Metallica Has a Money Problem...

[@Tangent_Frank]

HE LOOKS EXACTLY HOW I IMAGINED!... SLEEP DEPRIVED

[@eliasmg9144]

And probably unwashed

[@milankovacevic-e9b]

I was about to comment this 😂

[@Ballstik]

he's just like me fr fr

[@Paul.......]

DADDY

[@shaetteb1272]

I'm glad we all had the same mental image

[@persenham]

Coolea jumpscare 0:22

[@tasha_masha41]

He's kinda cute ngl ❤

[@tasha_masha41]

@@marinanieto7670 doesn't matter cuz he cute 😏

[@Terminal_Assault]

​@@tasha_masha41 gey

[@noodel3374]

tbh I thought that was just another, newer brainrot clip until he appeared a third time 😭😭

[@AlfredLennart]

absolutley terrefeying

[@dudenamedchris3325]

You look exactly like I expected you to

[@Jezus42]

A furby head and normal body? No he doesn't. 😂

[@promethiamoore6462]

​@@Jezus42 yeap

[@workhorse401]

Absolutely stressed out and tired?

[@-Lilith-Angel-]

He should do the smut girl wañt

[@_cosmix_]

Bros voice fits extremly well.

[@treyk-4721]

Forgot this mf was british

[@AK47_Aki]

How could you with that accent lol

[@Paul.......]

You only remember after SEEING him?

[@eze4life1000]

🤯

[@glorbojibbins2485]

Bri ish

[@hysteria781]

The comments are sending me omfg

[@rileydport]

Average sleep deprived dungeon synth trap producer

[@chernobylcoleslaw6698]

Varg's bastard child

[@Cirypmav57]

Accurate

[@The_Rotting_Peach]

Wait coolea isn't actually a goblin

[@unnamedguy2191]

I mean, he looks pretty goblin-ish regardless.

[@Attacian]

He's british. the most gobliny you can be as a human.

[@Juan-rd5jf]

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined☹️

[@cozatly-6520]

Germs pfp spotted in the wild

[@zetho.270]

he was a goblin the whole time and this is his avatar

[@Daapse]

0:24 i thought you said corpse paint was goofy

[@Quadr44t]

oof 🔥 Look at it like this, Coolea. Teasing is a sign of affection

[@LampShade0123]

We got a Coolea reveal before GTA 6 💀

[@soldierman3828]

Im going to touch you

[@cartercolson7975]

QUIET

[@ndogg20]

0:21 The CGI Coolea had me fooled for a second, looked so real, just needed green skin and a wizards hat.

[@Bigcheese747]

Coolea jumpscare

[@ceoofcroatia]

Holy shit coolea face reveal

[@jlmenard7688]

Hey Coolea I think if you make more content with your actual face in it, you should wear silly costumes like your avatar but like in real life

[@Hotsaucebauce3943]

I second this

[@dandexter8322]

Brilliant idea!

[@danplaysguitar6706]

hell yeah

[@Gliese710_]

Yes

[@hamishanderson6738]

You mean this isn't?😅

[@graymatters_]

A shallow look at the Napster lawsuit may leave you thinking that Metallica sued the file-sharing service because of the possibility of losing money for themselves, but in actuality they did it to protect smaller artists whose music was being stolen on Napster. Lars Ulrich sued Napster to protect the bands that could not afford to loose money. Ulrich knew that if any band was going to put an end to it, it would be Metallica because they had already earned enough money, and they had enough to sue.

[@mattd1659]

This isn’t really the case though. Napster existed at a time when the primary way of consuming music was by buying CDs - yes Napster encouraged illegal file sharing, but it didn’t significantly reduce the money made by either the record labels or artists (Metallica aside) via sales of physical media. File sharing existed alongside physical media. Fast forward 20 years, the primary way of consuming music is now streaming, a system where by the majority of money made goes to the streaming sites and the record labels - the artists have been cut out of the loop entirely. File sharing didn’t cause this, and Metallica didn’t help anything.

[@spencerwilliams461]

Tankies won't understand this. Lol. Well said. Oh and the industry S**t the bed due to the events that began with Napster. It is what it is. Music is less important, less relevant and less meaningful to most.

