And there are some couples like: -Enter Sandman & King Nothing -One & The Day that Never Comes -Holier Than Thou & Hardwired -Hit the Lights & Luz Æterna
Yes, just reorder them: Creeping Death is Exodus so should be at the start, then Judas Kiss is from Gospels and Four Horsemen are from Apocalypse, the last book.
@@ZakMuzic you're right!! I totally forgot Rebel of Babylon from Beyond Magnetic. I knew I was missing something. Then, it could be: Creeping Death, Rebel of Babylon, Judas Kiss & The Four Horsemen.
@@abrahamobregon7834 King nothing is basically enter sandman 2.0, they did the thing where when a band has a popular song they just re-write it but slightly different, James even acknowledges this because at the end of King Nothing you can hear him say "Off to never never land" its literally in the lyrics on spotify.
It's only 2 songs, but "Dyers' Eve" and "The God that Failed" are definitely connected in the way that they are about James' parents/mother Edit: Thanks to a kind commenter, we have the full trilogy! Dyer's Eve The God that Failed Mama Said
I always thought that “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, “Disposable Heroes”, and “One” told the story of the same soldier. That’s a good sequence to play on your stereo.
Technically, "For Whom The Bell Tolls" is based on the book by the same name, which takes place during the Spanish civil war. "One" is based on Johnny Got His Gun, which is a movie in turn based on a book, partially inspired by real events of WWI. I don't know the back story to Disposable Heroes. But I can definitely see the connection made.
@@DenSvartaStjarnan That is correct. The connection is accidental, at best, and Hetfield has been very clear with his lyrical inspirations by and large.
I also think that Fight Fire With Fire, Battery, and Blackened are a trilogy. They are all the thrash album openers with a harmonized intro. From Fight Fire to Blackened, the intro gets heavier and more distortion and less "trolling" as lesser clean parts are present.
I like it, by this logic you can group many bands openers, for Slayer it goes Angel of Death, South of Heaven and War Ensemble, for Maiden you can make at least two trilogies: Where Eagles Dare, Aces High, Tailgunner (all about pilots BTW), later I always found Wildest Dreams very similar to Wicker Man (and followed by Different World)... They just made very similar albums on Bruce return. Irons also often make direct sequels to their old songs, and have thematic trilogies (three songs about planes, three songs about fencing, three full length instrumentals etc.) Helloween got similar opener situation with Push, Kill It and... dunno which to single out for third one. They also got great epic album closers instead. Time of the Oath, Midnight Sun, the Dark Ride absolutely feel like a trilogy... Black Sabbath didn't have many fast songs and didn't use them as openers, but I usually associate Paranoid, Children of the Grave, and Symptom of the Universe with each other (all also deal with mental health, tho CotG is thematically close to FFWF). Metal bands really try to make opening songs fast and catchy, Judas Priest definitely can fit a bunch of "speed metal track with harmonies" on their own, someone should add to this.
By this logic u can group every track on ride master and justice as they are all paced near identically just different order of instrumentals. For me it’s ab the lyrics to connect them😂
The Trilogy of Bleeding Me, Outlaw Torn and Fixxxer is an outstanding trio of Titanic tracks that stand tall like Towers of Stregnth and Power in the Load Era. I love listening to those three songs back to back to back. Together, they tell a fantastic story over three parts on both albums, from the same timeline.
@@wtxcrazydonut 👊 Agreed. I will happily have The house that Jack Built, Until it Sleeps and many others in there. Dark, brooding slabs of Sabbath fuzed heavy rock that have matured like fine wine. All anyone has to do is listen to Black Sabbath "I", and hear the influence it had on Metallicas 90s output. That, and a good dose of hard rock swagger here an' there make Load's best songs really stand out.
Lyrically; Sad But True, Until It Sleeps, and The Unnamed Feeling seem like a trilogy to me - all three are about what the darker side of emotions can do to you. It also helps that Until It Sleeps and The Unnamed Feeling are sonically similar.
I always see this 3 songs a trilogy - Enter Sandman - King Nothing - Slither Enter Sandman and King Nothing are connected. That is easily noticeable. But for Slither, the main riff is very much like Enter Sandman's. Idk I always see these as a Trilogy
Inamorata is just an Ode to all of Metallica’s history. The break in the middle with the bass that then leads into a great dual guitar melody is a nod to Orion. There’s other stuff like that throughout the song that they reference
@@thedancingguy828 We can always try to pressure them... Personally I want to hear Ronnie because jeez, who wants to hear Ronnie, you know? Jack is an interesting one, though, and I certainly agree with what you said about giving it to Jerry Cantrell. That's whole thing is almost textbook Alice In Chains. And... you know, The House Jack Built really sounds like the song is... you know... high.
King Nothing is very similar to Enter Sandman. It even has the "off to never never land" lyric at the end. But i struggle to find another song to complete a trilogy.
The lyrics of Fight fire with fire and Blackened are technically connected. The first is about a nuclear war the second - about nuclear winter after the war.
