Metallica - Mama Said 

His recent interviews too, he’s been through a lot and has become a genuinely good dude...

David Vincent of Morbid Angel started doing country, Adam Darski of Behemoth started also a country project, 3 members of death metal band Luciferion started a power metal band, members from Vinterland, Maze of Torment started Alfahanne a band mixing genres and a very long way from the extreme they played before.... and my list goes on and on, so Hetfield is not the only one, there are lots of guys out there who have done that. I respect them all for following their heart!

Not trying to invalidate your point but rock and country always sounded melodicaly simmilar to me

@@playsobis8651 Country comes from blues mate and those walk hand in hand ;) And you probably mix rock with blues :)

Only Metallica can suddenly transition to Country, still sound good, still sound like Metallica, and fit perfectly with the vibe of Load. Personally Load & Reload are my favorite albums 😎😎

Yes it does.

It's truth...say what you have to ...to ones you love.. while there's time

This would be my mother

Absolutely cannot stand actual country but, I still listen to Bob Seger, songs like the one in this video, etc. It's as country as I get... aside from "Try That In A Small Town" That was absolutely gold. Gotta watch the music video for it to make sense though.

Very hard… I just buried my mom this past Saturday 😢😢😢

This phrase really touched me.....

I need to your breaking the chains but you just so cold to me. I guess it means is this

Furkan Atas In this context James' mother is dead, he wishes he can hug her but all he can find is her tombstone.

Pierre Iskandar ı see, might be. ı told it just a guess

I know how he feels

hell yeah man!! metallica does this song so well!

+GrantH all the 'thumbs down' are a sign of Perfect see the 'P' and look at a thumps down dont they look the same and the thumbs up are the B of Best :D

+GrantH Any country that comes close to this? I love stuff like Van Zandt, and the obvious ones like Hank and Cash.

Right. This isn't your regular "I like to fuck my sister and drive the truck my dad bought me" country bullshit.

GrantH couldn't agree more

Been there brother.

its true

Glad those days are behind me, but yeah! Been there.

omg do you have a camera on me? It's cool.... I love this song

Been in that place

System of U2 Well said!

System of U2 agreed love this sing

System of U2 Hell, the album is great. It really shows how they did just fine upon leaving the thrash metal genre behind. This song capitalizes on that.

+System of U2 Just goes to show awesome Metallica is whether it's heavy metal or a more mellow country rock song like this one. they're awesome.

+System of U2 This album isn't at all bad, I hate how people hate this album! Load and ReLoad are my favorite Metallica albums.

Dammit ur making me cry. Hugging u!!

In Burton We Trust

This song struck a similar chord to me, knowing the pain of losing my mother at an early age. Her loss was at someone else's hand instead of cancer though. Everytime I hear this song, I'm always reminded I have her in my heart and my memories, and I do everything I can to embody the memory of the wonderful person she was.

@Aleksi Cemak I've been a Metallica lover since 1986 and even I never knew that. Thanks for enlightening me, we are always learning no matter how old we get (ageing rockers included lol).

I wish they just went down this road instead of their abysmal attempts at alternative, nu-metal etc.

No doubt

How about st. Anger? The lyrics are so painfully in some songs, like the unnamed feeling :_(

@@Faks.09 Fuck St. Anger. Fuck St. Anger to hell. Even Metallica wishes they could go back in time and never do St. Anger.

@@SelectiveApathy82 lmao Ok, keep on spreading the hate to the album which helped many people to went through their darkest hour, including metallica lmfao

@@Faks.09 If there was a mandatory online poll of all Metallica fans, the vast majority of them would vote St Anger as their absolute WEAKEST album and the lowest point of the band's career. Load and Reload were amazing. St. Anger was mostly crap.

The whole album's way underrated.

CipherOfHate It's one of my favorite albums.

187jacktheripper Same here. One of the first albums that properly got me into music as a matter of fact. Until It Sleeps in particular is a stellar song.

CipherOfHate King nothing is epic also. Bleeding me is unbelievable. The outlaw torn too was great.

