a brief flash of light, then oblivion.
@@kenklein4783 I remember doing a duck and cover drill in first grade and getting sent to the hall for asking how my desk was supposed to protect me from the biggest bomb there was. I mean I was 5 I barely understood the concept, but I knew a nuke was the scariest bomb there was from movie they made us watch, And my desk seemed poor protection.
Best memory was seeing it live at the actual damaged justice tour. Fayetteville, NC 1989. Opening song. Faded in totally blacked out. Then soon as the drums hit the lights came on.
That must have been awesome!
Lucky
"And Justice For All..." is probably my most favorite album from Metallica. The whole album is awesome. To me they haven't recreated the sound they had on this album since. React to any of the songs on this album and it would be awesome. Keep up the good work you two. I love the energy from Lex, Brad .... your coming along nicely too. 😆
It's about the death of our planet as we tear down our forests. Each Metallica album has a different sound.
Umm no. .. And Justice For All was a very political album and this song was about M.A.D (Mutually Assured Destruction) theory between the US and Russia. What the world would look like after nuclear fallout
@@malcolmwilkins3365 uhmm yes it does it is part of the song. Deforestation is very much part of what this song is about and yes m.a.d. is part of it but he was wondering what does nicotine have to do with the end of the world which = deforestation.
@@stonemills1546 Nicotine gives cancer (well technically cigarettes which contains nicotine) and so does radiation from a nuke, they kill everything and what also might have been
@@stonemills1546 Just look it up, you never specified that you were talking about that part of the song
@@malcolmwilkins3365 👍
This was the first Metallica song I ever heard when a friend suggested I buy And Justice For AKK. After this song I was a Metallica fan and metalhead for life. That was 33 yrs ago.
Such a great album. The one thing I love about it is that James' vocals are so powerful and full of anger, and you can just feel it, especially on this song.
Lars’s drums and James guitar are the main things we hear just makes it sound crisp lmao 🤣🤣🤣 the drums in the beginning of “harvester of sorrow “ I think it was, maaaaan I use to play the tf out of that song on the drums when I was a kid🤣
This song was my introduction properly to Metallica, couple months after the album came out - i'd heard bits of some of their earlier songs...sitting in a friend's room with his new sound system and he put it on...when that breakdown kicked in after the 2nd chorus my jaw hit the floor...i had to skip back the track several times before i could move on to the next track...
I think you need to do the studio and then the live cause they're so amazing, Lex needs to see. Do both!!!! Like you did with some of they're other songs, c'mon now yall!! Cause this is one of they're most A-M-A-Z-I-N-G songs live!
I love how Lex gets into the music and her looks on her face!! Totally Awesome!!
This is my favorite metallica song. I used this song as my entrance music when I was an indy wrestler in the early 2000s
Blackened is one of my all time favorite Metallica songs. Blackened is about nuclear war. Great reaction! And Lex, definitely listen again, and again, and again... Lol 🤘🏻
Lars once said it was his most hated Metallica song, "the time scales are off" he said......
I can watch her headband all day long!!🤘🏻🤘🏻
Facts. I love it. Cause she's really banging.
its hilarious how often she's right and he convinces her otherwise 💀💀
She gotta start trusting herself 😂
You can tell this dude loves his girl because of how he lets her figure out the answer on her own. He knew what she was thinking with the whole intro flipping thing was wrong but instead he agve her an alternate possibility "maybe it was reversed"? He didn't need to feel superior, nor did he want here to feel dumb, so he presented another option in a slick way. I have a lot of respect for that way of being. That shows a lot about a person.
You guys need to check out the live version of this from Seattle 1989 (I think!) They play it faster with so much energy, it's amazing!
What an intro to an album... i can imagine just setting the needle at the edge and the sound just gets louder and LOUDER consuming until full blown thrash!!
In my younger years, this was one of my favorite songs to dance to. The beat is epic and charged!!
I remember the day this album came out. I was working in NYC and sat in Battery park during my lunch hour. Of course I was late for work. And Justice for all was much different sound for them. And I WAS STILL HAPPY!