Also I have a feeling that Damage Inc, Dyers Eve and My apocalypse are also might be connected with the fact that they come right after instrumentals. Damage inc after Orion, Dyers eve after To live is to die, My apocalypse after SnR.
@@doopo_ you’re not wrong but that wasn’t the point I was making. He mentioned all 3 songs in the video and all 3 of those songs have a Kirk writing credit. The point of the video was trilogies and not listing all of Kirk’s writing credits.
All Nightmare Long is also a song about the Cthulhu Mythos. It's about the Hounds of Tindalos. The Thing That Should Not Be is also not specifically about Cthulhu, its about the Shadow Over Innsmouth
If anyone here knows about Metallicas un released song "death is not the end" they did break that song into 3 parts they did release. 1. End of the line 2. All nightmare long 3. Lux Aeturna
The war veteran trilogy: "The Day That Never Comes", "Broken, Beat & Scarred" and "Confusion". The Inhuman trilogy: "ManUNkind", "Minus Human" and "Am I Savage?" The 'Trapped Under Ice riff' trilogy: "Trapped Under Ice", "Escape" and "Hardwired".
Great to see you are safe and sound and posting cool vids again. Last time I watched one of your videos you were in the mix of the war.. awesome to see you backened 😊
I've recently got something in my mind: * Battery * Blackened * That Was Just Your Life First of all, they are opening tracks from my 3 favourite Metallica albums ("Master of Puppets", "...And Justice for All" & "Death Magnetic"). Second of all, they have ICONIC intros.
King Nothing is a spiritual successor to Enter Sandman. They are musically similar, they both have a talking nursery rhyme part in the middle, and James even says “off to never never land” as the last note fades out at the end of King Nothing
The Metallica War Trilogy would be For Whom The Bell Tolls (Ride The Lightning Album), Disposable Heroes (Master Of Puppets Album) and One (And Justice For All Album).
5 Random 'tallica Trilogies: 3 Misfits covers (Die Die, Last Caress, Green Hell) 3 Garage covers releases (Garage Days, Garage Days Re-Revisited, Garage, Inc.) 3 country songs (Mama Said, Tuesday's Gone, Low Man's Lyric) 3 "lost" songs not on non-live albums (-Minus Human, No Leaf Clover, I Disappear) 3 Song that are fast and short and based on living life like a speed demon (Motorbreath, Fuel, Lux AEterna)
Don't know if I'm pushing it a bit too far... But 72 Seasons is made of four trilogies... Hear me out (and don't call me crazy, although I probably am). Yes, Hetfield already pointed out the whole thing is driven by the images of darkness/light, but there could be also a narrative about different stages of life. Plus... did you see how both in the vinyl and the CD the track list is grouped in sets of three songs? Let's dive in. 72 Seasons is mostly about being surrounded and raised in darkness, Shadows Follow is about trying to escape said darkness and not being able to... and then, in a way, Screaming S****** is the final chapter (a bit literally). I mean, narratively, this makes sense and constitutes a dramatic arch of the sorts (in case you're not familiar with the term, look it up). Sleepwalk My Life Away starts a new trilogy about meaninglessness, so then You Must Burn! could be about the process of how we react to the dullness of life, even if that means falling into (self)destructive patterns, only to realise that if we burn bright and hot enough we become eternal light (Lux Aeterna) Crown of Barbed Wire opens what I'd like to call the "further into darkness" trilogy, which starts portraying the burden of power/ego/fame, and how it's a gloomy place to be in. Then "Chasing Light" is about trying to understand where this load comes from but succumbing to it and, in that order of ideas, If Darkness Had A Son could make for an open ending about either trying to fight obscurity or end up accepting it. The last but most connected trilogy is definitely about self-examination. Too Far Gone? Room of Mirrors and Inamorata are about the hopelessness that can surface while fighting the darker side of life, but they are also about recognising the role an individual can play in their own misery and seeing some light at the end of the tunnel thanks to that self-recognition. Am I overanalyzing? Probably... Do I care? Not really. What matters here is that the lyrics behind this album evoke some clear themes and strong images that make for Hetfield's best work to this date (I can and will discuss this in a not so pacific manner with anyone! Just kiddin' Hahaha).
I always listen to Chasing Light from 72 Seasons as an epilogue to The Unforgiven trilogy. It has lyrics about "thoughtless elders" and "so much more than he can take", then the chorus gives us a little hope where he can acknowledge the darkness and chase the light towards forgiveness. That is how I listen to it anyway.
@@willandspencer101It certainly feels that way to me. But to me their “Atlas, Rise!” is the 1st sequel song to MFOM. Or it could be argued as well that that song is a like a reimagined version of MFOM for a new time and generation of people to get into.
I like how ALL 3 trilogies are connected by the first two being on back to back albums and the last being released 20+ years later! 😄🔥 Also another "trilogy" could be the 3 written by Jason and also the 3 instrumentals! 😁🤘
Disposable Heroes is about generational mobiks sent BACK TO THE FRONT. One is about that Buryat-samovar with no limbs, jaw, or eyes getting his Bluetooth speaker. Fade to Black is him finally joining Kobzon (actually James got depressed over stolen amp).
