It's been over 30 years and I hear people are still leaving that concert.

This song in particular was written with “The Ten Commandments” in mind. 1956 charlton Heston. The lines “so let it be written, so let it be done” were directly pulled from it, and it’s all about the plagues of Egypt and the final one being the angel of death killing all first born children unless their door was painted with lambs blood. This is the story of The Passover

Jason Newstead the one in the Metallica shirt was a huge fan before he was in Metallica. Jason became Metallica’s bassist after his teenage hero Cliff Burton the original bass but died after Master of Puppets in a bus accident. He’s not a hipster douche bag he’s paying homage to cliff Burton and still being a fan: And the song isn’t evil it was biblically inspired literally telling you a story directly from the Bible👍

That second singer was their bassist Jason Newsted. He was their bassist from 1986 until he left in 2001. He's played in a few bands after he left Metallica (like playing in Ozzy Osbourne's band). He's also an avid painter.

Harvester of sorrow 1991 moscow live

I have never seen anyone in these reaction videos let a song play till the end without stopping at 25 times. WOW!!!! BEST VIDEO OF THE WEEK!!! great reaction.

The lyrics goes "Die, by my hand" meaning the Angel of Deaths hand.. Metallica does this in a few songs, singing about something but from the perspective of whatever they are singing. Instead of the "usual" singing ABOUT something, like love, or war etc. So "Master of puppets" is about drug/alcohol abuse, right, but its sang from the drug/alcohol point of view (a mix in this song tho, different perspectives). Same with this one, the Angel of Death is basically singing..saying what and why its going to do what it was supposed to have done. Or in "One", they sing it from the perspective of the wounded soldier. Probably a few more that i cant remember at the moment. GOD I LOVE METALLICA!! You cant believe you love them, i totally see how you could.

Jason was the biggest Metallica fan and he admitted that . He would make it a point to wear a Metallica t shirt in all concerts. His energy levels are crazy. This concert brings tears to my eyes . Such an amazing concert and Metallica were at their best . You should also see their Seattle 1989 concert . Fuckin amazing .

Metallica - The day that never comes live in Quebec magnetic 2009

Funny thing is Kirk Hammet the lead guitarist wrote the riff after his solo when he was a teenager. They recorded 3 major albums before they were out their mid 20's. Amazing talent.

I've seen them in the 80s, 90s and 2000s and they always bring energy

I think James has had a little vodka, and Jason’s energy during this tune was just incomparable to that of any other bass players in the band during any show. (I mean, obvi Cliff was stellar at all his shows, but Jason was letting it ALL out that night).

Some concerts go down in history and the 1991 ‘Monsters of Rock’ festival in Moscow was no exception. Known as one of the biggest concerts to ever take place, with a huge 1.6 million attendees, it marked the most momentous of performances for the heavy metal band Metallica. The record-breaking crowds that day are thought to have only been seen on four other occasions with Jean-Michel Jarre topping the leaderboard in 1997 with a concert that was funnily enough hosted in Moscow and saw crowds of over 3 million. The electrical lineup that day was made up by the likes of AC/DC, The Black Crowes and Mötley Crüe, but it was Metallica who attracted and stole the heavy metal hearts of over 1.6 million fans. In video footage of the iconic performance, ten years after the band first formed, helicopters can be seen trying to calm the excitable rock fans. In the crowds, there is a surprising site of military personnel, shedding their uniforms and letting loose to the headbanging tunes.

I didn’t see reaction, I was head banging through the whole amazing song!!

I love James' "haha" in the beginning. 🤣

I know a lot of people don’t care for Jason Newsted but his head banging is always awesome to watch 🤘🏼

Glad your fans, they have a song for us called “Battery.” Go see it live during the Seattle ‘89 show it’s tied as one of the most legendary metal shows ever!

The way she digs the haha from James in the beginning. she totally has a crush for him

Definitely need to react to “harvester of sorrow” from this show. Brutal performance and you really get to see how crazy the crowd was.

