First time hearing "Fade to Black" - Vocal Analysis and Reaction feat. Metallica LIVE in Seattle '89

I have a lot of catching up to do with regards to all things Metallica so we're diving in! Today I'm watching a live performance of the song "Fade to Black" from 1989.
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[@RedPillLife1966]

80'S decade Metal will never be reproduced. Most old guys like me didn't realized how blessed we were to be able to see guys like them in their Prime. Looking back, we were blessed.

[@vincew9482]

I would agree those times will never be reproduced. Like you I didn’t realize during those days, how special they were. Listening to older concerts like this bring back fond memories and make me realize how grateful I was to be a part of this back then.

[@ManuelGuajardo-zd7hx]

Wintersun Alex here . I wanted to know if you got my list of suggestions for my favorite symphonic metal band wintersun from Finland. Vocalyst I don't know if you knew but they are a sister band to nightwish because nightwish has members in nightwish that were in wintersun. But that list again was starting first is wintersun sons of winter and stars 1.5 official lyric video. Then is wintersun time live rehearsal video at Sonic pump studios in Helsinki Finland. After that is wintersun land of snow and sorrow live rehearsal video. If you love nightwish you'll love wintersun. Thank you wintersun Alex ❤️

[@VadersRage]

I'm just happy to watch professional musicians, REAL as in professionally trained vocalists, composers and even folks that sit 1st chair in an orchestra. To see and hear them listen to and enjoy MY era of music just validates the fact that my misspent youth wasn't all for nothing. My parents would think otherwise, though.....😁.

[@keithkinkade4265]

Go see em now! The tightest band on planet Earth!

[@smftv]

Hindsight is always 20/20. To me, the bigger blessing is that we live (and lived) in a time when it was all recorded over and over again, and remastered so we get to enjoy it all any time we want. I'd just like a professionally remixed "Justice" album, the way it should've been. I know it was remastered in 2018, but remixed and remastered are two very different things. Let's get the album we (but above all else... Jason deserves!) The body gets old, but the mind stays metal.

[@ChrisLegner-qp1yh]

Hetfield simply had the greatest guitar player "power stance" in the history of metal music.

[@BigTimeRushFan2112]

lol. and I have a bridge to sell ya if you think that.

[@boardgamerants]

Uh oh, I thought so, too. But we have a professional "power stance" critic in our midst, apparently...

[@bwuhbwuh]

​@@boardgamerants And not just any critic, it's a Big Time Rush fan. Must be an expert

[@americannomad513]

If they were going to make a major league logo for heavy metal similar to the MLB or NBA logo, the silhouette they would use would be Hetfield. 🤘

[@dennybisping3374]

Best thing about it is that it ia an opinion you have yours many many many more think he is correct lol​@BigTimeRushFan2112

[@Cadinho93]

James Hetfield has said before that they get a lot back from fans saying how this song helped them in dark times and made them feel like they weren't alone. It did the same for me when I first heard it at a young age. "I wrote the song at a friend's house in New Jersey. I was pretty depressed at the time because our gear had just been stolen, we had been thrown out of our manager’s house for breaking shit and drinking his liquor cabinet dry. It's a suicide song and we got a lot of flak for it, as if kids were killing themselves because of the song, but we also got hundreds of letters from kids telling us how they related to the song and that it made them feel better."

[@smftv]

James's moms death is an integral part of this song. She (Cynthia; also once an opera singer) passed away from cancer when he was just 16. His parents were strict Christian Scientists and didn't believe in medication, just faith healing, so had his mom gone to the hospital, she may have survived (and certainly longer than she did). She also helped James pay for the amp that was among the gear that was stolen). Very important pieces to the story of the song "Fade to Black".

[@The442nd]

These gentlemen are 60!!! and they still bring it. Their longevity and sustained relevance, is the byproduct of respect, sacrifice and gratitude. Everytime I see them live, or any other form of media, I always feel their gratitude. Thank God I grew up with them.

[@damianscholten6451]

They are the greatest band of all time. R.I.P Cliff Burton. 🖤💜

[@BigTimeRushFan2112]

I'm sorry but James couldn't shine Robert Plant's shoes in my opinion.

[@southern842]

​@BigTimeRushFan2112 what instrument does plant play again? How many songs did led zeppelin get sued for stealing again?

