When the crowd chants “Die” during the breakdown…it’s an energy that can not be put into words. I have witnessed it in person at a few Metallica concerts in my life. You get chills. With 1.6 million people doing it, I can’t even imagine. Metallica still tours. I strongly recommend you catch a concert. They still got it.
A long time ago (It was the Master of Puppets tour) I realized that if you could channel the energy of the DIE chant and focus it on one object you could disintegrate it with the chant alone.
Hetfield was the last great Rock Star. I don't think there has been another great Rock Star since him. At this time Hetfield was in pure Metal GOD Mode
Yeah but he can't do what Dave Mustaine can do. Sing, play rhythm, & LEAD GUITAR like Dave can. Dave along with Dimebag Darrell of PanterA are the greatest metal guitarists...EVER!
@@YaHUKaB_ShaRaYAL_YaShaRAL if you call what Dave does “singing” Dave is no where near the guitarist James is. Doesn’t have the riffs James does can’t write nearly as good as James does, and will always be lower on the list. James is the goat.
@@m.f.culler9012 James is a better singer, I admit that but NOOOOO! He is not a better riff master like Dave is brother, sorry. I've played guitar & both of their music Dave's riffs are harder to play & out of this 🌎!
Yeah…Jason Newsted (the bass player…or as you call it “the guy with the graphic on his shirt”) was the greatest metal back-up singer, always loved it when Jason took over the vocals…check out Whiplash live in San Diego 1992 where Jason was on vocals for the second half of the song…also a banger song. Keep up the good work you two!
@@manna6618 - I agree. In my family the general opinion is that the other members were doing a crappy job of handling their feelings of the loss of Cliff, and were like a kid that illogically feels bitterness against a stepparent because they associate the absence of their deceased parent with the presence of the new one. So they picked him apart, spitefully made his bass tracks near silent on an album, and generally treated him like crap. He deserved so much better.
Co2 being released killed the first born since they slept on the lowest level. It can all be explained because a super volcano erupting. Though it was 500 years before the Egyptian Muslims will admit. James Camron did a great documentary about it. Though they lied to the Egyptians on what they were covering and was expelled. Very similar outcomes have happened in modern history that explains the plagues. When co2 was released it changes the water red from iron and killed all life deprived of o2. Fire and ice from the sky by product of a eruption. Etc.
I've seen in some Ronnie James Dio analysis that this wide stance makes it easier to sing and use your air reserves basically from the bottom of your body. Opera singers do it too
James Hetfield is standing so wide with his legs and feet because he's the vocalist. A singer who ground themselves like that gets huge support from the stomach etc. A good example of this is Bruce Dickinson, singer and front man of Iron Maiden.
Not really, he just put the mic stand way too low to look "cooler". All it does is make it harder to sing because he's basically bending down the whole time. That's why he doesn't do it anymore because it fucked his vocal cords up.
This is right after the fall of the Soviet Union and they had never heard or seen anything like this. American music or Western music was forbidden behind the Iron Curtain. So this isn't just a concert. This was a celebration of the fall of the tyranny of the Soviets and the opening up of their culture to ours. This was absolutely epic. These people were starving for freedom and modernity. This was literally blowing the minds of millions of people that were there. Basically this was an earth altering event.
They had some of the western music and culture in the USSR. It wasn't all forbidden. Jazz music was allowed. And also in 70es and 80es thay had a lot of contact with western music and culture but in indirect way trough Yugoslavia and Yugoslavian pop and rock musician who was deep influenced by American, English and other western music and culture. So some of YU rock bands was making tours in the USSR. Of course everyting was strictly controled. And of course in USSR they had black market of western music record in the 80es. Yes that was crumbs but they had someting it wasn't totaly out of the rest of the world. In mid 80es 2 or 3 most famous YU rock bands had a concert at Gorky park in Moscow. Free admition. A lot of people, 50-100 000 at least. In one moment the main security guy decided that security risk is too high because of so many people at the place and they stop the concert by just shut all the power down from the main power switch. :D :D Sent all musicians to backstage. By the story of one of the musicians he got back to the stage just 5 minutes later to get someting he forgot and all park was totaly empty. Nobody of tens of thousand people was there in just 5 minutes. :D
@@visi_inspektor_besevic of.course there were back channels and the underground market for music. I guess I should have clarified that this type of music was not approved of or sanctioned by the government.
Western music wasn't forbidden in the USSR, it may have not been as readily available and you'd often have to get it from outside the country but there was nothing forbidding anyone from having it. I used to trade tapes with a guy in Poland(there was some pretty good Polish hardcore back then) and a guy in Russia back in the early 80's and they'd often send me money to buy albums to send back to them. I actually sent Kill 'em All and Show No mercy to the guy in Russia(RIP Andre) for his birthday not long after they came out.
Straight up rock stars. 121 million albums sold and before covid the largest grossing tours years in a row. The greatest heavy metal band of all time and still going strong after 40 years.
