I don’t care how people may trash this band. When this came out, it was the first music video Metallica had done. They had resisted for years as they didn’t want to “sell out”. This video is art. When this came out, it was so amazingly powerful.

I've watched SO many reactions to this song and yours was by far the most thought-provoking and insightful one yet. I can't stress enough how much I love your videos. One of KZfaq's hidden gems! Keep it up, homie!

Love seeing people reacting to One, it’s definitely one of Metallica’s most powerful songs.

The book is such an amazing concept that it's just brilliant. I picked up a brand new edition this year and re-read it so it's fresh in my mind still. It is an amazing read, you'll marvel at how it's put together... but it's a complete downer. And it stays with you a long time afterward. But it's the kind of book everyone should read at least once.

....And Justice For All is Metallica's darkest, meanest, grittiest album of all. The band was still reeling from the death of their original bassist Cliff Burton in a tour bus accident. They brought all of their grief and their anger with them into the studio and it just exploded during these recording sessions. It's pure catharsis caught on tape. Cliff's ghost was with them and it will forever haunt this album.

I always remember my Mum saying to me as a boy that she never trusts a singer that doesn't sweat - so all these years later we have taken it a step further and only listen to music that makes us sweat

Great reaction. Minimal pauses were respectful. Theres sophistication with this band. Its in the subject matter and the lyrics hammer that home.

Really enjoyed your take on this song. Interesting and insightful. Thanks!

I really like your reactions and the way you break down the song...great job

I love your interpretation.. its like you are speaking my mind, but more so. You say things that I lack the ability to voice. Thank you again for a fabulous reaction.. xo

Imagine roller skating to this, I taught myself how to headbang while rolling specifically for Metal Nights at a rink I used to frequent, it was an absolutely unforgettable experience.

so may watch a lyric video and miss the music video... others miss lyrics watching the video. Well done here man. Great stuff and set up. Ive subbed

Heavy 💪 Always get the blood flowin' Peace friend! 🤘✌️🇨🇦

One was the first Metallica song for which a music video was created. The music video, directed by Bill Pope and Michael Salomon, debuted on MTV on January 20, 1989. The video, shot in Long Beach, California on December 7, 1988, is almost entirely in black and white, and features the band performing the song in a warehouse. It features dialogue and several scenes from the 1971 film adaptation of Johnny Got His Gun. Timothy Bottoms can be seen starring as Joe Bonham, the main character in the novel (written by Dalton Trumbo and published in September 1939; the basis for the 1971 film).

This video came out right after I bought tickets to see them for the 1st time. To this day, the best concert I’ve ever been to.

This channel is crazy underrated. Hope you do more of Metallica

Great review. Pure. Real can tell not fake af like others.

This would come on MTV alot when I was young and I was always horrified, mesmerized and excited all at the same time.

amazing you said the guitar was so in sync with the drums 30 seconds before they literally play together for the 'machine-gun riff'

This is literally the best interpretation of a song I have ever heard. Great reaction dude keep it up!

Masterpiece.

When he sings "Landmine" they would set of a pyrotechnic pod that James was standing on.

This was epic when it came out!

Yes, indeed that is how it is fu@king done. Peace/JT

It's crazy when people comment about Metellica, Kirk Hammet is hardly talked about. He's one bad ass guitarist. Enough said.

Glad you sort of turned out the video and focused on the song. The video for ONE can be super-distracting for a first-listen experience. We had heard this song hundreds of times and absorbed the lyrics long before they released the video--which is also great in it's own way. Great reaction!

Metallica is my ALL time favorite band since 1984 when I first heard them.

This was the first music video Metallica EVER put out. They had been remarkably reclusive wrt radio and mtv play to this point. But oh boy did they come in strong!

First time viewer. Dude, you're a metal head whether you know it yet or not.

Bro I love your metallica reactions You are genius and you pay attention every sec when you react on Metallica 🤟❤

Great song 👍

The undisputed GOATS of Music 🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘…..they do not play instruments….they attack instruments 🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘…..you still have let’s say 40 Metallica-bangers in front of you 🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘

Must react to the day that never comes live

What a fucking masterpiece

Hey this is great, but im waiting for the rest of the Ride the Lightning album reaction

Great song...chills every time I listen to it. If you like historical story telling you must do Iron Maiden.