[@Nerdofsteel82]

@@BigTimeRushFan2112 Thank you for your incorrect opinion.

[@BigTimeRushFan2112]

@@southern842 if you listened to Zeppelin you'd know the answers, but yeah, Plants does play instruments, maybe Google can be your friend? Till then stay humble (and deaf if you think James can sing 1/2 as well as Robert can).

[@BigTimeRushFan2112]

@@Nerdofsteel82 how can an opinion be incorrect? grow some thicker skin or this world is gonna take you down soon.

[@dancing_odie]

Metallica, the only band that can play an 8 min song and at the end you go "its over already?" Its also the only band that can play a 10 min song without words and have the same reaction.

[@pedrogaspar1197]

F yeah! My man gets it

[@dutch737simulator4]

Iron Maiden would be the 2nd one

[@paullyo8530]

Orion.

[@paullyo8530]

Yup. Iron Fucking Maiden for sure. Bruce the Metal Boss...He's a frickin pilot...Flight 666...Great documentary if you haven't seen it.

[@ConnMolnar]

Dream theater?

[@Nerdofsteel82]

This is arguably the best live performance of this song. I would recommend even privately listening to the studio version as well.

[@BigTimeRushFan2112]

the studio version is far, far, far superior actually...I never thought James had the chops to pull off these songs live without the help of the studio. It is what it is I guess. Nothing the band touched for the past 30 years is even good, even from the studio as well, again, it is what it is. Metallica was great in the 80's, and that's about it.

[@JawsVader1970]

James voice sounds really good now days I'd like to hear good version now

[@scorpionking4012]

Nerdofsteel82 Lincoln 2019 is the best , also newer versions are slower and the use of acoustic guitar add a lot .

[@fastertove]

I prefer some of the newer live versions. Much better sound quality. Studio version is good, but it's too short :)

[@fastertove]

@@BigTimeRushFan2112 Nothing good the last 30 years is a rather silly statement

[@matthewdawson129]

I think you would really appreciate the S&M (symphony and metallica) concert. Recorded with a SF symphony and has great production value, the instrumentals on this are pretty muddy due to limitations at the time. Outlaw Torn is a standout for Vocals and symphonic elements (1999 version, not the more recent SM 2)

[@proudleaf]

I second this opinion

[@demoncleaner80]

The S&M2 versions do have some great production on them though. No Leaf Clover is freakin'g great, and Elizabeth @ TCV reacted to it last year. Plus you get that "All Within My Hands" acoustic version too

[@jaskau2462]

"SF symphony" won´t tell much anything for a person who´s not familiar of their productions. "Metallica - S & M" = Metallica with San Francisco Symphony, conducted by Michael Kamen. 🤘😎💙🎶💯💥

[@EmptyNoiseAlreadyTaken]

Outlaw Torn on S&M is top 5 Metallica performance.

[@JBjopa8]

​@@EmptyNoiseAlreadyTakenand also Bleeding me

[@mikegould6590]

This is their And Justice For All tour, which I witnessed and was AMAZING. The song is off Ride The Lightning, and addresses suicide. The gentle tone off the bat is intentional. I would argue that Ride the Lightning hasn't a single flub on it. The entire album is stellar, and was my first exposure to both Thrash metal and Metallica. Having now seen them live twice, I can promise you that you will never be disappointed. Take the time and experience their live show.

[@mikegould6590]

Master of Puppets is a must-review. It's their masterclass in Thrash. I promise you, it's brilliant. It's addiction from the PoV of both the addict and drug. Creeping Death is great. It's the seven plagues of Egypt. Enter Sandman is awesome. About nightmares. Blackened. Nuclear holocaust in metal form. So so many more

[@iluvyummywaffles]

I saw Metallica during their Stadium tour in the 90s in Pittsburgh 3 rivers and one of my favorite bands I've seen in concert. Guns and Roses was terrible, Axel lost his voice on 2nd song. Faith No More who opened were really good too.

[@CoboProdz]

@@mikegould6590u like enter sandman? That alone makes your opinions on Metallica null and void lol.

[@anthonydawson8080]

@@CoboProdzAw don’t gatekeep. Maybe he’s young and missed all the overplay of it. I personally am not a fan of it but I have an idea that’s the problem. It was just played to death. I wouldn’t think less of someone for a guilty pleasure song either

[@carlgibson285]

Ride The Lightning is a great album, but Escape stops it from being their best. For me, their best album fluctuates between Puppets and Justice depending on my mood, with Lightning coming in a solid third.