My god-fearing catholic dad did not allow metal in our house bc it led to "Satanism".... he caught me listening to this song, once I explained to him what it was about, he allowed it 😂
@@jessisanchez8150 Metal was not Satanic! Yeah Satanic Metal groups like Venom, Morbid Angel, Helloween, W.A.S.P., & groups like that was but not MetallicA & such. Heck Dave Ellifson was always a Christian in MegADetH & Dave Mustaine even said in an interview a few years back. That he's a reborn Christian.
You two are so calm, and level, like mmmmmmm. Love hearing your perspective on this moment in history. Maybe this is what I'm trying to r Just had to comment.
4:58 - “I just don’t see them doing it like this anymore.” You’re absolutely right Lex, I can’t think of a single band who could draw this many people today to one place. For perspective- that’s the entire population of Phoenix as the crowd, every man, woman and child. 🤘
You've got to remember, it wasn't just Metallica at this concert but your point still stands. Not a single band or music festival could draw over 1.6mill people to one place. I was definitely born in the wrong generation (2001) as I didn't have the chance to experience the rawness of bands back in the 80s/90s.
@@sylvienygaard1630 I have always said that in the reactions, in the live ones, it is when you reacted to the original song of their album, because in the way they play it, in how they sing it and in how the concert unfolds, it is very different from their original audio, adds a great deilite and satifaction in audio and the transactions are perfect, not like in certain cases that you have to find an exact point and time, so that the song, which you are giving to present or play in a concert, is not it gets to spoil, but people are stubborn and very demanding, in the sense that they are asking a lot, that they react to concerts that literally do not get to transmit as much, as in their studio version.
💫 R I 💫 N ✨ is thee greatest metal instrumental ever written! My favorite MetallicA song of all! Yes the studio version is the best. Do not listen to the live ones. I never liked them at all.
Yeah. This isn't 2 turntables and a microphone. These boys wrote the songs and they're playing the instruments. Everything is live. They earned and deserve all the respect.
I love you two. I'm an old fart who grew on metal since 1975 and of course I love Metallica. Now for James stanch people are asking about. I've seem them a ton of times live. And the man has one serious right hand for picking. He picks extremely fast for a rhythm guitar player and sing at the same time. That stance is more likely for his playing n breathing while he sings. And you probably know by now the song is about the The Exodus.
30 years later, they still project the same energy onstage. Harvester Of Sorrow (from this 1991 show) is a slower song but STILL amazing. Check out their performance of Master Of Puppets from Manchester, England (like 2018 or so?). It's absolutely pouring rain and these guys don't miss a beat. And the crowd is nuts. Great vid guys! I'm here for your journey.
Awesome reaction! Absolutely love this song, one of my top 3 Metallica songs easilly!! This performance is epic and just adds to the greatness of the song but hear the studio version to really catch all of it, it´s infectious. Great 15 minutes of entertainment and fun with you guys. Peace.
I love it! Lex is obviously a metal head and Brad less so but still sharing music and not judging just open minded. All reaction channels should aspire to this
React, his original song in its studio album version, the arrangements, arpeggios and riffs change, James's voice sounds great, Kirk's solo is very powerful, and listening to the instruments makes you want to headbaging.
“I don’t think they have concerts like this these days”. Up until 2020, in Europe almost every Weekend over the summer you can find a metal or rock festival with 100k plus crowds for three days straight - Download, Reading/Leeds, Wacken, Rock am Ring, Hellfest are some of the biggest. Glastonbury is 200k plus 5 day festival in the UK and sells out in less than an hour!
You gotta check out their concert in Seattle 1989!! Literally, pick any song. You won't be disappointed. Start to finish is absolutely AMAZING. Try the song 'Blackened' just because it's the start of the concert which gives you a taste of that amazing night..
There is something special about a million ex soviets screaming "DIE" right after the fall of a, essentially, dictatorship that always brings a smile to my face lol and when James hits the flow with the "motherf*cing die" is the cherry on top
Here is some FYI. This concert is historical. 1 it is the largest recorded musical concert in history. Estimated at over 1.8 Million. 2 It caused a lot of international hardships for the USA versus Soviet Union Cold War crap. 3 It was a battle cry, globally, that the world was not so divided as we thought. These were strange days. But this concert is history. Period.
Love your comment, Lex.....I heard DIE!....that was probably the most memorable part of seeing them live.....they had the crowd in the palm of their hands......amazing
A lot of people consider this to be Jason Newsted's song because he's filled in a lot with this song and a lot of fans like his version. He's the bassist that starting singing on the lead mic towards the end.
I really wish y'all could have been around "the first time around" when this stuff came out, it was awesome because no one was doing this. It was awesome. You should check out some King Diamond
The Thing That Should Not Be", Seattle '89. Look up the lyrics. You will not be disappointed. Trust me. It's about horrid creatures from H.P. Lovecraft. Cosmic Horror. This performance is FIRE.
YAAAAAYYYY!!!!!! THANK YOU! haha hope you enjoyed! Jason Newstead the bassist stepped up and belted our that chorus verse. My favorites by Metallica are probably Frayed Ends of Sanity and ...Eye of the Beholder (for the lyrics)
You have to check out their Seattle 1989 performances. Seriously the energy is absolutely wild and it's a lot clearer. I'd still pull up the lyrics beside you to follow but IMO their live performances from Seattle are the best out there.
