Metallica, … And Justice For All - A Classical Musician’s First Listen, Reaction, and Study 

These were one of the most engrossing 53 minutes of my youtube experience. Very genuine and original reaction/analysis video. Thank you!

"Somebody likes the drums." That might sum up the Justice experience completely in 4 words.

As a lifelong metalhead, it's fascinating to see a classically trained person figuring out what a riff is, fascinating in a beautiful way.

"Someone likes the drums" - best musical analysis ever. You get right to the heart of it!

The internet is full of posers, but you are so earnest and genuine that it is very refreshing. Not only are you insightful, but you express yourself well, and your musical expertise is apparent very quickly. Your reaction and analysis are very comprehensive too (mood, color, lyrics, rhythm). Great start to your channel!

As a lifelong fan of Metallica and of this song, it was incredibly refreshing to see such an in depth analysis of something that is so familiar to me that I can't recall what hearing this for the first time was like. Your thoughts and interpretation of the song both musically and thematically are so spot on; I really think you nailed this analysis. For a lot of fans of this type of music, listening is about the experience and the emotion expressed, and this song is a shining example for that. It expresses anger, sadness, grief, and outrage. Most people experience this specific issue at some point and feel the same way; Those of us who regularly partake of this style of music use it as an outlet for our own emotions, as well as a way to feel seen and relate to other people; Maybe we're not alone if we're all feeling this way. Thank you for your work to understand something so foreign to you, your breakdown of the song was thoroughly enjoyable and I'm looking forward to seeing more of your content!

It is said, that anger is a higher emotional state than fear, depression and despair. If you imagine that the person listing to this style of music comes from a lower emotional state, then you can see it is an uplifting experience. The Listener can feel an emotional catharsis and release form the deep dark place from where they started. When I was young I would listen to this music as almost bedtime lullaby's compared to my experience of the world. When anger would arise and the tension in the body changes, the mind feels freer. This is not the place to live, but as a way point on the path to Happiness, Angry fierce music helps as a Balm for depression. Thank you for your work. Please continue.

Amy…your reaction channel is going to BLOW UP because you are doing something different, and being a teacher, you present your thoughts well and with clarity. This is going to be amazing.

For my wedding, I hired a string quartet to play the intro for this song as first the minister then I walked down the aisle. The parents thought it was pretty but surprising, and in the back, all my friends knew what it was.

At first I was a bit disappointed to hear no comments about the harmonies and time signature changes -- both very important elements in this song (and in AJFA as a whole). But then it dawned on me how alien this song must've been to her not only sonically but -- perhaps most importantly -- structurally. As someone else said, there is something beautiful about seeing her trying to figure out what a riff is. Enjoyed the video!

I can't believe nobody has suggested "to live is to die" from the same album... its absolutely my favorite song...like of all time...not just in metal lol

As much as I like this song, it's probably not the best choice when coming from a classical background. Metallica have songs that are a lot less repetitive and have much more interesting arrangements.

Beautiful analysis from classical musician pov! Please check out their instrumental masterpiece “Orion”

My grandmother was a pianist and when I was listening to this as a teen she said "I can't stand that beat, but these guys are good. They know music."

What a wholesome, sweet, and highly intellectual analysis of this song. Thank you for making this content!

Something tells me this channel is going to become really popular

Cadenza is exactly analogous. In most rock and metal music, there is a section for a guitar solo where the lead guitarist has a chance to show off his skill while often (hopefully) adding to the piece compositionally.

Funny thing: the lead singer didnt learn to sing until the following album, calling what he did on this album "Yelliing." So you're spot on.

"Kind of a show-off moment isn't it?" Absolutely True! 😃

It's inconceivable to me that someone could exist having never listened to heavy metal, because it has been a core part of my life for so long. But that's what makes a video like this interesting - someone with a totally different life experience approaching something with which I am so familiar and really enjoy with completely fresh ears, relating and connecting it to things from her experience in a way I could never do hearing a metal song for the first time.

