Metallica - Blackened (REACTION!!!) 

ROB. I’m buying a ghostfret pro tomorrow and wanted to know what you think of it. I’ve assumed you’ve tried them once or twice because of your connection with Chapman. Merry Christmas.

Hi Rob merry Christmas!

Eyyy, never expected you to be here . Merry Christmas

Hello brother 👏 merry Christmas you smexy man

@@iforgotmypen6348 I'm assuming it sounds and plays like an ML aside from the different body style(and how that might affect how it plays), but I could be wrong. It's insane the guitar you can get for your money these days, I got the $200 Jackson Dinky JS22 in natural oil last year and it's an amazing guitar as far as how it plays, could just use some hardware and electronics upgrades but it'd be worthy of some Bare Knuckles for sure. I guess looking it up it's got a shorter scale length though, like an Explorer. I suppose you knew that already and might have tried one out yourself lol.

Yes!

Or Damage Inc

Yessir! Top 5 Metallica song!

Favorite song off of Puppets

Disposable heroes is hard AF.

Lars was an abolsute animal.

That makes sense. I know everyone hates on him and I was like I dont fn get it.

Everybody hates Lars 'cause he helped shut down Napster. That's it, really. Him being a raging asshole and getting sloppy on the drums are dodges. Lots of musicians are assholes, lots of drummers get tired. But Napster made it easy for everyone to get all the music they wanted without paying a cent, and a bunch of musicians and songwriters said, "Hey, you know a lot of us make our living through our audiences paying for our music, and if nobody pays for the music they enjoy, we don't make a living," and since Lars was one of those musician/songwriters, everyone got mad at him, and since he's the kind of asshole to be happy to take the point on the charge, they got _really_ mad at him, and they're still mad at him, and if the _entire history of America_ is any stick to measure the situation by, it's clear that very few people really _care_ why we're supposed to be angry about some things, only that, when you show up somewhere, and everybody hates something, you have to hate it too, so feel free to come up with your own reasons to hate. Everybody loved _Enter Sandman,_ and everybody really loved _Enter Sandman_ for free, and Lars said, "Hey, pay for _Enter Sandman,"_ and now everybody hates Lars. This happened decades ago, and you can still get _Enter Sandman_ for free, and Napster sort of came back, but everybody used to hate Lars, they still hate Lars, and they want you to hate Lars, too. That's it, really.

Yeah that's some bias ass shit. Ppl dont know how to be objective.

man even during his low point on saint anger he didn’t even suck, it just wasn’t 80’s Lars. And he’s back on a roll with death magnetic and hardwired, he’s putting effort back into to his drumming.

It definitely doesnt

Word 🤘

Weakest song on AJFA for me.

🔥

even better on And Justice For JASON with the bass track added back in... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xuuSdZCPlfI.html

Absolutely one of their best...!!!

Ryan will love it sooo much too haha. It’s right down his alley.

YESS DAMMIT YESSSSSSSSSSSS

Seconded! At one point this song had over 600 plays on my itunes.

My favorite Metallica song.

Me too! And last year the guys gave us One!! Metallichristmas

I love these dudes. As a black dude who is a metalhead, it's refreshing to see these guys think outside of the box and at least try something new. I wish they were around when I was in high school. They actually embrace different cultures. I love the dudes.

That's always been my takeaway as well. This song just screams how pissed off they were.

and it didn't work, but I get what you are saying, the amount of "feelings" in the album is outstanding

i have always thought this same exact thing lol

Actually Ron McGovney was the original bassist.

@@harryhurd2474For very little time and none of his playing is on any Metallica albums you can listen to.

Nobody asked that though

@@themightyblat5007 6:03

@@chickencurry1033 he said "that's a quick pace" as in the songs tempo was high

@@themightyblat5007 6:05 he did

@@foundingfodder8225 No he didn't, that doesnt even remotely sound like "where's the bass?"

Rosterized who needs bass

And jason for all

You can thank Lars for the lack of base. It was his decision to have the bass so low in the mix.