I think (MY opinion) Creeping Death should have been the closer for Ride The Lightning for two main reasons: 1. This would have made Creeping Death, Damage Inc, and Dyers Eve, the three thrashiest closers for their three classic albums (RTL, MOP, AJFA). Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to say My Apocalypse doesn't fit the trilogy, but in my opinion just having three on their classic, consecutive albums makes the most sense. 2. This would also make The Call Of Ktulu, Orion, and To Live Is To Die a trilogy, not just because they would all be instrumentals in the second last position in their respective albums, but also because of the major influence from Cliff on all three of the tracks. Edit: Trapped Under Ice could also work in place of Creeping Death
not only trilogy, but two songs, like hero of the day and slither being connected lyrically. and we have the cliff quadrilogy; Pulling Teeth, The Call, Orion and To Live.
I’d say the Cthulhu trilogy might be expanded to a Lovecraftian tetralogy when you add “All Nightmare Long” which James has said is about a creature of a story in the Cthulhu mythos, “The Hounds of Tindalos” written by Frank Belknap Long.
For the last trilogy, what about Spit Out The Bone? It too is the last track of HTSD and is quite fast. I know its an hommage to Metal Militia but I do think it falls under the same category.
I've heard talk that Blackened is a sequel to FFWF, describing the destruction of the earth that occurred in the earlier song. I've also had an idea floating around that along with the track 4 ballads and balls to the wall finishers, there's a trend of speedy openers with Hit the Lights, FFWF, Battery and Blackened. The only problems are that all of KEA is like that, and Whiplash would be a better fit for this theory and also that Blackened doesn't have quite the same feel. Not to mention the obvious series of instrumentals.
Hey Andriy!!!!!!! So great to see and hear you!!! So I have a trilogy that I haven’t seen anyone say. It is the “war” trilogy: Disposable Heroes, One, and Day that never comes. Thoughts? ✌️
I know there's a connection between Damage Inc. and St. Anger, they share that lyric part "Fuck it all and fucking no regrets/ Never happy ending on these dark sets"
Im trying to ease my hubby and his friend into heavy metal. They like nothing else matters and One. I think I'll introduce them to the unforgiven, my friend of misery...and maybe the Ktulu songs if they like movies like the thing and aliens😂
The Four Horsemen, Fight Fire with Fire and Blackened are all about the end of times described in the Bible. The Four Horsemen obviously being about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, one of Fight Fire With Fire's lyrics being "Armageddons here, like said in the past" and obviously "Blackened is the end." The Unforgiven, The God That Failed and Dyers Eve are all about James' childhood, The Unforgiven talks about how James was like an outcast growing up and The God That Failed is about his mother dying because of his parent's beliefs. Dyers Eve is written from the perspective of James who is now grown up, reflecting and ranting to his parents about how he grew up secluded from the rest of the world (The Unforgiven) because of their beliefs (The God That Failed) and parenting. You could also argue Trapped Under Ice, One and My Friend of Misery are all about being mentally stuck. Trapped Under Ice obviously talks about being trapped and in this case uses ice as a metaphor, One is about being trapped in your flesh and not being able to use it ("I cannot live, I cannot die; Trapped in myself, body my holding cell") and My Friend of Misery is about people being stuck in miserable circumstances ("You just stood there screaming; You still stood there screaming") almost like being "trapped under ice" or being "trapped in yourself."
Fight Fire with Fire only uses Armageddon as a metaphor for massive nuclear war, it's not _really_ about the Bible, but about MAD doctrine, both sides in Cold War making enough nukes to destroy the entire world and "deescalating" by building even more... but Blackened ABSOLUTELY is the sequel to it, after all the nukes fall FFWF, here comes nuclear winter (Blackened). It has the same mood as 99 Luftballons or Klaus Nomi's Total Eclipse. For some reason they kept making songs about total war that annihilates everyone... in the 80s... you know, when USSR was on the verge of collapse and there was no real threat of it anymore.
@@KasumiRINA Fight Fire with Fire is definitely about destruction of the earth via nuclear warfare, but I think it and especially Blackened focus more on how humans are responsible for the destruction of the earth, almost like the fall of man. Particularly Blackened's lyrics "Fire, is the outcome of hypocrisy, Darkest Potency; In the exit of humanity, color our world Blackened" This is especially apparent when you take into consideration the very political atmosphere of the album the song is from.
I know these songs aren't purposely connected but "One" by Metallica and "Hollow" by Pantera always seemed to me like it was the same story told by different characters, the soldier who lost all his senses and his childhood friend.
I never listened to the whole 72 seasons album. Perhaps I didn't give it enough time to grow on me but it sounded like recycled stuff from the Hardwired album. Even the classic three 80s albums with basically the same format had songs good enough that they never sounded like recycled ideas even though Fade, Sanitarium and One intros were based around the same chord and melody structure. P.S. My Apocalypse is underrated. I love the fast heavy thrashers and My Apocalypse is definitely in that category. I think it's great.
