The song is based on a book called Johnny got his gun. It’s about a soldier who’s left incapacitated after combat. Basically a prisoner in his own body. Movie scene from film adaptation of the book. Saw this the day it was released. Still get chills. Metallica are ferocious.

Metallica's structure and compositions are insane. The buildup to One is unmatched. A masterpiece and you don't have to be a metalhead to appreciate the level of musicianship.

The crazy thing is, this was Metallica's FIRST music video. They didn't release a music video until their FOURTH album, during the HEIGHT of the MTV craze of the 80's and 90's, they succeeded at becoming a stadium selling out band purely on live shows, word of mouth, and bootleg tape trading. Very little radio play, no tv coverage, no music videos.

As someone that has been a fan of Metallica since the 80’s….. it’s so weird to think there are people out there that haven’t heard this song.

The instrumentals in this song are absolutely god tier

This album/song came out in 88. I joined the Army in 89. Sep 90 is when Saddam invaded Kuwait and we started deploying to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield and eventually Desert Storm. "Justice for All" was one of the tapes I took with me to Saudi. This song was always in my mind during that whole deployment/Operation. It would be the worst possible outcome of war, trapped in your body and unable to communicate....trapped inside your own head. It's a sobering reminder of the horror of war. It remained a part of the soundtrack of my career of 22 years. I even got to see Metallica in Germany in the early 90s, when I was stationed in Stuttgart. Back when music had MEANING and made you think and feel. Great Reaction.

The movie in the song is "Johnny got his gun." It is a very good movie! The nurse was cutting off his oxygen but was stopped by the military officer. She feels sympathy for Johnny. There are some other very sad scenes with the nurse. The closing of the door was them putting him "away" since he can't see, hear or feel the sun. They are just going to leave him there until he eventually dies. He wishes for death than live a life trapped in your own body.

This song has every element of what makes a great song. Truly iconic masterpiece.

I first heard this song when I was a child. I'm now 45 years old and it's still top of my favorites. It's the first song I learned to play on my Fender when I was a teen.

It’s amazing to me that there are still people that haven’t seen or heard this!! It’s cool to watch you guys watch this for the first time!! 🔥🔥 ✌🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻👍🏻

Metallica actually bought the rights to this movie so they could use it in their video. This was their first ever music video.

This song is a true classic! Brings me back to my mid twenties! I listen to many genres, but I admit that my preference is rock and heavy metal.

It's a beautiful but sad song. I've heard hundreds of times, but it never gets old. Great story song and one of the best songs of all time from metallic.

So happy you checked this song out. I was introduced to Metallica at a very young age and "One" is my favorite. Learning about Helen Keller in school and trying to imagine what it'd be like to be her, this just took it to a whole darker level.

"...product of your profession..." was the line from the "Padre" to the doctor. The Padre basically said, you are keeping him alive instead of letting him pass on, so you deal with it. The end with the nurse...she tried to put him out of his misery but was stopped by the doctor. He was still alive after when wheeled into the room. The doors closing and lights fading was just the end of his chances for release. Lost and forgotten in some room to be alone in his own thoughts, whatever they may be.

People hate on Metallica at times, but this is one of the greatest videos of all time. Genius stuff.

This CANNOT be your first time?!? Edit: The look on your face during Kirk's solo proves it is indeed your first time 😂👍👍

FADE TO BLACK by Metallica NEXT PLEASE... I suffered from mad depression when I was using and used to play over and over. Love your reactions to these. Keep it up. 🙏 Flawd and Meaux

Great reaction! Years ago I went to a Metallica concert, hearing this live is an awesome experience. Hearing the words and feeling the vibration of the music...totally amazing!

❤🔥🔥 Metallica are amazing story tellers 😢❤

One of the best videos of my youth. I became a Metallica fan the day i saw this video.

