FIRST TIME listening to METALLICA - "The Thing That Should Not Be (Live - Seattle '89) REACTION 

Blackened was also INSANE

@@Jdwdogg The live version of Blackened at this concert most sounded like a Slayer song in the beginning when James begins his insane riffing.

Agreed. Time machine destination

Agreed!¡!

Best show ever, they were like beasts in this show or some kind sobrenatural thing inside of them

Well, it's about thee heaviest number known to mankind. It's a big old FAT muthafucka called "The Thing That Should Not Be". What did you expect? lol

The studio version sounds way better.

Yep, James looks terrifying

@@MaceDeMarco2010 you're objectively wrong

@@tylerreisinger734 you can’t tell the difference between opinion and fact.

You sure cliff wrote this? This is actually one of the songs on the album where he got no writing credits but the other 3 did

Cliff actually didn't write any of this but was inspiration for introducing James the H.P Lovecraft. Cliff only wrote a few parts on the master of puppets album

Kirk Hammett is also a huge H.P. Lovecraft fan. He and Cliff bonded around this and D&D.

@@sheldonnicholl3599 Yea Kirk's a huge horror movie, novel and comic book buff!

RIP to the late great Cliff Burton, an all time GOAT on base guitar, his Bass Solo on Killem All is legendary!

True james‘ downshredding is insane especially in creeping Death

Iron Maiden does it as well and better

There are plenty of bands with more variety of music that execute and play together better than metallica. I love metallica but be honest here. Or listen to more music. This was their prime that last for more 5 years. The last almost 30 years they were a band struggling to keep relevant

@@blackened281 did you notice the 'imo'... Metallica's music has spoken to me better than any other, Maiden may do it better for you, but that's for you, not me.

@@mpmarques I agree about their struggles, but much of it has been a result of them at first trying something new then after the constant complaining trying to appease fans then live up to the past etc... Black album, load, reload, even st anger have some great music on them, nothing like the early stuff obviously, but that doesn't matter, they already did that stuff and it was awesome. More recently death magnetic was a welcome change to me when when it came out, clearly wasn't ride or mop but was ok. Also if they had tried to be relevant in the beginning they wouldn't have been playing thrash metal that only a few bands were doing and then wouldn't have made ride or mop, as again they deviated from all other thrash metal... So screw being relevant, them trying to do that over the years has definitely caused them problems. So I guess I agree on the short peak of their song writing, but what a peak. For me, their music, particularly the first 5 albums, is untouchable, first time I heard mop all the way through was like discovering another universe to me.

Don't forget how legendary Creeping Death & Fade to Black where performed during this concert🤯

So hard to have a true favorite off that album lol

also Suicide & Redemption. Demo name of the song was K2LU

Also, arguably Sanitarium could be tied in there with the whole insanity theme.

@@DeusEx1977 I mean every song is open to interpretation so I won't say you and the other person are "wrong". However it is well documented that _Welcome Home (Sanitarium)_ was 100% inspired by _One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest_ after James watched it. As for _Suicide & Redemption_ and the demo being named _"K2LU,"_ well that can be anything really. If I were to guess it was an unnamed instrumental, and _The Call of Ktulu_ was their first instrumental, so it was simply a place holder. I could be wrong, but I've never heard of any connection to Lovecraft's work with this particular song. This is what is 100% known; _The Call of Ktulu_ - This song was a directly influenced by Cliff Burton and Kirk Kirk Hammett''s obsession with H.P. Lovecraft at the time. They were both really into it. They intentionally misspelled "Cthulhu" as they were worried about copyright issues. _The Thing That Should Not Be_ - Is taken directly from _'The Shadow Over Innsmouth'_ and the entity referred to as "The Thing That Should Not Be", which is Cthulhu, or another god in the mythos, I forget, it's been literally decades since I've read this. At any rate there is a interview on RU-vid somewhere that shows Burton discussing this very topic. _All Nightmare Long_ - This song is about _The Hounds of Tindalos._ While not created by Lovecraft, but rather Frank Belknap Long in his short story of the same name in 1929. Lovecraft talks about them in his short story _"The Whisperer in Darkness"_ in 1931. They where henceforth inducted into the the Lovecraftian mythos. Again, there is a Death Magnetic era video someplace out there where James talks about how fucked up these things are, and how they will never stop until they get you. Due to them being so obscure, or hard to quantify, and nearly impossible to translate to film -- which is Cosmic Horror in a nutshell -- they just did some weird Tunguska experiment monster for the video. And finally, _Dream No More_ - This song is full of references of Lovecraft's work, including the actual god of the mythos -- Cthulhu. This is why I said there are four songs, as each one can be directly linked to Lovecraft's work or mythos. Again, songs are open to interpretation, and if you feel _Welcome Home_ is inspired by Lovercaft's work, then man that's awesome.

