Old Metallica is Best Metallica

This whole album is fire and arguably one of the best albums any genre. It is an entire story from beginning to end. Perfection in my opinion.

Metallica is not just a metal band. It's something special.

Metallica has such a big and loyal following because they're more than just a metal band. In tracks like this they show you the can be melodic and mellow as well as hard and fast. They've always been a band of many styles and they pull it off so well. They're more than just a metal band, they're world class musicans.

Master of puppets album is one of greatest albums of all time, in my top ten. This album is just different

I actually like this guy's commentary. He seems well-educated. He's very soft-spoken and well-spoken. But it makes me happy to see someone of a different culture in a different genre that understands and appreciates all aspects of all music and truly appreciates it

James Hetfield is lead singer for Metallica... Old school Metallica is #1 fire

I've always wondered how Metallica can play the same songs at their concerts, over and over. But then I realize I've been listening to them for almost 40 years. Their music is timeless

I remember playing this song as a mid-teens boy in the late 80s. When Hetfield sang, "Sanitarium, leave me be!" my mom glanced over with an angry look and said: "Sanitarium, hey baby! What stupid lyrics!" Old Metallica is best Metallica.

We miss you Cliff!

The fact that they were kids when they created this masterpiece is mind-blowing Damage inc is a banger too!

I would give a kidney and my pinky toes to be able to go back and hear this again for the first time as a kid, back in 87-88. Going into adolescence as a troubled kid, their music hit me like an atomic bomb. The music told as much of the story as the vocals did.

Stepping outside of your comfort zone is what makes your channel so good. I'm a 45 yr old white dude from Mississippi. My school was probably 60/40 white/black students. Football is how I developed my relationships with people outside of my race. The introduced me to HipHop at around 14. So not only at 14 was I a Metallica fan, I was also a NWA/Geto Boys fan. It fun seeing others discover some of the music I loved growing up. This was fun. Thank you

This absolutely slams in the car most Metallica does. It’s that right bass Tone.

This song... this entire album... this band for their first five albums.... absolute masterpieces.

I am old enough that I saw Metallica play live in 1989 for their and Justice for All (Damaged Justice) tour. I was only 13 at the time, and yes I went to a concert at 13 with no parents because that’s how my life was. The Cult, another great band, opened for them. It was the best moment of my life at the time it happened and one of my best memories. So that particular album holds a lot of good feeling for me. I might go see them next year in minneapolis, it’s expensive now. I won the ticket to go see them in 1989 on the radio! lol they held a call in contest where you had to be the 10th caller, answer metallica trivia correctly and you win and I won. My parents had to claim the prize for me lol because I was only 13. My parents were in their late 50s when I was a teenager and let me listen to and be anything I liked. And I will be forever grateful to them for letting me be myself and letting me go to another city to see that show.

If you haven't yet, listen to Metallica "Master of Puppéts" Best metal of all time from an 80s raised 51 year old Marine who has seen Metallica 3 times, last time was in 2021 in Atlanta.

It's so validating to watch people that are new to the genre be in awe of Metallica as well. Let's me know that it's not just in my head, they are something truly special.

James wrote this after watching the movie One Fell Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Great album 🤘

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The little solo after the first chorus is an all time favourite. So sad and beautiful

This song is one of my favorites from them, because it just sounds so natural, there's nothing forced in it.

My favorite Metallica album! Thanks for the reaction!

You listening to it 37 years after it came out. Imagine how hard it was almost 4 decades ago. 🔥🔥🔥

After all these yrs, this is still the greatest metal album ever. This has been my fav Metallica song since '87. As a kid, sanitarium was school. As an adult I realized it's just life in general. R.I.P. Cliff. 🇺🇲🤘 (Orion)

This album is the first Progressive Metal album i have heard. You can hear the influence of Ciff Burton. RIP

This song is incredible! Everything just sounds so good together. Master Of Puppets and And Justice For All are the best 2 Metallica albums. No bad songs

Dude, Gord Downie played his last concert knowing he was terminally I’ll, and the whole country went fuckin crazy

Kirk Hammett the guitarist was taught by Joe Satriani, and I personally believe that the speed and technicality will always fall second to the ability to make every note sound like a voice you want to sing to: FIT THE SONG.

Perfect timing for this video. I needed that. Thx Bro!

Love your channel,bro! Keep up the good work!!!

This is such an amazing album. Their first five albums are legendary. My personal favorite album from them is Ride The Lightning but Master of Puppets is definitely a close second. The thing that makes these albums so iconic is not just the help of pioneering the thrash metal genre, the uniqueness of them using both hard/fast juxtaposed by slow/emotional, but also how each album plays like a greatest hits album despite just being a regular album because every single song is a 10/10. This song loke quite a few other of Metallica's best songs is based off of a movie/book. This one in particular is inspired by Two Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Lyrically and sonically just hit ut out of the ballpark. The lead singer is James Hetfield. Great reaction, Pollo. Can't wait for more Metallica whenever you have the time. This was a pleasant surprise.

