I've always pictured the intro, as it is played in the song as the dawn of a majestic sun over a blackened, apocalyptic planet lol

Lamest version ive heard....

Did i die? Is this heaven? HE'S SO GOOD?!

Is it weird that my kids pledge allegiance to this song?

The cut from the Blackened intro to the rest of the song is jarring and feels poorly produced. You have a legendary riff, make a song that focuses on it. Dont just throw it out as the intro and then put another song behind it.

Moving forward instead of backward seems to me absuuurd

Ахахахах, какой нахуй манерой пения? Он в одной единственной песне пел таким голосом, а вы приебались с ходу😹

Best rock band

Sounds great both ways

That's pretty cool. The second one makes me think "menacing" the first one makes me think "cool"

Normal: “This is a pretty cool riff!” Reversed: **hairs on the back of my neck stand up**

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One day Metallica will retire and I hope the put the not reversed version at the end of the last album. That would be epic to me.

You know what. I think it works in either direction.

Blackned provably have the best intro in a song

this is An Old Fashioned Love Song

I first heard this backward about a year after justice came out - probably one of the first to do so! I made a copy of my cd so i could listen to it on my walkman- and one day it ate the tape.. i managed to spool it all out and back on but there was a half twist in it i missed- which meant everything past the twist on both sides of the tape swapped sides and was reversed lol- and when i was skipping through it in amusement I heard it :) I think its way better than the normal version!

I don't remember ever hearing this intro or this song. I like the first half of this clip better than the second half

KZbin recommendations:

This thrilling sound really makes my energetic field feeling empowered. It feels like the march of ascension.

I think it was composed how we hear the original and they reversed the chord progression and played the composition backwards, then flipped that around so the instrument artifacts (bends, hammer ons, pull offs) would sound mysterious But more than likely not and they just randomly thought to reverse it😂

James is one of the very Americans who can actually pronounce Geelong correctly 🤟🤟

I want to kiss whomever thought to run that tape backwards.

GOOSEBUMPS!!!

its no longer blackened, now its BlackenedenekcalB

wheres mjk? was the long black hair dude?

Kirk and lars horrendous performance

This is literally so cool

Grande lou Reed

Normal: Meh 🤷 Reversed: ”The Hellion” levels of epic 🤩💯

Очень даже неплохо!!! 🤘😝👍

I want to learn to play the backwards version just like we hear it on the record.

0:12 vs 1:00 like the steps up or down

twisted metal with metallica songs

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I think the origin of Blackened's intro is this obscure 70s song's intro in reverse: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2i4onmVd7F-mq8&ab_channel=MusicBackwards

Album should've ended with the forwards version

Love how Kirk Hammett pays homage to Stevie Hunter with that smokin' guitar intro. Killer version.

Welp I got chills 2 times.

the normal version isnt reversed. they are called swells. eg. turn the volume down on your guitar. strike a note or chord. then slowly turn the volume up. cut the volume off sharply while striking another chord and slowly turn it up. thats whats giving the backwards sounds. both guitarists and the bass player are doing it but syncapated. eg purposly off beat from each other

Literary my favorite intro of all time

You can even hear the bass!!!

Happy they did the reverse. The forward is good but the backwards transition of the melody is so much more metal

CLIFF STILL ALIVE!

BlackenedenekcalB

First one sounds better

Not the same without cliffs input.

Still gives me goosebumps to hear this.

yo reversed is good thoo