The way Lex is describing her getting to like Battery, it was like she telling story of me becoming a metalhead.
one of my favorite metallica songs. lets go
Metallica just rocks period end of story 😎
And I’ve seen them twice and there are no breaks. You will be standing in the bathroom line rockin bc if you wait for a break it never comes. 🔥
.... And justice for all is an amazing feet of music.
"Shortest straw" has a Brad solo!
pulled for you, shortest straw. pulled for you, shortest straw .the shortest straw has been pulled for you! \m/
First time I heard that song I couldn't believe they wrote a song about a freaking soda straw. 🤦
Metaphor dude, Metaphors
- I highly suggest a documentary called Metal evolution that way you understand the different types of Metal.
Kirk’s solo is pure 🔥on this song & this album is such a powerhouse work of art!
I remember all too well when we lost Cliff and I really wondered how the guys would deal with it and what they would do. And then And Justice For All came out and I went and bought it that very day, brought it home, put the needle on side 1 and heard this gem and knew that they were going to be ok!
The backwards effect is incredibly easy to do production-wise. With my old 4-track cassette recorder, all you had to do was play the B side of the cassette and it played the entire A side backwards. Lex is right. They recorded the notes descending down the scale, so reversed, it sounds ascendant. It turned out really well because they are excellent musicians.
even the normal recording is great - th-cam.com/video/YJ1vCidA53c/w-d-xo.html
@@morphinmartian6266 Thanks. I've never actually heard that before!
The intro was a separate recording, which they then reversed and faded it in. Worth a look at the multitude of videos with it unreversed.
Additionally, ON TAPE. People are so spoiled with digital recording these day. They forget the additional challenges of tape. Razor blades and tape people. Not copy, paste. 🤘
17-year-old me spent days attempting that intro solo, before realising that the reason it didn't sound right was because I could only play it forwards.
You both are cool to watch, but Lex is without a doubt the most entertaining reactor on TH-cam. Before every song ever starts she has a smile so wide it looks like her face is about to rip open like a kid about to open their presents on Christmas morning.
I bought this 30 years ago. This whole album got me through some difficult times. Thanks for the react.
Same
Lex, you are a genuine metal head! Guitar Solos get you every time 👍👍👍
I have a suggestion that will blow each of your minds. Death - Voice of the Soul. Lex will love it for the guitars - you can see she feels in her bones when a lead is about to happen and Brad you will have your mind blown because it’s instrumental and it still tells a story that instruments represent perfectly.
Also, Opeth - Ghost of Perdition live at Red Rocks. Not their best song but it’s an amazing live performance.
Great job by both of you.
Well i'm down in the metallica youtube rabbit hole again and just come across this channel first time here and oh my god I absolutely loved the journey this Lex lady lead me on, I wanted to close my eyes and enjoy the song and listen to your feed back but I couldn't take my eyes off of her reaction, my god you absolutely went on a journey there, instant sub!
Thrash metal is almost like a faster, heavier punk rock. That off-beat snare is a key cog in thrash metal and that came directly from punk rock
'Orion' and 'The Call of Ktulu' are two of the best songs you'll ever hear by Metallica🤘
Oh no doubt ! We see that maniac as your profile pic!🤣
No one can resist head banging to this
This song was written near the end of the Cold War when the possibility of mankind eradicating itself with an all out nuclear exchange was a very real possibility. Metallica are a thematically very deep band.
"nothing left to kill" - when we end up at that point, that we can't even kill each other (which we seem to be doing with great effort and commitment), then we're really done for good as a species. I believe that is what this song is about.
The song got in metal in 1988 i was 12 still jamming to it
Alot of people argue about the meaning of the song but James said himself it was written to bring extra awareness to smoking and the dangers of it, after seeing his mom pass from lung cancer caused by smoking
Blackened was written at the tail end of the Cold War era and is about Nuclear War.
The lyrics can be interpreted how you want. The music and the transitions are amazing. From a music perspective this is fantastic. Love y’all, keep going!
