*There's no guitar in it...just electric amplified cellos....whole recording infos here :* 🎵💿🔥🎻 *Violoncello: Eicca Toppinen* *Violoncello: Paavo Lötjönen* *Violoncello, Background Vocals, Orchestrator, Voice, Synthesizer: Perttu Kivilaakso* *Drums: Mikko Sirén* *Sound Engineer: Billy Bowers* *Spoken Words: James Hetfield* *Bass: Robert Trujillo* *Orchestra: Budapest Art Orchestra* *Synthesizer: Lasse Piirainen* *Vocal Effects: Jussi Tegelman* *Additional Percussion: Pete Korpela* *Orchestrator: Pessi Levanto* *Conductor: Peter Pejtsik* *Sound Engineer: David Lukacs* *Sound Engineer: Gabor Buczko* *Harp: Päivi Severeide* *Additional Recording: Joonas Parkkonen* *Background Vocals, Voice: Simone Simons* *Producer, Sound Engineer: Joe Barresi* *Composer: James Hetfield* *Composer: Lars Ulrich* *+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++*
The lyrics are based on the 1939 novel Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, which is about World War I. A specific passage that inspired the song is: "How could a man lose as much of himself as I have and still live? When a man buys a lottery ticket you never expect him to win because it's a million to one shot. But if he does win, you'll believe it because one in a million still leaves one. If I'd read about a guy like me in the paper I wouldn't believe it, cos it's a million to one. But a million to ONE always leaves one. I'd never expect it to happen to me because the odds of it happening are a million to one. But a million to one always leaves one. One."
*Actually, METALLICA recorded their first "S&M" double-album live in 1999, so there were 3 years late to the party, while APOCALYPTICA released their debut-album "Plays MetallicA by Four Cellos" in 1996. This version of "One" is taken from their forthcoming album "PLAYS METALLICA VOL . 2".* 🎵🎻🎻🥁🎻🎵💿🔊🔥😈🔥
Eicca Toppinen tells at first they had this idea of James speaking the words so that they can be brought out better.Then Eicca met James in Gothenburg at Metallica weekend and told him we have this kind of an idea of One with spoken words.James said ''Why don't you ask me to do it?'' Eicca was like ''What!?Really!?''
They wrote some original music using amplified distorted cellos the best album to hear the progression is their compilation album "Amplified: a decade of reinventing the cello" from 2006... you can hear the cello slowly go from symphonic to metal as the album proceeds
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*There's no guitar in it...just electric amplified cellos....whole recording infos here :* 🎵💿🔥🎻
*Violoncello: Eicca Toppinen*
*Violoncello: Paavo Lötjönen*
*Violoncello, Background Vocals, Orchestrator, Voice, Synthesizer: Perttu Kivilaakso*
*Drums: Mikko Sirén*
*Sound Engineer: Billy Bowers*
*Spoken Words: James Hetfield*
*Bass: Robert Trujillo*
*Orchestra: Budapest Art Orchestra*
*Synthesizer: Lasse Piirainen*
*Vocal Effects: Jussi Tegelman*
*Additional Percussion: Pete Korpela*
*Orchestrator: Pessi Levanto*
*Conductor: Peter Pejtsik*
*Sound Engineer: David Lukacs*
*Sound Engineer: Gabor Buczko*
*Harp: Päivi Severeide*
*Additional Recording: Joonas Parkkonen*
*Background Vocals, Voice: Simone Simons*
*Producer, Sound Engineer: Joe Barresi*
*Composer: James Hetfield*
*Composer: Lars Ulrich*
*+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++*
Saw this live yesterday when they opened their new tour in Helsinki Jäähalli. Last song of the set, got cold shivers all the way into my bones
Sucks how the evening ended for Eicca though, but awesome gig.
The lyrics are based on the 1939 novel Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, which is about World War I. A specific passage that inspired the song is:
"How could a man lose as much of himself as I have and still live? When a man buys a lottery ticket you never expect him to win because it's a million to one shot. But if he does win, you'll believe it because one in a million still leaves one. If I'd read about a guy like me in the paper I wouldn't believe it, cos it's a million to one. But a million to ONE always leaves one. I'd never expect it to happen to me because the odds of it happening are a million to one. But a million to one always leaves one. One."
*Actually, METALLICA recorded their first "S&M" double-album live in 1999, so there were 3 years late to the party, while APOCALYPTICA released their debut-album "Plays MetallicA by Four Cellos" in 1996. This version of "One" is taken from their forthcoming album "PLAYS METALLICA VOL . 2".* 🎵🎻🎻🥁🎻🎵💿🔊🔥😈🔥
Oh hun. That is Perttu and his genius fingers playing that solo.
Greetings from Helsinki, Finland. Thx for a very good reaction video. 🤟
*Bass played by Rob Trujillo, Spoken Words by James Hetfield, Background Vocals & Voice by Simone Simons,......* 🎵🔥
Eicca Toppinen tells at first they had this idea of James speaking the words so that they can be brought out better.Then Eicca met James in Gothenburg at Metallica weekend and told him we have this kind of an idea of One with spoken words.James said ''Why don't you ask me to do it?'' Eicca was like ''What!?Really!?''
Eicca was really surprised about James's reaction,'cause he knew James doesn't do things like that,he doesn't feature on somebody else's album.
They wrote some original music using amplified distorted cellos the best album to hear the progression is their compilation album "Amplified: a decade of reinventing the cello" from 2006... you can hear the cello slowly go from symphonic to metal as the album proceeds
It was James Hetfield doing the speaking part. Persay instead of singing. Gave the song more depth and perception.
Nice cap, INSOMNIUM