FIRST TIME REACTING TO | METALLICA "ENTER SANDMAN" REACTION

[@jimvin21]

Legend has it, people are still leaving this concert 32 years later.

[@Stephen-nd1sx]

Rock n roll man. Is it over...

[@MarkCucchiara]

That was humorous about 30 years ago...

[@blogz]

Look at it this way: Imagine you have like tiny little bit of stagefright :| could you imagine the amount of poop in your pants seing a never ending sea of humans stretch into the horizon....

[@scottgeorgeff2896]

Parking is a bitch... 🤘

[@user-fu8gq5xg5u1]

Some of them are just arrived to this concert

[@ItsDesm]

If I recall correctly, this was one of the first concerts in Russia after that fall of the Soviet Union. In other words, it was one. Of the first time western bands got to play after the dictatorship fell. Needless to say , there were millions of people in need of some heavy metal

[@brittreacts]

Oh wow!!!! Thanks for that history lesson. That’s a big deal!

[@rayrayray7494]

@@brittreacts it sure was there is conflicting reports on the actual number because there was no gate for this people just showed up but like you said it was a big deal at the time i love the fact the crowd knows the music even though it was previously illegal showing you the power of bootleg "western" music in their country witch im sure would have been extremely severe consequences if caught with it

[@apxah9727]

well, technical it was First'n'Last Metallica's concert in the USSR ( Scorpions are the most first western metal band in tne USSR)

[@Kirill_Fedorov1970]

firsy concert evere. Was there

[@MGower4465]

It was just before the Soviet fall, an effort to allow a little Western stuff in for those other than the Party elite and hold power a bit longer. It was a kind of Monsters of Metal, Metallica being 1 of 4 bands to play. The helicopters flying back and forth were trying to stir up the air as there was worry the people in the middle would not get enough oxygen - there were several deaths reported, in fact, but none officially chalked up to asphyxiation.

[@musicandmoviefan9217]

Just imagine 1.6 million people all singing and cheering at the same time....the power would vibrate your bones!!!

[@poplaurentiu4148]

After they run the tickets out, the rest of people that show-up got in for free, at this rock/metal monster concert not just Metallica played also AC/DC, Black Panther & The Crows among other.. 54 people were reported death (not sure how many injuries), helicopters were trying to cool the heat from so many fans & people side by side, imagine you are in the middle of such crowd and need to go to toilet.. the army soldiers were overwhelmed and eventually as we seen on the clip some of them took of caskets & clothes to flag them above the crowd.. But this is only the 5 or 6 position of biggest live concerts, the biggest was Rod Stewart who was performing to a 4,6 millions of people and 2,3 & 4 positions Jean Michele Jare live concerts..

[@RoverWaters]

About 300 thousand spectators came and came from other cities to the concert with the participation of PANTHERA, BLACK CROSE, METALLIKA, AS / DS and our EST. This concert was guarded by 11 thousand people: police, riot police, internal troops, rifle divisions of the Soviet Army. When the first bottles fell on their heads and two soldiers were taken away by an ambulance, angry law enforcement officers began to rush at anyone they did not like, beating people with their hands, feet and clubs. The space in front of the stage literally turned into a bloody battle that did not stop from the very beginning of the concert until midnight. According to the ambulance station, 56 people were taken to hospitals with serious injuries, of which 16 were military personnel." Oleg PSHENICHNY Photo by L. LAZAREV "Horizon №12'1991

[@noname2-190]

There was a guy that commented on another video that claims to have been in the U.S. Embassy 3 miles away and said it was still so loud in there even that far away 😂😂😂

[@ausmarkb]

The studio version would make for a better listen to fully get and appreciate the song itself, but this performance needs to be seen for the sheer energy and historical significance.

[@DoughtyLewis]

I have to agree, you get to feel the song and the lyrics better with the studio version and feels more like they are playing for you, being able to hear every sound each instrument is making and coming together to make the great songs they have produced.

[@zurnie]

This wasn't just a concert. It was an event that helped reshape the world.