Did you not hear all them instruments just banging away pure bliss. The skill to put all this together with instruments not a machine, synth or box just talent and instruments ROCKIN-OUT..SEE ALL THEM FANS

The story is one thing, but for me, the musical masterpiece that is this song is really the focus.

This video premiered on MTV it was my introduction to this band. It helped shape my beliefs and helped make me the man I became. This genre of metal helped me incredibly

out of nowhere, a metallica - one reaction, amazing

Flawd good to see you explore metal, as a product of rap going all the way back to sugar Hill gang you'll see how complex of writing skills metal bands have as well

Metal masterpieces like this is what separates Metallica out as the greatest Metal band of all-time. This song still hits me emotionally just like it did when I first heard it as a kid watching MTV back in the late 80's

This song and video are absolute masterpieces

It is always fun to watch someone see/hear this for the first time. The conflict between enjoying the composition and musicianship while experiencing the horror of the lyrics and video stresses people out.

It didn’t get any bigger than this when this song came out. I flat wore it out in the car!

Really great grasp of the lyrics for a first time listen. The blame on the doctors was new for me. Thank you for that. Subbed

Love that your doing this type of reaction

The man who said "Hes not a product of my profession (a preacher-father) he's a product of yours (A combat solder)

Would love to see you guys react to more Metallica! They are truly master songwriters. Excellent with their instruments as well as lyrical content.

I love this song! Probably my favorite song of theirs. I got to see them last month in Dallas.

I was just out of high school when this amazing piece of music history was first released on MTV, when they actually played new music. I waited for the release at my buddies house and we got to hear/watch this fantastic song. I have 3 favorite songs from METALLICA. 1) Fade To Black 2) Welcome Home (aka Sanitarium and 3) One. 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻

More Metallica please I recently got back into listening to them. My grandfather recently passed and this was the stuff on the radio when I was a kid.

That was the best reaction to this song iv seen loved it!!!

First real metal concert I went to. Still one of my favorites. 🔥 Place was the size of a big HS gym. Lol General admission ftw

This song is a mindfuck. As others have mentioned, it's based on the film "Johnny got his gun", which was based on the book, which was based on an actual WWI soldier. He was wounded, left blind, deaf, and a quadruple amputee. He was actually carted around like a circus attraction, while basically shut inside his body, unable to see, hear or move. Just left in pain, silence and darkness with no awareness of the outside world. If you think that's bad, try listening to Motorhead's "1916", also about WWI, but will hit you in the gut even harder. Sabaton also covered that one, but the original from motorhead with Lemmy singing is far more emotional. I've seen some of the biggest, baddest men I've ever known break down in tears from that song. "1916" is based on a British-led battle in which 19,000 men in total died in one day (10,000 British soldiers among them).

The "SOS", the "guns" and the "Bombs" are all in this track

WOW I'm so glad y'all did this song..... Most importantly you were able to watch the video along with the song. I have seen several reactors react to this song without the video. Personally I think you need to watch that video when you hear that song. Hearing it is one thing but being able to see the video when you hear it is the ONLY way to feel EXACTLY like y'all did. Great Great job, both of you. As always! 💯🤟🏻🤙🏻

The Nurse locked off his breathing tube with some forceps, pushes the air out of his chest and turns away as she can't stand to watch him die. But the Commissioned Officer walked in and caught her, stopping the mercy kill.

I’m not a heavy metal guy really, I like some but def not my main gig, but One has always been monumental to me. The entire composition of it is really humbling. Music used to be art.

this song is about a dude who lost his arms legs hearing eye sight and can't talk he hooked up to machine that keep him alive

Glad you did this.. One of their greatest songs ever.. Obviously this video has extra dialog than the song, so not sure if you want to listen to a lyrical version.. Great reactions!

Great reaction on an absolutes masterpiece in all regards, music wies as well as lyrical and visual ! Great job guys! 👏🏻

The military commander stops the nurse from killing Johnny by clamping his breathing tube. He used to feel the passage of time through the warmth of the sun but the commander closes the windows and tells the medical staff to never open them again. Johnny Got His Gun is one of the scariest movies I've ever seen because its such a horrifying existence to imagine.