Easily ONE of my top 5 Metallica songs.

Second Metallica album I bought brand new back in 88 when I was 16. Hated it at first. My favourite today.

u needs to watchem liive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The scenes in this video are from a movie "Jonny got his gun" and it was on KZfaq and might still be, just type in that title. I recommend giving it a watch.

Reactors that do a little bit of research beforehand are a breath of fresh air.

Check out the song Dyers Eave

'That's how the fuck you make music' Yes, yes it is!

You should do Disposable Heroes if you like this kind of subject matter or Take No Prisoners(Megadeth).

The video gives context, but it deserves a listen without the movie.

this song is a masterpiece. your takes are on point, but i almost had a stroke when you paused going into the bridge.

OR DISPOSABLE HEROES live in mexico

The clips in the video are from the film, but the novel itself is incredible and worth a read. It’s author, Dalton Trumbo, was also an interesting individual who was caught up in the anti-Communist witch-hunt and “blackball” in the 1950s.

FUCK YEAH!..In advance🤟

Great reaction. This song has always hit me pretty hard. Would love to see you react to some TOOL. If you liked this, you'd like the song 'Invincible' off the album 'Fear Inoculum.'

Musical impressionism at it's finest.

NO LEAF CLOVER 1999 is what you need next from METALLICA

Forgive me if I missed it, just subbed to you, but have you reacted to Master of Puppets yet?! If not, definitely should be on your list!

My favorite by far but I am infantry after all. Happy Veterans Day, stay free, it's the best thanks.

You should listen to the whole album

Still one of my favorite songs by Metallica

Hi my friend! Could you please react to Diré straits' Telegraph road? Thank you!!

the clips are from a movie about the book.

Are you planning to dig into more metal bands or are you sticking with the classic rock stuff for now? Because a lot of the major metal bands across the subgenres have extremely dedicated followings.

Syed.. hear me, its time for a instrumental track from metallica, check out "orion" please, is the best one of all time.

Hey syed can you react to Ronnie by Metallica definitely a underrated song

They're not among my favs but this is one of many masterpieces they had in the 80's

METALLICA bought the rights to the movie so they could create yhe video.....this was their first music video ever after so many prior releases.🇨🇦🇨🇦❤️

listen my humble sugestion mate, i yhink you are ready to next level. "orion" is the last cliff burton human tribute, i think after they meade it, gods get cliff to make music in heaven.

Diers Eve and Bleeding me are some of james hetfields best writing.

🤘Clips from video are from movie Johnny got his gun directed by Timothy Trombone must see 👀 🤘ed

I started drums because of Lars I've played drums for 25years because of Lars metal for ever

BEWARE! Don't open the door of METAL because you'll never get it closed again! 🤘💀 🎸 🎶 🎵

Black eyed peas request line ft Macy gray

Do overkill the years of decay ….lotta bands especially mid 80’s to mid 90’s that did very good at great music and story in the song that was intelligent metal got a bad rap from the get go as just loud nonsense when it’s so much more

I like your comments very good your points.. I completely agree with you, achieving the visceral with the musical is only transmitted by some bands, I see many critics of Metallica saying that they sold out, I say that their musical position is to take risks in pursuit of the adventure of creating makes you great.. Regards from Chile.. Please react to Genesis song the musical box

Hetfield uses a lot of overdubed guitar tracks in studio engineered songs, so it has that THICK tone. At least that's what I've heard.

This is actually the movie which the band was inspired by not the book. It's a powerful movie. Does not have a happy ending.

I would suggest watching it a second time now that you focused on the lyrics. The video lends a BUNCH of context to the song.

THE SUPPOSED HARDCORE METALLICA FANS DON'T KNOW A DAMN THING ABOUT THIS LEGLEGENDARY BAND. THE IDEA THAT THEY MADE THIS VIDEO GOT METAL INTO THE EARS OF NON--METAL FANS AND THE ENTIRE GENRE JUST BLEW UP! THEIR MUSIC DIDN'T BELONG EXCLUSIVELY TO UNDERGROUND FANS, THE UNDERGROUND FANS JUST COULDN'T HANDLE THE REALITY THAT THEY DIDN'T OWN METALLICA OR THEIR MUSIC! GROW UP HATERS! METALLICA IS BETTER ON THEIR WORST DAY THAN YOU'VE EVER BEEN ON YOUR BEST DAY.