I was 15 - heard Some Kind of Monster, probably 30 when i realised We the people, refers to the American constitution. I consider And Justice and Some Kind as a two piece.
Not a song trillgy but an album trilogy. For a long time I've considered Ride, Master, and Justice as a trilogy more than Kill, Ride, and Master. They all have 8-9 songs. They all pretty much end with an instrumental. They all are based around a certain theme, whether it be death, war, or the politics around the two. I also like to look at it as the band's arc of, rising to fame, goat status, and then learning to move on from Cliff.
Maybe not a trilogy, but I say that if you throw "Outlaw Torn," "Bleeding Me," "My Friend of Misery," and "Are you gonna go my way?" into a blender, you end up with "Inamorata."
I think the Biblic Trilogy would be:
-The Four Horsemen
-Creeping Death
-Judas Kiss
And there are some couples like:
-Enter Sandman & King Nothing
-One & The Day that Never Comes
-Holier Than Thou & Hardwired
-Hit the Lights & Luz Æterna
Yes, just reorder them: Creeping Death is Exodus so should be at the start, then Judas Kiss is from Gospels and Four Horsemen are from Apocalypse, the last book.
True, but it also could be the four horsemen, creeping death, and the towers of Babylon
@@ZakMuzic you're right!!
I totally forgot Rebel of Babylon from Beyond Magnetic. I knew I was missing something.
Then, it could be: Creeping Death, Rebel of Babylon, Judas Kiss & The Four Horsemen.
@@abrahamobregon7834 King nothing is basically enter sandman 2.0, they did the thing where when a band has a popular song they just re-write it but slightly different, James even acknowledges this because at the end of King Nothing you can hear him say "Off to never never land" its literally in the lyrics on spotify.
It's only 2 songs, but "Dyers' Eve" and "The God that Failed" are definitely connected in the way that they are about James' parents/mother
Edit: Thanks to a kind commenter, we have the full trilogy!
Dyer's Eve
The God that Failed
Mama Said
Yes
And fixxer?
@@SP-bt9mp maybe
Maybe " If darkness had a son " is part of the trilogy ?
Momma Said is also about his mother
I always thought that “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, “Disposable Heroes”, and “One” told the story of the same soldier. That’s a good sequence to play on your stereo.
Even if it’s not the same soldier, this still makes it a soldier or war trilogy. Thanks!
@@beinmetal Could also put The Day That Never Comes in with them as well
If you throw in “No Remorse”, it covers the soldier’s story from conscription to stepping on a land mine.
Technically, "For Whom The Bell Tolls" is based on the book by the same name, which takes place during the Spanish civil war. "One" is based on Johnny Got His Gun, which is a movie in turn based on a book, partially inspired by real events of WWI. I don't know the back story to Disposable Heroes. But I can definitely see the connection made.
@@DenSvartaStjarnan That is correct. The connection is accidental, at best, and Hetfield has been very clear with his lyrical inspirations by and large.
I also think that Fight Fire With Fire, Battery, and Blackened are a trilogy. They are all the thrash album openers with a harmonized intro. From Fight Fire to Blackened, the intro gets heavier and more distortion and less "trolling" as lesser clean parts are present.
Yeah, I that's fair
I like it, by this logic you can group many bands openers, for Slayer it goes Angel of Death, South of Heaven and War Ensemble, for Maiden you can make at least two trilogies: Where Eagles Dare, Aces High, Tailgunner (all about pilots BTW), later I always found Wildest Dreams very similar to Wicker Man (and followed by Different World)... They just made very similar albums on Bruce return. Irons also often make direct sequels to their old songs, and have thematic trilogies (three songs about planes, three songs about fencing, three full length instrumentals etc.)
Helloween got similar opener situation with Push, Kill It and... dunno which to single out for third one. They also got great epic album closers instead. Time of the Oath, Midnight Sun, the Dark Ride absolutely feel like a trilogy... Black Sabbath didn't have many fast songs and didn't use them as openers, but I usually associate Paranoid, Children of the Grave, and Symptom of the Universe with each other (all also deal with mental health, tho CotG is thematically close to FFWF).
Metal bands really try to make opening songs fast and catchy, Judas Priest definitely can fit a bunch of "speed metal track with harmonies" on their own, someone should add to this.
By this logic u can group every track on ride master and justice as they are all paced near identically just different order of instrumentals. For me it’s ab the lyrics to connect them😂
@@KasumiRINAI’ve always grouped Mandatory Suicide and War Ensemble together
We also have a thrashy opener with build-up intro on Magnetic. So, that’s a quadrilogy, I guess?
The Trilogy of Bleeding Me, Outlaw Torn and Fixxxer is an outstanding trio of Titanic tracks that stand tall like Towers of Stregnth and Power in the Load Era. I love listening to those three songs back to back to back.
Together, they tell a fantastic story over three parts on both albums, from the same timeline.