[@kevintanza6968]

@@spencerwilliams461 Exactly. These are the same people who complain about artists not making a living and then complain about an artist defending his right to make a living. It's also this stupid mindset of younger generations who grew up downloading music as if it was nothing. Are the people criticizing Lars for the Napster lawsuit buying records and merch to support the bands they love? Probably not.

[@kevintanza6968]

@@mattd1659 You're gaslighting. Napster was just the beginning and it became the norm. Lars might have done it for his own gain but it was also helping other bands in the process.

[@mattd1659]

@@kevintanza6968 Not sure you know what gaslighting means, but ok. I know file sharing was common, I was doing it a lot, but my point is that I was also still buying cds. It existed in an ecosystem with each other - that might have been for better or worse in the eyes of record labels, and the further you got into the late 00s the more they clamped down on it. But it’s wrong to say Metallica initiated their lawsuit for purely altruistic reasons. If that was the case, where are they now? Where’s their lawsuit against Spotifys meagre payment system? Why aren’t they fighting for the independent artists who are now cut out of the loop in the streaming system? Who can’t tour because they don’t make enough from streaming? They don’t care because they’re not the ones losing money.

[@martinfischermann6194]

You're actually pretty handsome

[@ElParisG59]

yeah he's kinda cute

[@chicagotransitauthority3161]

Omg coolea youtube face reveal

[@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245]

Fr that was the first time??

[@chicagotransitauthority3161]

@@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245 as far as i know, yes. he’s shown his face on twt and instagram, but not here

[@kjlim3743]

Congrats on the 100k man! You deserve it!

[@roxandlol_1272]

he looks exactly like his goblin persona but cuter

[@kinnbenet]

Fr!

[@Bigcheese747]

Love your videos coolea you have some awesome edits and also I just love the goblin he is very silly

[@spedwest5380]

he got that nik nocturnal been awake for 5 days straight vibe.

[@whocares-jv9hd]

Dude looks like his avatar

[@YuriNikolajavič]

Coolea face reveal jumpscares all over the video

[@Arkanthrall]

1:23 Lars Ulrich: Drummer, "Metallica" Wrong, it should be: Lars Ulrich: "Drummer", Metallica

[@jbank7547]

He chose the black metal face paint as a default setting in character creation

[@lcope9]

looks EXACTLY how I thought he'd look 😭 a handsome sleep deprived fella

[@tasha_masha41]

I knew coolea was a cutie pie and ...sleep depraved

[@nataleeeistrange35]

i already saw ur face on ig BUT I DIDNT EXPECT A JUMPSCARE LIKE THAT WHOAAAA

[@issaccartwright736]

Bro who is the AI goblin looking thing that keeps popping up? Not the green one.

[@Thigamabob]

0:23 *I just died in your arms tonight!* 😮😯😲

[@yourstereotypicalnerd]

Bro couldnt find a shitpost to fill the scene so he just threw his face in

[@Iamnothereijustsee]

Get yourself a Marlboro red and a cheddar jalapeno hotdog bro. Look like you need it

[@petrab.7780]

To be fair, digitization was a disaster for artists, rich or poor. Streaming is just not a sustainable model in terms of compensating artists, especially smaller ones who have less power and clout than bands like metallica. Napster might have been more like tape swapping, but everything that followed it was very much not. I get the frustration, but the napster lawsuit made sense even if it wasnt good PR. How are artists going to make music if they cant eat well enough to play?

[@manofthewest5395]

Pretty much.

[@kevintanza6968]

I don't see how people can say Lars was in the wrong here. He was fighting for his band and other bands' right to make money with their music.

[@sonicmojo]

​@@kevintanza6968 Absolutely, I've been a musician since the mid-80s, early 90s and and by the mid to late 2000s I was forced to give up on music completely. You just could not compete anymore with streaming services you can't make a buck of album sales. Screaming platforms suck up all the money and pay the artist zilch! Actually I ended up making more money playing at flea markets with a one-man band for like the last 5 years that I ever did before. Then came covid and annihilated even that! It's a sad State of Affairs for musicians and artists. Demonizing Lars Ulrich & Metallica is ridiculous and stupid. Instead of wasting time attacking musicians and artists, people should be out there supporting what's left of us content creators. This is the number one reason why music on the radio today pretty much sucks and you don't have any good crop of either music or musicians or bands for that matter!