[@andreasauke5724]

"Sensual darkness" - Beautifully put. Really enjoyed this reaction - please.. EVERYTHING from this concert, and yeah the Moscow one

[@EPortillo5000]

Have to hear Metallica's "no leaf clover" live with San Francisco Symphonic Orchestra is a master piece. Metallica song even they are long are not boring because the changes of rithms and don't have the classical verse/bridge/chorus structure.

[@user-ok9sg2ws2t]

I just suggested that!!! It’s a masterpiece of heavy metal music!!

[@mjcasias]

My favorite Metallica song for sure. Take the lyrics out and the guitar sings it's own song.

[@PML78]

Almost all reactors hearing these Icons say... they can just get lost in their instrumentals before James even starts to sing... I know exactly what they mean... Metallica FAN4LIFE🤘🏽😎

[@lewishutcherson2034]

This album was ours as fans are first sight into how good Kirk was to this band.

[@Beastt17]

Years ago I fell in love with a woman who taught me what it is to feel what this song attempts to convey. She was my princess for four years, and I've been her victim ever since the day she ended us out of the blue, without warning or cause, to pursue a married co-worker and then sought to cost me my job, filed false charges against me (fully acquitted months later), and for two years continued filing false police report after false police report. Those who feel I must have done something know where my mind was at the time. I was a convenient victim. She didn't want friends and co-workers to see her for the calculating, cold-hearted robot she was capable of being. So she used me... made it look like I was the bad person so she could play the victim. And I still have the nightmares decades later. This song encapsulates the emotions she gave me to endure for a lifetime.

[@buddhamack1491]

I feel you brother. The pain haunted me for years and it was a long process to let go. It helps to understand how messed up in the head those people are that can do those sort of things. I have learned to forgive them (yep I've suffered two of them) and even feel sorry for them. I wouldn't go back and change anything, it was definitely a hard and painful way of learning but it helped me to where I am today. My mind still reminds me of it now and then, but I don't feel attached to it anymore. I've learned to just let those thoughts dissipate without clinging to them. I truly hope that you are, or have been able to, find peace. Calm seas don't make a skilled sailor, I am thankful for the storms.

[@ashmostro]

Love your reaction and commentary about sensuality. So many who do not understand Metal hear this song and immediately dismiss it as another example of Metal appealing to your darker tendencies in a destructive way. I would argue that this song is deeply compassionate in a way that can be life saving. One of Metallica's most powerful songs...

[@shorerocks]

The intensity and authenticity of Metallica in concert is... mindblowing. First saw them 1985, no end in sight for me.

[@JeremyMiller-sn6nh]

This song is audible art , beautiful musically and deeply profound lyrics. This song saved many lives, my own included during a dark time in my life. One of my all time favorite songs.

[@PML78]

Metallica FAN4LIFE🤘🏽😎

[@joshmorris9908]

Seattle 89 concert. Love it.

[@flingonber]

Honestly, I like Metallica but they wouldn't even be probably in my top 10 bands, but this particular concert might be the greatest live performance I've ever seen captured on film. Start to finish it's just epic.

[@YoreHistory]

Yep 100%...I hope she covers "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" from this concert as well.

[@MetalPersonJ]

All vocal coaches should only react to this show as the first time.

[@chrisselfridge9841]

Seattle is really good but I think the one from Mexico City is the best.

[@opart]

@@chrisselfridge9841 both of these are peak Metallica. I stopped listening to them a long time ago, but when I occasionally need a "fix" I go to these two recordings. Pure energy.

[@jackieraddau4663]

I like how the voice from James changed in all this years, i think his voice is now better than ever! Thanks for this video and Song!

[@mattfraser1096]

For me... Listening to Metallica is like listening to a musical story plus the bonus lyrics.

[@user-tp5yn4er9j]

live version is good but as far as this song is concerned the album version really hits home.

[@AndyTernay]

Saved my life many times.