[@skunkmonster1]

Until Trump screwed us in 2016

[@summergivens242]

The young people of Russia are the same as in the U.S. It's the government's that separate us.

[@jamesmaltese4437]

​@@skunkmonster1 get a life

[@skunkmonster1]

@@jamesmaltese4437 awww... poor widdle boo boo..... did that hurt your widdle feewings?

[@jamesmaltese4437]

@skunkmonster1 not at all, u just sound ignorant and triggered and it shows...

[@johnpressey5900]

In September 1991, only a month after the August Putsch failed, 1.6 million rock music fans converged in Moscow to enjoy the first open-air rock concert, as part of the Monsters of Rock series.

[@RonHarrisMe]

I am probably double Britt's age, I love watching her videos when she watches something from the 70's when I was a kid. I just see the world expanding experience she is getting by watch some of these older videos.

[@jash1281]

So much hope at the time, everything would change... 30 years later back at where we started

[@partsunknown33]

worse. Marxists took over the world and are massacring everyone

[@robclark8889]

This concert was the monsters of rock. The first concert after the fall of the Soviet Union, and it was free. 1.6 million people. 50+ deaths were said to have happened during the concert which I would say is a shame, but there were no reasons said as to what those deaths were from. Either way, to see a crowd that big, just amazes everyone.

[@RoverWaters]

1.6 million is a folktale invented on the internet there is no evidence there were 1,6 million people when Metallica played

[@williamcabell142]

They suck…metal is garbage! Just like rap!

[@SIR-DanielHunter]

@@RoverWaters yes it was there was people from the government counting the people in attendance and come up with the numbers of between 1 million and 1.7 million

[@RoverWaters]

@@SIR-DanielHunter no

[@Brian_Combs]

​​@@RoverWatersxcept for the video of the crowd and official count of people entering

[@woodywoodman2319]

That concert actually registered on the worldwide Richter scale... highest recording was 1.3 ... picked up by the European and Japanese scientists! Forgot what song it was... you can find it on the internet!

[@lawwdogg1digr]

Yeah, no.

[@lantose]

No way! A thunderbirds flyby at low altitude would blank out all the concert noise! That being the case, the Richter scale would be going off all the time. Anyway, the Richter scale measures earthquakes (earthly vibrations) with hundreds of millions of tons of pressure sending vibrations significantly more powerful than a stage full of speakers creating a meager 126 decibels!

[@kevinjanosik2604]

I think it's more about 1.6 million people jumping up and down at the same time than speakers creating decibels@@lantose

[@garytom1935]

Millions of people awesome event, awesome cool song yay 🤘😆🤘🎸🎸🥁🎤🔥🔥🔥

[@SIR-DanielHunter]

The guitar is a custom 1988 ESP MX220, aka “Fuk Em Up” not a flying v but he does own and plays flying v.

[@katherineschmidt2075]

That black kite shaped guitar the lead singer is using is his trademark guitar. He has it in cream/white and silver I think aswell. Info on this concert. 1.6million people, 53 people died. This was set at the Russian Airfield, they used helicopters overhead to create draft for all the people, as you imagine the heat 1.6million people would create. This was a gift to the people by the government this concert, right after the Iron Curtain came down on USSR /the Soviet union. In reality, western music wasn't allowed to be listened to, if you were caught with any you'd be hung, shot or jailed for it. Very intensely strict regime. Most hadn't seen or heard of western or other music apart from classical before this. The soldiers are the soldiers from the regime, who were there to crowd control, but most were like "no way, were with them and gonna enjoy ourselves."

[@emilianosintarias7337]

What are you talking about? the iron curtain came down in 89, not 91. and youtube is full of soviet rock and pop music from the 80s.

[@RoverWaters]

53 people injured, not dead

[@susanberrier5727]

​@Emiliano Sintarias western music meaning not from Russia. Meaning American music.

[@aushaheart8258]

All Metallica concerts used to be like this. I went to 3 of them. They were fun and you definitely felt them in your head 3 days after!