[@Platinumsfex]

Napster wasn't even like tape sharing. Tape sharing was a lower quality copy of a copy that was passed around friends and associates. The reach was limited and the audio quality could never match that of an official CD/cassette/vinyl record. Napster was CD quality file sharing between millions of people.

[@sonicmojo]

Napster / downloading Killed the rock and roll star!!!

[@gypsydildopunks7083]

I only get about 3-4 hours of sleep a night too, Mr. Coolea

[@ESPmrBrough]

nah they make good money they've got a music problem

[@Figwumberton]

Idk why, but to me the way Coolea looks really gives off a 'alt kid that grew up in a dying medium-sized former manufacturing city in the midwest' sorta vibe

[@mathgrindnoise]

0:23 BEHOLD!! The face behind the goblin!

[@mariyatakeuchi9009]

I just died in your arms tonight

[@-Lilith-Angel-]

I wish you were really her.

[@-Lilith-Angel-]

Peak life

[@-Lilith-Angel-]

If you'd be here

[@lt.reubenrozeyt5716]

Wait your telling me Coolea is not Green Wizard Goblin with a British accent?

[@talkingmudcrab718]

I'm literally the reason why IUPUI (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis) was cited in Metallica's lawsuit against Napster. I worked in the IT Dept and me and friend set up a node for Napster file sharing. As soon as Metallica started making a stink I made sure their catalogue was port forwarded to all requests. I got fired, but It was funny.

[@kc_m00n89]

im ready coolea...

[@thepspman116]

Lars fully admits to this day that the deal with napster wasn't very smart on his end, to be the face of that from the music industry. That court case though at the time actually had major implications on copyright laws, plagiarism etc. Call it what you want but if that's your content being shared and profited from and you weren't seeing paychecks, i'd be pissed too.

[@spencerwilliams461]

Most tankies on KZbin and Social Media just want bands not to make money and for socialist garbage to be pushed and justified. They don't care about facts or reality.

[@simplebutnotsolongname6642]

More so that he could’ve been smarter about it since it made him look like a complete douche to many people.

[@GobSnick2324]

I can't tell if you used so many Lars Ulrich clips because it's funny to rag on that Large Ulcer or because having him on screen makes you seem more human compared to his utter gobliness

[@rustyshackelford6401]

I always thought he was just geopold with a voice filter

[@staidenofanarchy]

The wild thing about Lars' Napster comments, is that he was completely right about what ended up happening.

[@theloaf9346]

real ones remember sloppy shake as the first face reveal. Also great video!

[@jaymz010]

Er...In retrospect Metallica was proven right 🤨 Napster was guilty of copyright infringement & severely reduced the royalties received by artists. 360 Record Deals came out of fileshare. It took until 2015 for the record industry to finally move into recovery. It’s value dropped every year from 2000 to a low of $15bn in 2014. And the ecosystem to support emerging or mid-level acts is STILL not there. Even with Spotify’s success the industry’s value last year is still only half of its 1999 peak.

[@spencerwilliams461]

Accurate post. Things were never the same. A lot of genres fell by the wayside with this too.

[@monk3ysmuggler]

Screw the music industry's value, that's the worst metric of success you could point to as far as how well individual artists are doing. Go play live shows or go see some live performances in small venues and buy the album or merch from the artist directly if you want to support emerging or mid-level acts and stop worrying about how much money the industry is making. We have the tools to make DIY work and ram a spike through the heart of the industry once and for all. Support artists not industry!

[@404sutibi7]

At first, he seemed very corpse like but it has a charm to it

[@thomasmann9727]

After seeing you in person the "unwashed metal fan" remark has now a hole new spin on it :D

[@danplaysguitar6706]

bro is handsome and also needs sleep

[@motelmicrowave]

I demand wigs and props be used for your videos

[@allmightymyself8205]

Yo Coolea love your Music by the way.

[@mblair5327]

My friends could all afford albums they were pretty cheap. When Napster came around suddenly they couldn't afford albums. My friends could afford to rent movies. When they could get them online free suddenly they couldn't afford movies.

