Glad to hear it man, much love from Ohio. The opioid epidemic is destroying the Midwest; I respect the hell out of anyone that can get away from that shit.
These Bitches Want Nikes Metallica is my favorite band but Slipknots still going strong which is one of my favorite bands... but I need some new music from Metallica sooo bad
Over extreme just for the sake of it. Most metal being created today has no substance. I don't like the direction it is headed. It is okay to have clean vocals, story telling, and lyrics with meaning. It is still metal.
I like to see other people enjoying the music, unlike my friends all they say is ”It’s just noise and screams” well so is practically every other music genre
I used these lyrics while working in a juvenile rehab. Mostly Norteno. They were blown away by the words and asked to hear the actual song. It woke a couple of them up and one of them became a lifelong Metallica fan after that. Metallica changed so many lives and I was lucky enough to tell them in person what they did for me.
This song changed my life when i discovered the meaning of the lyrics, after listening to it for years, it woke me up and it hit like a truck…. Never in my fkn life im going back to drugs
I envy people who are listening to this for the first time. The riff is legendary. The lyrics are legendary. The solo is legendary. Every damn thing about this song is legendary.
My dad loved Metallica so I was listening to them when I was a baby…I don’t have the pleasure of actually discovering this amazing music. Probably why I love watching people listen to them for the first time.
James Hetfield is a great poet, but the music is just as important to the story. The melodic interlude is the " high" and the following solo is the "crash ".
Metallica made me realize how beautiful metal could be. I grew up listening to classic rock but expanded my tastes a lot after being introduced to Metallica.
A friend of mine and myself once used Metallica's "Of Wolf and Man" without the music and just read the lyrics for an English Lit class back in High School. We had to present a deep and thought provoking poem to the class and discuss it. We asked the teacher if we could use it and then after the presentation ask the class if anyone recognized it. We then played the song and blew the minds of the majority of the class.
It's amazing how they wrote a song about addiction from the perspective of the drug itself and people who say they love the band have no idea what it's about. I'm glad you caught it.
Man I've listened to this song hundreds of times in my life and never once connected the dots on how this song symbolizes drug addiction. Knew it was about drugs but never put that much thought into the arrangement
@@saiyanprince989 you may like metal the same way I like models but it doesnt mean you are a true metalhead if you ain't lived the life anymore than me liking models means I get to sleep with many of them.
I'm kinda Amish about tech so I hope this works...to the people who commented or gave Me a thumbs up....thank you so very much...everyone has demons something that got Me through some of the hardest times was a poem by D.H. Groberg called "The Race"...I still read it a few times a month or listen to it on here...I hope it gets you through the dark nights and tough times...
I feel like the guitar solo is a well choreographed analogy of drug addiction. Starts out sweet and enjoyable and goes to dark, hard and controlling. Perfect fit to the song 👌
Yeah, you're absolutely correct. The lofty guitar solo is like a junky getting a hit and everything is nice for awhile, but then the craving comes back
D.A.R.E just taught kids about drugs they would never have known about otherwise. I remember them telling us not to sniff glue and get high and everyone was like "wait you can get high off sniffing glue?"
@@lingerieslayer That's exactly what those programs are meant to do. Parents should be the ones who tell their kids what to stay away from. Now the same creeps who taught kids about drugs are teaching them even more destructive lifestyle behaviors that will only lead to even worse addictions. And if you even dare oppose them, they'll forcibly steal your children from you. Disgusting people. I can't wait for their day of reckoning.
@@andrevinjerygg6300 I love Metallica but have never listened to St Anger. I've heard so much about how trash it is but I'm kinda considering listening to it
I heard this song when i was around 13 and its %100 the reason I've refused to ever do any drugs (other than marijuana) Never wanted to be a puppet to anyone or anything! THANK YOU METALLICA!
In high school went to school with Kirk Hammett and les claypool and at lunch they played covers at lunch time. So glad they made it and now they are entertaining the whole world. Hell yes
The instrumentals were laid out brilliantly too. The intensity in the first half represents the craving, the melodic bridge represents the high, and the gradual fade back into intensity represents the come down. The entire construction of this song is an absolute masterpiece
Metal often have very meaningful lyrics if you take the time and actually listen to it. People be fooled by the aggressive sound thinking metal heads are violent anarchists who just wanna see the world burn and while there are these kinds of bands, if you listen to the great classic metal/hard rock bands, the real icons like Black Sabbath, Megadeth, AC/DC or Metallica there its very common to find important, deep sociopolitical lyrics or songs of love and happiness. Kinda ironic how so many metal bands, although given in an aggressive style, have a love or anti-drug/war message while so much hiphop and rap promote promiscuity and drug use, yet metal gets the "devil worship" label.
The real message in the music is why the "powers at be" gave it the "devil music" label. They avoid labeling rap music as much (tho they do a bit) because the drug use/dealing and promiscuous lifestyles it promotes are shallow and lead to an easier to manipulate public. It cant/doesn't promote free thought and pushback against the tools they use to oppress the sheeple.
The song "Orion" from the "Master of Puppets" album is an instrumental work of genius. If you liked the instrumental interlude you heard in this song, you're in for a treat when you listen to "Orion".
One of my favourites too. I used to have this album on my walkman as I did my newspaper delivery round in the UK 30 years back - it powered my along!! I Used to love Orion, even more when I was freewheeling downhill :-) Welcome Home (Sanitarium) is another beautiful piece of work... Really, are there any duds on that album?! I can't think of one.
I’ve yet to come across another black female that listens to thrash metal,heavy metal or rock and roll. I’ve been listening to Metallica since 1986🤘🏾🤘🏾
38 years old, first heard this songs when I was 12 I think...only now, reading your comment and others' that it clicked. Always thought it was about some war shit.
Now just think about how the song has three distinct parts to it. The first is the drug consuming you and everything you do. You're focused on nothing but getting high The middle section, which is softer and more melodic, is the high. He got his fix. But it only lasts for so long... The third part is the need for more coming back.