[@frikster5176]

Written by band members James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Kirk Hammett, "Enter Sandman" is about nightmares and things that go "bump" in the night. It has by far the most radio play of all of Metallica's songs. >>

[@markbailey3225]

Plagiarism at its finest lol

[@christopherallen9580]

@@markbailey3225 huh?

[@markbailey3225]

@@christopherallen9580 not sure what you mean Chris

[@susanberrier5727]

​@Mark Bailey they never pledgerlized anything. Take your hate elsewhere.

[@jeffhoover4175]

Jason Newsted!!! Hello.. He may have been a mistreated hired gun but was in the band too! He is and was a total Badass!!

[@Sihbus]

1.6 MILLION people! Biggest concert ever.

[@Fuel2Fireband]

Hell yea my favourite band my first band performed this song in 1992.

[@Jessedog11]

can you imagine how cool it must feel to play a crowd like that? it was a great time in those days.

[@randyobrien2836]

1.6 million people just after the Soviet Union collapsed the people were celebrating freedom. The sad thing is 54 people died during the concert.

[@timbaker6540]

Yes That is heavy Metal 🔥🤘🏼🔥🤘🏼

[@Roh_Echt]

The two largest concerts I've been to...both had 350k at each. Looking at the crowd at this 1991 MOR in Moscow looks to easily be more than 1 million. I saw Metallica in a small club with a capacity of 200 to 300 in SF, in early '83...I bought their first album later that year. Those were good times.

[@shaneeverett3026]

I went to the concert when this album was released in March 1992 Thompson bowling Arena Knoxville, TN it was a great concert

[@mztweety1374]

0:24 exactly 😂😂😂🥞🔥🎸🥁💜 Kirk Hammett has a very interesting guitar collection

[@dalesharp9953]

Can you imagine the love at this level

[@round1369]

Crowd were 1.6 mils, + soldiers, they loved it :)

[@mikecalif5553]

It abruptly ends because they go into the song Creeping Death immediately. You should watch that song also!

[@timlloyd1454]

Yes thats exactly what it is heavy metal hard rock

[@nathanfisher1826]

That was EPIC

[@stigpetersen9701]

Do “Creeping Death” from the same concert 🔥🔥…it will blow you away 🔥🔥🤘🤘

[@jedielder7970]

The intro (background) music being played at the concert, I'm almost sure, is "The Ecstacy of Gold," by Ennio Morricone, which was featured in the Clint Eastwood film, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. BTW, Britt, if you have not see that movie, you should. Anyhow, yeah, this is a bad ass song by Metalica. Welcome to metal / hard rock. PS: supposedly, there were 1.6 million people in attendance!

[@Keitenrenbu]

They could have literary told that crowd to do anything and they would have done it. That is insane paower!

[@sodapop8408]

Over 1,000,000 at that concert that was right after the Berlin Wall came down those people had just gotten there freedom

[@timlloyd1454]

1.6million in attendance largest concert in history👍👍 and Metallica holdsa couple other Guinness book of records 👍👍

[@markbailey3225]

This isn’t even in the top 3 largest crowd

[@susanberrier5727]

​​@Mark Bailey dude shut up

[@davidlebarron286]

This is basically the birth of what most people consider metal or rock music now. But they are THE metal band of their area

[@shawnwatson3025]

Estimated 1.6 million people. This was the Monsters of Rock concert, a free concert after the fall of the Soviet Union

[@mpz2068]

The biggest crowd I've been in was like 110,000 in over 100 degree heat at Ozzfest and it was insane. They had firehoses spraying into the crowd and security handing out water bottles. I can't even imagine a crowd that size!

[@mattfulgurite4746]

PANTERA "Domination" from the same show is legendary

[@tonylansdale9896]

Imagine being on stage and having the energy of this crowd hit you when you come out to play.

[@JN2130]

That is how Rock Concert were in the 70 and 80"s. Massive.

[@southernpatriot6169]

If I remember correctly there were 1.6 million people in attendance!