Lex, you said, "The bigger the audience the less one-on-one connection you have with the audience." I couldn't agree more and always prefer more intimate settings with bands. With that said, amplification does wonders.
I love how Lex gets so excited with the guitar solos lol. Another good "chant" song for crowds is Shout at the Devil by Motley Crew. Nothing like being in a crowd with thousands of people screaming the same thing. For Lex, White Lion has a killer soloist I'd think you'd love but not nearly as hard as this, just fun. Or you should really check out some Extreme. Come Out And Play has some killer guitar.
You had me then you lost me. Chant songs are great for live shows. You want the crowd involved! Why GnR play "Knocking on Heaven's Door" live, or when Korn dropped "Y'all Want a Single?" I was there. It's electric!
Metallica is second-generation metal but considered one of the Big 4 originators of Thrash Metal. Thrash Metal is basically where headbanging started. The Big 4 are Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax.
Brad and Lex, love watching your reactions. Metallica is to heavy metal, as Led Zeplin is to classic rock. They were the first heavy heavy metal group to make the the genre popular. Most Metallica fans became fans mid way through their career, then went back and learned the newer stuff. That was me too. You can do anything from the And Justice for All cd and you will have a banger. Honestly "One" was my least favorite song from that album, and it still was the song that brought me to listening to Metallica. Keep up the vids., and I'll watch.
@@RoverWaters Well yea.. Theres not 1.6 million people right there.. And I've actually found out in between the time i wrote this that this its a bit of a myth. Even Lars didn't know how many people came..
A note that James Hetfield only plays down notes. When most speed players hit the strings on the up and down stroke, Hetfield only hits the string on the down stroke. Imagine the speed...
@@aerahtv0000 Yeah, for example. When he does the intro to songs like "Fight Fire With Fire," "Fade To Black," "One," and a few others. He alternate picks or uses his fingers to pluck the strings (index finger & thumb) without using a pick. He doesn't get enough credit for being a great rhythm guitarist.
I learned to play by watching him, so I only alternate pick on the really really fast tempo’s it’s actually uncomfortable to alternate pick for me because of that
Jason Newsted (Bass Player) was the other backup singer on this song. Jason replaced the original bass player, Cliff Burton, after he died in a bus accident during the European leg of their Master of Puppets tour. Jason first appeared on the In Justice For All album that followed Master of Puppets. Jason originally came from the band Flotsam and Jetsam. James Hetfield was interviewed by Joe Rogan about the Moscow concert. Talks about his experience. th-cam.com/video/CgZxQIzoFdI/w-d-xo.html
Thank you, I was just going to say the same😃because I was going to say about Jason other band, I got to see flotsam and Jetson before he got in Metallica.
Wouldn't call them 2nd wave. I'm not really sure how many waves there are, and Sabbath is definitely 1st wave, but there is a ton of metal between Sabbath & Metallica. Like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, & Mötorhead for example. Speaking of Iron Maiden that is a group you should be checking out for sure.
It depends. Most of the time studio recordings are best but there are some live recordings that are produced really well and capture an essence that is lacking in studio recordings. There are also live performances that transcend studio recordings. Not your avenue but Live Bullet the live Bob Seger album is one of the best and there is a live performance video of Johnette Napalitano's singing of Leonard Cohen's Everybody Knows that is one of the best things out there.
I was a teenager in this era of Metallica when they first came out with kill em all and me and my guitar playing friends absolutely worshipped there music. Im 55 now so that tells you how long ago that was 😂
The other guy singing is Jason Newsted, he was the bass player after Cliff Burton died and left the band a while back. He has his own band called Newsted that have some good songs. You should check out King of the Underdogs by Newsted. Good tune.
I suggest the same. Brad might really dig that one. If you like that lyrically, I recommend my friend's kid's band Villain of the Story, Break the Chains
Being an old metal head watching your reactions to the Metallica is fantastic. I would love to see your reaction to “dyers eve” from the And Justice for All. Keep up the great work.
If you think of it. like baseball. Having a power stance makes it hard for you to fall over. I'm sure one would get dizzy windmilling your hair like that, lol. Speaking of Hair, Lex, your hair is very pretty today :) Lex is right. This is when they were supported by US troops. Kinda the point of the concert... lol That's it, getting back into guitar hero cause, flashback, this song was so fun to play! 💜🥔💜
@@tallycahamuhlhetru26 are you more of the Metallica Jam Band fan or Metallica metal fan? If you like their Jam Band stuff, then I can see where you are coming from.
@@chrisrichardson5641 I'm 100% Metallica Thrash/Heavy Metal. I've never really cared for the song, no matter who it was written by or who was performing it-- Queen or Metallica... It's just "meh" to me. My personal opinion.