I've listened to this song hundreds - thousands? - of times over the years, and your analysis in the last 10 mins especially gave me a whole new level of appreciation.

Metallica also worked with the San Francisco Orchestra. Incredible music. 🤘

"perhaps there's something I'm missing here".... yeah, the bass. 😂

I would say "One" from this album or "Master of Puppets" from the album of the same name would be worth checking out. Both of them are quite dynamic songs that change in style and tempo throughout and where the music kind of enforces the meaning of the song.

Metallica's 'Orion' is a must-hear, incredible instrumental.

Now this is a reaction channel . Great reaction, very genuine!

The performance of Ghost Love Score at Wacken by Nightwish is almost mandatory for anyone doing music reactions. So much so that even Floor Jansen, who sang it, did a reaction on her channels. Hers began as an April Fool’s joke about doing it because everyone else does but she went ahead and did it.

A couple of minutes in you started bobbing your head, the heartbeat of the song works.

This is the pinnacle of reaction channels to the point that it is no longer merely a reaction channel but a novel take on the whole RU-vid channel -genre bringing well informed top tier analysis from a perspective that is both rare and valuable. Keep up the great work. It brings the joy of music to both beer chugging denim and leather clad moshers and classically trained musicians as well and bridges the gaps in between.

I'm a 50 year old metalhead (B2 English level only) and I really enjoyed this video. Excellent analysis, very interesting point of view, great charm of this girl. Thank you

"Seeking no truth. Winning is all. Find it so grim, so true, so real" ~ song written in the 80s and still so relevant.

Wow this is how you start a channel. The largest and most successful metal band of all time. This is gonna be good.

“Ok, I think I’m beginning to get the idea of the piece” is the most wholesome thing I’ve heard anyone say about a Metallica song.

Reaction videos are ten a penny, especially those involving Metallica ... what we have here is a not simple reaction but a thoughtful, articulate and informed analysis of the song. This was so engaging and entertaining! Thank you so much - you deserve to gain many followers for your content, so please keep at it!

When you said "It's kind of a show off moment, isn't it" about Kirk Hammett's solo, I almost chocked on what I was drinking! that was funny in all the right ways. PRICELESS reaction, very enjoyable and well done! Edit: I just wanted to add that Metal/Rock can be a deeply spiritual experience. And Justice for All is a very in your face song. it is a masterpiece in its own right, yet I can understand how it can be difficult to listen to if you have had little exposure to it. Rock and Metal have flavors that span the width of an ocean, this is just one extremity/flavor of it. this journey will take you to many places, some of songs and artists you will hate and some you won't be able to live without after experiencing them.

As someone raised on classical music but also a metal fan from adolescence onward, I REALLY appreciated your perspective on the song construction as someone who was previously unfamiliar with Metallica. I also appreciated your willingness to investigate and relisten despite being understandably overwhelmed by your first listening experience.

Such an authentic reaction - so real LOL! Thank you. You make me want to be there to respond to your comments and feelings through the reaction.

First, Metallica fans thank you for taking such long time to review one of masterpieces. Even for you being a listener of a totally different genre, this song was pretty heavy even forml me when I started listening to it. It has a punch. I think here the music does not go up in first place, but it only serves to strengthen and support the theme of the song. Broken justice. In many different ways. Metallica just touches on parts of society nobody likes talking about, but everyone experiences every once in a while. What a great and detailed analysis! 👍👏 I felt compeled to comment, it's very well deserved!!

"somebody likes the drums" 😂 pure genius! such a low key statement summed up the bands... existence, you absolutely nailed it after about 5min listening. Not to be taken as a negative comment towards their music, I've been a fan for decades. Great content you are creating.

As a Metallica fan, I appreciate your analysis of this song as a kind of protest song. It's not easy to listen to in a somewhat similar manner that Picasso's painting "Guernica" is not easy to look at because it is a protest painting. In both cases, the art succeeds by expressing its thesis.