[@candyroq]

You MUST listen to this masterpiece recorded. I don’t think you can really hear it here. Yes, this is heavy metal.

[@rhoetusochten4211]

Metallica live is always Hetfield struggling to be heard over the crowd. It is great for the energy, but studio recordings show their refinement better

[@jasoncarreiro86]

I’m 52 years old, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen that footage that I can remember. That was incredible, watching that many people come together, in another country, to rock out. That was huge energy.

[@CreepinDeath359]

You gotta do the song Creeping Death from the same concert😊

[@iamjenniferjames]

♥ I was in the front row. I got home yesterday.

[@markbailey3225]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@acortilesso427]

you feel the metal and you become the metal.

[@safetsabani7919]

Officially 1.5 million people was on that concert. But real number was between 1.7 - 2.1 million. And that includes Ambulance, Fire department, Police, Army and volunteers. That was and still is the biggest concert ever.

[@garethmilford-scott1789]

Jean-Michel Jarre would like a word with you about that!

[@TheJerred187]

American rock is worldwide ROCK ON WORLD

[@jdovma1]

That guitar you love, it's a Gibson Explorer. I had one way back in the 90s. Black with a white pick guard. Loved that thing

[@TheeZulu]

I absolutely LOVE watching you react to some of the best music in it's class spanning so many decades. Everything from Elvis to Cash, - Vedder to Santana, Clapton to GnR and everything in between. In answer to your question, yes - this is considered Heavy Metal (aka Head Banger music :). Some of the best! Thank you for sharing your joy in discovering this music with the rest of the world.

[@MGower4465]

You might check out Metallica's S&M album. Which actually stands for Symphony & Metal. The band was joined by the San Francisco Symphony - and no, Metallica did not go unplugged. If you like the driving bass drum intro for Enter Sandman, you will love hearing the bass drum kick joined by timpani, kettledrums. When they did this live, orchestra members were scared half to death by the waiting crowd roaring at them - not the reaction their regular audiences give them. The joint collaboration was the idea of the symphony conductor, who wrote the music for how his people would join into Metallica's songs.

[@myreviews8099]

It was panned by most metalhead but I loved S&😊M. Forget "unplugged" the orchestra turned the power up not down

[@davidkennedy6227]

Check out Va Techs college football team , they come out to this song at home games, it's a awesome scene

[@christaylor5996]

Welcome to the world of metal. This is the real definition of ROCK STARS

[@chrismoore7287]

Organized chaos!! Love it!!!! 😃

[@andrewpierce4264]

Fun fact is there are rules to a mosh pit. Now another fun fact every tower you see in the video is a audio tower filled with speakers. I don't remember the square miles this covered but it was insane

[@lesgobrandon8038]

Your eyes upon seeing Jason Newsted the bass player flinging his hair around😂. He was a beast😊

[@dinabrown6529]

These are what you call Legendary bands. Along with the likes of U2 AC/DC The Stones..these are bands that will pull millions if the space allows and their music lives forever

[@mommabird2813]

Music is one thing that breaks barriers. The wall had just fallen, western music was forbidden in the USSR, this was a big fd. 🤘

[@patrickg.1170]

Correction...they said 1.6m but in reality they said it was well over 2m.

[@brittreacts]

😲😲😲😲

[@ndshreddermn]

Gotta check out the band - Jinjer, song - Pisces 🤘

[@2legit2quitNow]

Is this a Guinness book record for the biggest crowd at one time? It has to be I'm thinking 😮

[@stonecold6385]

You'd be surprised how non violent a metal concert can be. Yes the mosh pit is rough and sometimes way over the top but otherwise it's just all us Metal Heads rocking out and having a blast 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@Paulnesvold8482]

If I remember correctly, this was the monsters of rock concert that happened just after the fall of the Soviet Union. It was the first concert where bands from outside of the country were allowed to play. This concert was in the top 5 largest concerts in the world, coming in at 2.6 million people. The military had to bring their choppers in and hover over the people to stop them from getting heat stroke. There were over 50 people that died at that concert from heat stroke, or being trampled. James Hatfield the lead vocalist for Metallica said that the energy there was like getting struck by a lightning bolt.