Harvester Of Sorrow from this show is also great ! :) just check for a "hq" version, they upgraded audio on some of their older shows th-cam.com/video/RDhfP5M3Zbg/w-d-xo.html
The word you're looking for is high energy......there is nothing like Metallica live......nothing!! Was lucky enough to see them live 6 times in my late teens early 20s......will never forget it
Brad: What do you think?
Lex: I have to turn it up.
Lex, that is the proper response. Good job!
Yes. Yes it is
Yup. If you can hear it. It's not loud enough.
Lol she’s a natural
Lex gets it !
She COMPLETLY gets it. she is so happy!!!
When the crowd chants “Die” during the breakdown…it’s an energy that can not be put into words. I have witnessed it in person at a few Metallica concerts in my life. You get chills. With 1.6 million people doing it, I can’t even imagine. Metallica still tours. I strongly recommend you catch a concert. They still got it.
This is my 7th reaction video to this song within the hour and the chant gives me chills EVERYTIME
@@JuanLuna-gj7gx lol, been reacting to this song since 94 and still get chills during the DIE chants
A long time ago (It was the Master of Puppets tour) I realized that if you could channel the energy of the DIE chant and focus it on one object you could disintegrate it with the chant alone.
How does the amount of peoplr keep growing? It was 500,000 people give or take a few thousand but every 5 to 10 years it doubles according to legend
@@TanisHalf-Elven ooh we got a Hero of the Lance in the comment section!
James Hetfield is a real rock star. Living legend.
There will never be an equal to him
Hetfield was the last great Rock Star. I don't think there has been another great Rock Star since him. At this time Hetfield was in pure Metal GOD Mode
Yeah but he can't do what Dave Mustaine can do.
Sing, play rhythm, & LEAD GUITAR like Dave can.
Dave along with Dimebag Darrell of PanterA are the greatest metal guitarists...EVER!
@@YaHUKaB_ShaRaYAL_YaShaRAL if you call what Dave does “singing” Dave is no where near the guitarist James is. Doesn’t have the riffs James does can’t write nearly as good as James does, and will always be lower on the list. James is the goat.
@@m.f.culler9012
James is a better singer, I admit that but NOOOOO!
He is not a better riff master like Dave is brother, sorry.
I've played guitar & both of their music
Dave's riffs are harder to play & out of this 🌎!
Yeah…Jason Newsted (the bass player…or as you call it “the guy with the graphic on his shirt”) was the greatest metal back-up singer, always loved it when Jason took over the vocals…check out Whiplash live in San Diego 1992 where Jason was on vocals for the second half of the song…also a banger song. Keep up the good work you two!
Or when he would sing seek and destroy
@@m.f.culler9012 oh hell yeah!! So much fkkn attitude…great call 😊👍🏼
The 1989 version from Seattle was great too. He did the third verse himself there.
They never understood just what they had in Jason, the guy was crazy talented.
@@manna6618 - I agree. In my family the general opinion is that the other members were doing a crappy job of handling their feelings of the loss of Cliff, and were like a kid that illogically feels bitterness against a stepparent because they associate the absence of their deceased parent with the presence of the new one.
So they picked him apart, spitefully made his bass tracks near silent on an album, and generally treated him like crap.
He deserved so much better.
Creeping death is the Old Testament story of Moses leaving Egypt and putting the curse of first born males
You are correct sir
P.S this live version way better than album version...
Lex
Fairytales
Co2 being released killed the first born since they slept on the lowest level. It can all be explained because a super volcano erupting. Though it was 500 years before the Egyptian Muslims will admit. James Camron did a great documentary about it. Though they lied to the Egyptians on what they were covering and was expelled. Very similar outcomes have happened in modern history that explains the plagues.
When co2 was released it changes the water red from iron and killed all life deprived of o2. Fire and ice from the sky by product of a eruption. Etc.
#Passover
James Hetfield utilizes that “ rock” stance to keep himself stabilized while he sings snd plays guitar. Its no easy feat
I've seen in some Ronnie James Dio analysis that this wide stance makes it easier to sing and use your air reserves basically from the bottom of your body. Opera singers do it too
And because he was always drunk🤤 & didn't want to fall over. 😂
Plus he's a human lion and it looks cool.
Maybe it also helps keep his guitar and picking arm from bumping into the mic stand, since he's both playing and singing.
It's a difficult position to find, while singing and playing guitar!
Lex digging deep into the History of Metal now. Brad, your going a Metal concert in the fall. Get ready man.
Lex has a smile on her face through the whole video, metallica in their prime will do that to you.. check out harvester of sorrow from this same show
Best song from Moscow. Try Moscow peace festival, OZZY, scorpions, skid row, Motley Crue
would love them to do harvester.. its even more heavier in this concert than the studio one
Harvester studio! Non remasters Always!
James Hetfield is standing so wide with his legs and feet because he's the vocalist. A singer who ground themselves like that gets huge support from the stomach etc. A good example of this is Bruce Dickinson, singer and front man of Iron Maiden.
He standing there looking like Thor the God n ishhh 😈
Didn’t Lemmy do that too?
@@m.f.culler9012 Most likely, yeah!
