Metallica To Live Is To Die Reaction!! 

1. The slow introduction: it symbolizes the feeling of aggression and loss that the band suffers due to their loss. 2. Solo #1: represents the whole feeling of anger of Kirk Hammett. 3. The interlude (slow part of the intro): it represents the acceptance of the loss of the 3 remaining members, and the going forward in their honor. 4. Solo # 2: represents how deeply the death of Cliff Burton has affected them. 5. On the return of the heavy part, they pay tribute to Cliff by reading the poem, his last composition, and continue with the tribute doing just what Cliff would have expected of them, to move forward with the music. 6. Upon reaching the end, the song returns to the classic style of the introduction, symbolizing the memory of Cliff, which will never end. The final riff is suddenly interrupted, symbolizing the end of Cliff's life, cut short by death at such a young age.

The song abruptly stops and goes straight into Dyer's Eve on the album.

RIP Cliff........This song was his last writing credit and his only credit on the Justice album. Such a gifted musician......taken way to soon.......

I've come to the conclusion that this song is the metal five stages of grief. Beginning (happy section) denial, then the 'verse' and 'chorus' are anger. First melodic part and first solo are bargaining. Then the slow section including James' solo is depression. Then lastly, Cliff's poem is the beginning of acceptance.

7:11 - 8:33 is perhaps the most beautiful piece the band has ever written.

RIP Cliff Burton... *MEGADETH* "A Tout Le Monde" and "In My Darkest Hour" were Dave Mustaine's tributes to Cliff Burton using parts of memories of their last conversations. Dave says he didn't know any other way to portray their friendship and his emotions.

It's one of my favorites from them, it's so beautiful.

To answer some of your questions "This song is a tribute to Cliff Burton. The bass line is medley of unused recordings that Cliff performed prior to his death. Because the original recordings are not used on the track, the composition is credited as written by Burton and played by Newsted. The spoken word at the end of the song (“When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives.”) was written by German poet Paul Gerhardt, but was erroneously attributed to Burton in the liner notes. The second half of the speech (“All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home?”) was written by Burton. This spoken word passage is one that the members of the band often recall Cliff saying - so much so that the last two lines are marked on his grave site. “To Live is to Die” is the last Metallica catalog piece accredited to Cliff Burton chronologically, as he was working on it prior to his death. For years, this song was never performed live in its entirety. At best, only an excerpt from the melodic bridge was performed on guitars and bass during the tour following this album. This changed in 2011, when it was performed in full for the first time ever as part of the 30 Years of Metallica festival."

That acoustic break , will forever be my favorite emotional part of any song ever, so amazing omg.. You can so clearly feel in the song that they miss him, that feeling is so strong, almost palpable.. :( Almost palpable, like my ass, haha sry it's late and Im tipsy xD

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've always believed this to be a damn masterpiece. Thanks so much for this one guys!

Cliff was a classicly trained musician and absolute artist on the bass guitar. He is even to this day pretty much the top dog when it comes to mad skills on the bass. He had a huge influence on Metallicas music and he died when he was 24... He was only getting started and he was robbed from us. All the music he would have created with James, Lars and Kirk... Man, we missed out on some truly epic stuff. This song was created by riffs made by Cliff and the lyrics were something he used to repeat all over the place. The first part is from some German poet and the second part is all Cliff. Metallica has played this song once live in its full length. I don't think they will ever truly get over Cliffs passing and they shouldn't... Especially the way things went down.

Sori got it spot on wow. That instrumental was the ultimate expression of the band’s dealing with Cliff’s loss. Im astounded of your musical sensitivity. Great stuff!

6:43 - right in the feels

The ending is cut short because is goes directly to Dyers Eve. It gives an effect of surprise when you listen to the whole album from start to finish the first time. That's why I always listen to albums that way. They were written as a whole and not as just a bunch of tracks that happened to be released at the same time in some arbitrary order.

Sanitarium now and then The Call of Ktulu please!

