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.
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 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
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.
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.
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...
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 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
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 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
"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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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. 👍🏼🤘🏼
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!!!!!!
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🤘🏾🤘🏾
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.
@@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 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!
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
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
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!
"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" :)
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.
"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 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.
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!
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.
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...
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 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.
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.
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.
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!
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 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
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.
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 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!
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.
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.
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!!!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
You are my go-to react channel! There's a couple others I watch AFTER yours, but you're top. I like how you do a bit of research on songs. You're really good at this!
I've been waiting for this Jamel, you finally broke that Metallica seal. It's on now. I think you've said you grew up with Hip Hop so I can't wait till you get to Rage Against the Machine, I suggest you start out with "Bullet in the Head" it's not about what the title sounds like.
I used to be a 100% heavy metal guy. Over the years, my eyes have opened and I listen to music fro EVERY genre. I love watching people having their eyes and ears opened to music outside of their usual tastes and realizing that good music knows no boundaries. Videos like this are total eye candy for me. Welcome to the greater world of music.
Once metal, always metal. All music is valid and worthy. But to be a part of any fellowship, jazz, classical, country. It doesn't matter. If you were genuinely excited about any type of music, you will always be a part of it.
Thank you Jamel_AKA_Jamal ! Thank you again man ! I saw your respect, now 2021.july. your were feeling the music in this , you became sacrade ground! nobody, nothing can touch you now ! You were in the music ! This is what this Song demands !