@@187jacktheripper The House That Jack Built, Hero Of The Day

Prove's Metallica has incredible lyrics

Chad M yeah me too......i said why metallica??, why?? 😂😂😂

Very moving. This song is so unappreciated

Your not alone

Same here

Hahaha bunch of pussies

strong alphas also cry.

That's not how song production works most of the time but okay? And idk why crying IN MUSIC is so frowned upon, listen to Daddy by KoRn and u'll see it makes an impact, AND DON'T GIVE ME SHIT CUZ IT'S NUMETAL

Wholeheartedly agree

Only album I'm not too crazy over is st anger. Even that had some great songs. Load and Reload are right up there with the big 4 for me, they're just not thrash, but the songs are good ordinary rock songs.

I was wondering why it had the sound of a country guitar, thats awsome tho

It has country elements in it, cuz this song is about James's dead mom who loved country music, dumbasses.

They are not bad albums in themselves but they are too wildly different from the thrash material that made Metallica famous. They should have put both these records out under an alterego of sorts that would have made sure they were recognized for the genius they contain. And you have to be a little older and more mature to appreciate these. Your average 17 year old metal head would just say “this sucks” and put on ….And Justice for All”

+FelipeGutierreZeo I was born in 87. The first album I ever bought was Load. It was a tape. I didnt even know about the old stuff until a buddy of mine played it one day. I was like oh hell yes these guys are just flat out Bad Ass

+FelipeGutierreZeo Touche'

Absolutely agree !!!

Thank you!!! Finally someone said it!!! 🤘🏻

That's the point

Very true brother

Not always. My husbands mother was an abusive witch and if I ever see her again....

@@barb7124 she must be a step mother. real mothers can never do you wrong intentionally

@@rameezjaved7585 Yeah sure mate, keep believing that.

@@sybbi7 I have a whole world as a witness to believe that.

Like your profile pic. Anyway i like all their albums Kill to Death Magnetic. They just grew up and matured. that's why they sound so different.

Rusty Shackleford I don't understand why so much people hate Load and Reload albums and even Garage Inc. I thought they were great albums. People want the same sounding album year after year from a band or so it seems. That would be boring in my eyes i think its great that Bob Rock came into Metallica's lives and took them on new inventive roads not to say their albums without him at the helm were boring because they were brilliant.

Rusty Shackleford St. Anger would. The drumming on the album is totally shit, that's most people's problem with it.

Nick Baars I'll admit, the drumming does make it somewhat difficult to listen to several tracks from the album one after another after another. But the album as a whole ,in my opinion, is actually a decent album.

Rusty Shackleford They wouldnt recieve hate because they wouldn't recieve any attention whatsoever. Without the name Metallica, Load may have had some small local success in southern USA; St Anger would have disappeared into the abyss with a million other bad metal albums.

+José Henrique Soter de Oliveira Metallica is Metallica no matter style or instument.

Mika Ruuska yeah. Mettalica is aweasome

+José Henrique Soter de Oliveira I think of Metallica as 2 separate bands pre black album and black album and after I like them both depending on what i am in the mood for. But i do prefer the older stuff.... i'm old its what i grew up on lol

couldn't agree more.

well not only that, but putting st.anger aside death magnetic was one of their best albums since justice in my opinion.

grandma Hetfield, cuz James is Papa Het

@@kin2375 nope. parents who fuck up that much, don't get to be called grand.

+Codey Horn yeah man. me too. This is one of I play when I'm feeling sad.

+Codey Horn The Unforgiven 1 and 2, they are my theme songs, I've always been the one behind, the one who's never been seen, the one who is "unforgiven" even my friends forget I'm there.

Metallica has music for everything I've felt. They did very well with connecting with the fans, true artists.