[@someirishguy1662]

Damn Coolea looks like my friend

[@fofortyfo]

rare sight of Irish says you ok Brit

[@MrOoYT]

@@fofortyfowe all have some things in common but we like to ignore them

[@ΝικοςΜπαρλος-γ4υ]

everyone keeps shitting on lars for suing napster but everyone is pissed about spotify not paying artists

[@spencerwilliams461]

Tankies gonna tankie.

[@LeDardeursPalace]

Bro sorta looks like his Goblin avatar and i'm here for it. Goblin gang, rise up.

[@hysteria781]

Dont buy concealer your eyes are fine king

[@nataliefurst9587]

awww I loved seeing his face

[@YoutheMasterofUnlocking]

dude's vtuber rig malfunctioned

[@omegaXXIV]

This video explains the references behind so many Metalocalypse episodes. I can't believe I didn't pick up on these before. I'll just go to my poseur corner now and sulk.

[@damsaucy]

looking like british nik noc ngl

[@MetalPersonJ]

Fantastic video as always, and after your face reveal I will from this point forward believe you are slaying no less than three poontang. I do have a few comments: a) That demo of I Disappear couldn’t have made it on the radio without someone from the Metallica camp getting it there. Makes you wonder if they were sick of the band writing buttock and thought leaking it would put a stop to it. b) That fake ad on the VMA where Wayans talks about “that crappy show you hosted.” I actually do remember Lars hosting a show on Vh1 waaaaaaay back in the day but I can’t remember what it was called for the life of me. c) I’ll admit the Camp Chaos cartoons were funny, but it was a pretty bitch move not to make one of Eminem and Dr. Dre.

[@Awimpyman69]

Everyone talking about the face reveal, but the new editing is tight dude, good work

[@jorgenitales5882]

Clearly, they don't follow his insta (hard pics inside)

[@michaelwills1926]

It’s like girls dunking on another girl’s makeup

[@eetfuk6546]

My guy ran out of meme footage so he filmed himself talking to a monitor

[@Melatonine1987]

He looks like ville valo

[@magepunk2376]

Part of what makes metal cool is the counter-cultural, underground nature of most of it. The moment a band becomes everything that the genre stands against is the moment that band isn’t cool anymore.

[@vicentehernandez5913]

Just before I played the video I got the fucking yousician Metallica add

[@mors.]

you look exactly how i imagine, keep up with the awesome content dawg

[@brancor14]

COOLEA JUMPSCARE HELP

[@rintheguy4227]

I can’t wait to become the artist Ever and coolea call my band pretty shite in a video

[@docvince1491]

For any other band going against Napster would’ve been career suicide.

[@manintheshed9830]

Coolea do you need nutrients? those eyes man. I can help

[@jdeh5218]

People talk shit but now people realize that he had a point

[@ericgriffin120]

Lars was right

[@greasergaming156]

2:10 A new era is upon us, appreciate the face reveal ♥️

[@ll7868]

In the 80s I had dozens of pirated tapes of live metal shows, including Metallica. I was at the Metallica/Raven show in August '83 in Portland, before Kill 'Em All released, there were dozens of pirated copies from practically every live show they performed recorded, copied and sold by fans right alongside the No Life Till Leather and Metal Up Your Ass demos, cassettes and VHS, Cliff Burton's most famous version of Anesthesia in Chicago just a couple weeks earlier was a fan made VHS bootleg, it's got millions of views on YT and Metallica isn't making a dime off it. HAHAHA!! Annihilator was doing live shows for a couple years before Alice In Hell released, the only way to listen to them outside a live show was to get ahold of a pirated tape, I made 7 or 8 myself, the band knew I was recording them so I could play it for my friends and didn't care, Randy Rampage was a friend of my dad from his days as bassist for DOA along with Chuck Biscuits who gave me my first drum lessons, Randy would give me free tickets to Annihilator and DOA shows.

[@honigdachs.]

Somebody's taking about things they don't understand anything about.

[@kimbye1]

Metallica has worked for decades and they are entiteled to get payed for their work, that's what Metallica and especially Lars was arguing. Seeing the shambles the music industry is in today, in retrospect Lars was completely right.

