Metallica - The End Of The Line REACTION & REVIEW! FIRST TIME HEARING!

[@matinmirnaghibi5846]

Glad you got to dig into this album it's a very underrated record full of bangers

[@C_L_W_N_W_R_L_D]

Sometimes when I drive my car and this song comes up I can’t help but turn down my windows and crank up the volume to 11. It’s that kind of a song for me. I just love it and I love death magnetic in general. No idea what everybody complains about the mix and I almost don’t care. People love to giving Metallica shit for the silliest reasons and I just try to ignore them and enjoy the music. I’m glad you liked this one and I hope to see more from death magnetic on your channel.

[@AllAboutLuhig]

I think Death Magnetic, even with the mixing errors, is a very good and underrated album, in my opinion it's the best album since AJFA

[@Kenjames10]

I am happy you liked this one as it's my personal favourite song by Metallica. The riffs, the transitions and the great lyrics delivered in style by James. I guess 8.8 is fair enough since the mix isn't that great. I personally think the mix is fine but maybe the guitars and especially the drums are too loud. That being said you should have done the live version from Quebec 2009 as the sound quality is flawless and the performance is epic as hell!

[@gianwinters]

Its a locomotive riff by James, such physical skill and precision demands from this song

[@_kcy033]

Finally ! I love when theres some Metallica on the channel .. Hope one day youll get to my request for "The Judas Kiss" since its their most complete song since Jutice era .. Also Suicide and Redemption

[@zeplica2004]

agree 2 great songs i saw them do the judas kiss

[@_kcy033]

@@zeplica2004 Same on my first show in 2010 they performed lots of song's from DM, best day ever!

[@zeplica2004]

@@_kcy033 if i remember right they played 6 songs from DM all 9 times i saw them on that tour!!

[@mrsirperson9656]

The Judas Kiss is very good

[@oscardiggs246]

The problem with this album isn't the mix, it's the levels. They pushed it really hard and there is distortion even without turning it up. That said, I love the album, but the loudness is a flaw.

[@Owlyross]

Exactly this. The mix is absolutely fine. But it's compressed to hell. The Moderus version is the only one I listen to now simply because it helps these fantastic songs to shine

[@brunomunoz467]

About the production you talked about in this song, metallica did a little trick called reupload a ""remastered"" version of the album to youtube (wich is basically the itunes or guitar hero, idk, remaster version) without telling anyone, because trust me, the original version of the album had an insane amount of "bleed" on the guitars and was really loud....not as bad as st anger production, that isn't fixed nor remastered, on that album you only have the live versions of the songs that sound great

[@Defensive_Wounds]

Everyone does that now, edits the past... :/ Here is an example of how bad it was!! ---->>> kzbin.info/www/bejne/bH_JoqOoaN6aick From 7mins14secs is where I feel my ears bleeding...lol

[@MBx19v]

I think the main issue with the mix of this album is that you can see the potential, the loss of space within the official album releases highlighted with the audio you can get from the Guitar Hero games where it's less compressed and loud make it even more noticeable.

[@redgamer821]

Every sound mixer in the world should obtain a restraining order on the person who mixed this album

[@petrilampela]

The main riff is quite similar to "Why Go" by Pearl Jam. I don't remember anyone complaining about the mix itself, but the way it's compressed to be as loud as possible. For many it was the pinnacle of the loudness wars. Funny thing about Justice for All, I remember hearing that album when it was released and I actually fell in love with the production right away. Puppets was very warm and had tons of reverb but Justice came at you through the headphones and punched you in the face. I loved that and still do.

[@lsc9338]

I wanted to learn about Metallica, but I didn't know what song I should start listening to. And today, I found a nice song thanks to this channel!

[@heighleybaily8037]

I love the drive of this song, it feels faster than a 4/4 time with all the subdivisions. Great song for a road trip

[@nathanrodriguez914nr]

Anyone saying the bass is as buried as it was on Justice is full of it. This album is overproduced and strangely mixed, but the bass is audible. People don't seem to take into account that this was their first album without Bob Rock producing since "black album", instead going with Ric Rubin. Also, I really fully embrace this album, considering its the album following St. Anger.

[@zgillet]

The one time I saw Metallica live... was this era with the Pantera singer as the opener. So yeah they talked.

[@zgillet]

Thanks man! Love your videos. There really isn't a bad song on this album. All Nightmare Long is a banger.

[@paulmallon9292]

The band you are talking about is Down. They also had Rex Brown playing. So you saw half of Pantera and didn't even realise. Good man.