Everyone may be left behind at times, and feel alone or unloved or without worth or reason or purpose, but please just remember one thing dude: No matter how you get treated in life, no matter how things go, no matter what happens or how people act towards you; you *do* have worth, and there is *always* someone who would miss you if you weren't here. I've been through a lot of horrible and a lot of empty in my time on this mudball, and I've seen a lot of the worst sides of people, and I can tell you from experience that, yeah, life is garbage at times. People are just the *worst* here and there. The world is a giant ball of 'fuck this noise' way more often than it should be. But there's always someone out there who cares about you and cares that you're still okay. There's always someone out there who's happy that you're still around. There's always someone out there who would be sad if you weren't. It doesn't always seem like it, but it's true all the same. It took me a long time and a hell of a lot of hurt to realize that, but once I did it made it a hell of a lot easier to keep moving forward, even when things took a turn for the shit-sandwich again. I don't know if it might help you or not to know it, but I hope it does. It certainly did for me, and it's probably even kept me from being dead in a ditch somewhere, considering the way things were going for me a few times. I hope it helps dude, I really, really do. You aren't alone, even if it tends to feel like it \m/

I can't imagine brother. At least metallica has a touching tribute to all those who lost their mommas

@@dnmoscato92 Alter Bridge has a good one too called, "In Loving Memory", which is a tribute to Mark Tremonte's mom who passed also.

+jason H. Zargar They have played it live....

cpl_dixon1 maybe once after 20 years..and it was only james not the whole band

Probably cuz the guitars are so different

I like until it sleeps, mama said, king nothing, and bleeding me

It isn't a country song, dumbass. It has Country elements in it. Not the same thing, idiot. ...and it only has those cuz James's Mother was a country fan.

@@MrParkerman6 Okay? Lol.

Thank you for liking my comment that was nice of you

They do country better than all modern "country artists". You can't beat classics like Alan Jackson and Johnny Cash.

I agree Scott! I wish they had more songs like this.

Jake Bucks did you just compare alan jackass to JOHNNY FUCKING CASH??? please ban this fool from watchin music on youtube...

***** no really im in a bad mood anyways then this dickhead has to go and say something fucking stupid like that, on a metallica song jesus ass'd fucking christ

***** although i do like how you put country artists in quotations

It's in the top 5 for me

Bleeding me

That's really nice of you :)

That's sweet :)

Me too :(

Hetfield is a Skynyrd fan. Makes me like him even more.

These are normal words lol, no need to put everything in bold and quotation marks ya robot

Es que lo es. El público heavy es bastante intolerante cuando un grupo evoluciona y nunca se le perdona.

Buenisimo el tema....en algunas partes, suena similar a un tema del grupo JETHRO TULL llamado ´´WITH YOU THERE TO HELP ME´´.....te invito a que lo escuches........un abrazo

Completely wrong, fucking dumbass. They are from James's perspective, fucking idiot. You are an idiot.

+floodedcar123 cole

What's wrong with that?

I don't know what's wrong with that, dude.

I do too

How dare you?

Música boa é música boa, é isso mesmo.

Tem bom gosto

preach it!

Yup Hank III wrote a song about it. Like to hear it? Here it goes.... "Well we're losing all the outlaws that had to stand their ground and they're being replaced by these kids from a manufactured town And they don't have no idea about sorrow and woe. Cause they're all just too damn busy kissin' ass on Music Row So I'm here to put the "dick" in Dixie and the "cunt" back in country Cause this kind of country I hear nowdays is a bunch of fuckin' shit to me ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' 'Cause the kind of country I hear nowdays is a bunch of fuckin' shit to me

I guess that's how you can tell really good music: it appeals to people who don't usually listen to "that sort of music". And of course, once something is famous again, you get huge crowds, a potential for fame and money, and a large percentage of crud. You might regret mentioning stuff like "neon Hee-Haw" or "bubble gum country", because now I am tempted to look it up. ("country hip hop" however sounds like something I wouldn't want to poke with a stick.) Much adoration to the Conrad Veidt icon.

@Tom Caine yeah exactly, what a poser, we all know 40s bluegrass is trve kvlt

Real country, any kind of folk music really, was meant to keep people happy in tough times when they had nothing else. The kind of people who listen to pop country, mostly young, southern suburbanites, want the aesthetic without any of the meaning behind it. They want the nice romantic images and the party-boy lifestyle without the hard work and working-class grit that kept it real.