You spent more time on this song than 90% of hard core Metallica fans lol

Great reaction and analysis! I would recommend the song "One" from the same album, one of their most popular songs and more musically interesting I would say.

The elipses at the beginning is actually important, along with the album cover. Metallica isn't just some blind thrash metal band... they actually have something to say. This music is for a very specific demographic of young people who are looking around them, and seeing corruption in every single representative there was, (and still is). This album was my personal introduction to Metallica, all the way back on cassette tape. So starting at the beginning of the tape, this song was the face of the band. The ablum is more or less telling a single story, with it's cohesion and call backs. I felt the closing pair of songs were like an opus at the end of a more classical symphony. And for a teenager with limited access to music, it was eye opening.

"The same thing coming back" is called riff and is the basic piece of music that holds the song together, I'd say from the very beginning of rock'n'roll till few years ago, you don't hear lot of riffs anymore (sadly)

The Cadenza moment is a very important portion to most metal and rock fans, mostly just identified as the Guitar Solo. Most metal music especially from this era has a variation of this in almost every song. Metal is heavily based on "Riffs" as a building block like a motif you mentioned. So you might want to look that up as a pop music concept.

Awesome reaction! As someone who is a diehard Metallica and huge metal fan, played Clarinet in Orchestra and Marching Band, semi professionally after college, and played guitar for ~20 years, this is incredibly interesting to watch and super appreciated from a pure musician's POV. Fascinating stuff. After you feel like you've gained a grasp on Metallica and metal music a bit, I recommend checking out bands like Dream Theater, Opeth,, etc. These fall in the "Progressive" genre of metal, which will get closer to the type of structure you would see in classical music. Songs by Opeth - Moon Above Sun Below, Lotus Eater, Ghost of Perdition Songs by Dream Theater - Metropolis Part I, Panic Attack, Pull Me Under Also for more Metallica (which I've listed in a seperate comment): Highly recommend Master of Puppets (the original S&M version from 1999 with the San Francisco orchestra, One (also from …and justice for al), The Unforgiven, and Spit out the Bone (for newer Metallica). Cheers!

A classically trained musician first listen and reaction to Metallica's ...And Justice For All album whilst providing commentary on the experience!? I am so very, very here for this.

An excellent methodical breakdown not only from a musical/compositional perspective, you also breakdown the lyrics, emotions and total delivery effectiveness. I thoroughly enjoyed this reaction and breakdown. Keep up the multi-dimensional artistic education and authentic, honest reviews.. Great work!

This was possibly the most sincere bit of RU-vid content I've heard. I am particularly impressed that you managed to break through your initial revulsion - I'm thinking that's a fair word - to get to the song's meaning and to understand it in a far deeper way than most listeners would. My deepest respect. Now I can't wait for you to collaborate with Doug Helvering.

I can’t tell you how much I love this reaction.

I was a huge metal fan when I was young (especially Metallica) and I've listened to a lot of classical music in recent years, so I always find it interesting when someone from a classical background reacts to heavy metal pieces. I am very impressed by your interpretation of this song. Your thoughtful views and impressions of it from your classical perspective are remarkable. I look forward to watching more of your reactions.

i'm so excited to see your journey through rock music.

The cadenza, what it is musically, is not just a showoff moment. It's actually more poetic. In vocal performances the instruments support the vocals. The singer is the one saying everything. The music can't speak it only emotes. The solo is the instrument's opinion of the piece, topic, or story being told. Usually, the guitar solo either supports, agrees, and sympathizes with the vocalist or voices it's opposition. The instrument's solo can also be its own "reaction" to the lyrics within the song. In another context, one could imagine the guitar solo is like a loyal dog offering it's opinion to its owner.