That “switch to slow” part, to me means the “down” when one tries to quit the drugs and walk away. life’s not “exciting” anymore, it’s bland, you start to hear the drugs calling, saying you can be happy again, you can’t walk away. This is the addicts attempt to move away from addiction, yet we all know the relapse into drug use, because life seems to be so slow and unbearable without their “master”, yet they don’t even see usually how they’re controlled by it. Very deep song. Also, to me, that laugh at the end, is the end, the addict’s death, and their “master” laughing at them. Their “master” won.
Listened this song million times but as English is not my native i honestly never realized this is about addiction tho most of their songs have this meaning...or i am just dumb.Anyway time to play ALL their songs again and awake sleeping hate of neighbors hehe
@@jamelakajamal Metallica's first few albums were phenomenal. (Welcome Home) Sanitarium and Fade to Black are other great tracks. Imo you just listened to their masterpiece though.
@@jamelakajamal puppets and ride the lightning are like musical story telling. You can picture what's happening through the guitar solos etc. Amazing writing considering they were early to mid 20s in age
Uh oh....you're going down the Metallica rabbit hole! This song and "One" are damned masterpieces. Everyone in the comments will start throwing songs at you now. Just listen to them all. You'll be a metalhead in no time!
@Keith Johnson Garage days kicks ass. And I LOVE their version of "Turn The Page". The original Bob Seeger version was so played out (back in the '80's) to point that I hated it. Metallica brought me back, though.
@@fredriksvard2603 Would LOVE to see Jamel get to the point of watching ALL the different cuts from the Moscow 1991 show. The crowd alone will make him find Jesus all over again!
@Keith Johnson Especially when they opened up with "Enter Sandman"....Newsted's hair just WHIPPIN' the air? The crowd went nuts. "Creeping Death" was my favorite from Moscow....but that version of "Harvester Of Sorrow" was amazing! Another great cover was "Kill The King" by Dio. I always take the opportunity to crank that one to 11 when I can. Jamel's on a slippery slope with Metallica. He'll be a headbanger sooner rather than later!
Keith Johnson, Los Angeles in ‘88 was nearly a riot. The bleachers stormed the floor. We had floor seats. It was unsettling (okay, it was scary af!). We bailed to the bleachers for the rest of the concert.
Greatest metal song of all time bro! The guitar riffs the drums the lyrics the delivery the way the song flows. Everything about this fucken song bro!!!!!!
You, my friend, have just entered a realm that's been waiting for you to enter! So glad you're about to learn and love what metal is all about. And trust me, it will change you. Most don't give it a chance, but you'll see how amazing the musicianship, skill and message is in this genre. Your horizons will broaden. Enjoy the ride!!!! Great reaction as always. 👍🏼🤘🏼
"Blackened" is one of their best songs, about nuclear war/winter .... Metal attacks the prevailing, corrupt power structures and exposes them. If you want to go down a dark and twisty rabbit hole from which there is little hope of escape .... check out Slayer's "Dead Skin Mask" :)
Most of us know this song forward and back. We're waiting for his reaction to "chop your breakfast on a mirror", and you caught it right away. 6 words, but their meaning can't be overestimated.
Puppets is my personal favourite...something about the mixing or engineering on that album is weird...it lulls me to sleep. It's the damndest thing lol throw on The "Thing that Should Not Be" and I'm out like a baby hahahaha
Me too.... I'll be 49 this month... And, I did 'em all....Kill 'Em All.... LSD, Mushrooms, cocaine, free base cocaine, we even used to take out some tobacco from the top part of our Malrboro's and dump a bunch of powder in those and smoke 'em...But free base was way better and WAY more addicting... Nothing like hanging out with a friend in a hotel room and after the dope is gone crawling on your hands and fucking knees looking for any dropped cooked up rocks... I even smoked a goddamned fingernail by accident, thinking, hoping it was coke.... Yeah....fun fucking times!!!!!!
..I was 21 in 1989....I LOVED the 80s n 90s...I had such a blast from '89-'93...😍🤙...then my wife had BBY in '94, n it was time to grow up for real..., I got a new kind of awesomeness 👌😎
@@shawnc666 gimping sux bruh...seen lots of dudes do it... crystal & coke both....I didn't care to see it anymore than they care to recount it...🤪😵🤯 😅 😎🤙
@@patrickc.mcevoy2065 I hope you understood that my comment was drenched in sarcasm. I mean, it's completely real, but it was "is" such a horrible way to live....disgusting...
"This second part is like a whole new song." Lots of that in early Metallica. Part of what connected me to their early work. It's fun watching you discover it for the first time.
I have to say, I love the fact that this song is not lost on you. I feel like this song (and other songs) just goes over the heads of some of the other channels and they just don't catch the meaning. You can appreciate this for its mind-blowing instrumentals and the deep lyrics at the same time. Thanks for the channel and keep up the great work!
I've heard this song thousands of times. Even learned how to play it in drums. But I've never paid any attention to the lyrics. As you said at the end, "don't let the guitar and drums fool you". You're definitely helping me listen to songs I've heard thousands of times through a new lens.
NICE one Frank!! Okay, Jamal you know the story of the Seven Plagues of Egypt. Their song, Creeping Death, tells that story from the view of the Angel of Death that took the first born in the seventh plague. It'll blow your mind!
James' solo (at 5:56) is probably my favorite in the Metallica catalogue, funny considering that he's primarily the rhythm guitarist. He's got an incredible sense of melody when he does play them, though.
I really dig all these people finding metallica songs that came out over 30 years ago and it's like brand new. I enjoy these reaction vids because it lets me live vicariously through you guys with how we heard it the first time when it was released. Glad you guys like it, there's a metal head in everyone.
This song always tears me up. I have lost so many family and friends to drugs. Even a husband in 2007. It doesn't matter if it's pills. Coke. Heroin. Meth...... This song hits you with the truth of the control it has over you. And all of us that love you can do is watch you slowly kill yourself. Helpless to save you. Please if you are a puppet of the "Master" (satan) get help. Take control of your own life. You don't need all this. Your loved ones are suffering watching you go away. Please.......
That’s what this songs about...satan....there’s one line about drugs, that’s it...every other line is 100% talking about satan....hate the satanic COWARDS who hide and pretend that’s not what it is...and I’ve been a fan of theirs since 84
The change in tempo and melody symbolizes getting high.. everything just smooth and beautiful.. and then it starts wearing off.. and reality sets in.. and you need more. Very deep song. One of the best metal songs out there for sure. Thanks for the reaction!