Only a moron would complain about Lars drumming he absolutely crushes the drums in this performance 💯🔥🚒💪🥁🥁

This song is comes from the book of Exodus. Metallica's original basset Cliff Burton (RIP Cliff) wrote this song after watching the movie Mosses.

That pointy guitar that you referenced in the beginning, is a model shape called "Explorer". Different brands have this shape, but it started with Gibson in the 1970s. Not popular initially. It really got into the spotlight due to Hetfield's frequent usage of it. Others too, sure, but due to their massive success it wwas he who brought it to super stardom. Love that shape, myself.

*GREAT CONCERT SHOW ! REMEMBER I BEEN THINKING ABOUT METALLICA ONLY AND ESPECIALLY IN THE TIME OF THEM VISIT FROM USA : I COME TO MOSCOW FROM KIEV : HAVE NEED PERSONALLY TO SEE JAMES AND KIRK ! LARS AND JASON TOO ! MY FRIENDS FROM PHILIPPINES HELP ME , I LITTLE AND NEED HELP WITH RAISING , PUT ON ... ON HIGH 🔝 🙌 🔝 AND WATCHING , LOOK AT MY NICE FAVORITES ! THERE ALL BEEN SUPER CLASS* !

Greeeeeeaaat choice!! ❤️ I was sweating too...

I saw this live back in 85 with the late Cliff Burton on bass His best is 1985 Day on the green For whom the bell tolls These guys were in their early 20's Cliff's opening bass solo will blow ur mind

You're kinda right with the numbers. When it was organized, it was predicted 500-600k would show up. But this was right after the fall of the USSR, and was the first chance an entire country got to experience a concert, so turnout was much larger than expected. The 1.6 million is just where they stopped counting. It's actually estimated to around 2 million....

This song is about the story of the plagues of Egypt. Specifically, the Angel of Death creeping. If you're into drums, there is a great recording of Tool's Danny Carey "Pneuma" live where they have cams showing him play a massive drum set.

yeah this song is one of my favorites by them, I play this song every passover because it's literally the Passover story lol if you like Metallica I highly recommend checking out their S&M album, you won't be disappointed

METALLICA!!!!!!!!!!!!🤘🤘

It was a 3 day music festival 'Monsters of Rock' with lots of bands playing. It is estimated that 1.6 million people attended over the 3 days and that the crowd was about 600k the day when Metallica performed.

jason on another level

1,6 MILLION people in attendance at this one show!!

You definitely can figure it out that the Russian army was the security at that concert. It's not a theory, just look the images.

I was 6 in 91 already loved Metallica

my dude over here praying it doesn't end

This is Metal. Way harder than Rock and Roll. These guys are the king of metal.

1.6 million, that apparently is when they stopped counting. :) Enjoy you guys! :) At some point Seek and Destroy, live version, needs to be on list. Enjoy! :)

1.6 million it was on an airbase in moscow.

Great job lars 🇩🇰

Jody is so beautiful ❤❤

You mean you're just learning what METAL is!!! Not rock!!! You're next song should be from 1989 Seattle, The 4 Horsemen!! It's super badass!!!!!!

James Hetfield is the God of Metal🤘🧿🔥❤️

This isn't rock n roll. It's HEAVY METAL!!!!

battery ( Seattle 89 LIVE )

React to their lives in 1989 of Seattle

You guys should react to studio version of Fade to Black or The Unforgiven. Amazing songs and has decent lyrics too. Listening with lyrics on the screen would be better.

The truth of the Metallica airstrip show in Moscow ‘91: They sold 600,000 tickets, but there were approximately 1.6 million people in attendance. There were no police in Russia at this time, so…yeah, the Russian Army stood in for police across all major cities. They are not known for their subtlety, and did not understand moshing, so the army beat the shite out of a lot of moshers as they thought they were rioting. And, yes: at least 2 civilians were beaten to def.

Lars was definitely feeling it at the end.

There were 1.6 million people from all over the world, I myself was 15 years old and had to sit in Soviet prison for three months just because I was drunk. Soviet prison is like North Korea today.

This song was inspired from Exodus in the bible, the story of Passover.

Just watch the whole concert, blockbuster had the vhs back in 93 so yes all the information is really out there if you just look. It’s not even hard to find!