Not really, he just put the mic stand way too low to look "cooler". All it does is make it harder to sing because he's basically bending down the whole time. That's why he doesn't do it anymore because it fucked his vocal cords up.
I didn't know stomachs help you sing
Jason is the best backing vocals metallicas has ever had
8:24 I mean the dude yelled "MOTHERF***ER DIE" in perfect triplets, so I am inclined to agree.
Eh Yeah...not too creative on the bass tho 🤣🤣
Because he’s the only one that ever did it
@@DarkDruid7 One of the best "hype men" in Metal to have onstage with you.
@@PHILLY214 clearly you have never played his music on bass. Homedude is severely under rated as a musician just because he wasn't Cliff Burton.
This is right after the fall of the Soviet Union and they had never heard or seen anything like this. American music or Western music was forbidden behind the Iron Curtain. So this isn't just a concert. This was a celebration of the fall of the tyranny of the Soviets and the opening up of their culture to ours. This was absolutely epic. These people were starving for freedom and modernity. This was literally blowing the minds of millions of people that were there.
Basically this was an earth altering event.
before the fall of the soviet union. . not after
They had some of the western music and culture in the USSR. It wasn't all forbidden. Jazz music was allowed. And also in 70es and 80es thay had a lot of contact with western music and culture but in indirect way trough Yugoslavia and Yugoslavian pop and rock musician who was deep influenced by American, English and other western music and culture. So some of YU rock bands was making tours in the USSR. Of course everyting was strictly controled. And of course in USSR they had black market of western music record in the 80es.
Yes that was crumbs but they had someting it wasn't totaly out of the rest of the world.
In mid 80es 2 or 3 most famous YU rock bands had a concert at Gorky park in Moscow. Free admition. A lot of people, 50-100 000 at least. In one moment the main security guy decided that security risk is too high because of so many people at the place and they stop the concert by just shut all the power down from the main power switch. :D :D Sent all musicians to backstage. By the story of one of the musicians he got back to the stage just 5 minutes later to get someting he forgot and all park was totaly empty. Nobody of tens of thousand people was there in just 5 minutes. :D
@@visi_inspektor_besevic of.course there were back channels and the underground market for music. I guess I should have clarified that this type of music was not approved of or sanctioned by the government.
@@Blizzard0fHope didn't it fall under Yeltsin in 91?
Western music wasn't forbidden in the USSR, it may have not been as readily available and you'd often have to get it from outside the country but there was nothing forbidding anyone from having it. I used to trade tapes with a guy in Poland(there was some pretty good Polish hardcore back then) and a guy in Russia back in the early 80's and they'd often send me money to buy albums to send back to them. I actually sent Kill 'em All and Show No mercy to the guy in Russia(RIP Andre) for his birthday not long after they came out.
Straight up rock stars. 121 million albums sold and before covid the largest grossing tours years in a row. The greatest heavy metal band of all time and still going strong after 40 years.
The song is about the Passover or tenth plague. That killed all the first born unless your door was painted with lambs blood.
My god-fearing catholic dad did not allow metal in our house bc it led to "Satanism".... he caught me listening to this song, once I explained to him what it was about, he allowed it 😂
@@jessisanchez8150 but you explained it wrong in your post...
@@jessisanchez8150
Metal was not Satanic!
Yeah Satanic Metal groups like Venom, Morbid Angel, Helloween, W.A.S.P., & groups like that was but not MetallicA & such.
Heck Dave Ellifson was always a Christian in MegADetH & Dave Mustaine even said in an interview a few years back. That he's a reborn Christian.
seeing the smile on Lex's face when the song started really warms the heart!!!
Heart warming is well said
Classic Metallica, classic song, Lex is smiling throughout, so happy..."turn it up" Love It!!
Discovering all this Metallica stuff is essential for self actualization. Respect.
Metallica - Battery live in Seattle 1989. Best concert ever recorded
yup
better than their show at Concord Pavilion
I like justice from the Seattle show. Definitely my favorite live show from them though
Binge shit & purge in Seattle, 1989. TOTALLY AGREE.
Yeah it was!!!
You two are so calm, and level, like mmmmmmm. Love hearing your perspective on this moment in history.
Maybe this is what I'm trying to r
Just had to comment.
4:58 - “I just don’t see them doing it like this anymore.” You’re absolutely right Lex, I can’t think of a single band who could draw this many people today to one place. For perspective- that’s the entire population of Phoenix as the crowd, every man, woman and child. 🤘
You've got to remember, it wasn't just Metallica at this concert but your point still stands. Not a single band or music festival could draw over 1.6mill people to one place.
I was definitely born in the wrong generation (2001) as I didn't have the chance to experience the rawness of bands back in the 80s/90s.
You guys are going to really enjoy 'Orion' and 'The Call of Ktulu' by Metallica🤘🤘
I would recommend the studio version of Orion before the live one
@@sylvienygaard1630 I have always said that in the reactions, in the live ones, it is when you reacted to the original song of their album, because in the way they play it, in how they sing it and in how the concert unfolds, it is very different from their original audio, adds a great deilite and satifaction in audio and the transactions are perfect, not like in certain cases that you have to find an exact point and time, so that the song, which you are giving to present or play in a concert, is not it gets to spoil, but people are stubborn and very demanding, in the sense that they are asking a lot, that they react to concerts that literally do not get to transmit as much, as in their studio version.