I was a senior in high school when this album came out. I had a class called Music Appreciation. I usually slept through it. On Fridays we got to bring in our own music and share it with the class. Other kids would bring in pop crap mostly I played this song and everyone was just sitting there looking like "what did I just listen to".
You jumped in both feet soldier. Try some "Fade to Black", "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)", "Orion", "One", or "Nothing Else Matters". Or if you like the hard stuff "Disposable Heroes" or "Damage Inc.".
@mickor so what is a cover of a 70's band. In fact garage days is all covers I believe and the whole album is good.. They sing a few styles on that and sound awesome doing all. Breadfans awesome too, am I evil ect
The beauty of Metallica has always been a seductive trifecta: honest & intense lyrics, powerful, driving beat/walls of sound, and hypnotic, brain & heart basting melody. They're also MASTERFUL at change ups within the song - which includes the lion's share of their music.
"Your life burns faster" This line is so simple and so important. Why do people do drugs? It is the same thing across countries, across cultures, across the world. It doesn't matter what the "drug" is, alcohol, crack, gambling, sexual abuse, excessive eating or whatever. It is all the same. People get stuck in those bad coping mechanisms because the candle that is their life suddenly burns brighter then they've ever seen before. It burns twice as bright and twice as fast. Your life burns faster.
It’s always excellent to see a metal song hit on a personal and relatable level with someone, because it is a very emotional area of music. Even if it’s relating over a bad experience, it’s still hitting the spot that, in my opinion, music should hit.
Hard agree. I used to be a busker, and one of the tunes my friends and I had worked out was an acoustic cover of Orion, with bass, Acoustic six string rhythm, and a twelve string lead guitar. Man, all those solo's feel and sound incredible on a twelve, which just shows how polished the album was, that I can play a "cleaner" sounding version of such a delicate song, and it sounds great but it feels kind of hollow. They just nailed all the distortion and gain, which is wild because they went at it like 19th century battlefield surgeons. Just layering guitar tracks 20 times and crazy shit.
It's really awesome how you keep nodding your head and immediately get the groove of the song. Thank you for showing that music can be a bridge between the most different of people and cultures. Really appreciate this reaction!
You are legit amped up by the end of this tune, and it shows. This song hits home for a lot of us, and how you felt at the end is how I feel after every single listen of this song. It's strangely cathartic that folks we may never meet in person feel so similarly about a song and its meaning. Keep on rockin', Jamel/Jamal, keep on making these videos. You be well, my dude. Thank you for doing these.
When Metallica lost Cliff Burton they lost their heart, MOP is definitely the best album they put out and one that I listen to regularly. It never gets old or stale.
Agreed. Imo, when Cliff died, it was Metallica's death knell. Justice was good, but everything after, while some of it has been pretty good music, just hasn't been Metallica.
The mighty Metallica!!! Another band with a vast array of songs. One, for whom the bell tolls, ride the lightning, fade to black, sanitarium (coming home), wherever I may roam, nothing else matters... I could go on. Metallica 🤘
One of the greatest songs ever written! Not greatest metal songs, songs period! Slow and melodic, fast and powerful, meaningful impactful lyrics. This song has so much going on. It is truly a masterpiece.
Another THOROUGHLY enjoyable experience watching you react and hearing this through your ears as if it were my first time again! I’ll never forget when I first heard this. I was in my childhood home sitting on the floor of the spare bedroom, tucked away with a tape deck so mom wouldn’t hear it. I did not close my mouth for the length of the album and did not stop listening for the next 25 years!
Heroin is the master. The fast beginning is the chaotic need for a fix. The smooth soft synchronized guitars is the euphoria of being high. The pace begins to quicken coming down from the high. The gallop of the guitar is the need for more drugs. Then he yells "Fix Me". Amazing song with a message. Glad you found it and understand it. Peace!
Hi Jamal. I enjoy watching your reactions. I click on them as soon as I see them. This Metallica song is one of the best pieces of metal music out there.
I love these “Black People React to (Insert Metal Song Here)” videos, every one them when they do Master of Puppets have the same reaction when they get to the “Chop your breakfast on a mirror” lyric 😂😂😂
@@timothywhite3734 A black person is a term used to describe a negro. Likewise, white people are called caucasians. There are people of all kinds of different nationalities in the world. I hope that answers your question.
I grew up on old school hip hop and like most can recite "Rappers Delight" word for word. But I started to crave something more. I listened to Jimi Hendrix growing up and I got into the more heavy stuff like Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden. I owed "Ride the lightning" and Fade to Black was my "Don't do it" song as a teen. This is the second track off "Master of puppets". When I first popped this cassette in my Walkman as a 19 year old kid back in 1986. I went through 12 AAA batteries before I left my room and returned to the real world.
You got it spot on, man. I love watching your videos because you always try to get to the core of the song, not just instruments or singers. You actually tend to focus on the lyrics, too, which is awesome.
AS I LISTEN TO THIS song on cliff's birthday God i wonder what kind of music would they have been writing if cliff was still on this earth. This has always been my number one metallica son i'm 50 yrs old now and remember jamin this song back on my walkman tape player every morning in Hs before class.
This song can be broken up into parts, the first is obvious, the slow part is the high and the bridge building up to that chaotic solo is the comedown, then it goes back to the first verse riff on the line "Hell is worth all that, natural habitat" meaning the cycle will continue or "now I rule you too" could be James taking the perspective of cocaine there and saying he's gotten someone else hooked.
Seeing a reaction to this song the week Metallica announced they had to cancel parts of their current tour because James had to go back into Rehab ... Feels bad man.
I absolutely love watching you groove out to all these songs from my childhood. Your “stank face” at hearing this stuff for the first time really takes me back :)
I can't believe that, after over 2 years watching you now, I only now just got around to watching your reaction to this amazing mega-classic. 🤘🏻 Awesome!!!!
I was just thinking I'd love to see his reaction to Master of Puppets and here it is! I love watching you listen to stuff for the first time, it's honest and sincere. You're a joy to watch!