[@corninshit]

​@AndyTernay glad you're still with us

[@shaneeverett3026]

Your so right, the album version is a stellar performance

[@esmonde1]

Harvester of sorrow or Creeping Death live versions in Moscow 1991 cannot be recommended more. Unbelievable performance

[@maggs131]

I love seeing someone experiencing the stuff that occupied the majority of my youth for the first time and loving it. 🤘😎

[@Mark-vu3vl]

Exactly! Loving Metallica all my life, it's great to see a first time listener loving it as well.

[@BigTimeRushFan2112]

This and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" from this Ride the Lightning album are my all time favorite Metallica tracks! Thanks for the review!

[@metallica2500]

Good choices

[@smftv]

Have you heard the Woodstock 1994 version? That's my favorite version of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by a mile! There are many, but Jame's crowd work, Jason's bass intro... it really feels honorable to Cliff without it actually being cliff. It's a masterful homage and so energetic.

[@kennethalbert4653]

Forr those who don't know, It is based on the Ernest Hemingway novel of the same title. Amazing book, the audio version narrated by Campbell Scott is my favorite book ever ! It is like a movie but with the visuals in your head (and that is coming from a guy with little imagination, lol)

[@acidheadzzz]

@@kennethalbert4653really? No I didn’t know that. I’ll have to search out the audio book. Thanks

[@kennethalbert4653]

@acidheadzzz Enjoy ! Make sure it is Campbell Scott, I think his reading of it can't be beat. (I listened on Audible but I'm sure it is available elsewhere)

[@ivanstrydom8417]

It's like an engine slowly getting started, overcoming the inertia and then kicks into the next gear... and into a higher gear producing more mower...more energy...the vocals, the music, the lights, their body language .... such energy. it is brilliant.

[@bobgoodwin5256]

Oh the memories! I lived out on the coast of Washington barely a year into my marriage and the wife was around 6 months pregnant with our 1st born when we went to this show. I always told him that this show counted as his first because I was sure he heard it. You can say he was a fan right out of the womb because he and I saw Metallica together close to a dozen times as he was on his journey to becoming the best metal head partner a father could ask for.

[@ChrisHaynes-ds6rp]

Creeping death live moscow 91. Awesome performance!!!

[@janhanebeck4203]

This and Welcome Home (Sanitarium) will be my all-time favourite songs 😊

[@Dude1971Dad]

Creeping death, Moscow 91. I used to crank the stereo turntable everyday after school to Creeping Death...almost had those words forever written on me under my first skull tattoo...one of my all time favorites. They ruled the world at that time...the memories..... Thank you

[@rayezzo8889]

I'm always happy to see people discover Metallica. Thanks for the reaction

[@aaron6239]

Please do more Metallica! I love your reaction videos! I loved listening to them growing up and still do to this day (well at least the first 4-5 albums anyway), but watching reaction videos provides me with a much deeper appreciation from a different prospective. Thank you.

[@KevinPatrick-ov3ot]

One of the best Guitar Riffs ever

[@petestaros363]

Love your channel!! Love your analysis of all the band's you review!

[@ch355_]

glad i got to see this today. thanks for checking it out. i'd recommend something from their first s&m concert with the san francisco orchestra

[@danielholt2880]

You should check out “No Leaf Clover” live performance with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

[@chrisdouglas6310]

Love these reactions and commentary!!!

[@metallica2500]

I remember an eighth grade my first concert was Too Fast for Love and then a few other sprinkled in there and then I was blessed with having my girlfriend take me to see this band called Metallica that I knew very little about with the exception of kill’em all and it was the Master of Puppets tour for me Cliff was still around then And right up until the early 90s never missed a tour, the 80s were a blast

[@wigzillaplayz1134]

Best reaction channel by far! Such great insight

[@GroovyInclinations]

I adore you. I just adore your delivery. Thank you for your brilliance, I am not sure how I have learned so much through your view.

[@marcusalmeida1254]

This was an excellent pick Lady! I really enjoyed ur analyses

[@navw21]

No Leaf Clover Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony Live 1999

[@bknoxx]

first time on your channel.. i liked it.. you didn't pause 300 times like the others and your smile while watching the Legends was awesome!!

[@GabrielAndres-el7gy]

Ability of musical analysis, immensity of knowledge, total passion for music, is a gift for all of us to listen to you and see you!

[@andrewbako9494]

The chord choices and minor key are SO PERFECT for the theme of this song. It sounds sad and is when the band had their gear stolen very early in their career (not easily replaced at the time and it caused a gig to be canceled if I recall correctly) so if felt like their world just fell apart.