Those three songs totally justify the load era for me
@@wtxcrazydonut 👊 Agreed. I will happily have The house that Jack Built, Until it Sleeps and many others in there. Dark, brooding slabs of Sabbath fuzed heavy rock that have matured like fine wine.
All anyone has to do is listen to Black Sabbath "I", and hear the influence it had on Metallicas 90s output. That, and a good dose of hard rock swagger here an' there make Load's best songs really stand out.
“High Octane”
1. Motorbreath
2. Battery
3. Fuel
Love it!
Lyrically; Sad But True, Until It Sleeps, and The Unnamed Feeling seem like a trilogy to me - all three are about what the darker side of emotions can do to you. It also helps that Until It Sleeps and The Unnamed Feeling are sonically similar.
Excellent catch, friend.
Always thought these three tracks were about anxiety, so I wasn't so far off.
For the Cthulhu trilogy.. you forgot all about "All Nightmare Long" which was a lovecraft song as well.
1. Enter Sandman
2. All Nightmare Long
3. Sleepwalk My Life Away
But not part of the chtulu mythos
Look into the story that the lyrics were wrote after... Fking mind blowing
Never really got to exploring the theme of m All Nightmare Long. The more you know. Thanks
@@beinmetal I'm pretty sure James Hetfield said himself that it was a thematic sequel of Enter Sandman
Here’s a trilogy. -Human, No Leaf Clover, I disappear
“Homeless Songs”
i double on this, also the jason trilogy - blackened, my friend of misery and where the wild things are
Low mans lyric makes it 4 and thus does not fit the holy trinity
I always see this 3 songs a trilogy
- Enter Sandman
- King Nothing
- Slither
Enter Sandman and King Nothing are connected. That is easily noticeable. But for Slither, the main riff is very much like Enter Sandman's. Idk I always see these as a Trilogy
King Nothing could be Enter Sandman II
Inamorata and My Friend of Misery are definitely connected!
Inamorata is just an Ode to all of Metallica’s history. The break in the middle with the bass that then leads into a great dual guitar melody is a nod to Orion. There’s other stuff like that throughout the song that they reference
4:08 The "...with strange eons death may die" lyric comes directly from Lovecraft
The most grunge Metallica got was The House That Jack Built. If James gave the song to Jerry and no one else knew, no one would ever notice.
That explains why I like that song so much. I think it's Metallica's most underrated song too.
@@thearchfiendslayer probably is. It's a very good song indeed. Shame it was and probably never will be performed
@@thedancingguy828 We can always try to pressure them... Personally I want to hear Ronnie because jeez, who wants to hear Ronnie, you know?
Jack is an interesting one, though, and I certainly agree with what you said about giving it to Jerry Cantrell. That's whole thing is almost textbook Alice In Chains. And... you know, The House Jack Built really sounds like the song is... you know... high.
@@Jayteaseepiirturi the song is about the bad things being high does.
@@thedancingguy828 Clearly. This is just about the most psychedelic song on their catalog.
Damage Inc, Dyers Eve, and My Apocalypse will always be my most favorite Metallica songs of all time!
It's a crazy connection about "nothing else matters" n "low man's lyrics"
I always thought low man's is a sad brother from "nothing else"
All nightmare long is Cthulhu mythos based too
King Nothing is very similar to Enter Sandman. It even has the "off to never never land" lyric at the end. But i struggle to find another song to complete a trilogy.
Sleepwalk My Life Away
I think slither, i mean the riff sounds pretty much like enter sandman in load/re load style
Now That We’re Dead
@@natedog8281Here Comes Revenge
The lyrics of Fight fire with fire and Blackened are technically connected. The first is about a nuclear war the second - about nuclear winter after the war.
Blackened, My Friend of Misery, Where the Wild Things are
the Jason trilogy
Also I have a feeling that Damage Inc, Dyers Eve and My apocalypse are also might be connected with the fact that they come right after instrumentals. Damage inc after Orion, Dyers eve after To live is to die, My apocalypse after SnR.
You know, that's a great catch. "Hi, we jammed. Back to business. GRAAAAAAAAAAAAARH!" I like that idea. :D
You forgot to mention Kirk’s writing credits on Damage inc, Dyers Eve and My Apocalypse. It’s a trilogy of some of Kirk’s best riffs.
Y E S
Kirk has written more riffs, most notably Enter Sandman and Creeping Death. Really you could make a whole list of songs he has writing credits for.
@@doopo_ you’re not wrong but that wasn’t the point I was making. He mentioned all 3 songs in the video and all 3 of those songs have a Kirk writing credit. The point of the video was trilogies and not listing all of Kirk’s writing credits.
so happy to see you back on the metallica train :)
I can still read all the song names when they're pixelated and it was very satisfying seeing them revealed
All Nightmare Long is also a song about the Cthulhu Mythos. It's about the Hounds of Tindalos. The Thing That Should Not Be is also not specifically about Cthulhu, its about the Shadow Over Innsmouth
the things that should not be directly quotes the call of cthulu
@@migdonalds which part? I may have missed it?