This is the second time I've heard you say Frank recommended a song. Frank knows his shit. Always listen to Frank.
👍🏾
Hahaha! Frank definitely knows his shit! 🤣🤣🤣
Big ups to Frank! \m/
Yeah, makes me wonder what Frank thinks about Pantera, Anthrax, Ministry, or maybe even something newer like Bullet for My Valentine.
Frank approved!
Been clean and sober for going on 8 years, this song hits home
Glad to hear it man, much love from Ohio. The opioid epidemic is destroying the Midwest; I respect the hell out of anyone that can get away from that shit.
@@CloudCollapse thanks
Congrats brother
Tillykke min bror!!!
Congratulations
I hope you still are 🙏
3 years here and still going. Lets keep it up
No matter how extreme metal might get nowadays, this is still one of the most brutal metal songs ever.
exactly...seem we will never find a band can replace this legendary metal
These Bitches Want Nikes Metallica is my favorite band but Slipknots still going strong which is one of my favorite bands... but I need some new music from Metallica sooo bad
xTOXICx they were making a new album supposed to come out next year I believe but that might change due to virus
Mayonnaise Psychology 101 that’s good news
Over extreme just for the sake of it. Most metal being created today has no substance. I don't like the direction it is headed. It is okay to have clean vocals, story telling, and lyrics with meaning. It is still metal.
We watch these videos to see the reactions we never get from our friends.
Jolty man you’ve hit the nerve, I couldn’t get that till I read your comment, so true
well said.
Ha I was just thinking that
bat true as
I like to see other people enjoying the music, unlike my friends all they say is ”It’s just noise and screams” well so is practically every other music genre
I like how this guy is that open minded to listen to everything. No hating at all, so cool!
It's refreshing and I have been enjoying them.
Renzo I love this dude! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Absolutely agree.
SAME HERE!!! Rock on...
I used these lyrics while working in a juvenile rehab. Mostly Norteno. They were blown away by the words and asked to hear the actual song. It woke a couple of them up and one of them became a lifelong Metallica fan after that. Metallica changed so many lives and I was lucky enough to tell them in person what they did for me.
This song changed my life when i discovered the meaning of the lyrics, after listening to it for years, it woke me up and it hit like a truck…. Never in my fkn life im going back to drugs
I envy people who are listening to this for the first time.
The riff is legendary.
The lyrics are legendary.
The solo is legendary.
Every damn thing about this song is legendary.
My dad loved Metallica so I was listening to them when I was a baby…I don’t have the pleasure of actually discovering this amazing music. Probably why I love watching people listen to them for the first time.
As the devil said in Tenacious D this riff is fucking tasty!
One of the best joys in life is watching that moment when someone comprehends what Master of Puppets is about.
Yep! Usually happens at the "chop your breakfast on a mirror" line
People forget metal music , can be and is poetry.
People also don't know that metal can be beautiful, it doesn't need to be aggressive. Some prog metal music is gorgeous and melodic.
James Hetfield is a great poet, but the music is just as important to the story. The melodic interlude is the " high" and the following solo is the "crash ".
Metal has never been fully understood or appreciated, until just very recently, when people realized how long these bands have been around for.
Metallica made me realize how beautiful metal could be. I grew up listening to classic rock but expanded my tastes a lot after being introduced to Metallica.
A friend of mine and myself once used Metallica's "Of Wolf and Man" without the music and just read the lyrics for an English Lit class back in High School. We had to present a deep and thought provoking poem to the class and discuss it. We asked the teacher if we could use it and then after the presentation ask the class if anyone recognized it. We then played the song and blew the minds of the majority of the class.
"I know that line". Unintended puns are the best ones.
Ah! 😂
good catch
It's amazing how they wrote a song about addiction from the perspective of the drug itself and people who say they love the band have no idea what it's about. I'm glad you caught it.
Man I've listened to this song hundreds of times in my life and never once connected the dots on how this song symbolizes drug addiction. Knew it was about drugs but never put that much thought into the arrangement
Also how the song follows the up of getting high and the low of needing the drug
If you ain't partied hard enough to understand this song go listen to bieber because you just lost all credibility as a metal head.
@@michaelm8138 Some of us who are not MEGA losers that require drugs and alcohol to have a "good" time can still enjoy and understand this song.
@@saiyanprince989 you may like metal the same way I like models but it doesnt mean you are a true metalhead if you ain't lived the life anymore than me liking models means I get to sleep with many of them.
Greatest song ever. They wrote this masterpiece before they where 25 years old. Unbelieveble
The shit was My Master for years...time and again I've fallen. I'm clean now and this song is 100% accurate
Yep.
Congratulations brother.
I hear ya and I can only imagine what you must've been through, and GOOD FOR YOU! Peace.
I'm kinda Amish about tech so I hope this works...to the people who commented or gave Me a thumbs up....thank you so very much...everyone has demons something that got Me through some of the hardest times was a poem by D.H. Groberg called "The Race"...I still read it a few times a month or listen to it on here...I hope it gets you through the dark nights and tough times...
Congratulations on staying clean. It's a real accomplishment. I mean that
I still get chills 33 years later hearing Cliff's bass chugging at the beginning. RIP Cliff.
In memoriam my friend. He died on my birthday. Well, three years earlier. But in my country... :P
The band died with Cliff. ...And Justice For All was the death spasms.
@@MagnificoGiganticus
I am inclined to agree. Though I love "...and Justice".
Same! RIP Cliff
I hope to see Cliff some day in another realm.....and I hope he’s hanging out with his brother, mom , and dad. We miss you Cliff!!
I feel like the guitar solo is a well choreographed analogy of drug addiction. Starts out sweet and enjoyable and goes to dark, hard and controlling. Perfect fit to the song 👌
Makes me cry
Yeah, you're absolutely correct. The lofty guitar solo is like a junky getting a hit and everything is nice for awhile, but then the craving comes back
Metallica: more effective in keeping me away from drugs than any D.A.R.E. program ever did.
D.A.R.E just taught kids about drugs they would never have known about otherwise. I remember them telling us not to sniff glue and get high and everyone was like "wait you can get high off sniffing glue?"