[@SomeDudeInTheChat]

You nailed it for the first time hearing Fade To Black. Seriously. The first time I ever heard it, I was just like, “Duuude! That was total badassness!” 😂

[@MasterChris666]

so happy found this channel

[@erikrooney1197]

I love your facial expressions with your ensuing thoughts. You articulate your emotion with your training.

[@Sbolla81]

your videos make me cry all the f times... i cant stop... idk why... i just love the music so much and your reactions makes me crack.... wth

[@bruceschoene6483]

They put on a great show. Always love your reactions.

[@Cermitt]

Once you are into that, there is no coming back Ya have been Metallicized 🥲

[@PML78]

Mesmerized by their instruments, vocals and powerful lyrics... plus add their energy... that's how one becomes a FAN4LIFE🤘🏽😎

[@davidmackeown9318]

Followed metallica since mid 80s here in Ireland. This song will always be on of my favorites of theirs.

[@sirdudeman6106]

So good. Brilliantly written and executed

[@slithery9291]

Metallica are absolutely awesome live. Think I've seen them around 20 times now.

[@Eric-bq1lw]

I really enjoy seeing this beautiful lady reacting to the greatest metal of all time. God I miss experiencing this first hand. We’re all old now boys n girls.

[@ChasingDonnieBaseball]

Yes! Finally! Thank you for doing FTB.

[@PML78]

Metallica can mesmerize a person with just their instruments... then add James vocals and powerful lyrics... that's how one becomes a FAN4LIFE🤘🏽😎

[@Matt.E9480]

This is the peak in James's vocals. 88,89,90 total prime years 🖤

[@boysrback5690]

Welcome Home Sanitarium live Seattle 1989

[@damianmoreyra9985]

Very good reaction, one of Metallica's best concerts without a doubt. You should check out these songs too like Bleeding me, The outlaw thorn, Low man's lyric. from the albums Load (1996) in these two cases of the concert with the San Francisco Symphony (1999) and Reload (1997) Greetings from Argentina 

[@thomasmarti5856]

New subscriber here. Loved your reaction to Kirk's solos, they are intricate and moving. I got tickets to the Black album tour for my 30th B-day,I am almost 62 now. still love the music from that Era.

[@AnissAlhassi]

Ilove your reaction bethany thank you for this perfect reaction and i hope you will.❤❤

[@mikewood8561]

Watch Metallica on the Howard Stern show years ago. They do all their popular songs. The first time on Stern. It'll blow you away

[@kylerudnitski335]

I very much enjoy your Metallica videos. I heard my first Metallica when I was 12. I'm in my 40s now and they're still my favorite band. Every time you say "I like this" I just think to myself, oh she's in for a treat!

[@fredrickjames1247]

You are getting hooked on Metallica! lol Watching you nodding your head to the drumbeat as the song progressed was great! By the next Metallica reaction video, we might see you sporting a bandana and headbanging lol (might I suggest 'Master Of Puppets') As always Bethany, your reaction channel is hands down one of the best on KZbin. I subscribed my first time watching you and haven't looked back. Thank you for provide wonderful content!

[@jodimayer225]

Always love your reactions. Please listen (in private) to the studio version, in a dark room with headphones. Now that is a great experience!

[@PedroClavel]

I'm very very glad that you loved this song as much as we do. Metallica is my favorite band and watching your analysis gives me another dimension to cherish them! I hope you could do an analysis to Time and Sons of winter and stars, from Wintersun. It's a mind-blowing experience from vocals to every instrument. Even more impressive when you know that the singer doesn't have 1/3 of his lung. I hope that this comment can reach you ❤

[@radsec]

They are great musicians that produced some iconic metal songs...some are quite melodic...