@@B---tw3kh”with strange eons death may die” is from lovecraft, but I don’t know if it’s Cthulhu specifically
@veronviper06 it's a quote from The Nameless City
If anyone here knows about Metallicas un released song "death is not the end" they did break that song into 3 parts they did release.
1. End of the line
2. All nightmare long
3. Lux Aeturna
The war veteran trilogy: "The Day That Never Comes", "Broken, Beat & Scarred" and "Confusion".
The Inhuman trilogy: "ManUNkind", "Minus Human" and "Am I Savage?"
The 'Trapped Under Ice riff' trilogy: "Trapped Under Ice", "Escape" and "Hardwired".
Great to see you are safe and sound and posting cool vids again. Last time I watched one of your videos you were in the mix of the war.. awesome to see you backened 😊
My friend of misery-the outlaw torn-inamorata-(fixxxer)
Spit out the bones-all nightmare long-st.anger
Battery-fight fire with fire-hit the lights
I've recently got something in my mind:
* Battery
* Blackened
* That Was Just Your Life
First of all, they are opening tracks from my 3 favourite Metallica albums ("Master of Puppets", "...And Justice for All" & "Death Magnetic"). Second of all, they have ICONIC intros.
Add Fight Fire With Fire to that? Also that's a solid top 3
@@theguyof360 Yeah, I know, I know!! But I love these three
Musically, yes!!! Never thought of that!
@@SebastianLapidus thanks
King Nothing is a spiritual successor to Enter Sandman. They are musically similar, they both have a talking nursery rhyme part in the middle, and James even says “off to never never land” as the last note fades out at the end of King Nothing
The Metallica War Trilogy would be For Whom The Bell Tolls (Ride The Lightning Album), Disposable Heroes (Master Of Puppets Album) and One (And Justice For All Album).
5 Random 'tallica Trilogies:
3 Misfits covers (Die Die, Last Caress, Green Hell)
3 Garage covers releases (Garage Days, Garage Days Re-Revisited, Garage, Inc.)
3 country songs (Mama Said, Tuesday's Gone, Low Man's Lyric)
3 "lost" songs not on non-live albums (-Minus Human, No Leaf Clover, I Disappear)
3 Song that are fast and short and based on living life like a speed demon (Motorbreath, Fuel, Lux AEterna)
I said "hey friends its Andriy Vasylenko" before I even knew he made this video
Don't know if I'm pushing it a bit too far... But 72 Seasons is made of four trilogies... Hear me out (and don't call me crazy, although I probably am).
Yes, Hetfield already pointed out the whole thing is driven by the images of darkness/light, but there could be also a narrative about different stages of life. Plus... did you see how both in the vinyl and the CD the track list is grouped in sets of three songs? Let's dive in.
72 Seasons is mostly about being surrounded and raised in darkness, Shadows Follow is about trying to escape said darkness and not being able to... and then, in a way, Screaming S****** is the final chapter (a bit literally). I mean, narratively, this makes sense and constitutes a dramatic arch of the sorts (in case you're not familiar with the term, look it up).
Sleepwalk My Life Away starts a new trilogy about meaninglessness, so then You Must Burn! could be about the process of how we react to the dullness of life, even if that means falling into (self)destructive patterns, only to realise that if we burn bright and hot enough we become eternal light (Lux Aeterna)
Crown of Barbed Wire opens what I'd like to call the "further into darkness" trilogy, which starts portraying the burden of power/ego/fame, and how it's a gloomy place to be in. Then "Chasing Light" is about trying to understand where this load comes from but succumbing to it and, in that order of ideas, If Darkness Had A Son could make for an open ending about either trying to fight obscurity or end up accepting it.
The last but most connected trilogy is definitely about self-examination. Too Far Gone? Room of Mirrors and Inamorata are about the hopelessness that can surface while fighting the darker side of life, but they are also about recognising the role an individual can play in their own misery and seeing some light at the end of the tunnel thanks to that self-recognition.
Am I overanalyzing? Probably... Do I care? Not really.
What matters here is that the lyrics behind this album evoke some clear themes and strong images that make for Hetfield's best work to this date (I can and will discuss this in a not so pacific manner with anyone! Just kiddin' Hahaha).
Over-analazinh is what we’re actually doing here 😎 Thanks for your thoughts!
Good to see you posting again brother. Sending love from Indiana, USA!!!!
I always listen to Chasing Light from 72 Seasons as an epilogue to The Unforgiven trilogy. It has lyrics about "thoughtless elders" and "so much more than he can take", then the chorus gives us a little hope where he can acknowledge the darkness and chase the light towards forgiveness. That is how I listen to it anyway.
The unforgiven 3 and death magnetic as a whole album is just so so much great, i love DM
I almost feel like inamorata could be an honorary unforgiven. Than and or a sequel to fade to black.
I think inamorata is more of a sequel to my friend of misery
@@willandspencer101It certainly feels that way to me. But to me their “Atlas, Rise!” is the 1st sequel song to MFOM. Or it could be argued as well that that song is a like a reimagined version of MFOM for a new time and generation of people to get into.