@@lingerieslayer That's exactly what those programs are meant to do. Parents should be the ones who tell their kids what to stay away from. Now the same creeps who taught kids about drugs are teaching them even more destructive lifestyle behaviors that will only lead to even worse addictions. And if you even dare oppose them, they'll forcibly steal your children from you. Disgusting people. I can't wait for their day of reckoning.
The song is actually SUPPOSED to sound like three different songs. They are three stages of addiction.
and yet today's generation impressed by a mere kid saying GUCCI GANG 20 times
how pathetic
Exactly
no
I litterally hate todays music. Metallica has always had a place in my heart, not st.anger tho
@@andrevinjerygg6300 I love Metallica but have never listened to St Anger. I've heard so much about how trash it is but I'm kinda considering listening to it
@@andjustjizzforall the music could have been good if they tried, but they made in such. Hurry that non off the songs is really worth listening to:/
I heard this song when i was around 13 and its %100 the reason I've refused to ever do any drugs (other than marijuana)
Never wanted to be a puppet to anyone or anything!
THANK YOU METALLICA!
The fact that James Hetfield plays this song using only downstrokes already makes my arm hurt
Also when they play live they usually up the tempo to fit more songs in lol
One of the best in the world for it!!!
He is such a freak when it comes to rhythm guitar playing.
Lazarus de Sanguine Let’s not forget Cliff Burton played the bass line with his fingers, also considering how the verse stretches from frets 3 to 6.
He uses a couple of up strokes.
Another one with a great message is Metallica - "Disposable Heroes"
Absolutely deep message. Don’t be fooled by the hard hitting thrash metal that is this masterpiece. The tragedy written in this song is deep.
" back to the front "
@@ryanagee5540 you will do, what I say! When I say!
There is a video floating around CZcams before MOP came out. James " you want to hear a new song?" Plays disposable heroes.
Dude, I just suggested that song, lol. I first heard this album in '89.
Fade to black or sanitarium great songs
Fade to Black is one of the best songs in the world.
Yes!!! Both
To this day, "Welcome Home, Sanitarium" is my favorite Metallica song. One of the most somber and eerie guitar riffs in history.
He’s done Fade To Black. I’d like to see his reaction to Harvester of Sorrow, and Sanitarium.
Travis Jordan preach it bro
In high school went to school with Kirk Hammett and les claypool and at lunch they played covers at lunch time. So glad they made it and now they are entertaining the whole world. Hell yes
Holy shit are you fucking serious?
The instrumentals were laid out brilliantly too. The intensity in the first half represents the craving, the melodic bridge represents the high, and the gradual fade back into intensity represents the come down. The entire construction of this song is an absolute masterpiece
Absolute musical brilliance
Metal often have very meaningful lyrics if you take the time and actually listen to it.
People be fooled by the aggressive sound thinking metal heads are violent anarchists who just wanna see the world burn and while there are these kinds of bands, if you listen to the great classic metal/hard rock bands, the real icons like Black Sabbath, Megadeth, AC/DC or Metallica there its very common to find important, deep sociopolitical lyrics or songs of love and happiness.
Kinda ironic how so many metal bands, although given in an aggressive style, have a love or anti-drug/war message while so much hiphop and rap promote promiscuity and drug use, yet metal gets the "devil worship" label.
Or "devil worship" HaHa
@@Haruko13 autocorrect suck on Huawei 😑
@@Haruko13 Thanks for brining it to my attention.
The real message in the music is why the "powers at be" gave it the "devil music" label. They avoid labeling rap music as much (tho they do a bit) because the drug use/dealing and promiscuous lifestyles it promotes are shallow and lead to an easier to manipulate public. It cant/doesn't promote free thought and pushback against the tools they use to oppress the sheeple.
@@robertrodriguez3400 , probably one of the truest most insightful comments on youtube. "powers that be", you are so right. cheers from canada.
The song "Orion" from the "Master of Puppets" album is an instrumental work of genius.
If you liked the instrumental interlude you heard in this song, you're in for a treat when you listen to "Orion".
notSLICK Gaming it’s a beautiful and sexy song.👍
It's one of Metallica best, it's closer to classical masterpieces than a pop song. JSBach would love it.
One of my favourites too. I used to have this album on my walkman as I did my newspaper delivery round in the UK 30 years back - it powered my along!! I Used to love Orion, even more when I was freewheeling downhill :-)
Welcome Home (Sanitarium) is another beautiful piece of work... Really, are there any duds on that album?! I can't think of one.
That's my favorite track from them
@@christianbuczko1481 Baroque metal.
That calmer part of the song can be viewed as they got their fix, and when it builds up again, that’s the withdrawal/addiction coming back around.
"Stank face!" Good to see another black man who can appreciate the majesty of Metallica!
I’ve yet to come across another black female that listens to thrash metal,heavy metal or rock and roll. I’ve been listening to Metallica since 1986🤘🏾🤘🏾
Yea, when we listen to Metallica, so do the neighbors 😁😁🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️❣❣❣
For Whom The Bell Tolls
But Live 🤘🤩 Especially this song, Always better live...🎸🔥
@@vanillagorilla8438 Absolutely! Cliff improvised so much on the bass intro live.
Yeeeeessssss!
Time marches on.
Dyers's eve.
"this songs about drug addiction"
me: "it is??"
*listens to the first few lines*
me: "...holy shit"
38 years old, first heard this songs when I was 12 I think...only now, reading your comment and others' that it clicked. Always thought it was about some war shit.
Now just think about how the song has three distinct parts to it.
The first is the drug consuming you and everything you do. You're focused on nothing but getting high
The middle section, which is softer and more melodic, is the high. He got his fix. But it only lasts for so long...
The third part is the need for more coming back.
That “switch to slow” part, to me means the “down” when one tries to quit the drugs and walk away. life’s not “exciting” anymore, it’s bland, you start to hear the drugs calling, saying you can be happy again, you can’t walk away. This is the addicts attempt to move away from addiction, yet we all know the relapse into drug use, because life seems to be so slow and unbearable without their “master”, yet they don’t even see usually how they’re controlled by it. Very deep song.