My favorite of all the Metallica instrumentals and a perfect setup to the awesome closer Dyer's Eve. I remember when "And Justice For All" first came out. I was in Middle School and I heard a classmate playing this song in particular. You could just feel the emotion coming out of the instrumental. Plus those guitar harmonies and the beautiful words towards the end of the song! So good.

Metallica always makes me think of my brother. Particularly, the song One. That was his favorite Metallica song. He passed away in 2013. That week was the hardest week of my life. I barely ate or slept. But the one thing that would always make me feel better is music. Certain songs were difficult to listen to because of how much he loved them. Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd and Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd were extremely difficult for me. Now, these songs put a smile on my face because I remember how happy he was when he listened to them. I would really like to see you two listen to Simple Man and Wish You Were Here.

8:06 James Hetfield’s solo! He put his soul on that solo, so emotional you can feel it.

This track just brought tears to my eyes (which is the first time in a long time). One of the best reaction vids Ive seen. Subbed.

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Damn, it looks like you both took a trip on this one. This is my favorite Metallica song. My eyes well up during that melodic section every time. RIP Cliff

THANK YOU! Been waiting for this video for a little while. Motorbreath, Eye of The Beholder and The Outlaw Torn reactions please!

I am really happy you two reacted to this powerful, emotional song. One of my favorites and this was THE song that impacted me when I was listening to this at a young age (this was also my first Metallica album). Thank you for taking the time to review and discuss this. It hits home to many of us. Much love.

This is one of the most moving pieces of music Metallica ever wrote. Cliff Burton was bass Melody personified. His bass on For Whom The Bell Tolls was magnificent and his bass solo Amnesia (Pulling Teeth) was incredible. When his death was announced it was bad. I just couldn't believe it and then to see the pictures made it worse.

Yes actually the ending was cut short on purpose

IRON MAIDEN - Caught Somewhere In Time - 1986 !!!!

Lars on his prime. Kirk on his prime. For those who don't understand age pays it's toll to everybody. I remember listening to this song back when the album was released and left me with an strange emotion all the time. Until I came to know the song was about Cliff, then it took a different perspective to me.

Awesome review. This is one of my favorite Metallica songs

oh my god thANK YOU I've listened to this song, and album overall, so much. Dad's re-recorded tape from late Soviet years or right after it. So much emotion in this song. That's my childhood, #1 Metallica album. And still so much goosebumps. This song is such a masterpiece.

Cliff wrote the riffs, the surviving members put them together and released it as a tribute to him.

I came back to "to live is to die" after years and now I cant stop replaying it.....its AWESOMENESS

You two love each other so much, I can tell it’s precious what you two have. Thanks for reacting to my favourite band of all time!

Yeah, it cuts right into Dyer's Eve. This was Cliff's last Riff and lyrics. Lars and James turned into their last instrumental until "Suicide & Redemption" many years later. Kirk of course ripped the solo but also helped with the arrangement, and Jason just honored his idol. Jason said, there were a lot of tears lost on this recording and a lot of alcohol consumed.

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i love how there is so much emotion from this song, and how it speaks to you without words.

I'm always floored when this song plays, beautiful. Thanks for reviewing it!

You should react to "Eye of the beholder" or "...and justice for all" from same album

Those bass melodies in the song were written by Cliff Burton. His last compositions.

hey...thank you...its nice to listen to this with people who appreciate it...this song is important to me...i will listen to this with you repeatedly

You guys should really do Fixxxer or The Outlaw Torn... it's in a way they are sucessors to this song with the perspective of loss from a distance.

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I'm with you!!!!!!!!!!!! This is absolutely one of them masterpieces!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kirk's solos are very strong, James' second solo is powerful and full of soul!!!!!!!!!! You can feel the emotion from this music, man!!!!!!!!! Lyrics by James and partly by Cliff Burton (R.I.P., legend!!!!!).