Well done. This song was the theme of my young life, as my Dad was wrongly incarcerated by a corrupt system. While you (and my wife) find the music stressful, people like me listen to it as a form of therapy, as we identify with the message and feel understood in our outrage and anguish. The song accurately and thoroughly expresses our impotent rage against our perpetrators.

Please do more of this!! As a Metallica fan, it is REALLY COOL to see someone with your background analyze the music I enjoy so much. You even noticed and gave name to stuff I have been noticing for years, but I lack de formal preparation to put them into words.

This kind of music is known as heavy metal. I've been a Metallica fan for over 20 years now, and they're typically the group one first listens to when first discovering heavy metal music. They are the "gateway drug" into metal music, as it were. As you listen to more, you'll find, that heavy metal (especially heavy metal from the 1980s) and classical have a lot in common both compositionally and in playing. '...And Justice for All' is definitely Metallica's most technically proficient album, however 'Master of Puppets' is widely considered to be their best, and I suggest you listen to the title track from that album next. If you'd like to listen to more on 'Justice,' I would suggest the tracks 'Blackened,' 'One,' and 'To Live Is To Die.' If you've got a spare hour, 'Master of Puppets' is best enjoyed in its entirety from start to finish.

Can't wait for her to hear their evolution in songwriting. These guys were like 26 when they made Justice. So much angst. They grew up musically by the Black Album. Load and reload have some huge songs that I think she would appreciate.

When Metallica were touring to promote this album they found that the songs were so long that by the halfway mark the crowd was dying down, so after a while they condensed the coolest parts of the album into a 'Justice-medley' and got it over and done with in favor of the the less drawn out songs of other albums.

I absolutely love and respect how open minded you are. I went from purely classical to metal within a year and it was the most powerful expansion of musical experience I never knew I needed for the sake of soul enrichment. Amazing to watch your musical journey 😊

I'd be very curious on your thoughts on Metallica's "The Call of Ktulu" from their "Ride the Lightning" album. It's an instrumental from their second album. The version with the San Francisco Symphony is outstanding in my opinion but I always enjoyed the original version too!

Thank you for reacting. This entire album is about injustices in society. I think you would really love another song for this album called “One”.

This is such an incredible perspective. I enjoyed this so much. Can't wait to see more.

And yet, your final interpretation is impeccable! Wow! I give you the highest regards!

I'd suggest reacting to "One" as it is a emotial story and quite easy to follow if you're actually listening. Any of the symphony orchestra arrangements they've done as well.

Really appreciate this review. As a long-time metallica fan, guitar player who was also classically trained on trumpet growing up, I’ve loved watching reaction videos. But what many of them are missing - even with some of the composers that have done it - is an examination of the structure and composition of the songs. Also, the philosophy of the sonics. How the music is a representation of the lyrical concepts. This is my first view of your channel and it ticks SO MANY boxes for me. Thank you ❤️

Oh man, I thoroughly enjoyed the professionalism in your reaction. Honestly, anything off Metallica’s first 4 albums would be great to react to. Looking forward to more!!

As a 35 year dedicated fan of Metallica I can honestly say this was absolutely incredible! Well done ma'am, well done !!

If it were possible to invest into RU-vid channels the same way one could invest into stocks when a new company appears out of nowhere, I would put lots of money into your channel. Haven’t watched anything as professional as this related to music in years, not even on famous television networks. I have the feeling you will be famous sooner than some might think. Congrats for everything you do!

Best breakdown, dissection, and explanation of a metal song EVER. Metalheads breakdown metal songs constantly, but this, she totally killed it. Especially the explanation of the solo portion of the song. Most metal explanation ever.