Also, to me, that laugh at the end, is the end, the addict’s death, and their “master” laughing at them. Their “master” won.
Damn i thought that part was just for a cool solo, but makes a lot of sense
I see it as "the hit". The short time that the drugs take effect only to the ramp up again as the need for a new fix takes hold again
Andreas Petersson exactly.
Listened this song million times but as English is not my native i honestly never realized this is about addiction tho most of their songs have this meaning...or i am just dumb.Anyway time to play ALL their songs again and awake sleeping hate of neighbors hehe
Its weird that I've thought about it like that! Especially the death at the end. Glad to know I wasn't the only one who interpreted it like that
The first part the song is the user wanting a fix. The melodic guitar solo is him fixing then the manic end is him pissed off at the drug.
WOW!!!
@@jamelakajamal Metallica's first few albums were phenomenal. (Welcome Home) Sanitarium and Fade to Black are other great tracks. Imo you just listened to their masterpiece though.
@@jamelakajamal puppets and ride the lightning are like musical story telling. You can picture what's happening through the guitar solos etc. Amazing writing considering they were early to mid 20s in age
i always saw the crunching guitars intruding on the melodic interlude as him needing for another fix; the drug had worn off.
Holy shit I completely hear it now. This song makes so much more sense
Uh oh....you're going down the Metallica rabbit hole! This song and "One" are damned masterpieces. Everyone in the comments will start throwing songs at you now. Just listen to them all. You'll be a metalhead in no time!
Vader's Rage Yep. Sad but true, harvester of sorrow, struggle within, dyers eve, here comes revenge, until it sleeps, holier than thou.
@Keith Johnson Garage days kicks ass. And I LOVE their version of "Turn The Page". The original Bob Seeger version was so played out (back in the '80's) to point that I hated it. Metallica brought me back, though.
@@fredriksvard2603 Would LOVE to see Jamel get to the point of watching ALL the different cuts from the Moscow 1991 show. The crowd alone will make him find Jesus all over again!
@Keith Johnson Especially when they opened up with "Enter Sandman"....Newsted's hair just WHIPPIN' the air? The crowd went nuts. "Creeping Death" was my favorite from Moscow....but that version of "Harvester Of Sorrow" was amazing!
Another great cover was "Kill The King" by Dio. I always take the opportunity to crank that one to 11 when I can.
Jamel's on a slippery slope with Metallica. He'll be a headbanger sooner rather than later!
Keith Johnson,
Los Angeles in ‘88 was nearly a riot. The bleachers stormed the floor. We had floor seats. It was unsettling (okay, it was scary af!). We bailed to the bleachers for the rest of the concert.
If you've never heard Metallica before this was a good place to start.
Been listening to Metallica for over 20 years and this still give me goosebumps.
I’ve heard this song like a billion times, yet it still has such an impact. Life changer!!
who is the master
who pulls the strings
jew know the answer
Greatest metal song of all time bro! The guitar riffs the drums the lyrics the delivery the way the song flows. Everything about this fucken song bro!!!!!!
You, my friend, have just entered a realm that's been waiting for you to enter! So glad you're about to learn and love what metal is all about. And trust me, it will change you. Most don't give it a chance, but you'll see how amazing the musicianship, skill and message is in this genre. Your horizons will broaden. Enjoy the ride!!!!
Great reaction as always.
👍🏼🤘🏼
"Blackened" is one of their best songs, about nuclear war/winter .... Metal attacks the prevailing, corrupt power structures and exposes them.
If you want to go down a dark and twisty rabbit hole from which there is little hope of escape .... check out Slayer's "Dead Skin Mask" :)
Most of us know this song forward and back. We're waiting for his reaction to "chop your breakfast on a mirror", and you caught it right away. 6 words, but their meaning can't be overestimated.
You need to listen to their album “and justice for all” from start to finish. One of the greatest full albums ever.
PPG Paranuts that album is musical gymnastics
How about "Ride the lightning"??
Suprihatini Hardja love Ride the lighting
@@coodyoutdoors8766 though i can't relate their recent album, seem losing their character
Puppets is my personal favourite...something about the mixing or engineering on that album is weird...it lulls me to sleep. It's the damndest thing lol throw on The "Thing that Should Not Be" and I'm out like a baby hahahaha
Addiction is a bitch. 80’s were the best and worst I’ve lived.
Me too....
I'll be 49 this month...
And, I did 'em all....Kill 'Em All....
LSD, Mushrooms, cocaine, free base cocaine, we even used to take out some tobacco from the top part of our Malrboro's and dump a bunch of powder in those and smoke 'em...But free base was way better and WAY more addicting...
Nothing like hanging out with a friend in a hotel room and after the dope is gone crawling on your hands and fucking knees looking for any dropped cooked up rocks...
I even smoked a goddamned fingernail by accident, thinking, hoping it was coke....
Yeah....fun fucking times!!!!!!
"Better living through chemistry" Dow's and my motto in the eighties.
..I was 21 in 1989....I LOVED the 80s n 90s...I had such a blast from '89-'93...😍🤙...then my wife had BBY in '94, n it was time to grow up for real..., I got a new kind of awesomeness 👌😎
@@shawnc666 gimping sux bruh...seen lots of dudes do it... crystal & coke both....I didn't care to see it anymore than they care to recount it...🤪😵🤯 😅 😎🤙
@@patrickc.mcevoy2065 I hope you understood that my comment was drenched in sarcasm. I mean, it's completely real, but it was "is" such a horrible way to live....disgusting...
"Chop your breakfast on a mirror". Watching that realization you had was great.
"This second part is like a whole new song." Lots of that in early Metallica. Part of what connected me to their early work. It's fun watching you discover it for the first time.
What a classic! A METAL MASTERPIECE 🤘
I have to say, I love the fact that this song is not lost on you. I feel like this song (and other songs) just goes over the heads of some of the other channels and they just don't catch the meaning. You can appreciate this for its mind-blowing instrumentals and the deep lyrics at the same time. Thanks for the channel and keep up the great work!
Thanks🙏🏾
Why I’ve been a huge fan since childhood. They don’t pull their punches and every song is incredible!