I like how ALL 3 trilogies are connected by the first two being on back to back albums and the last being released 20+ years later! 😄🔥
Also another "trilogy" could be the 3 written by Jason and also the 3 instrumentals! 😁🤘
Disposable Heroes is about generational mobiks sent BACK TO THE FRONT.
One is about that Buryat-samovar with no limbs, jaw, or eyes getting his Bluetooth speaker.
Fade to Black is him finally joining Kobzon (actually James got depressed over stolen amp).
I think (MY opinion) Creeping Death should have been the closer for Ride The Lightning for two main reasons:
1. This would have made Creeping Death, Damage Inc, and Dyers Eve, the three thrashiest closers for their three classic albums (RTL, MOP, AJFA). Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to say My Apocalypse doesn't fit the trilogy, but in my opinion just having three on their classic, consecutive albums makes the most sense.
2. This would also make The Call Of Ktulu, Orion, and To Live Is To Die a trilogy, not just because they would all be instrumentals in the second last position in their respective albums, but also because of the major influence from Cliff on all three of the tracks.
Edit: Trapped Under Ice could also work in place of Creeping Death
Fixxxer, Outlaw and Inamorata are all in my top 10 Metallica songs, they're amazing.
not only trilogy, but two songs, like hero of the day and slither being connected lyrically. and we have the cliff quadrilogy; Pulling Teeth, The Call, Orion and To Live.
I’d say the Cthulhu trilogy might be expanded to a Lovecraftian tetralogy when you add “All Nightmare Long” which James has said is about a creature of a story in the Cthulhu mythos, “The Hounds of Tindalos” written by Frank Belknap Long.
For the last trilogy, what about Spit Out The Bone? It too is the last track of HTSD and is quite fast. I know its an hommage to Metal Militia but I do think it falls under the same category.
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Enter Sandman and King Nothing for super long intros
It caught ear when James says off to never never land at the end of King Nothing
Apparently All Nightmare Long also has some Cthulhu stuff in there
Metallica is the greatest metal band
hope your staying safe bro, always love your videos
The Jason Newsted trilogy: Blackened, My friend of misery and Where the wild things are
Ik that’s a really obvious one lol
Enter Sandman, King Nothing and Sleepwalk My Life Away. Built up intro, dreaming land theme.
I've heard talk that Blackened is a sequel to FFWF, describing the destruction of the earth that occurred in the earlier song. I've also had an idea floating around that along with the track 4 ballads and balls to the wall finishers, there's a trend of speedy openers with Hit the Lights, FFWF, Battery and Blackened. The only problems are that all of KEA is like that, and Whiplash would be a better fit for this theory and also that Blackened doesn't have quite the same feel. Not to mention the obvious series of instrumentals.
Thanks!
Thank you so much! That actually is working now :)
The thing is, Cthulhu has been public domain for ages.
No Remorse, Disposable Heroes and One ? In a lyrical sense (you could also count for whom the bell tolls)
At the end of Inamorata (around 10:45 after Lars’ drum fill) the whole band spells out METALLICA in rhythm. M-E-T-A-L-L-I-C-A
Hey Andriy!!!!!!! So great to see and hear you!!! So I have a trilogy that I haven’t seen anyone say. It is the “war” trilogy: Disposable Heroes, One, and Day that never comes. Thoughts? ✌️
"All Nightmare Long" is about the Cthulhu Mythos as well, even if it's about different creatures from the Myth.
The Unforgiven 3 is pretty simple but it's a hell of a lot of fun to play on guitar or bass.
I love all the songs mentioned... but Fixxxer.
I know there's a connection between Damage Inc. and St. Anger, they share that lyric part "Fuck it all and fucking no regrets/ Never happy ending on these dark sets"
Stache looks cool. Lemmy vibes!
James' mother trilogy: Dyer's Eve, The God That Failed, Mama Said
Unforgiven III has such a groovy riff.
9:30 Wow, I expected Spit out the bone to be in that list friend =(
Hit the Lights and Lux Aeterna?
Ride The Lightning, Master of Puppets, ...And Justice For All. All the second song on their respective albums.
I think moth into flame and the memory remains pair well
You must burn also has a where the wild things are sounding part in it so that might be connected too. Much love from Chicago stay safe \m/
BTW, Fade to black, Welcome home(sanitarium),one is also ballad trilogy
Im trying to ease my hubby and his friend into heavy metal. They like nothing else matters and One. I think I'll introduce them to the unforgiven, my friend of misery...and maybe the Ktulu songs if they like movies like the thing and aliens😂
I'd say that Fight Fire With Fire, Battery and Enter Sandman could be a trilogy because they're all album opener's with acoustic intro's.
The Four Horsemen, Fight Fire with Fire and Blackened are all about the end of times described in the Bible. The Four Horsemen obviously being about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, one of Fight Fire With Fire's lyrics being "Armageddons here, like said in the past" and obviously "Blackened is the end."