The AND JUSTICE FOR ALL album is mixed so well. You can hear everything so clearly, nothing is drowned out (well other than the bass. there's an interesting story behind that FYI). Lars drumming on that album. OMG the sculpted savagery to the drum sound on that album is amazing. Lars really cemented himself as one of the best drummers ever on that album. I highly recommend checking out that whole album as the writing of the lyrics is empicable. YOU MUST check out "Blackened" the album opening track, when you hear it you will know why.

I love their first 4 albums. I don't hate the rest of them..I just don't get excited to listen to them. You should go back and do more Pantera. I know you aren't used to Phil's voice in 5 minutes alone but start with songs off Cowboys From Hell. They weren't as heavy...they got heavier with each new album. You can work your way into the heavier stuff when you're ready.

I like the movie excerpts in the video clip, but the spoken parts from these are distracting from the music, for that I much prefer just listening to the album version.

Now imagine it having Bass xd Thanks Lars...

Can anyone convince me that Metal music is just screaming nonsense… nope. Great reaction!

Since you like it when a song is taken from a novel you will like how the musician Ben Harper put the poem by Maya Angelou "And Still I Rise" into a song called "I'll Rise" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y9yXrcecv8uYmZs.html

Great song, tough tough subject. I have the idea that there is a general stigma surrounding metal to the effect that it is shallow, "meat-head" music: a bunch of uncoordinated noise and screaming for people with no subtlety - but Metallica completely blows that stereotype away on every level: the complexity of the music, the depth of the lyrics, the talent of the musicians...

I haven't seen this video in 30 years, I didn't remember all the movie stuff being so distracting, I like the song better without it

Dimebag is the best Riff maker but he was influenced by Metallica and Van Halen so there is something to be said for 80’s Metal

I wish you could have heard the track without the distractions of the video. The music is so much more appreciated.

i always thought that this song was a bit overrated, like it got 'blown up' by the newer fans. Also idk why they have videos where there is talking over the music, what a terrible idea. Not saying it's a bad song, just saying i liked their previous stuff better. Overall it's a good album, i think the Black Album is a little better too, slower but hits heavier, like 'punchier'. Sometimes 'slower' can be heavier, like on Dio's Rainbow in the Dark, where it slows down, but the drummer is slamming with both hands, boom, ..boom, . Recommend; Judas Priest Live Vengeance (1982 / Desert Plains) you should see this performance Also; Whitesnake - Still of the Night (official video, is fine, that way you can see the guitarists) David Coverdale's vocals are off the f'n charts (also, i swear Viv Campbell is in the damn video) although it seems they tried to scrub any existence of him being in the band, apparently.

Pls react to Lovebites Swan song w/Chopin intro kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jaiYp9SYzr6pcWg.html. A heavy metal song with Chopin (pronounced Sho-pan) intro, an 8min MASTERPIECE by 5 Japanese women who sing in english and absolutely shred and they are all under 5' 2". Talking blistering picking BPMs, relentless double kick, harmonizing solos and an outro that's just as good as the intro, and you want good lyrics...it's about warriors and Valhalla. Song should be on every metal playlist PERIOD. 🤘🐺

This is also the music video that divided early Metallica fans. Half thought it was awesome the other half thought they were sell-outs for making a music video. MV's were only for pop artists, not metal bands........haha, so silly.

He becomes a carnival act. I've actually have seen them. Unfortunately.

You should’ve done the reaction from the album track. The video takes away from the song, in my opinion.

No, no, no...nooooooo. Anger/rage is the mistaken sentiment from non metal fans. Metal is not anger...it is aggression. I understand that it might be difficult to spot the difference, but think aggression when you listen to metal, not anger. Punk was angry. Metal is power. Power is not angry.

You paused it at the dumbest time 6:40...smh

This is one of the few good songs by Metallica. Want to know about rage listen to heavier stuff - Sepultura, Slayer and beyond. Metal music is another universe.

Nope....metal just ain't for me

Unbelievable........... You have the lyrics pulled up and are so clueless.....

Or maybe if is possible Steven Wilson song Significant others Thanks getting from Chile South America

This is first Metallica video. Cos everyone at that time had “bad” music videos, and they were to show everyone how it is done.