I've heard this song thousands of times. Even learned how to play it in drums. But I've never paid any attention to the lyrics. As you said at the end, "don't let the guitar and drums fool you". You're definitely helping me listen to songs I've heard thousands of times through a new lens.
NICE one Frank!!
Okay, Jamal you know the story of the Seven Plagues of Egypt. Their song, Creeping Death, tells that story from the view of the Angel of Death that took the first born in the seventh plague. It'll blow your mind!
James' solo (at 5:56) is probably my favorite in the Metallica catalogue, funny considering that he's primarily the rhythm guitarist. He's got an incredible sense of melody when he does play them, though.
Scott Green,
My favorite solo, too, and the build up when Kirk & Cliff join in at 6:35 (let’s pretend we can’t hear Lars). Epic solo.
James' solo on To Live Is To Die is one the most beautiful solos I've ever heard.
James doesn't usually play solos, but when he does...
As a recovering addict this song always hits home very hard. Addiction is a hell that I wouldn't want to wish upon anyone
I really dig all these people finding metallica songs that came out over 30 years ago and it's like brand new. I enjoy these reaction vids because it lets me live vicariously through you guys with how we heard it the first time when it was released. Glad you guys like it, there's a metal head in everyone.
This song always tears me up. I have lost so many family and friends to drugs. Even a husband in 2007. It doesn't matter if it's pills. Coke. Heroin. Meth...... This song hits you with the truth of the control it has over you. And all of us that love you can do is watch you slowly kill yourself. Helpless to save you. Please if you are a puppet of the "Master" (satan) get help. Take control of your own life. You don't need all this. Your loved ones are suffering watching you go away. Please.......
That’s what this songs about...satan....there’s one line about drugs, that’s it...every other line is 100% talking about satan....hate the satanic COWARDS who hide and pretend that’s not what it is...and I’ve been a fan of theirs since 84
SAD BUT TRUE has the same meaning
My Condolences 🙏🏾
Mr.SmithGNR Smith are you 8 years old there is no Satan or god
Boo Kitty "satan" has nothing to do with it
The change in tempo and melody symbolizes getting high.. everything just smooth and beautiful.. and then it starts wearing off.. and reality sets in.. and you need more. Very deep song. One of the best metal songs out there for sure. Thanks for the reaction!
If you have ever been in or around drug addiction you know just how powerful this song truly is
Once you've listened to all the album songs, go back and listen the S&M version. The metal and classical combination is absolutely amazing.
I was a senior in high school when this album came out. I had a class called Music Appreciation. I usually slept through it. On Fridays we got to bring in our own music and share it with the class. Other kids would bring in pop crap mostly I played this song and everyone was just sitting there looking like "what did I just listen to".
You jumped in both feet soldier. Try some "Fade to Black", "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)", "Orion", "One", or "Nothing Else Matters". Or if you like the hard stuff "Disposable Heroes" or "Damage Inc.".
@mickor Battery? So What?? Hell yes. Fuel???? Sandman??? LOLLOLLOL no
You will do, what I say, when I say...BACK TO THE FRONT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Justin Davis what? No battery?
So, what we're saying is, listen to the whole album! Lol
@mickor so what is a cover of a 70's band. In fact garage days is all covers I believe and the whole album is good.. They sing a few styles on that and sound awesome doing all. Breadfans awesome too, am I evil ect
The beauty of Metallica has always been a seductive trifecta: honest & intense lyrics, powerful, driving beat/walls of sound, and hypnotic, brain & heart basting melody. They're also MASTERFUL at change ups within the song - which includes the lion's share of their music.
"Your life burns faster" This line is so simple and so important.
Why do people do drugs? It is the same thing across countries, across cultures, across the world. It doesn't matter what the "drug" is, alcohol, crack, gambling, sexual abuse, excessive eating or whatever. It is all the same. People get stuck in those bad coping mechanisms because the candle that is their life suddenly burns brighter then they've ever seen before. It burns twice as bright and twice as fast.
Your life burns faster.
Maybe I WANT my life to burn faster. I give zero fucks. Burn!
Imagine all Metallica fans watching this, headbanging, playing air guitar or air drums.
Mario van Berneveld played along on the Ibanez \m/
100% guilty- headbanging and singing it word for word.
@@MrRyste85 Learning it on acoustic \m/ ;-)
Nobody wants to imitate Lars
I was sitting here eyes closed, following along and BAM he had to "CZcams stop"... My head and ears shattered every single time!!
I appreciate you letting us get to know you Jamel. Could definitely have a beer with you brotha 🤙🏻
count me in
Sense I'm 13 I would have a root bear...
@@thrashland9231 I'm 45 and would rather have a root beer myself.
It’s always excellent to see a metal song hit on a personal and relatable level with someone, because it is a very emotional area of music. Even if it’s relating over a bad experience, it’s still hitting the spot that, in my opinion, music should hit.
You should react to “Orion” on this same album. It’s an instrumental but it’s one of the most perfect and satisfying pieces of music ever recorded.
Agreed,,,by God himself Cliff Burton🤘🤘
Orion gives me goose bumps.
Orion is their masterpiece for sure.
Hard agree. I used to be a busker, and one of the tunes my friends and I had worked out was an acoustic cover of Orion, with bass, Acoustic six string rhythm, and a twelve string lead guitar. Man, all those solo's feel and sound incredible on a twelve, which just shows how polished the album was, that I can play a "cleaner" sounding version of such a delicate song, and it sounds great but it feels kind of hollow. They just nailed all the distortion and gain, which is wild because they went at it like 19th century battlefield surgeons. Just layering guitar tracks 20 times and crazy shit.
agreed beautiful arrangement
Metallica "creeping death" with lyrics and "for whom the bell tolls"
Very Good 👏👏
And then after the Creeping Death lyrics video.....march on over to the Moscow 1991 performance! He'll never be the same!
@@VadersRage I was thinking the same thing but forgot to put it in the comment
@@VadersRage the moscow live is a must !
even the seattle 1989
You wore the perfect shirt for this reaction too lol
It's really awesome how you keep nodding your head and immediately get the groove of the song. Thank you for showing that music can be a bridge between the most different of people and cultures. Really appreciate this reaction!