I was holding on with great anticipation for your analysis… That you found this song to be “…an eloquent portrayal of an experience that is felt by many… to be treated unjustly by the very systems which were established to protect and defend…” -nailed it, IMHO. • Thank you so much for listening, granting deference to something which was outside your comfort zone, and also talking about comparative musical structure. I have tried to express to classical sticklers that metal has different instrumentation, yes, is distorted, uh-huh, with lyrics that are often growled or screamed, that is correct… but in a strophic baroque/classical structure overlain with abruptly altered meters shocking the listener into self examination (“Oh, you were bopping along, and then the meter changed, huh. That’s right-check yourself”), so there is overlap. • The lyrics so often deal with social disorder, injustice, or personal struggles a la Jungian shadow work (in that the evil in the world was created by people, not monsters, and we are not so far from them as to be worthy of elevated status). • This album is a bit more groove oriented (pronounced “repetitive”) than their previous album and magnum opus, Master of Puppets-universally regarded as one of the greatest albums (not just “metal albums”) of all time notable for its virtuosic guitar work (not only by lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, but by rhythm guitarist and lead singer James Hetfield, who sings while playing those crazy syncopations), deep harmonic structure, and highly visual and complex lyricism. Any of its songs are worth a listen, but the title track is one for the ages. • I look forward to hearing future analyses. Subscribed👍 • If you do a Tool reaction, you will gain about 200k subscribers in a heartbeat, and like Metallica, they are a deep dive, BUT be prepared for your analysis/breakdown to take a week or two to prepare. Tool are the gods of prog metal… for good reason.

Metallica has done two (yes two!) albums with the San Francisco Orchestra. You can check out "S & M" (symphony and metalica) and "S & M 2" to see how they mesh with more familiar instruments.

I thoroughly enjoyed watching and listening to your analysis! Right into the deep end of the pool! Remember heavy metal, especially thrash metal (as Metallica is sub-categorized) is a rebellious evolution of rebellious music. First rock & roll as a rebellion toward mainstream big band, then as rock became "commercialized", a new form of protest was needed. How to grab everyone's attention? Simple, be as loud as possible. Distortion in the beginning was just turning up the amplifiers as much as possible. Nowadays it's become the staple of the genre. Then writing lyrics that, rather than expressing freedom and rebellious joy, writing lyrics to convey a problem. Most kids (my younger self) were more inspired by these rebellious nature than the actual musical quality. Anything to play as loud as possible to annoy your parents and teachers. You'll find most heavy metal more closely connected to Romantic style classical. Remove the love of the romantic and keep the fascination with death (Der Erlkonig and Symphonie Fantastique would be most comparable). Most metal is, of course, simpler. As you pointed out in your video, thanks to evolution of music (specifically radio) most songs will be shorter and limited in scope (see Dream Theater for the antithesis of modern songwriting). Lyrics will mostly be rebellious in nature. If your goal is to get a better appreciation for heavy metal, you might want to start with 60's and 70's metal before exploring further to get a better foothold on the genre as it deviates from rock and hard rock. Bands like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple are good starting points before going to Iron Maiden and maybe Alice Cooper to see to music become progressively louder and faster. I fear starting with Metallica as your ambassador to the genre without having that already rebellious nature will only make other metal bands less approachable.

Metal and Classical are closer than most realize. You will find their S&M album/concert. Enjoy this journey. Peace/JT

A little "reminding" dead stop appears in every verse as well, on every line's third beat, alltogether instruments and words. It's like a "hammer of justice" reminding you the whole song trough. And the repeating of that (slightly modified) verse riff with the short dead stop right after the solo is like a high energy point to me where no words are necessary to get to the point, all is summed up in that riff.

“Someone likes the drums…..” You have no idea how right you are. 😂😂

I like to periodically remind myself that Metallica is no more heavy metal than the 1812 Overture was in its day. It doesn't get more metal than firing cannons during a song. Heavy metal music lends itself to symphonic arrangement very easily and sounds amazing. So much so, in fact, that Metallica has 2 albums (I think it's 2?) that they recorded with the San Francisco Symphony.