[@carig121]

Totally insane concert, hard to imagine 1.6 million people coming to that airfield, no real utilities or structures to receive them, before it stared many slept on the floor and relieved themselves on the grass, but they just didn't care, they wanted the taste of freedom.

[@bobbyquinting3918]

Historical fact...... This song was much shorter, but the crowd loved it! So it continued.

[@Kimmielove70]

Thisssss well, go down in history as one of the greatest performances AC/DC was there if you've never check them out and check them out live at River plate💜💜

[@jonelmer3518]

you are correct... there were more than a million people in attendance

[@vicmusgrave1278]

Some of the heaviest medal

[@feanrassilmaril579]

I wrote a bachelor diploma about concerts and that i definitelly the biggest, loudest and wildest concert in history, estimated average from 1 to 1,6 million. Heaven.

[@georgacollier1620]

This is what a (tru) concert was all about. Nothing else mattered.

[@Klojum]

"Before we get started..." Yeah, that's an awesome moment to totally kill the build-up of the same.

[@Jmab-rv7jc]

It ubruptly ended because if was followed by a different song. A song which is faster and heavier than that. For people new to Metal, i always suggest to start reacting to songs that are in their commercial album(Black Album) And then slowly vet to the faster stuffcalled (Thrash Album). Or Live Performances. Coz Metal is great live. 1. Fade To Black( Live in Moscow) 2. Sad but True.(Music Video) 3. Nothing Else Matters(Music Video) 4. One(Music Video) 5. Master of Puppets(Live in SD)

[@kongJr]

metallica is a rabbit hole to go into ... my favourite song is the version of creeping death done at that concert.. having 1.6 million russians yelling "die die die" is insane... but really .. a lot of their early works pre-90s are great. some stuff later is good, but different. their 80's stuff was on another level.

[@botabob]

The bass player for RHCP would whip his hair back in the day.

[@therealcarter1353]

Love me some Britt. This Concert Was CRAZY

[@joseesparza7488]

Monsters of Rock festival in Moscow. 1991. First western music show after the fall of the Soviet Union. 1.5 million people.

[@onpoint315]

“How many people are there!”….all of them

[@ericcoleman551]

So fun to be front row at a show. Absolute fun craziness

[@anarchclown]

I've seen Metallica live 4 times in my life. The first time I was 15 years old I think. It is indeed a very intense experience even if there isn't a million people there (biggest one I was at was about 60.000 from what I have heard).

[@DarkAngel1985Mike]

Brings me back to elementary school, I was in 1st grade at the time

[@cletus1n3]

This concert was amazing; they were playing in Moscow, the first time a group of western bands had been allowed to play in the former Soviet Union (this is why you see the soldiers and the helicopters, the authorities still believed that this would taint their population with 'western influence'.) The fact that some of the troops placed there to keep the crowd cowed and under control were also just vibing with the music shows how much western soft power (good music, jeans, freedom in general) had to do with the end of the Cold War going our way. (I know this stuff first hand, while this show was happening I was stationed in Korea facing off the North, who still haven't given up on the Cold War).

[@HalSchirmer]

Supposed to be the first open-air rock concert to register on the Richter Scale. Not because they (may) have outdone 'The Who' Guinnes Book of World Records at 126 decibels. Apparently they just stopped counting at 1.6 million said "Nyet" and just opened the gates. So, ~2 million people, all jumping, is 150,000 tons. That's roughly one thousand blue whales. (Cue Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy references "Ground, wonder if it will be friends with me..")

[@chriswest6090]

The biggest single crown for any show anywhere .