For such a hardcore song, it really is incredibly heartbreaking when you stop to think about the lyrics and how/why they were written...
"I know that line", Excuse the pun.
👍🏾
I had to pause the video because I was cracking up.
Pun intended.
IT'S A WARNING SONG
AGAINST AND ABOUT
ANY AND ALL
ADDICTIONS.
You are legit amped up by the end of this tune, and it shows. This song hits home for a lot of us, and how you felt at the end is how I feel after every single listen of this song. It's strangely cathartic that folks we may never meet in person feel so similarly about a song and its meaning. Keep on rockin', Jamel/Jamal, keep on making these videos. You be well, my dude. Thank you for doing these.
When Metallica lost Cliff Burton they lost their heart, MOP is definitely the best album they put out and one that I listen to regularly. It never gets old or stale.
I love everything UNTIL the black album. They lost their grit and soul
Agreed. Imo, when Cliff died, it was Metallica's death knell. Justice was good, but everything after, while some of it has been pretty good music, just hasn't been Metallica.
The mighty Metallica!!!
Another band with a vast array of songs. One, for whom the bell tolls, ride the lightning, fade to black, sanitarium (coming home), wherever I may roam, nothing else matters... I could go on.
Metallica 🤘
Man you're one of the best reaction channels. Always keeping it real!!
Thanks🙏🏾
Rick James: "cocaine is a hell of a drug."
22 years old, been clean since 17 and it's been one fucking hell of a ride ill tell ya, appreciate this reaction my man 💜
Love your channel, and honest reactions. Now imagine for a moment we fans who heard it for the first time when it was new. Made me a fan for life.
I wanted to watch you do this only because I wanted to see your reaction! Thank you for not letting me down!
Nothing is so sweet in life as coming back from the abyss and feeling that gratitude that comes when you get back what you lost .
One of the greatest songs ever written! Not greatest metal songs, songs period! Slow and melodic, fast and powerful, meaningful impactful lyrics. This song has so much going on. It is truly a masterpiece.
The lyrics on the first 4 Metallica albums are absolutely brilliant
Next Metallica 'The four Horsemen'
Yeah! Seek & Destroy!
The Mechanix is better.
Another THOROUGHLY enjoyable experience watching you react and hearing this through your ears as if it were my first time again! I’ll never forget when I first heard this. I was in my childhood home sitting on the floor of the spare bedroom, tucked away with a tape deck so mom wouldn’t hear it. I did not close my mouth for the length of the album and did not stop listening for the next 25 years!
Heroin is the master. The fast beginning is the chaotic need for a fix. The smooth soft synchronized guitars is the euphoria of being high. The pace begins to quicken coming down from the high. The gallop of the guitar is the need for more drugs. Then he yells "Fix Me". Amazing song with a message. Glad you found it and understand it. Peace!
crack too. crack high euphoria lasts as long as the instrumental does--it describes the high and geek perfectly.
Hi Jamal. I enjoy watching your reactions. I click on them as soon as I see them. This Metallica song is one of the best pieces of metal music out there.
THANK YOU🙏🏾 And yes this is AMAZING!!!
I love these “Black People React to (Insert Metal Song Here)” videos, every one them when they do Master of Puppets have the same reaction when they get to the “Chop your breakfast on a mirror” lyric 😂😂😂
Wise Pops whats a black person?
because that's the powerful line bruh.
@@timothywhite3734 A black person is a term used to describe a negro. Likewise, white people are called caucasians. There are people of all kinds of different nationalities in the world. I hope that answers your question.
I grew up on old school hip hop and like most can recite "Rappers Delight" word for word. But I started to crave something more. I listened to Jimi Hendrix growing up and I got into the more heavy stuff like Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden. I owed "Ride the lightning" and Fade to Black was my "Don't do it" song as a teen. This is the second track off "Master of puppets". When I first popped this cassette in my Walkman as a 19 year old kid back in 1986. I went through 12 AAA batteries before I left my room and returned to the real world.
Your face during the guitar solos is the best.
So glad I found your channel, great content!
This is about cocaine addiction damn straight . Metallica has payed they're dues is music
This song is a masterpiece
You got it spot on, man. I love watching your videos because you always try to get to the core of the song, not just instruments or singers. You actually tend to focus on the lyrics, too, which is awesome.
AS I LISTEN TO THIS song on cliff's birthday God i wonder what kind of music would they have been writing if cliff was still on this earth. This has always been my number one metallica son i'm 50 yrs old now and remember jamin this song back on my walkman tape player every morning in Hs before class.
This song can be broken up into parts, the first is obvious, the slow part is the high and the bridge building up to that chaotic solo is the comedown, then it goes back to the first verse riff on the line "Hell is worth all that, natural habitat" meaning the cycle will continue or "now I rule you too" could be James taking the perspective of cocaine there and saying he's gotten someone else hooked.
Seeing a reaction to this song the week Metallica announced they had to cancel parts of their current tour because James had to go back into Rehab ...
Feels bad man.
Same here, feelsbadman
Yeah it sucks, I was due to see them near the end of October. But I hope James gets well soon and recovers
Bruh I was gonna see them this Saturday in Sydney. They were gonna be my first concert. Fucking ripped my heart out when they cancelled.
karma's a bitch
I absolutely love watching you groove out to all these songs from my childhood. Your “stank face” at hearing this stuff for the first time really takes me back :)
I can't believe that, after over 2 years watching you now, I only now just got around to watching your reaction to this amazing mega-classic. 🤘🏻 Awesome!!!!
Give Metallica - Creeping Death from the Moscow show a listen...
1989 Seattle blows that away
@@eazye519 Yeah, just trying to give him exposure to the Moscow show.
@@Vadershake why? Seattle 89 rapes the Moscow show.
@@eazye519 because... Crowd
@@glaurung8644 ya Seattle 89 is better in y every way. What a dumb argument.
Just listen to Frank! Great channel, you are one of the most genuine reactors!
I was just thinking I'd love to see his reaction to Master of Puppets and here it is!
I love watching you listen to stuff for the first time, it's honest and sincere. You're a joy to watch!
Best music reactions on CZcams! Love your channel man ,keep it up !