Bark Lord of the Sith It was Jason’s too

What's even more tragic is if you look up the isolated bass tracks, Jason's playing on this album is phenomenal.

@@notimportant3686 The sad part is that is so easy to spot... Unlike this guys who always sound genuine from the beginning.

Its about nuclear winter. "Fire to begin wiping dance of the dead" "smoldering decay, takes her (the Earth's) breath away. Millions of our years, in minutes disappear"

try no life shaq super fun to watch

If you like rap you sound listen to $suicideboy$

Will do

What do you recommend?

Yes! I've been saying this shit since High School. Even live they are so syncopated with the rhythm to the drums.

Agree. Kirk was so good in the 80’s. The solos on Hardwired are appalling though. What happened?

@@mydayis5 i dont know but that sweeping section in "Spit out the bone" is better than everything off DM

@@mydayis5 tbh, kirk is lazy. He doesn't sit and write like the others. As far hardwired, Kirk said he had all his stuff recorded on a phone, and he lost it XD. James doesn't believe it ever existed lol

it was this album that won Kirk, "Guitarist of the year", I think it was a Grammy or more likely MTV music awards.

Its definitely not underrated among metal fans but yeah it absolutely deserves more love. Amazing song.

underrated by whom?

@@lucasguglielmone1432your average contemporary metal fan. the fact we’re watching reaction videos to our favorite songs puts us into the nerd category (proudly)

In a word . . . With Metallica it's the Anticipation . . . Alice in Chains it's the Relief . . . Rage it's the Delivery . . . Ministry it's the Revelation . . . Tool it's the Redemption . . . And with No Doubt . . . It's Gwen.

There’s a lot of songs that don’t get enough credit and most of Kill ‘em All but this one is a song most metal heads I know don’t like, but they hate the albums past the 4th they agree is shit. I’m gonna get blasted for that. This song is good but it’s no Master of puppets album or RTL or Kill ‘em All, but it’s a song you can rock out in the car and for me clean to!

Anthony Harrelson So you like metal without audible bassguitar?

Agree...It's a Metal Masterpiece!!!

@@johanf1784yes. if you truly enjoy thrash, i don’t believe you can put on And Justice and not like it

Sanitarium is the song that will have a chance at being your favorite Metallica song.

THIS

yes yes YES YES YYYYYYAAAAAAASSSSSS!!!!!!!!!

how the hell did Sanitarium not win? Ughhh

Agreed

Yoooooooo. I'm dead.

Hahahaha

💀💀💀💀💀

im stealing that one

Merry Christmas guys.

They know it or not as Sanatarium. One of my favorites too. But so are all the other requests. Damn they’re awesome.

Two kinds of people... →Welcome home →Sanitarium And then there's me (°≈°): Welcome home Sanitarium

@@tgoh6486 i say that too lol

I was exactly in the same grade!!!! I heard ONE .. and I’m 38 now with 4 kids and I’m passing the torch.

To me, Master of Puppets is one of the greatest metal songs ever, but you're right And Justice for all is hands down their best album.

Agreed. The clarity and tightness of that album. FIRE

true

Even the lower ends of the album are above and beyond. And honestly a lot of people hate the production quality but I think that just adds to the raw passion they're dishing out.

@@theminakins815 you could put me in the column of hating the production. quality. The whole sound is flat to me especially the drums. Puppets is head and shoulders better than AJFA

I can't click the thumbs up button more than once, and that's a travesty. You want groovy thrash? Harvester. Period.

hell ya dude the harvester verse groove, soooo goood, i feel like smashing when i hear it.

My favorite song on the album. Their second best ever, I think.

Yeah Harvester is just soooo thick and heavy! Especially the binge and purge live shit version.

Yeah, or The Thing That Should Not Be which I think is one of the most under rated songs from Metallica.

kirks solo on that one always blew my mind

Leper Messiah

I couldn't agree more!

My favourite Metallica song!

I freakin love Disposable Heroes. Trapped under Ice, Eye of the Beholder, Battery, Master of Puppets...so many. My favorite playlist.