That middle section gets me every time. It’s so powerful and moving

Don't really watch reaction videos but love you guys. Much love for keeping it real not just reacting.

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08:07 always brings tears to my eyes...

this Song brings one through all the Emotions in Life. I love it. Greetings from Germany. Great Videos.

One of my favorite songs. I hate to explain to people how an instrumental can say something without vocals. Sori's interpretation of this song was perfect on the first listen. Thanks for sharing this one you two.

My fav Metallica instrumental ever as is tribute to Cliff. Some of paraphrase are on cliffs gravestone. Being that and justice for all is the first Metallica album that I brought when I was 10 in 1988, this song gives me goosebumps every time. R.i.p legend Cliff Burton . Pure masterpiece . Fact that start and finish are same. Start of life/ end of life.

To get a true appreciation for what the world of music lost when Cliff died you should really listen to Metallica - (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth+Whiplash

I may eventually comment deeper but for right now, thank you. Much respect to you two.

@15:30 Cliff Burton as a musician was something very special. It's been 31 years and I can still feel and remember the impact of it. It took many years for the band to deal with it. Check out Some Kind Of Monster when Lars and Dave Mustaine are really talking about how much it affected them still then

Great song! Good book too! RIP Cliff Burton. Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize (live in tilburg).

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Thanks for letting that play. I needed the song apparently, and it was cool to be able to sort of listen to it with someone who hadn't heard it. Gotta remember, they were all there in that crash, on that bus together. They each survived the trauma of the same accident that took Cliff. And more than that - they saw him. And they were there at the crash site for a while.That's fkn nightmare fuel. That song touches something that touches that, imo.

Damn Sori! Ive listened to this for 30 years and never had the emotion and insight as you had in just 10 min. Wow, you guys are great

Yeah, up there with classic music masterpieces y Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven...Cliff liked classic music. Best song!

The middle section makes me crying everytime. It's so sad. Rip Cliff

This is the second Metallica song I learned on bass... For whom the bell tolls was my first. I love playing this song.... ✌🏻🙏🏻🤟🏻

On the "AJFA" Album "Dyers Eve" is right after "To live is to die" so it kinda sounds like the "intro" to Dyers Eve, actually you can hear that one last note from "To live is to die" in the first half second of "Dyers Eve" best way to "fix" that abrupt ending is to listen to both songs in a row. ;-) greetings from Germany! Lassts´ krachen ;-)

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This whole song is a representation of the process of losing somebody, the intro is so calming and smooth and out of nowhere DUM DUM DUM here comes death out of nowhere creeping and a terrible accident happens, oh loool just saw someone write a similar comment to the fullest..so I'll just leave it here :) go read what he said

it's a masterpiece guys. it was overlooked back then but the track actually grabs you emotionally. some of us are so use to fast pace metallica and never thought of actually imbracing the music IN CREATIVE FASHION NO MATTER THE TEMPO. the music speaks. a classic art.

Growing up through the 80's and losing so many friends due to suicide, aids, drug overdoses (almost myself included, OD'd twice) makes you grow up too fast. And I hold this one close, and got the same thing from you all back then from the song. I think of all my friends in my teens then, I can count the one's that are still here on one hand with maybe a finger or two left over. Took me down memory lane, shed a few tears here remembering, and I'm good with that. Thanks for posting.

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If i'm not mistaken this is Cliff's last song he worked on before his death.

I can still remember the way that song moved me the first time I listened to it when the album came out back in 1988. I still get the same feeling today. I dedicated this song to me and my son. The circle of life.

After the intro, when the drums then the guitar kick in... goosebumps everytime, ever since I was youngin'. The spoken word section does it to me everytime as well.

Cliff for me and for many others was was a true inspiration for picking up an instrument, for how they play and bringing them to a classical style of writing. In terms of the band discussing Cliff and the events that followed there’s one that always chokes me up. I believe it was Kirk mentioning in a documentary that James late at night, completely drunk was staggering around the streets screaming for Cliff.