I really appreciate her intellectual breakdown of the song and find it interesting that the tone and message seemingly match what many see in world today… I would love to hear more 😊

I loved your video and analysis! Since you briefly expressed an interest in this album, May I suggest the song named “One”. It’s a powerful anti war song that tells a compelling and heavy story, that’s driven home by (in my opinion) their best song writing ever. OR if you’d like to see the overlap between Metallica and classical music. “Call Of Ktulu” is a great instrumental that’s been taken to new heights by the San Francisco Symphony

Amy, I have to say you have much more patience than I do. I grew up listening to rock music, and Black Sabbath was the second concert I attended. Having said that, as heavy metal became a genre, my tastes drifted more towards fusion jazz, now straight jazz, and I never cared for Metallica. I was introduced to your channel by your listen to "Strawberry Fields Forever," and then went back to your first video to watch them all chronologically. If I were in your position listening to this song, I would have taken the headphones off and said, "That's it. If the project requires me to listen all the way through this song, then the project's over." Well, I continued to listen as you did. I had to look up the lyrics to see what he was yelling about. I must say that the message of the lyrics is quite poignant, and the interpretation of the lyrics by the music is spot on. While I still don't care for this style of music and will not become a Metallica fan, you brought me to realize there is artistic value in this music and creative genius in the musicians that I was not aware of before. Thank you. Stay with the patience.

Been a Metallica fan since I was a kid. I really enjoyed you taking the time to listen. Thank you. I hope you do more. They were literally kids when they got started.

When I first heard Metallica I was already a fan of this type of music, but it still took several listens to this album before I really 'got' it. So I can understand how difficult it must have been for you to approach this song.

49:57 "When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home?" This is a spoken word piece during the instrumental "To Live Is To Die" from this same album. These are the last words their late bassist, Cliff Burton, wrote for the band before his death while on tour for the previous album, and they are inscribed on his tombstone. Such a coincidence that you were reminded of something so similar from two seemingly unrelated subjects just by hearing any other song from the album aside from it. Maybe, it speaks to the time period of both Chernobyl and "...And Justice For All" as well as it being a possible bit of evidence that at the time the quote you referred to was spoken, and even now, things may not have been or be that much different than they were when these two things occured. Apologies for invoking boredom.

Your understanding of the bands crafting of tension, and the push and pull with the lyrics on Justice.., Just(ice) amazing. Nice work here!

You should explore their songs they did with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. They took their songs and made versions with the orchestra added.

It's amazing that because it is a different musical style one who is classically trained cannot easily appreciate the establishment of a theme, the varying time signatures, interwoven melodies, etc from the start. Hopefully during the analysis video she can appreciate the composition.

This channel is really exciting. I love the analysis from your point of view. Can’t wait for your breakdown of nightwish, I always wanted to know more about their composition.

I stumbled across this in my recommended videos and I have to say that I really appreciated your take! I laughed for a moment when you said "somebody likes the drums" because the drummer of the band infamously influenced the mixing of this album to his liking. If they haven't been mentioned in the comments yet, a few bands that do *very* well in these type of reaction and analysis videos would be Rush, Tool, Dream Theater, and Iron Maiden. Each band being known for their complex songs both musically and lyrically, including one Tool song being written using the Fibonacci sequence in both verse word count and time signatures. Best of luck on growing your channel!

This video was great. I laughed ("somebody likes the drums!"), I cried, and I came out the other end more knowledgeable about both classical music and a song I've known since I was in the 8th grade (25 years ago). Anxiously waiting more content.

I know I'm a year late, but every time you hear Metallica, you have to think in 4s. Almost every riff they do, they play it for at least 4 bars, sometimes 8, sometimes 16. It can seem repetative but it gives the guitar-heads time to appreciate it

Hello, I love that you don't rip music apart and degrade it just because it's different from what you are use to. You actually break it down and are able to view it through a different lense and appreciate the idea it's trying to convey. Not many people can do that, so thank you. I think you might actually like Metallica's song The Unforgiven. It's a little on their calmer side, and has some classical guitar elements that remind me of Moonlight Sonata. I believe it would be more enjoyable for you. I would love to hear your thoughts and analysis of it.