[@qombie]

When I saw ur face I didn’t react to it because i thought it was a goofy clip XD

[@shadquirk607]

Metallica have been completely and utterly vindicated over the Napster issue, as unequivocally proven by the modern streaming economy.

[@MetalPersonJ]

Yeah, honestly, going after Napster was the one thing they did right in the 90s.

[@matzepeng3371]

Greets from Germany, keep on with your great videos

[@jamestrageser3753]

Now that we have seen your face, i now must demand an ignorant guide to deathcore

[@hcdemoman]

Coolea looks like REALLY drunk Ville Valo

[@jayson3900]

20 ish years later & kids still don’t get it. Lars was right. Y’all keep coping over it though.

[@Tragic_TV]

Real ones know that coolea showed his face on a secret livestream before this video

[@MonguMouh]

John Lemon's Face Reveal 0:22

[@samuelsim7457]

You sir, look like someone who takes his music Seriously.

[@naganeen0]

St. Anger..... I need say no more

[@DamienKarras1]

I'm one of those "nothing in Metallica after Cliff is good" people but I will forever defend Lars/Metallica for their fight against Napster and stealing music. I don't know if anything could have stopped it but when stealing (downloading unauthorized content) is normalized, you're not gonna hurt the Metallicas or the Taylor Swifts, you're killing the independent acts that travel in beat-up vans and rusted trailers playing clubs and small theaters. Metallica and those groups have made their money - there's no way they can ever outspend it. Those small bands that don't have the sponsorship deals are the ones that need every cent to finance shows, buy equipment, and eat are the ones that are the real victims of the "5 bucks for some audio files?!?! I'll just copy buddies files for free!" mentality that Napster and the others have fostered. #LarsWasRight

[@ledonutqc9250]

Ignorant guide to french punk next pls. Great vid btw

[@alfredkennethwidows5808]

Fello brit here based in dorset, where you from g, you sound like you're from Buckingham, and look like you're from london.

[@Giga_Joe]

Casual face reveal

[@benkeller6027]

And then came Pirate Bay and others. After that, TOR and the dark net became the new norm. There's no stopping file transfers. Also the music industry is crashing and burning. No one is really buying physical copies anymore. Concerts are way too expensive to attend. Insurance costs have risen putting live music venues into trouble of closing. These rich musicians have destroyed the music industry in my eyes.

[@IJustFiguredThisOut]

So much of this is taken extremely out of context, and also there are quite a few incorrect things in this. This seems more like a Lars hate video that stems from seeing countless Lars memes for years, which itself stems from the Napster thing. The reality of the Napster lawsuit, and while yes you have the main points of it right, but you're telling it the same way an ex-girlfriend describes her ex-boyfriend to her current boyfriend, you're only telling the "shitting on Lars" parts. The reality was quite a bit different. And I hate to break it to you but most musicians, bands, the goal is to usually get signed to a label and to be able to book shows, sell tickets, make money from this, make a living as a musician. The band will then become a business, legally, at a certain point in time. And then when bands get super massive, these businesses get that much larger. How exactly do you think it works? For years they put considerable money and effort into making the albums to sell, and made money off the albums, and would go on tour to support the album. Make any argument you want about Radiohead having better sales because fans heard the song first on Napster, it's a load of shit. The argument taking away Napster was going to hurt smaller bands is too a load of shit. Hindsight being 20/20, no one buys albums for decades now, and smaller bands, anyone can release music if they wish on KZbin, even as early as MySpace. These guys saw what the future possibly could hold the second they saw Napster, and rightfully so went after it. I was even one of those usernames on that list. You can look at things realistically, or you can look at things like you did in this video.

[@nikolaievans2432]

Yeah it seems like this is another piracy is justified video lars is greedy blah blah blah

[@spencerwilliams461]

Well said. It did ultimately destroy the music industry.

[@kevintanza6968]

@@nikolaievans2432 People who hate on Lars for THIS event don't understand how the real world works.

[@kevintanza6968]

Apparently musicians defending their rights to make money with their music is a problem. As if Lars had to still living in a shit apartment and making no money to be proven as a "real" musician. Starving artist mindset and victim culture is a real thing. Lars did the right move there and the writing was on the wall. Now guys like the one on the video are saying "Oh, poor musicians" while complaining that someone was against illegal downloading.