[@garystubbs5503]

Legend has it that people are still leaving this concert. ;)

[@stephenpaxman6180]

there is 1.6 million people there

[@Raggmopp-xl7yf]

This was free and the only place large enough was a military airfield. Those military helicopters flying overhead were armed and were there to protect the stage and would have fired on the crowd if they got out of hand. This was a truly historic event (this video is in the Library of Congress) as this was the end of the Cold War (Berlin Wall had just been torn down 2 years earlier) the end of the Soviet Union and this was the 1st time western bands were allowed to play in the USSR. They say there were 1.6 million people - but they don't mention they stopped counting at 1.6 million. During the next song Creeping Death that entire crowd jumped simultaneously yelling Die! Die! Die! to the USSR (and they meant it!) and set off seismometers miles away!

[@Davey_bfg71]

This part of the Monsters of Rock shows where many more acts took to that stage. In 1991 it was around the time that the Soviet Union was collapsing so the people of the Soviet Union (now Russia) of course were out in force to greet their music heroes over 1.5 million at a disused airfield. Can you just imagine being there?!!

[@PaulImprota]

1.6 million headbanging metal heads

[@danielbenincasa770]

Yes 1st concert just months of the fall of Soviet Union, Moscow 1991. Yes a massive crowd. One of the largest concert to take place ever. 1.6 million people there. This is one of my favorite Heavy Metal Bands. 80's I saw them. I believe the bassist is the second one. The 1st died I believe 1986.

[@markcurrier8362]

Thank you for that. Great job Britt.

[@auntypc4791]

Some concerts go down in history and the 1991 ‘Monsters of Rock’ festival in Moscow was no exception. Known as one of the biggest concerts to ever take place, with a huge 1.6 million attendees, it marked the most momentous of performances for the heavy metal band Metallica. The record-breaking crowds that day are thought to have only been seen on four other occasions. Monsters of Rock was a series of rock concerts that first started in 1980. What was intended as a one-off event, soon became a yearly celebration of heavy metal, growing in momentum and attendance, and traveling across the world. 1991 was a historical year for that year’s host Moscow, with a series of events that ultimately led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and its Communist rule. The hosting of the country’s first, free open-air rock concert in Tushino Airfield was as a result, incredibly significant to the people of Russia. It was these factors that make the Monsters of Rock performance, the favorite tour moment for lead vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter of Metallica James Hetfield. The electrical lineup that day was made up by the likes of AC/DC, The Black Crowes and Mötley Crüe, but it was Metallica who attracted and stole the heavy metal hearts of over 1.6 million fans. In video footage of the iconic performance, ten years after the band first formed, helicopters can be seen trying to calm the excitable rock fans. In the crowds, there is a surprising site of military personnel, shedding their uniforms and letting loose to the headbanging tunes.

[@TheJakeanthony]

As mentioned before, this was a rare concert, though I have seen them a few times with 150k ppl, this was huge. It may seem dangerous, but us rockers do have a code to help each other. Bring on Download !!

[@robertfisher517]

METAL IN THE HOUSE!!!!!

[@LorcrystNySell]

The "Giants of Rock" tour just after the fall of the USSR and the Iron Curtain. Day long concert, with several bands, and ONE POINT SIX MILLION PEOPLE. Those military people in the crowd were NOT security, they were there to give water bottles. Those helicopters were NOT security, they flew over the crowd to push fresh air down. Still the biggest live concert EVER.

[@timnye718]

This is what 1.6 million people looks like!

[@wadebuck69]

Supposedly the helicopters flying over were used as giant fans to help keep people from heat stroking. Also did you notice the towers in the distance? They were speaker towers that had to be set up with a delay because the sound would get so distorted at those distances. I went to many general admission concerts in the late 80's through when they went to all reserved seating. General admission concerts were awesome

[@ericpohlmeyer4116]

Love you Girl you got the stuff!

[@sludge86]

“Whoa that guitar is cool!” Lol

[@scottishfm5184]

Another great song of there's is nothing else matters a realy beautiful piece of music even sir Elton John loves it

[@1lthrnk]

This was Monsters Of Rock, Moscow, 1991: 1.6 million the second largest concert 1991. The largest is Jean Michel Jarre, Moscow, 1997: 3.5 million

[@richiewest7495]

My new fave to watch. Rock out with Van Halen next... his solo in 1986. Be bklown away. Hugs.