[@beatmet2355]

Listen to DM through headphones. It’s exhausting at times to the ears especially the drums. I don’t mind the mix of Justice nearly as much. The guitars sound immense on Justice and I didn’t notice the lack of bass guitar for years because the guitars were so bass heavy. I do wish every Metallica album had the mix/mastering of the black album, however. It’s sonically amazing, but some of the songs could be better. Justice was the first Metallica/metal album I ever bought, so I’m biased, but it will probably always be my favorite album of theirs, lack of bass be damned.

[@rawbrob1079]

Death magnetic is an excellent album.

[@mutusdumbas]

Download the Metallica Guitar Hero tracks for the album, those are before a bigshot producer said: "It needs to be loud on 5$ airpods too, crank everything up! Produzafeid! Here's the receipt, I'm Out!". So the album is dynamic as it should have been. Like the rest, that mix is easy to tweak a good sound of hi-fi equipment.

[@marcosOA92]

Great review David, fan of your work 🙌🏻 I have a suggest, from this album too, My Apocalypse, will be great to see you reacting that. Greetings from Paraguay 🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@ronaldvilla68]

Halo On Fire!!!

[@utdowen7]

hes reacted to it. was the gaga and Metallica version I believe but he has heard it

[@Kenjames10]

@@utdowen7 That was Moth Into Flame.

[@zephyr835]

That one's coming next month.

[@THEDavidHeretic]

I just filmed that reaction yesterday, and I'll be editing it tomorrow.

[@kuplung22]

@@THEDavidHeretic my favorite from hardwired

[@jymzhetfield5420]

If I had to choose I will say DOMINATION!. Thanks for another metallic reaction!. 🙌🏻🙌🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@jsmoor4988]

Great song and dito reaction. Gives me motivation and direction to explore the other songs !! 👍🤘

[@jochencooper2751]

This album was a good return to the old Metallica that I love ,especially after load ,reload and St anger ,but it doesn't get anywhere close to Ajfa, that is an all time classic even with the lack off bass, the guitar tone is awesome and the song writing is their darkest best

[@jochencooper2751]

@@benjamindavis4974 yeah man it's very close

[@JamesWilliams-nb8ig]

Great album, would love to hear it remastered.

[@TheNothing6]

What!? I love the way ...And Justice For All sounds! That album is vicious!

[@kuplung22]

Me too

[@brettsaucedo]

Great review as always! They played this last year at the 40th anniversary!

[@Owlyross]

The bass is fine. The compression issues on this album are most obvious in the cymbals, which hiss rather than crash. You can hear it on this song, but it's most obviously on The Day That Never Comes

[@Wagoo]

You can hear it on every song on the original album release, but people get confused these days as Metallica have put out a less broken master in recent years (as heard in this reaction for example), that has vastly less digital clipping. The original master was apocalyptically bad.. it's the poster child for loudness wars hell

[@Nikolai-nt7ox]

Два альбома которые я могу сначала до конца слушать,это Load и Death Magnethic.Последняя песня,которая взрывает мозг ,это Nightmare Long.

[@mrsirperson9656]

...And Justice For All actually hurts my ears every time I try to listen to it with headphones

[@kuplung22]

I like and justice for all the way it is. The best metallica album.

[@expertplace]

that solo sounded like me when I'm ball-parking trying to find the key of a song.

[@excuse.me.sir.]

How you feel about justices' mixing is exactly how I feel about death magnetic. Lol. Everything u said is exactly how I feel just reversed. 😆 I can listen to justice on my headphones all the way through just fine. But when I listen to death magnetic it literally hurts my ears. There's so much fucking treble on that album or something. It's so loud and clangy. It's like James is screaming right in my ear. But I still love the album. I like the guitar hero remastered versions of the songs. Way more listenable. Funny how we can have complete polar opposite opinions of each album

[@kiskethekeeper]

Still no My Apocalypse... It's their return to the old school thrash metal style. With a an old school Exodus riff from Kirk!!!

[@kiskethekeeper]

@@GeekFurious It's an incredible thrash metal song. One of my all time favorite MetallicA songs. A real punch in the face. It's basically the only Death Magnetic song I still listen. The rest of the albums sounds so much cut and paste to me.

[@thrashmetal00]

My Apocalypse with James intro is the best song on the album..

[@patrickhanekamp2761]

I thought it was an o.k. song at first. But live the song came alive!

[@paulsampugnaro6807]

How do you not address the Fleming Rasmussen production sound of Justice?? This whole album engineering/production wise is And Justice For All part deux

[@glenns7252]

You should listen to cyanide, suicide and redemption (instrumental) and my apocalypse (very kill em all ish) and beyond magnetic LP of 4 left over songs that they finished to release

[@thepixelglitched]

Great song and album. I don't believe it was a bad _mix,_ but rather, a bad master. The dynamics were non-existent, and it was way over-compressed. Terrible *clipping* all over the place. This album was actually used by one of my professors at Full Sail University as an example when discussing the _"Loudness War"_ and how _not_ to master and over-compress. That said, they did eventually re-release this album with a much, much better and less over-compressed master. The dynamics are improved on it. I believe it's this newer master that's on streaming services (Spotify, Apple Music, etc) now.