[@DeweyJHall1]

Lars was right. This "Lars bad" narrative has been going on for 20 yrs, it's time to get over it

[@Bigcheese747]

At 6:06 Lars looks like shaggy

[@biloudz358]

Zoinks

[@pikkisful]

there are many companies, ads etc. that use the MetallicA font. I know one company that uses the metallica st. anger design on their logo

[@kellarkenderson9875]

Some ppl just make a shitty logo but with a metal band mascot or a horrible graffitti of a band logo, idk like "GARY'S AUTOPARTS" 😂😂😂

[@craig69420]

Bro ran out of memes and had to start using his face for footage.

[@hysteria781]

Metalica bad bleeehhhh!!!!! Love the all white bg looks like the ward im in rn!

[@fr0stbite797]

Is he trying to say Napster wasn’t a detriment to the music industry as a whole? No Metallica was 100% right about Napster, and any other take is just straight cope of like “oh I want free stuff with no foresight over the consequences of me getting this free stuff”.

[@StanTorrent]

Mate, piracy is not stealing. You’re sharing files which get copied.

[@uselessthing3429]

WEE CUR?!? I'LL 'AVE YE KNOW I GRADUATED TOP O' ME CREW ON THE JOLLY ROGER, 'N I'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN NUMEROUS SECRET RAIDS ON THE PORTS O' BARBADOS, 'N I 'AVE O'ER 300 CONFIRMED SCUTTLES. I AM TRAINED IN NAVAL WARFARE 'N I BE THE TOP GUNNER THIS SIDE O' THE CARIBBEAN. YE BE NAUGHT T' ME BUT JUS' ANOTHER TARGET. I WILL WIPE YE THE FUCK OUT WIT' PRECISION THE LIKES O' WHICH 'AVE NE'ER BEEN SEEN AFORE ON THESE SEAS, MARK ME FUCKIN' WORDS. YE RECKON YE CAN GET AWAY WIT' SAYIN' THAT SHIT T' ME BY LETTER? RECKON AGAIN, SCALLYWAG. AS WE SPEAK I AM WRITIN' ME SECRET NETWORK O' CAPTAINS ACROSS THE SEAS, 'N YER BOOTY BE MIGHTY TRACED RIGHT NOW SO YE BETTER PREPARE FER THE FLEET, MAGGOT; THE FLEET THAT WIPES OUT THE PATHETIC WEE THING YE CALL YER LIFE. YE'RE FUCKIN' DEAD, SPROG. I CAN BE ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, 'N I CAN SCUTTLE YE IN O'ER SEVEN HUNDRED WAYS, 'N THAT'S JUS' WIT' ME BARE HANDS. NAY ONLY AM I EXTENSIVELY TRAINED IN THE ART O' MUSKETRY, BUT I 'AVE ACCESS T' AN ENTIRE ARSENAL O' CUSTOM-MADE CUTLASSES, WHICH I WILL USE T' THAR FULL EXTENT T' WIPE YER MISERABLE ARSE OFF THE FACE O' THE CONTINENT, SCOURGE O' THE SEVEN SEAS. IF ONLY YE COULD 'AVE KNOWN WHA' UNHOLY RETRIBUTION YER WEE "CLEVER" REMARK WAS ABOUT T' BRING DOWN UPON YE, MAYBE YE WOULD 'AVE HELD YER FUCKIN' TONGUE; BUT YE DIDN', YE COULDN’T, 'N NOW YE'RE T' PAY THE TOLL, YE SCURVY CUR. I WILL RAIN GRAPESHOT ALL O'ER YER FLEET 'N YE WILL BE LEFT AS SMITHEREENS. YE'RE FUCKIN' DEAD, SCALLYWAG.

[@simplebutnotsolongname6642]

@@StanTorrentAnd Yet Napster wasn’t contacting the Artist Making them much less Paying them to have them manage it.

[@StanTorrent]

@@simplebutnotsolongname6642 And spotify isn’t paying artists much either. The best option is to buy the music, and people who pirate music have a higher statistical chance of buying music than idiots who rely on streaming

[@itzs0weezee]

Yooo it’s Vinny Vinesauce

[@kachiigadn2831]

Please don’t change your editing style