[@PaulSmith-pe1kh]

I’m a rock guy. Grew up thinking I was into metal but I’m really more into rock and TALLICA. That’s why I LOVE Metallica because they are the gods of rock music and give us metal with true melody, poetry and emotion. I absolutely love this band and their 90s stuff is what got me into them and changed my life seeing Kirk slam into the solo of Memory Remains on MTV at age 12 and my eyes were opened. I asked for a guitar, lost my two best friends too early and spent the summer locked in my closet figuring out every tallica song I could and sky rocketing in my abilities. Spent the next 25 years or so as a full time minister of music and kids ministry and all because of metallica making me fall in love with guitar. Used to listen to them riding with my mom in the car jamming out and talking about what the lyrics mean to us and how every note and snare strike communicates something purposeful. Listen to Low Man’s Lyric and tell me this band isn’t truly music royalty. Poetic at its best and the snare tells the story just as much as his cracking voice. So so good. Lost my dad 2 years ago and my mom 1 year ago next month. She died a few weeks after listening to their new album together. She could hardly tap the beat (lung and brain cancer) but we smiled and jammed out and I’m so thankful for this music being a connection for both my parents somehow (country/gospel fans themselves)

[@sandramalenelarsen3517]

I have been a fan of Metallica since 1994. I feel so Happy about you get how it is listning to Metallica. It Never gets old - Never.

[@TiniestOverlords]

Old metallica were literally gods back in the day-I miss those days in early 90s late 80s I loved being a headbanger in my youth! I still love being one now+ I get to see the kid's I had hear this stuff for the first time and love it!: THIS was definitely the generation too have been part of honestly

[@dustinjones8887]

The Vocalyst: Do yourself and favor and listen to the studio version. You will LOVE the intro and outro solos so much better. This is an epic composition. You could even hear a piano version note for note by Gamazda on KZbin. Love your reaction!

[@johnwegienka]

You are very talented at what you do, I love watching your reactions of music I love because you hear things that i don't. Thank you for doing Metallica

[@myproject13ttt]

Thank you for your Reactions 🙏

[@APWPaint]

The greatest show ever filmed bar none!!! Creeping Death from the same show would be awesome.

[@youngdrizzle1531]

So hyped to see you doing Metallica again!! This concert is their best work IMO, and this is the era where James' singing was at its peak. (Also right before he realized shredding his throat night after night wasn't really sustainable 😂) Would love to know what you think of his singing in The Thing That Should Not Be from this same concert!

[@fanstream]

I love hearing your vocal analyses of musicians, singers, artists, especially when intently tuning into the songs for the first time with your "expert" ears , even if you may have heard the songs before in the car, or in movies, or on TV series. Bethany, would love to hear your expert vocal analyses and visceral impression of any of the following songs: "Maps" sung by Karen Oh of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Heroes" sung by David Bowie "Teardrop" by Massive Attack Thank you for teaching me more about the wonders and variations and the magic of these vocal artists who create our living soundtracks.

[@danielkeene3852]

Seeing the Damaged Justice tour in 89 is one of my concert going highlights, even though I didn't understand the greatness I was seeing when I was a kid going to these concerts. This ranks up there with seeing Megadeth in a tiny club called Monopoly's just before Rust in Peace released, and seeing Tool open for Gwar in 91. Such an amazing time for music.

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

i love this song so much.

[@kenshiassasin]

An incredible show. I would love to see you react to a more recent example from their tour last year to compare how James' voice has changed since he got vocal coaching.

[@user-mc9pf5ik3e]

My live recommendation is "Temple of the Dog": "Say Hello to Heaven" Live at the Moore Theater... You will NOT be disappointed.

[@UnknownUser19367]

This is what a world class band sounds like.

[@RodHammett95]

Recommendations: Outlaw Torn S&M 1999! Enter Sandman, Harvester of Sorrow in Moscow 1991 had amazing vocals too (to be fair, any song from Seattle '89 or Moscow '91 had Hetfield's best vocals). Just to add to the point made in 12:11. James started losing some of his voice back in late 1992, due to the extensive touring supporting their fifth album, "Metallica" aka "The Black Album". In 1995 they tuned a half-step down (from E standard to Eb) and that helped him not to push his vocal chords so much. 2000-2014 he went for a cleaner style of singing, very low distortion (if any). Since the release of "Hardwired" (2016) I feel James has got A LOT of those gritty tones back. Check any live video from last year, he sounds GREAT! (and the man is 60 now!) Love your reactions to Metallica!

[@ManuelGuajardo-zd7hx]

Another great reaction. Your new subscriber wintersun Alex ❤️

[@mattfromcanada1678]

After seeing this reaction and a few other heavy songs you've covered so far it looks like you ready to go down the Moscow 91 concert rabbit hole. The Metallica and Pantera performances are mind blowing even to this day.