One of my favorites! Think of the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest while listening to it.

Gotta give disposable heroes a listen. Another powerful song in this powerful bands catalogue

your channel is so good keep it up i love metallica

80s Metallica = Amazing.

This is such a beautiful song and powerful. In my teens when I was angry, sad or whatever this was on of my go too to chill out. One of my favorite, and one of Metallica most heavy song on this album is The Thing That Should Not Be.

Bassist Cliff Burton was highly educated And has a high IQ Plus went to college to study music He brought pure raw talent And made them iconic

Blessings from Finland.

Can't believe it is going on 40 years since my ears first heard Metallica. Back then Metallica was not played on the radio or on MTV, so it wasn't until they're 3rd album, Master of Puppets, reached the record stores in the Midwest. I was a teenaged metal head still looking for music that spoke to me. Hearing the first track, Battery, blew me away. The entire album was like nothing I had ever heard before, and still rates as my favorite album all time. I went back and bought everything Metallica I could get my hands on, and have bought up everything they've put out since. I'm in my 50's, and still want Orion to be played when they lower my casket into the ground some day. Great reaction, welcome to the world of Metallica. Enjoy the ride 🤟

this album is a masterpiece front to back and even though most people consider this their crown jewel or magnum opus, while agree, i love and justice for all more to be honest.

Yeeessss!!!! Great selection Polo! Happy Father's day to you Sir!

This is the song that made me a Metallica fan back in the 80’s

Metallica is part of the reason I'm such an empathetic person today. Not a lot of people back then were writing with the kind of compassion they did about dehumanized people. They raised the collective consciousness.

I saw Metallic back when they toured w my All Time Favorite OZZY!!! They both rocked and I had back stage pass thanks to my friends that worked there! My pass is signed by all my the band members as well as My Ozzy!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤

one of their greatest songs so far. Have been waiting for that one for you to react to. Nice father days present, thanks. This phase of their song writing is amazing. They play with themes, intros, outros, great powerfull solos and shifts in speed throughout their songs. This one is one of their stellar works.

Nice one. My favourite Metallica song, and has been since I first heard in in 1986. I don't think it's too long. The perfect combination in a metal song. 🤘🔥

When this came out, it was underground music! Nobody would have thought metal would become mainstream.

Cliff Burton was the bassist before his untimely passing on tour in Europe The bus crashed. Burton is classically trained and taught his hard driving hard drinking friends music theory and composition. Going back to music school and classical training Burton (RIP) met another phenomenal guitarist who also died too young, (RIP) Randy Rhoads. Who played with Ozzy Ozbourne. Interestingly Metallica's current and third bassist (recorded at lease) Robert Trujillo also played for Ozzy. Metallica has mad respect for the The Prince of Darkness.

Cliff Burton (major rager on the four string mother fucker) was my favorite musician growing up. You can definitely hear and feel the void in their music since he died. RIP Cliff 😢

The last third of this song will always blow my mind

Metallica is one of my favorite bands in the world. This is my favorite Metallica song.

you do awesome reaction i really enjoy them keep that style up

awesome brother thanks for sharing your view on the band that changed my life

As far as showing a band's growth, this entire album would be a case study. After the first two albums, which we all loved and wore out, it would have been easy for a band to disappoint their fans, even by mistake. Metallica did not do that, and this became arguably their best album. It was amazing to hear these same guys, but BETTER.......

You've been the most emotionless reactor with incredible insight and intuitive response to Metallica that I've ever seen. Lol. So calm, but sees the vision that the band had to offer in their music. Kudos to you sir. Great reaction. 🤘😀

Great reaction! Genuine and authentic, which is lacking in most YT reactions! I think some of the adjectives that best describe Metallica's music are: layered, dynamic, deep, substance, heavy, emotional, and massive. James and Kirk are state of the art musicians, and Cliff (the bassist on this album) was world class elite; but, unfortunately he was killed during the tour for this album in a bus accident. I'm gonna check out the rest of your Metallica reactions, and hope that you do more, a lot more! Liked and sub'd!

I am 56 years old ! Metallica by far in my opinion is the best period ! They have all qualities and vocals! There own distinct sound ! That is different from anyone else period!

great video brother!

anything off master of puppets is absolute gold

Happy fathers day brother x love metallica so much my son ❤

This band inspired me to learn guitar. Born in 1983, been playing ever since

I would pay to be able to hear this for the first time again.

I can listen to this song and album anytime anywhere and be put at ease. I seriously and literally feel asleep listening to this back in the eighties it calms me so. Yeah I said calms. Great video thanks for memories.

Great reactions, Polo. Your channel is a wonderful place to spend some time. Thanks so much for pushing through your apprehension in your early days. Yours is one of the finest on the Tube... Be well..