The great thing about a lot of Metallica songs is when you realize the lyrics are written in a way to be interpreted in many ways. While generally the song sounds like a song about nuclear war ending the earth, it also has hints about his mother dying from lung cancer.
"I do not know what thrash is. It's a word that you guys toss around and that's it"
I'll have to steal this quote sometime. It's perfectly encapsulates my understand of some genres. 😅
This song is fucking magnificent
Oh my Gerrrrd!! You two!!
Every time I get on TH-cam … you two on “my” TH-cam!!
Let’s fucking go. Seriously?!!
Let’s. GO.
I've been listening to Metallica since 96 and I ALWAYS associated Blackened with Battery. Both are very hard and fast album intros, only to be outdone in speed and hardness by Dyers Eve and Damage, Inc, respecrively, which I also always associated because they are probably the hardest and fastest Metallica songs.
And Lex gets the connection on her first listen. She is such a gem. So intuitive.
Lex, you make ME smile every time you light up with your smile at the guitars :) Another great reaction Brad & Lex. Keep on Rockin!!! \m/
HAHA, and OH, you want FAST Metallica???? Listen to Dyers Eve, from And Justice For All album ;) They can't hardly play it (but always tease :P ) in concert. Many think it was "sped up" in production ;)
This was the opening song for the and justice for all tour 1989 🔥 my first concert …was an opening it was 🔥🔥🔥
Brad needs to listen to this with earphones on all night long and wake up a change man😁🤘🏼
I binged about 20 of your vids in a row… mostly Metallica… lol, You’re doing something right.
The whole of humanity. Ash.
The whole the earth. Charred.
The life of your lungs. Burnt.
Fire. A whipping dance.
Darkest emotions boiling over.
The dead husk of flamed out life.
Smoldering decay.
Blackened.
Lex seems to be really getting the beauty of metal in a experiential/emotional way.
Just think nuclear annihilation of the human race and mother earth. The nicotine reference was just a metaphor that fit in the rhyme.
This song is such a brilliant journey. Always one of my favorites.
Lex’s rock face n Brad’s stone face is a match made n heaven, love all tht u do n much appreciated n cn’t wait until u jmp into more Live Metallica reactions even the songs uve already covered, so worth it....
I cnt read a wrd ur sying u may hve to get atocrrect or smthin
Lovely Lex Bringing meaning of a tune out!
Lex got it all solved !! She is real Metalhead now ! Welcome to the club amongst us ! 🤘🤘🔥🔥🍷🍷🤗🤗
Much love for listening to blackened. One of the best albums from Metallica
This is the song they opened the show with in 1989 my first ever concert 1st of about 300
Best opener of a Met concert! You`re in a second on 100!
9:35 Exactly how I felt abt Battery 20 years ago when I got into metal 😂😂 at the first time I wasn't sure if Iiked it..but then it became one of my favs...especially to play it on guitar!
Lex has enough reaction and emotion for both :) Awesome.
Y'all HAVE to react to songs from the 1989 Seattle concert!!! It will absolutely blow you away!!!
Lex lit up the 2nd part of guitar solo
Sing is about mankind reaping the Earth of its resources thus ruining the plant (“mother” Earth).
I love your channel. Keep doing what you are doing.
Oh snap been waiting for this one
You Definitely Need to See Metallica LIVE!!! They are One of The Best Live Bands Around!! I have seen them a few times and WOW!!! Amazing!!
This and Four Horsemen are my favorite Metallica songs.
I love the way you move your head and smile feeling the music
Sometimes the context matters. This album came out in 88, which was during the cold war during which US and Russia flirted with nuclear war that could've destroyed the planet. A lot of metal bands, particularly from Europe, made whole albums about that in the 80s
You need to follow this one up with Fight Fire with Fire!
Has Brad ever guessed the meaning of a song correctly? Holy shit.
The intro was simply played in reverse.
It sometimes is called "backmasking" due to all the allegations in the 70s/80s of rock band putting backwards messages in the album recordings.
By far one of the most hardest songs to play in history