[@TheRiconegro]

This was the first song that I can remember that dealt with such a heavy topic. Hearing it for the first time as a teenager and just knowing that I wasn't alone in how I felt made so much of a difference... I always wonder how many other people this song talked off the ledge.

[@bgibeast]

Great review! Love your work here, man... there are so many great Metallica songs for you to hear I don't even know where to start! Edit: DO "ENTER SANDMAN" FROM THE MOSCOW CONCERT, IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!

[@davidthomson8395]

you should react to their recent performance of elton johns "funeral for a friend /love lies bleeding"... incredible, they are great at covering other artists.

[@jeremyp7013]

Loved your show on cemetary gates

[@jeffwhite1943]

This is cool, this your channel is cool! I love your reactions well pretty much everything I've seen so far lol. Short boring story, I'm well probably about your age, I started playing the guitar when I was 5 when I got my first guitar, Metallica's "one" is the first song I can remember playing, this one was close behind it but can remember this was always one of my favorite songs to play. About 25 years ago leaving a bar was playing at, the guys I was with were always getting into crap, always a fight somewhere, always something I was fed up with it and told them if more crap tonight I'm putting down this guitar and I'm never touching it again and after fighting my way to the back door later that night during the battle of the bands thing going on in our little town nothing big as I rounded back door two guys bounced off the case in my hand and my cherry sunburst Les Paul bounced along with them right out through the parking lot lol. That was it and I meant it don't even ask I forgot how. Listened to this style of music my whole life, I played this style well played all different styles but this was always my favorite because of the complexity involved. 20 years later about 5 -6 years ago now after running my own little handyman business for exactly 7 years to the day the lady I was dating at the time convinced me to take a day off and just rest for a day I listened it was the seventh anniversary of the day I started the business she went on to work and I went out to garage by myself don't nothing but piddling around a little and had a stroke, spent next 19 days in a coma, that was supposed to be that Drs wanted pull plug but I woke up like nothing ever happened or so I thought I had to relearn about everything all over again walk, talk, and my memory kinda sucks but years later sometimes things still return to me that I forgot, while in coma I was tested for everything under the sun, I wasn't on drugs or anything hadn't been, nothing like that so they couldn't figure out why a perfectly healthy 36 I think I was would be having a stroke, long story short tumor in right lung wrapped around arota or whatever that vessel is called."don't feel bad this is a good story I promise lol", well they told me at the time I wouldn't live to see my next birthday so if there was anything I ever wanted to do I better do it now, ok so I took my entire family to the beach, twice lol, went to see Stevie Nicks again, and her with Fleetwood Mac again lol, finally went to see Tesla who I have always loved also, I took my 70 year old mom with me because everyone else was to whipped to be allowed out lol, so I took Mom and we had a great time, they were all like new experiences to me even after listening to them my entire life, all brand new and I got a kick watching my mother fall in love with black Sabbath it really was a amazing thing to see, right after that I went to a Drs appointment to my head Dr forget what his title was prescribed meds as to not stroke out or whatever after mentioning in a different life used to play guitar, he thought it was a good idea to pick it back up help with both coordination and memory maybe, after 20 plus years I picked it back up and I knew nothing lol didn't even feel familiar at all. Been a while and still songs coming back and feeling the love for the music all over again like I've never heard it before, I don't wish anyone the path I took but I hope everyone gets the same excited feeling listening to the music that I can tell from looking at you wasn't what you were listening to when we were younger at all was it? A friend mentioned old black Sabbath and your channel came up, kinda amazing watching you react to the same thing I'm feeling, pretty cool and you asked for suggestions and when I watched it all kinds of memories come rushing back, that whole story I just told you and I remember listening to them and Metallica constantly growing up and remember some pretty funny stories and just a great time period in my life! You don't know how much I really appreciate that so much I'm going to walk out to my building and see just how much did come back this time lol and drive my neighbor's a little crazy. Oh by the way after almost exactly year from being told all that good news they decided to operate, so once they did it was the next morning I was on operating table, went in expecting to loose a lung, got in decided wasn't cancerous after all turned out to be autoimmune disease and sowed me back up, put me on steroids for next 18 months, all gone, all good now, see told you happy story lol. Black Sabbath album, black Sabbath song, same album I think, Sabbath bloody Sabbath, same album N.I.B. both original version, and N.I.B. from Sabbath farewell tour, see what Ozzie sounds like from beginning to couple years ago, my opinion, children of the grave, amazing song, after watching them probably lead you to many more amazing songs but pay particular attention to Toni s the guitarist fingers at least one of them is a prosthetic finger, maybe two can't remember exactly, how does he do that? I mean I'm left handed and play right handed but that's one thing this dude playing with a fake finger wow. When you get to Ozzie I recommend the Randy Rhodes Tribute album, the whole album! Amazing guitarist it's a shame. Then when Zac Wilde joins either no more tears album or live and load, both great albums, I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot in between, sorry for the book , I love your channel! Metallica medley in the two videos I have watched both start in B if I'm not mistaken fade to black B then A I think the intro anyway A,C.D. the body and a E I believe but he's getting that melodic tone by playing octaves that is to say in his strumming he emphasis both a say b note then followed with another b an octave higher but same Note in both one and fade to black, also sanitarium maybe not octaves in sanitarium but a similar trick, and starts riff then work his way up and ends on the octave. Not to go check and see if I'm right and I do remember everything I feel I did lol. I think you would like Metallica's black album also, nothing else matters, my guess will be right down your alley, if you like James voice that's about when he really started coming into his own and I believe when he finally took his first lesson with a voice coach, first time he learned to warm up before a show lol. Looking at a add for Seminary Gates and that's what triggered all that, that was the last song I ever played on a stage that was the song was playing when the fight broke out the night I quit, and if not for stroke I really was never playing again ever, never hope that you never lose that sparkle in your eyes, coming from the new and amazing places music and life can take you! I love days I get to learn something new, or remember something old for bringing me a little bit of that, from the bottom of my heart thank you C.J. p.s. Alice in chains! Amazing harmony another damn shame but awesome!