You were right about the show offiness lol. Here's what I found on wikipedia. ...And Justice for All is a musically progressive album featuring long and complex songs,[24] fast tempos and few verse-chorus structures.[25] Metallica decided to broaden its sonic range, writing songs with multiple sections, heavy guitar arpeggios and unusual time signatures.[26] Hetfield explained: "Songwriting-wise, [the album] was just us really showing off and trying to show what we could do. 'We've jammed six riffs into one song? Let's make it eight. Let's go crazy with it.'"[22]

"to live is to die" is a must if you return to Metallica.

Wow, you really jumped into the deep end with Metallica. Thank you for the video. Your going to get a lot of metal heads coming over flooding you with metal requests. If your going to try more Metallica then I think Orion(instermental) might be something you would enjoy. Otherwise Boston "More than a Feeling" would be my request.

You're going to love discovering Metallica's live album "S&M". They performed with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and it's amazing.

Amazing video. And Justice for all is a true masterpiece. Thanks for sharing!

The show off moment... I love it. It's a solo. It is part of the basic structure of rock (metal) music

wonderful!- im unsure if you knew how much into the deep end you were jumping yourself into lol- im very pleased with your conviction and dedication to committing to an analysis of something that normally requires much growing into to fully appreciate this kind of music- i myself am an avid heavy metal fan- if i may, i would recommend the band black sabbath (which is largely considered the origins of metal) before returning to plunging straight into the deep end of metallica lol (also- metallica is not at all the deepest the metaphorical pool goes just fyi) but- if and when you do return to metallica- i would like to stress that this particular piece / song is not at all a good example of how impressive their arrangements can truely be- something like their song "orion" or perhaps maybe "one" might be a better option to observe- even the majority of the other songs on the and justice for all album are fantastic but, metal in general is in my opinion, usually structured much how beethoven liked to take a motif and repeat it while evolving and advancing the same motif over the piece i must say your musical breakdown of the thematic narrative through the melody is spot on- excellent, bravo one of my own very favorite metal bands are also classical composers and will even play with a full orchestra when playing their music live. i wouldnt recommend it for beginners to the genre, but if your curious, you could watch the live performance of "gateways" by the band "dimmu borgir" on youtube- its quite an experiance from a sub genre of metal known as "symphonic black metal" the song even climaxes with a male and female duet in the ending. im glad to see you see the poetry metal tends to pride itself with in its lyrics (which this piece / song is even weak by comparison to most others in the genre) as far as the subjects of what topics metal touches- its quite a wide variety actually- yes, most metal is about frustration, justice, morality, dark concepts, and or power fantasies- some of my own very favorite songs within the genre are about love, god (yes, in a positive way lol), the beauty of nature, history, and the pureness of animals. much like the topics the genre can cover- there are a very wide variety of emotions, tones, and tempos the genre plays with- i promise its not all loud and fast- even if the majority of it is- some pieces are truely beautiful- the last point i wanted to express is that the fanbase of metal is very very very passionate (myself included) and with the exception of the small minority of us that are elitists, the rest of us are very welcoming of anyone that is curious about our music and im sure that if you decided to do more videos on just this genre youd very quickly get a lot of genuine respect and appreciation for doing so even if you dislike it lol- anyway- if you managed to bother reading all of this, i thank you as english isnt my native language lol- and i hope to see more videos like this in the future

This song is most definitely not a celebration. It's a eulogy. Nothing can save us. Justice is lost, Justice is gone.

What an amazing and thoughtful analysis. Everyone should watch this until the end.

Her smile as she analyzes this song says it all. I love this. One of my favorites is Fade to Black. Every hair on my arm and neck stands up to the guitar music in Fade to Black.