BABYMETAL ROAD TO RESISTANCE LIVE JAPAN! 🇯🇵

It’s always going to be called “the parallelogram guitar” from now on

The song is about the Biblical Exodus from Egypt. The last plague was the Angel of Death creeping across Egypt killing all first born males.

1.6 million people. Official world record gor a concert crowd. About 53 or 54 people died. Held in an air gield with the army as security

que buen temaaaa

Don't worry about your hair. He won't even wear pants. You both look great!

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This song is more about the creeping death that killed the pharaoh's son and the other first born in Egypt. So it's about moses and the creeping death.

Every time I see that performance I want to punch something, and it’s energized me for a long time.

Fade to black. Studio recording. And no talking during play. You won’t regret it.

Must do-Harvester Of Sorrow-from this. James walkin' up to the mic like a gunslinger and the Russian military trying to bust some heads not understanding what was going on.

how have you not seen this?

More out there than Metallica,. ...... Pantera, Jinjer , Leo Moraccholi metal covers,. Teddy Swims , Rage against the machine, just a few to consider

2.1 million is the official account

there is a reason Jason always wore the band's shirts. But, I'm sure you know that now.

Also, chant die sounds into Russian as give (Дай)🙂

The Drummer says none knows have many it was. But at the area it can be up to a million

Next- Pantera-Domination Same Festival.. Highly request

it was way over a million people even though some say it was 500 to 600 thousand i think that is the number where they lost count so they just stopped counting

I always forget these older performances my boy Jason gets the last chorus. He is the best back up vocalist Metallica ever had and wasnt too shabby on the bass either. not the best bassist? But I will say he was the fastest and heaviest. Most intense

Please check out the lyric version of Fade to Black

You didn't need to brush your hair , after this song , everyone looks like an old lion 😂🤩 they were 1.6million people

KEVIN!!

They were only supposed to allow 500,000 people in at a time.. Things got out of hand and through the course of the day/bands/concert they just let all of Russia in.. lol.. There's no official number but best estimates are around 1.2 million at the peak of the concert..

You should react to Iron Maiden, they're pretty good too.

It was 1.6 million and the army was security

You should react to pantera, cowboys from hell from this concert

This was right before the collapse of former Soviet Union. So this is basically the first time they had a taste of freedom!

It was before the Soviet Union fell that this concert was.

RIP CLIFF

Is your man always this sad?

Jason does good singing sometimes

"I love guitar. The black one is cool." Of the 3 black ones on stage?

Its FAKE or mistranslation. 52 people were injured and get to hospital, just one died being stabbed with knife. Ive been there saw that i living 7 min walk from place it happens (today its not a empty field but new stadium and blocks of appartments)

You dont need to brushh your hair for a Metallica concert even more for a 90s one!

Very time they shout "Die", you see the collapse of the Soviet Union.

"Die" in russian language sounds like "give"

You guys like Metallica? Check out Iced Earth

Every reaction video ever to this performance by people who don't know the band well: "Oh, that's a different guy (singing)." It's funny how few people recognize James is not singing the final verse. As if they can't tell two entirely different looking guys apart because they both have long hair & are wearing black. ;)

You don't look like a pussy at all, you like like a nice guy. Which is a good thing.

A bunch is nearly a buttload or 384gal

Old Testament god played no games😂 Honestly if I knew a heavy metal band would be teaching about the Bible, private school wouldn’t have been so damn boring 😂

.. Both of you esd born after this concert...First free concert after the fall of the USSR..and punch your other,,He is fslling asleep!!

react sad but true russian mosco live 2019.

at the time the russian military was the russian cops

It's a religious song actually.

Not to be mean, but why do people simply refuse to take a minute to pay attention or read the lyrics of a song and then just come up with some unrelated idea based on a single lyric or the song's title? I mean, the song literally tells the story of the Ten Plagues of Egypt from the Bible but, yeah, it's probably about drug demons or something.

Security was Russian Army

For a "reaction" video bro you showed no reaction at all through the whole video, not even a slight head bob or nothing.