Definitely I would say his most angrier voice

how

He was pretty angry sounding in MOP though

Garage days he began to developp a tougher, more mature voice. He was 24 then , in Baritones, and Low tenors , at mid 20's you have often a dropping more adult voice, darker, because your larynx aspect change and became harder .

This album is where James voice is at its peak, and he sounds the meanest on this album

Creeping Death is also interesting in that it's straight out of the book of Exodus. I don't think Metallica did a lot of biblical stuff. I would like to see them react to that and the Lovecraftian themed Thing That Should Not Be.

Oh, looks like I was a couple hours late with this comment.

Another fun fact: Jason Newsted wrote the main riff to this song as well.

I used to turn my stereo down so my mom wouldn't hear that hahaha!

Same

LOL feel ya man

Cygnus7659 they actually don’t even say kill 😂

Remember all the idiots with the "kill your mother, kill your father music" bullshit?! I know people who still react with those words when they hear i listen to metal lol.

Lauchie Maddaleni or A National Acrobat or The Thrill Of It All.

Booo. Under the Sun or Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Or Supernaut.

Symptom of the Universe or Into the Void

Yep, I was the most excited to get to that part, I knew they'd like it.

C Tk i guess you could say Nothing Else Matters.

Sad But True

Ryan Lewis I’m sorry, who are you?

Hetfield riff God

Great riff. Did you know Jason Newsted actually wrote the main riff? Blew my mind.

@@haraldvegard7199 and suggested the intro backwards

Alway been my favourite Metallica song!

Cant believe it hasn't been done already.

I second that whole album. Either that or ...And Justic For All

no. 1 song of all time

Definitely need to do this song

DOMINATION for sure \m/

Yes, definitely agree. Pantera are immense & the groove metal kings!

Or No Good. That one grooves like hell too.

I'm Broken for sure

And so many more xD They only reacted to Walk when there are so many more gems to go through...

Love this song

YES! Lol. My favorite also!

Daniel Séredin I never said anything about what genre it is. I just like the song. Am I not entitled to have an opinion?

Dude they just need to react to the entire And Justice album

Yee boi

my favorite intro of all times

You know it's a reversed sample, right?

@@TheWitchOvAgnesi He's talking about Battery (which is not reversed). Yes, the intro to this song (Blackened) is reversed.

yeah battery owns.

For sure.

Steven Astudillo: ABSOLUTELY!

One of there best songs Lars could never played that live the right way because it was to fast Dave played that way bostaph. And lonbardo played like that all the time

Steven Astudillo that song is too much, would turn would be fans off of the band.

@@Pusfilth Dyer's Eve is one of those songs that you listen to only after getting used to Metallica. So in a sense, I agree. Going straight to their heavier stuff is not recommended.

Very true fellow metal fan Dyers eve is a HELL of a listen

Fave Metallica song ever next to motorbreath

Josh Bartelli yup

Yep agreed... Same groove but better

Yes definitely!

Harvester Of Sorrow is one of the best on this album.

David Bright it’s a bitch to learn to play on guitar but so worth it!!

Yup they went crazy on their reaction

Joe garza that isn’t reversed

@@bennievargas2673 The intro is absolutely played backwards.

@@bennievargas2673 yes it is.

its reverse reverb

Wherever I May Roam!!!!!!Yeeeeeees!!!they have to check it out!!

+1 for Harvester of Sorrow.

King Nothing is like one of their best songs with groove to it...and personally I love Sad But True.

Don't forget the god that failed

King nothing puts me in my zen. Its a song you can wake up to after a peaceful sleep

If any other band would have put out St. Anger it would have been considered at least mediocre. But for a Metallica album, when compared to their other work it was just poor. And when you compare their new album to stuff like load, reload, and St. Anger, of course their new album are good. But people want the same heavy metal/thrash vibe of their old albums. Personally I don't understand the hate, but to each their own. You can't compare their new stuff to their old stuff. It's a weak argument to make for why the albums aren't good because realistically they aren't even in the same genres.

St anger just had bad production

"Saint Anger is not trash" ah you must have never heard the song Invisible kid off that album

@@DeosPraetorian that was intentional. At least they say it's intentional.