💫 R I 💫 N ✨ is thee greatest metal instrumental ever written!
My favorite MetallicA song of all!
Yes the studio version is the best.
Do not listen to the live ones.
I never liked them at all.
Absolute favs of mine too, I go back to them regularly!
Yeah. This isn't 2 turntables and a microphone. These boys wrote the songs and they're playing the instruments. Everything is live. They earned and deserve all the respect.
C'mon man, don't diss Beck like that
To heck with beck 😮 No, jk. He paid me to say that. We're drumming up fake beef for the internets
@@GnashBistro So, y'all gettin crazy with the cheese whiz then you're saying?
@@FagenTheArtfulDodger Oh absolutely. Fake cheese and fake beef go together like insecurity and innuendo.
How friggn cute is Lexi!! That smile is awesome
She’s the whole package, Brad is lucky.
So nice to hear James so fierce. His vocal was so good. It's been a long time since I listened to him sounding this great
The Iconic Hetfield Power Stance. He's been doing it his entire career. He's a badass.
P.S. Metallica is FIRST generation American Thrash/Heavy Metal.
This song is about Moses freeing the slaves from the Egyptian pharaoh, its a story from the bible... no joke
The BUYBULL is a joke
@@stonedfarmer9600 Edgy stuff, bro. Thanks for your contribution.
@@stonedfarmer9600 Jesus still loves you 🙏🏽
@@noirjakey do you have any evidence for any god or sky wizards
Do you wanna tell them or should I about how Google has song lyrics?
Creeping Death is the Bible story of the Passover.
Awesome reaction guys! The song is in reference to the Angel of Death that plagued the Egyptians in the biblical story of Moses. (Ten Commandments).
I love you two. I'm an old fart who grew on metal since 1975 and of course I love Metallica. Now for James stanch people are asking about. I've seem them a ton of times live. And the man has one serious right hand for picking. He picks extremely fast for a rhythm guitar player and sing at the same time. That stance is more likely for his playing n breathing while he sings. And you probably know by now the song is about the The Exodus.
Lex.. so sweet and innocent
"The electric guitar guy"... lol
Can't wait for you guys to go to a concert! Lex you will be jumping around and headbanging just like the band. You're a true metal fan! Rock on!
You can tell Lex was loving every second of this
30 years later, they still project the same energy onstage. Harvester Of Sorrow (from this 1991 show) is a slower song but STILL amazing.
Check out their performance of Master Of Puppets from Manchester, England (like 2018 or so?). It's absolutely pouring rain and these guys don't miss a beat. And the crowd is nuts.
Great vid guys! I'm here for your journey.
I saw them in concert for the 2nd time a few months after this show. I couldn’t hear very well for 2 days. A Metallica concert is a life experience.
Awesome reaction! Absolutely love this song, one of my top 3 Metallica songs easilly!! This performance is epic and just adds to the greatness of the song but hear the studio version to really catch all of it, it´s infectious. Great 15 minutes of entertainment and fun with you guys. Peace.
I love it! Lex is obviously a metal head and Brad less so but still sharing music and not judging just open minded. All reaction channels should aspire to this
I just love that smile on your face. You are a treasure
You gotta watch Seattle 89 show from the Justice tour. *Blackened* is a good start, it was their opener.
Lex! Your reaction to this is great. You got the Rock in you!
React, his original song in its studio album version, the arrangements, arpeggios and riffs change, James's voice sounds great, Kirk's solo is very powerful, and listening to the instruments makes you want to headbaging.
I had the 12 inch cut of this album LP style 👍. Crazy fast.
“I don’t think they have concerts like this these days”. Up until 2020, in Europe almost every Weekend over the summer you can find a metal or rock festival with 100k plus crowds for three days straight - Download, Reading/Leeds, Wacken, Rock am Ring, Hellfest are some of the biggest. Glastonbury is 200k plus 5 day festival in the UK and sells out in less than an hour!
I went to the first ever hellfest, and the following 3 or 4 when they were still in NY. It's crazy how big it has grown!
Was just about to say this
Yeah, true... but we still haven't had anything like this in the past 30 years.
Agree it’s not on this scale and this was a one off where a country released its frustration en mass, Rock in Rio probably comes closest.
30+ yrs later and I still remember all the lyrics... To all songs on 1st 3 albums.
Crazy how much your mind retains 🤘
You gotta check out their concert in Seattle 1989!! Literally, pick any song. You won't be disappointed. Start to finish is absolutely AMAZING. Try the song 'Blackened' just because it's the start of the concert which gives you a taste of that amazing night..
They churned out some amazing videos/songs from that concert.