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this song paints such a picture. no instrumental does as much for me than this one. when the guitar starts to sound like its on an old radio, every time I get the picture of an old wooden house, painted white with the paint chipping off, in the high grass of a beach area. I cannot see the beach but I know it is near. the music is coming from inside the small house. there is no glass on the windows. yet I know what I want is in that house. I can never make it inside before the music ends.

You nailed the lyrics bro. Loved your interpretation. Poetry isn’t easy for everyone.

The end blasts straight into dyers eve .cliff wrote this what a great track to end on.R.I.P. CLIFF.

4:46 whenever my mom heard me play this song back when I was like 10 she would always call this the Rod Jeremy riff and I never understood why.

I had a close uncle that passed away about 2 years ago from sudden heart failure he was 48 and we played this song at his funeral along with for whomb the bell tolls and damage inc. he was a die hard metallica fan and always listened to them this song remindes me of him.

i Totally recommend you guys watch this live, i believe it was live in Seatle, it's the most emotional moment i have ever seen in a concert.

in case you didn't know those short lines was what Cliff was working on but was not able to finish because of his death.

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One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written!!

One of the most emotionally stirring pieces of music ever composed by Metallica! Thank you for this Vin and Sori....

I suggest Iron Maiden , "For the Greater Goods of God". AWESOME!

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Love how you guys have such good taste, and can appreciate the classics. Cliff wrote the skeleton to this song, and the boys finished afterward. RIP CLIFF, WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU.

This song is like the musical interpretation of the stages of grief great insight guys

R.I.P CLIFF BURTON 🤘🤘😭

The orchestral sound in the middle of this song is bar none, the best thing ever. Cliff Burton was very much in to classical music, and introduced the other members to it. Those volume swells sound very much like a violin. I think it's just a subtle nod to Cliff and his influence on them. AJFA is their angriest album. The 1st three records hit hard and heavy. But this one? This is filled with a lot of emotion.

This is the song that i could listen every day and never get tired of...its a pure masterpiece guys. This enter for sure in the top 10 of every song of every style ever.

Vin Your'e right about someone losing a loved one at a young age and how hard it is. I was just 39 when my wife passed away from Cancer. Definitely the hardest thing I've ever dealt with.

I know it's Orion for most fans, but this is my Cliff song. The interlude/solo is the saddest piece of music I've ever heard outside classical music, which is disassociated from any common grief that we might feel for Cliff.

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its so beautiful. The song has pretty much no lyrics yet it gives you goosebumps. thats when you know its done right

Cheers from Finland!!! Really like your reaction videos and that in mind I highly suggest Italian band called DGM and song The Secret Pt. 1 and I think you`ll be surpriced. I wish you two great week :)

I love when the people remember Cliff but I don't like when they say things like "Cliff was Metallica" ,"Metallica died when Cliff died" . The hearth ,soul and creative force of Metallica is called James Hetfield and Metallica will die when he stops breathing.btw great reaction

"cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home" was something the rest of the guys in the band said Cliff used to say all the time

This song is the emotional journey the band went through after his passing, easily my favorite piece of music from them. It begins with a peaceful melody, goes through hell, grief, sadness, acceptance, and ends full circle in that peaceful place they all started from.

I always get tear when hear this song...it takes me to all my friends face who had die...miss u guys...miss u cliff...

Lol I’ll like it even tho I can’t watch it just yet , love this instrumental ! Iron Maiden - Empire of the Clouds

Rapper: says 150 words/minute, doesn't gives you a single emotion Metallica: not a single word spoken in 6 minutes, brings tears to my eyes

One of the greatest emotional tribute songs of all time and by far my fav Metallica instrumental . One world " Goosebumps". I'm sure the note is meant to be cut short as his life was cut short. Masterpiece.

Man you keep rocking man Great seeing this and he wrote and play the music In this song It was his last the part where It change 🙌 FALLEN Great .