Drunk Hetfield was better then sober Hetfield.

Me too

Awesome! My first live Metallica show was this Tour in Atlanta, GA...I was absolutely blown away and remember it like it was yesterday. I didn't see them again until the "Black album" Tour, also in Atlanta but in an arena as opposed to an outdoor amphitheater - the tickets for the scheduled Date went so fast, they added a second show the very next night! I attended both and they played for three (3) hours straight, with no opening act. Incredible!!!

Newstead was the 3rd best bassist in Metallica behind Cliff and Robert

@@Shawn-mo6dh That version of Metallica probably isn't even my 3rd favorite band Robert has been in, if we're going by music released. Robert could have never been in Metallica and it wouldn't make any difference to my love for Metallica or Robert. I mean, its nice, he's a great bassist...but his stuff with Suicidal Tendencies is more important and influential than anything he's done with Metallica. I'd love to see a Suicidal/Metallica show, as long as Metallica stuck to stuff they recorded before Robert joined the band...before the Black album, preferably. I love the idea of Robert Trujilo in Metallica, in a "well, somebody's got to do it" and he's getting paid and great for him. But, I don't like him as a member of Metallica as much as I do/did Jason. The Metallica that Robert Trujilo is a part of isn't one I'd be that excited to see in concert, unless it was some show they were only gonna play stuff from the first four (five if I'n feeling generous) albums and say, Garage, Inc. And as a member of the band, I like Jason better. He's an underdog who got screwed by the villain of the piece, the worst human being to ever be a member of the band, Lars. Robert had more leverage and could probably kick the shit out of the Dane if he got too mouthy, and the band had probably learned its lesson, or at least realized they'd been sort of pricks. Robert might be a better bassist, but he's part of a band that is past their prime, Jason was there when Metallica was the most important band on Earth. When real, true, honest thrash Metal music with serious political and social messages took on the world and won for a brief shining moment. He might not have been part of the engine that got them there, but he helped push it across the line...somebody had to play bass so Lars could pretend it didn't exist. And as you can see, he contributed to the live shows and engaged with the fans right away.

@@preciousroihomeshoppingnet7908 Everything you said there was right. Personally I always loved Jason's role and time in Metallica.

@@preciousroihomeshoppingnet7908 I don't believe they're "past their prime".

​@@Shawn-mo6dh that is just your opinion dude 😁

Because of tou and my uncle I'm a Metallica fan

84-85. Metallica at their peak

They also have a song called All Nightmare Long, it’s supposed to be Lovecraft aswell.

That was in Seatle 92. He asked kirk if they were going to play whiplash. Sorry for my english not good

Kurt would have been as big as Metallica had Courtney not drove him to take the cowardly way out

i may be wrong but aint all nightmare long about a lovecraft story ? im not sure if its ktulu though

I hate to be THAT guy, but Metallica did get MTV airplay thanks to the music video for the song "One". This concert was in August of 1989, 8 months after the music video for "One" debuted on MTV.

@@TokusatsuGamingfan They were headlining shows and selling gold albums before the video from their 4th album. The mosh pits were just as epic on Master of Tours

Yeah, that's likely not going to happen since she's already reacted to those songs.