The Unforgiven, The God That Failed and Dyers Eve are all about James' childhood, The Unforgiven talks about how James was like an outcast growing up and The God That Failed is about his mother dying because of his parent's beliefs. Dyers Eve is written from the perspective of James who is now grown up, reflecting and ranting to his parents about how he grew up secluded from the rest of the world (The Unforgiven) because of their beliefs (The God That Failed) and parenting.
You could also argue Trapped Under Ice, One and My Friend of Misery are all about being mentally stuck. Trapped Under Ice obviously talks about being trapped and in this case uses ice as a metaphor, One is about being trapped in your flesh and not being able to use it ("I cannot live, I cannot die; Trapped in myself, body my holding cell") and My Friend of Misery is about people being stuck in miserable circumstances ("You just stood there screaming; You still stood there screaming") almost like being "trapped under ice" or being "trapped in yourself."
Fight Fire with Fire only uses Armageddon as a metaphor for massive nuclear war, it's not _really_ about the Bible, but about MAD doctrine, both sides in Cold War making enough nukes to destroy the entire world and "deescalating" by building even more... but Blackened ABSOLUTELY is the sequel to it, after all the nukes fall FFWF, here comes nuclear winter (Blackened). It has the same mood as 99 Luftballons or Klaus Nomi's Total Eclipse. For some reason they kept making songs about total war that annihilates everyone... in the 80s... you know, when USSR was on the verge of collapse and there was no real threat of it anymore.
@@KasumiRINA Fight Fire with Fire is definitely about destruction of the earth via nuclear warfare, but I think it and especially Blackened focus more on how humans are responsible for the destruction of the earth, almost like the fall of man. Particularly Blackened's lyrics "Fire, is the outcome of hypocrisy, Darkest Potency; In the exit of humanity, color our world Blackened" This is especially apparent when you take into consideration the very political atmosphere of the album the song is from.
Harvester of Sorrow, My Friend of Misery, Inamorata, they all mention "misery" in a significant way.
Fade to black, Bleeding Me, The Day That Never Comes
Hunting trilogy:
-Of Wolf and Man
-Attitude
-Shadows Follow
In the last trilogy of thrashy closing tracks... Did you forget about 'Spit out the Bone' on "Hardwired..."?
As a drummer Sad But True, Devil's Dance and You Must Burn! feel like a trilogy.
It's not a trilogy, but i aways see "Devil's Dance" like a kind of sequel for "Sad But True".
You'll have a trilogy if you add "You must Burn"
The Addiction trilogy: Master of Puppets, Sad but True and Low Man's Lyric. Or perhaps the House that Jack built.
I feel like inamorata goes with my friend of misery definitely
i think you could also to of wolf and man, am i savage?, and shadows follow
I’m pretty sure that damage Inc. trilogy ends with St. Anger they share the same lyrics.
Here’s one
-welcome home sanitarium
-frayed ends of sanity
-the struggle within
why is exodus in the background of a metallica video (im still jamming to it)
How about Enter Sandman, All Nightmare Long and Halo on Fire?
I know these songs aren't purposely connected but "One" by Metallica and "Hollow" by Pantera always seemed to me like it was the same story told by different characters, the soldier who lost all his senses and his childhood friend.
I never listened to the whole 72 seasons album. Perhaps I didn't give it enough time to grow on me but it sounded like recycled stuff from the Hardwired album. Even the classic three 80s albums with basically the same format had songs good enough that they never sounded like recycled ideas even though Fade, Sanitarium and One intros were based around the same chord and melody structure.
P.S. My Apocalypse is underrated. I love the fast heavy thrashers and My Apocalypse is definitely in that category. I think it's great.
1:23 hetfield wearing a venom t shirt lol
I'm sure Dave does but do metallica listen to extreme metal
I mean thrash is extreme metal so uhh yeah they do
Enter Sandman, King Nothing, Sleepwalk My Life Away
I was 15 - heard Some Kind of Monster, probably 30 when i realised
We the people, refers to the American constitution.
I consider And Justice and Some Kind as a two piece.
Still here, hiding in plan sight 🤘
Not a song trillgy but an album trilogy. For a long time I've considered Ride, Master, and Justice as a trilogy more than Kill, Ride, and Master. They all have 8-9 songs. They all pretty much end with an instrumental. They all are based around a certain theme, whether it be death, war, or the politics around the two. I also like to look at it as the band's arc of, rising to fame, goat status, and then learning to move on from Cliff.
Musically speaking, I find Sad But True similar to Bad Seed. Also Entern Sandman is similar to King Nothing
I kinda feel like enter sandman, king nothing and the latest crown of barbed wire are also a trilogy
The Cosmic horror trilogy: Call of Ktulu, The Thing that should not be, Dream No More
Family Faith Trauma Trilogy:
The God That Failed
Until It Sleeps
Fixxxer
Maybe not a trilogy, but I say that if you throw "Outlaw Torn," "Bleeding Me," "My Friend of Misery," and "Are you gonna go my way?" into a blender, you end up with "Inamorata."
I always thought lyrically My friend of Misery, Poor twisted me and Inamorata belong together
Should have made "Dream No More" as another instrumental.