As someone who loves all music for its artistic value, it’s so nice to see the love of music in you both…especially Lex lol
There is something special about a million ex soviets screaming "DIE" right after the fall of a, essentially, dictatorship that always brings a smile to my face lol and when James hits the flow with the "motherf*cing die" is the cherry on top
thats Jason not James
Hey guys, Love your reaction. Best concert I ever went to. Thanks for the wonderful Memories. Peace, Faith Love.
Here is some FYI.
This concert is historical.
1 it is the largest recorded musical concert in history. Estimated at over 1.8 Million.
2 It caused a lot of international hardships for the USA versus Soviet Union Cold War crap.
3 It was a battle cry, globally, that the world was not so divided as we thought.
These were strange days. But this concert is history. Period.
You guys are trying to explain the the head banging, the energy the raw emotion... the word your looking for is RAWR!!!!!
Man, the emotion instilled by having over a million people chanting, "die," is, it seems, very contextual.
Love your comment, Lex.....I heard DIE!....that was probably the most memorable part of seeing them live.....they had the crowd in the palm of their hands......amazing
Lex you freaking rock girl!!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻 Brad get ready to go to a metal concert with your lovely better half
Harvester of sorrow from this show is a must! You did 2 of the 3 best ones from this show.
A lot of people consider this to be Jason Newsted's song because he's filled in a lot with this song and a lot of fans like his version. He's the bassist that starting singing on the lead mic towards the end.
I love how you dissect metal music like scientific theory. It's fun watching you guys.
I really wish y'all could have been around "the first time around" when this stuff came out, it was awesome because no one was doing this. It was awesome. You should check out some King Diamond
Old School Brazilian MetallicA fan here ... Nice videos.. hell yeah 🤟
The Thing That Should Not Be", Seattle '89. Look up the lyrics. You will not be disappointed. Trust me. It's about horrid creatures from H.P. Lovecraft. Cosmic Horror. This performance is FIRE.
THIS DEFINITELY. Any song from this concert is basically all you need to see for live metallica.
YAAAAAYYYY!!!!!! THANK YOU! haha hope you enjoyed! Jason Newstead the bassist stepped up and belted our that chorus verse.
My favorites by Metallica are probably Frayed Ends of Sanity and ...Eye of the Beholder (for the lyrics)
You have to check out their Seattle 1989 performances. Seriously the energy is absolutely wild and it's a lot clearer. I'd still pull up the lyrics beside you to follow but IMO their live performances from Seattle are the best out there.
But the back beat and bass interaction with the drums when Lars is almost bill ward like is more efficient here than the Seattle where its more rushed
This is my favorite song and one of the first ones I ever listened to by Metallica
There's another recording of this from 99 Woodstock that sounds amazing as well. Jason's backing vocals sound like God's fury manifest.
Had to comment on this one you know as it's where i got my name from loving the Metallica reactions guys much love
James Hetfield...BADASS singer, guitarist, and overall performer 🤘🖤
Lex is an absolute metal head!! I LOVE IT!!
My old band used to call that stance, “the power stance”
Awesome you did it!!!! i asked and i received! yall are the best!
Lex, you said, "The bigger the audience the less one-on-one connection you have with the audience." I couldn't agree more and always prefer more intimate settings with bands. With that said, amplification does wonders.
Lexs metallica journey has been the best thing on this channel so far!!
I love how Lex gets so excited with the guitar solos lol. Another good "chant" song for crowds is Shout at the Devil by Motley Crew. Nothing like being in a crowd with thousands of people screaming the same thing. For Lex, White Lion has a killer soloist I'd think you'd love but not nearly as hard as this, just fun. Or you should really check out some Extreme. Come Out And Play has some killer guitar.
You had me then you lost me.
Chant songs are great for live shows. You want the crowd involved!
Why GnR play "Knocking on Heaven's Door" live, or when Korn dropped "Y'all Want a Single?"
I was there. It's electric!
HAHA Lex with your CHEESE smile brings me back to the first time I heard Metallica as a child. Greatness at its finest
Metallica is second-generation metal but considered one of the Big 4 originators of Thrash Metal. Thrash Metal is basically where headbanging started. The Big 4 are Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax.
Love this very true comment!!
The thing I love about rock is the energy. It gets you in the feels every time. She’s feeling it too big smiles everything from her. Love it.
Brad and Lex, love watching your reactions. Metallica is to heavy metal, as Led Zeplin is to classic rock. They were the first heavy heavy metal group to make the the genre popular. Most Metallica fans became fans mid way through their career, then went back and learned the newer stuff. That was me too. You can do anything from the And Justice for All cd and you will have a banger. Honestly "One" was my least favorite song from that album, and it still was the song that brought me to listening to Metallica. Keep up the vids., and I'll watch.
YES. finally, what we've been waiting for!
Try "The Four Horsemen" by Metallica, I believe you will love it.
But do the studio version with lyrics first ;)
It would be cool to follow up with 'Mechanix.'
Yes!!! Good suggestion!
Love the reactions I don't think I ever seen you react to the doors I would love to see it
The closest thing to a live show with superb audio from metallica is their seattle '89 concert. It sounds fantastic
ya'll reactions are hilarious! dig the reviews
Check out the lyrics. Love this performance so much energy!!!