[@sulistyorini2335]

i suggest you "My Apocalypse", last song from this album.. it's thrash!

[@davidljubicic9112]

You should really react to their last instrumental from them in this album! Its called suicide and redemption. Their best instrumental imo!

[@thesnorman5666]

This was my first listen to. I thought it was sweet, especially that riff man.

[@paulmallon9292]

This is my favourite song from Death Magnetic but it's a terrible solo from Kirk on this one. Say what you want about Bob Rock, that would have never made the cut if he was around.

[@Wagoo]

It's not the mix that was ever broken with Death Magnetic - it was the master. Sausage fattened loudness wars waveforms until the point ALL the busy parts on the album digitally clipped like crazy and all the instruments melded into a horrible fizzy mess. The version in this video is a *fixed* master which they finally re-released in recent years. Ironically the version we ripped from Guitar Hero Metallica (stems) were always perfect.. thankfully that's been available almost as long as the official original broken master. Oh and Lars said the original CD sounded fine in his car lol

[@Wagoo]

You've already heard "The Day That Never Comes" so you can use this comparison video released in 2008 to see what we were talking about with the horrible state of the official release back then: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bH_JoqOoaN6aick

[@ericprater1970]

The one thing I can say about and justice for all was in the '80s when you only had 6x9s as your main base speakers with of course a booster and an equalizer it sounded killer with a good car radio the mix really showed when played on a house stereo that's my opinion and bought this album it just wasn't the Metallica I discovered on the metal massacre album way back in the day but that album Saint anger was the worst album I've probably ever heard again my opinion along with any grunge bands I thank God that died in a couple of years again my opinion if anyone got something from listening to it then they beat me I couldn't get nothing from any of it but that's the joy of music what I like some people will not like what they like I made despise and also Slayer fucking rules

[@jsmilers]

You do great reactions.

[@THEDavidHeretic]

FEELIN' YOU jsmilers!!!

[@JamesWilliams-nb8ig]

As bad as the justice album may have been mixed its an awesome album.

[@lucasmato.]

yaass i was waiting for that one

[@WayTooLateTV]

Have you heard of the "...And Justice For Jason" mix of "...And Justice For All"?

[@THEDavidHeretic]

I've heard of it...but haven't heard it.

[@jonathancossette443]

@@THEDavidHeretic give it a try, that’s a game changer!

[@JBeck33]

A really good album with piss poor production. A mistake they didn’t repeat with Hardwired to Self Destruct.

[@joewhiteman5671]

This songs has the same bass almost to me atleast- as Pearl Jam’s why go

[@GonzaloRossdale]

Like a bullets those bass a guitar forties

[@mjdillaha]

The album is a masterpiece. Yeah the mix blows, the mix blows on every top tier Metallica album. But the songs are incredibly good.

[@thesnorman5666]

I got creeping death vibes

[@rdh1130]

That one guitar hook sounds like Pearl Jam. Can’t think of the song now.

[@paulmallon9292]

Why go

[@saidja-marques]

Great reaction as always, David ! I would love to see you react to "I Disappear" by Metallica . I got you a link from their channel. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIq2dXZpmK2ikNU

[@renedesruisseaux819]

No real SOLO and ITS NOT THE métal SOUND we love from her for ME !! ITS MORE A " SYSTÈME OF A DOWN " SOUND

[@kasztaniarz]

It's not the case of a mix. This album's compressed to hell to the point of clipping.

[@hardcorechristopher9174]

That was 8 minutes it didn't feel like it the song was fun to listen to

[@markpaweena781]

Whole album is great. Audibly a little dry but great nonetheless

[@Defensive_Wounds]

This album has decent songs just the over clipping made it unlistenable to me, 3 songs hurts my ears so much that I start to get a headache legit! Such crap production! That said....THIS album is the main inspiration for my music, due to how badly this album was mixed/clipped to hell! I record at -4db, mix -4db then once it is all done, I master it at 0db so it has the best fidelity without ANY clipping!! Self played self recorded etc etc. Here is a link to another song off this album with a blend of retail original CD version with the GH3 version mix ---->> kzbin.info/www/bejne/bH_JoqOoaN6aick

[@deathguise950]

Kirk is awful on this album. Just saying’.

[@JamesWilliams-nb8ig]

How was he awful