Wow 😮 great band 🔥 Happy Father's Day Polo ❤

Hey man, GOOD STUFF!!! KEEP IT UP!!!!!

They've been around since 1982. Back then, we got bootlegs. I got the tape Metallica Kill them all. Out of the trunk of a car. The radio stations wouldn't play this music back then. After hearing that album, I was a fan for life

They sound even better today 🔥🔥

Kid growing up listening to rap and metal we lived in Milwaukee summer of 87 me and my older brother went to a run dmc concert! Loved it! I get the rap vibe grew up knowing many rap artist. now being 51 now! But later on my interest grew more back to metal...loved rap I early 80's & early 90's. Always loved my metal! Plenty of hard-core metal bands out there!

Best reaction channel on the youtoobz! Happy father's day brother.

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

Metallica's first 5 albums are some of the best metal albums of all time....they changed the game forever.

I love watching you and especially when it comes to Metallica! A few suggestions that I would really enjoy hearing your reaction: Wherever I May Roam (official video), Sad But True (official video), King Nothing (official video). Thanks so much in advance, I will continue to watch no matter what you play, I just happen to be a huge Metallica fan (saw them live in concert 7 times).

This has always been one of my favorite Metallica songs

As a Metallica fan for about 40 years, it's so cool seeing people find them now and enjoy such great music from decades ago. Master of Puppets, in my opinion, is one of the greatest albums ever made. Tragically it was the last time we got to hear the work of Cliff Burton. James, Kirk and Lars all credit Cliff with coming up with the arrangements and melodies that make this album so iconic. Disposable Heros is still my favorite song from the record, but there isn't a bad track on Master of Puppets. So glad you're enjoying.

Metallica is my favorite metal band because the music takes me on a journey. They’re the most musical metal band I’ve heard. Cliff Burton, the original bass player who died after Master of Puppets album, heavily influenced the band’s sound back then because of his knowledge of classical music. And his bass sound was just killer but all of the instruments and James Hetfield’s vocals went so well together… Sometimes I think that if Cliff was alive today, Metallica would be taking us on some more of those magical journeys. I miss that…

Absolute masterpiece bro

killer tune, brother!

Never forget I had to wear my Metallica master of puppet shirt hundreds of times when this album came out.. It brings back many memories man..

I would like to see you do reactions to Pantera: cometary gates and hollow. Also the signal fires, by Killswitch Engage.

Liked before watched!

All Metallica is good Metallica. There are so many great songs. Such melodic guitar rifts mixed with aggressive hard rifts from both James and Kurt, Lars's drums are perfect for this song and the base mixes well too. I have been a fan since they published ride the lighting.

Awesome 😂thanks ❤

Your reaction style is great. I enjoy how thoughtful you are with your reactions. You’re not just listening to the song while saying nothing and calling it a reaction. Great job. I think you would enjoy watching some live Metallica. Live shit binge and purge was their box set. Anything off that you’ll get a picture of who Metallica was in their prime.

Ahhhhh PoloG back at it with a Metallica classic??? Hell yeah

The soundtrack of 2 am on a school night.. one of the many Metallica songs that helped settle my troubled brain before sleep. ❤

One of the greatest metal albums of all time. Listen to the entire thing. Amazing from start to finish.

I remember I did a killer push press one rep max to this song blasting in the weight barn in high school.

Thanks for venturing out of your comfort zone, as you said. For you and anyone else listening to this from the outside, I would have one suggestion for trying to understand 80's thrash: it's about catharsis. When you listen to it, imagine yourself on stage playing one of the instruments and letting out your aggression through the mastery of the instrumentation. Head banging is just an inevitable manifestation of this catharsis.

Cliff may not have been credited with the writing of many songs, but you can absolutely hear his influence. Anyone classically trained can hear the complex yet subtle arrangments that went into the early albums. It was classical instrumentation with a coat metal paint. After Master of puppets, and Cliff's death, that all went away and the arrangments became more mainstream "poppy" with a metal skin.

Happy Father's Day Polo😊....love Metallica...

Random trivia for the casual listeners of this tune... from post solo 9:45 onward to the specific riffs around 10:32 are a nod to rush - tom sawyer. Hetfield thanks rush in the liner notes of the album for the inspiration

If you keep listening to this song, eventually it won't seem long. It'll seem just right.

I will just say it Metallica is amazing it is what inspired me as a drummer to be better. We can learn a lot from how they moved so many people

This song.....my family always calls it my time in "private school". It was tough I was 15 and so alone and angry. Those times built a very firm foundation. Now I'm 53 and life is good. Better than I deserve I assure you.

Shit. I remember listhening to this on loop while reading one Flew over the Cucu's Nest in high school.

This is a thrashmetal masterpiece.

One of my favorites,because I was institutionalized for the first time in 3rd grade and love from the Paradise Lost documentaries about the West Memphis Three about three metalhead outcasts who got railroaded for murder charges which you should check out

See them live one time. Nothing like it. 🔥