I'm really glad that you spotted that cause know one does in the other reaction videos
Fun fact... There was 1.6 *million* people enjoying this concert in Moscow..
1.6 mil over 3 days not at this show
@@RoverWaters Well yea.. Theres not 1.6 million people right there..
And I've actually found out in between the time i wrote this that this its a bit of a myth. Even Lars didn't know how many people came..
Danny yea know one really knows but I would say definitely over a million there
Love yalls reactions :)
A note that James Hetfield only plays down notes.
When most speed players hit the strings on the up and down stroke, Hetfield only hits the string on the down stroke. Imagine the speed...
maybe on riffs yeah, vut on melodic parts i doubt he plays only downstroke
Unfortunately due to age and probably no longer needing to prove himself, he uses alternate picking a lot more these days.
@@aerahtv0000 Yeah, for example. When he does the intro to songs like "Fight Fire With Fire," "Fade To Black," "One," and a few others. He alternate picks or uses his fingers to pluck the strings (index finger & thumb) without using a pick. He doesn't get enough credit for being a great rhythm guitarist.
I learned to play by watching him, so I only alternate pick on the really really fast tempo’s it’s actually uncomfortable to alternate pick for me because of that
Not only, on this song yes, but on really fast songs like Damage Inc, One and Four Hornsemen, he's alternate picking.
Jason Newsted (Bass Player) was the other backup singer on this song. Jason replaced the original bass player, Cliff Burton, after he died in a bus accident during the European leg of their Master of Puppets tour. Jason first appeared on the In Justice For All album that followed Master of Puppets. Jason originally came from the band Flotsam and Jetsam.
James Hetfield was interviewed by Joe Rogan about the Moscow concert. Talks about his experience.
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Thank you, I was just going to say the same😃because I was going to say about Jason other band, I got to see flotsam and Jetson before he got in Metallica.
Wouldn't call them 2nd wave.
I'm not really sure how many waves there are, and Sabbath is definitely 1st wave, but there is a ton of metal between Sabbath & Metallica.
Like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, & Mötorhead for example.
Speaking of Iron Maiden that is a group you should be checking out for sure.
Metallica live in Seattle in '89, that's a concert with mad energy too!
It depends. Most of the time studio recordings are best but there are some live recordings that are produced really well and capture an essence that is lacking in studio recordings. There are also live performances that transcend studio recordings. Not your avenue but Live Bullet the live Bob Seger album is one of the best and there is a live performance video of Johnette Napalitano's singing of Leonard Cohen's Everybody Knows that is one of the best things out there.
I was a teenager in this era of Metallica when they first came out with kill em all and me and my guitar playing friends absolutely worshipped there music. Im 55 now so that tells you how long ago that was 😂
The kids at this show had never seen anything like this
Parkway Drive - The Void (live from Wacken). It’s an awesome video showing the fun of a metal concert.
Please listen to Metallica "Eye of the beholder" I guarantee you will like the lyrics!
The other guy singing is Jason Newsted, he was the bass player after Cliff Burton died and left the band a while back. He has his own band called Newsted that have some good songs. You should check out King of the Underdogs by Newsted. Good tune.
I suggest the same. Brad might really dig that one. If you like that lyrically, I recommend my friend's kid's band Villain of the Story, Break the Chains
Underrated song IMO
Being an old metal head watching your reactions to the Metallica is fantastic. I would love to see your reaction to “dyers eve” from the And Justice for All. Keep up the great work.
If you think of it. like baseball. Having a power stance makes it hard for you to fall over. I'm sure one would get dizzy windmilling your hair like that, lol.
Speaking of Hair, Lex, your hair is very pretty today :)
Lex is right. This is when they were supported by US troops. Kinda the point of the concert... lol
That's it, getting back into guitar hero cause, flashback, this song was so fun to play! 💜🥔💜
It was as close as will ever come to world peace. Sad but true.
Still want a “Stone Cold Crazy” reaction! It’s like Freddie Mercury wrote that song for Metallica in 1974!
It's not that good.
@@tallycahamuhlhetru26 are you more of the Metallica Jam Band fan or Metallica metal fan? If you like their Jam Band stuff, then I can see where you are coming from.
@@chrisrichardson5641 I'm 100% Metallica Thrash/Heavy Metal.
I've never really cared for the song, no matter who it was written by or who was performing it--
Queen or Metallica... It's just "meh" to me. My personal opinion.
Omg Brad said: ‘you gotta prepare for this- you’ll pull a muscle or something’ - 💀
I love you guys so much!!!
I blame Metallica for every slipped disc I now have in my neck... and yet if I had to go back, I'd do it all over again! \m/
I blame my partial hearing loss 😂
Lex is spot on as usual. INSIGHTFUL
Harvester Of Sorrow from this show is also great ! :) just check for a "hq" version, they upgraded audio on some of their older shows
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Blue Oyster cult?
The word you're looking for is high energy......there is nothing like Metallica live......nothing!!
Was lucky enough to see them live 6 times in my late teens early 20s......will never forget it