[@MaddogJones]

I was 14 when this album came out and going through some very dark times, this song saved me. Every word in the lyrics was what I was feeling but the final solo was so inspiring, so uplifting, so impactful that it showed me that there was a little light within the darkness and there was hope... I'm 54 now and have had battled depression all my life, this song has been my life line...

[@internuts11]

Your description is accurate their music does transport you

[@matthewr9506]

It's easy to get lost in this song, Thank you for another reaction, only 4 minutes in.\

[@emjay221]

Very grateful I got to see them on this tour, Feb 10, 1989 when I lived in Lakeland Florida. Also saw them in 1988 at Monster's of Rock in Tampa. They changed as a band after this album. Their next album was the last one that was truly one that I could enjoy. But I'm so glad I saw them while they were epic and amazing.

[@muskyhunter8086]

My absolute favorite Metallica song. Thanks for reviewing it.

[@ArtSailing]

Love this song - it was the first real song I learned to sing on my guitar.

[@desertriderukverun1002]

Interesting hearing you describe the gentleness of the music and singing in the beginning given what a dark song it is

[@Si74l0rd]

Watching you watching it for the first time gives me a glimmer of what it was like on my first listen of the song. What's remarkable is that this was composed in the early 80's, and was incredibly sophisticated by comparison with their demos and first album a couple of years earlier. For me the best song they ever did though was Master of Puppets. The combination of metal guitar and classical guitar influence gives it such depth and variety.

[@elbarbichou]

This song's a masterpiece (but as a Metallica fan, I may not be so objective ^^) English's not my native language but I'm not so bad when it comes to talk with english people or watch english videos (maybe not so much when writing ^^) And I have to say I love the way you seem to enjoy music and talk about it, letting your feelings show. Glad to have landed there, and wish you good things to come ;)

[@cyrilginestet2962]

I've been listening to Metallica for over thirty years. I can recommend the Metallica concert with the San Francisco Philharmonic Orchestra in 1994. One of the most beautiful music concerts I have ever heard.

[@topdawg1692]

the Live Greek Gladiator Coliseum concerts are epic - I've seen them 4 times in person

[@robertovasquez1538]

If you want to take a look to vocals, you should try "Bleeding me", live performance with The San Francisco Symphony from 1998. You won't regret it.

[@IcedEarth426]

At the risk of sounding weird, I have to say, your voice and your speech cadence in these analysis videos are very relaxing.