No everything past Justice is bad. You do you though lmao

definitely one of my albums. of all time

Gleb Khodunov damn right son

Shortest Straw

Harvester of Sorrow is my favorite song by Metallica!

Harvester of Sorrow 🤘

Two of my favs!

I wouldn't say the second half is groovy. Great song anyway

I feel like eye of the beholder is their grooviest song by far

@@zenoncortez9050 I feel we all have different definitions of groove. Metallica isn't a grooy band for me (they have other qualities), Pantera is.

The Thing That Should Not Be or Leper Messiah is groovy IMHO.

My favorite Metallica song right there; Orion is something else.

Eric Hallam and a clear lack of the bass. Jason got produced out of the entire album.

Newsted started off on garage days revisited which was before the justice album

He wrote most of it

Eric Hallam a lot of self-indulgent production

@@randallrobinson6575 ...And Justice For Jason !

pretty much this ^^ every weekend

I wouldn't have recommended 'Blackened' either way, but at least their livers were loosened up.

@@NefariousKoel exactly. Battery should've been before blackened

With that said, allow me to introduce Tankard - Die With A Beer in Your Hand

@@MyruleCatalyst96 Is that a codename for Psychostick's legendary "Beer" song?

Everything you just said could have come out of my own mouth. I caught them in Jacksonville. Queensryche opened, the poor bastards.😄

frtanmartin I would give my left but to be there

For a die hard fan who knows their songs, yes this is the best. but to newcomers, no listen to studio version

I agree

Live shit binge n purge!! \m/

@RycheForOrder I think they've struck a good balance of what they WANT to do vs. what the fans will buy. They've had a pretty good finger on the pulse so far. That said I agree with you; everything since MASTER or even AJFA has become less compositional and more of a pop release.

U wanna hear a different side of Metallica? That's not Orion. Low Man's Lyric is Metallicas other side

Yupp..starting black, that classical-medieval-three count thing is gone

Fuckin Exodus

yup this. although so many other songs should have been on there

Saw them in 1989. It every bit as great as you could imagine it to be.

Yup

100%

Cliff adds so much soul into the music on Orion.

Or Call of Ktulu.

DaleDeekes arguably yes I agree.

Live. Moscow 91 or Seattle 89

Dyers Eve is another good one

HoS is one of the best songs of all time. Especially pay attention to how the drums compliment the heavy riffs.

I agree they would love that one

@@mattjones4285 agreed. Dyers Eve is my favourite song on this album. As much as Jason is not really featured on this album it is so technically perfect it's hard not to love it.

I love the fast chuga chugs

The B all hail King Bobby B!

Disposable E-String

@@dervpool hahaaha but if the E string was truly disposable, they wouldn't be jamming it lol, UN-disposable E string more like it lol

All fuckin' day ...I love playing Metallica and Megadeth

Seriously though you guys would both like these songs MUCH better.. Knowing your guys' style i'm surprised you reacted to Blackened before these songs, and honestly Metallica has so many other great songs you'd probly like better.. You Should also react to Mama Said, it's a much newer, country version of Metallica. Metal heads hate it but its a great song :)

@@kiranbuzza lol i would if i felt there was a chance they'd do it

I'd love to see them review cemetery gates.

@@fatpad00 Same, that would be awesome

I wouldn't call Pantera "slow paced", but I got nothing but love for a Pantera shoutout.

They're not doing Pantera anymore, since the video of Anselmo's racist outburst on stage. I would have liked "Cemetery Gates," or "Revolution Is My Name." From their Twitter: "We had PANTERA 'Cemetary Gates' on the board but thennnn we ran into a very 'unpleasant' video online. What is a 'Free Thinker' to do? 🤔"

👍👍👍👍👍👍

Christopher Reitwiesner Yes!!!!

@@owengonzales53 first solo on this song is probably my favorite solo ever

Yes Trapped under ice is soooo underrated.

i heard the beginning of Sad But True when i was like 10, and it actually changed the trajectory of my life haha