One of the greatest rock songs ever made. Johnny got his gun was supposed to be an anti war song. Good reaction guys.

This is my first favorite song from Metallic followed by Welcome Home Sanitarium and Nothing Else Matters & Fade To Black.

such a great reaction. loving this. i'm 42 and from a barrio in east la. i respect the prose and depth of unheard-ass, and heard-of too, conscious rappers. i discovered metallica when i was 9 years old. and cause i was a rocker the older fools, gs, taggers, and/or rappers alike, didn't check me much. i fuck with lyricists, with rappers cause it's in me. but i trip watching an og, like you, trip on some stuff that was written and recorded by 20 year old white dudes in 1988. i think metallica and other great rock and rollers alike, were conscious before most fools woke up and started criticizing it, the system, or whatever. or something like that

This is the song that brought metallica into the spotlight. I remember the 1st time i heard it, 15 yrs old in 1988, i didnt know guitars could make those noises. It opened up a whole world of bands and music to me

Very iconic song from my teenage days ! I used to blast this song in my pickup truck !

The guy who's said "He's a product of your profession, not mine" was the army priest. The question he's been asked was "Don't you have some message for him, Padre?"

10 year old me is alive as 47 year old me. Memories are hard to find with some stuff, but thus blew me headfirst into metal.on that day

The book about WW1 on which the movie was based was one of three banned for troops to read during WW2. The other two were enemy propaganda. “He’s a product of your profession, not mine.” was the chaplain telling the doctor he should have been allowed to die and there was nothing he could do. The nurse tried to kill him but didn’t succeed. For religious reasons and for medical pride and curiosity he was kept alive indefinitely.

the person on that bed doing morse code with his head said "kill me" so she trying to help and he said "thankyou" with morse code,but the general or whoever on that uniform stop her

The scenes in this video are from the 1970's movie, "Johnny Got His Gun" and the associated book. Johnny was a soldier in World War One. He is caught in an explosion that leaves him with no arms, no legs, no face, no ears. He cannot speak, hear, or see - fed through a tube and breathing through a respirator. I have always interpreted the cut scenes within the song as what is happening to Johnny in the real world. The moments of the song where Johnny is "thinking out loud" are his conscious mind, and James Hetfields voice is his subconscious mind. This was triggered - for me - by Johnny's line, "I don't know if I'm alive and dreaming, or dead and remembering?" From that point on, the music builds and builds, which - again, to me - signaled the growing conflict between the two sides of Johnny's mind as he dips further and further into insanity. By the time Kirk Hammett's guitar solo hits, (and hits hard), I've always pictured that as the final "battle" between Johnny's conscious and subconscious mind, with the final "S.O.S. Help me..." mantra at the conclusion signifying that Johnny's mind is the same as his body, reduced to "one" singular, autonomic thought. Nothing else of him remains from that point forward. Johnny has gone, and only the breathing corpse remains until he would die of old age. At the end, the crowd singing "Keep the Home Fires Burning" symbolizes how society went on and forgot about him, (and the veterans in general). If you listen to this song from that perspective, you will be bawling by the end.

Our understanding of suffering is mostly relative to what we experience, most of us aren't able to comprehend the worst of it. I often tell people if you think you have it bad, you could always be Clive Wearing. Clive Wearing was a successful music conductor who contracted a form of encephalitis that attacked his central nervous system. The majority of his memory was wiped out coupled with an inability to form new memories. He is 85 now and likely still spends his day filling a journal with entries like this: 8:31 AM: Now I am really, completely awake. 9:06 AM: Now I am perfectly, overwhelmingly awake. 9:34 AM: Now I am superlatively, actually awake. In the seven seconds he has to construct a thought he goes to write in his journal, seeing an entry that he does not remember making, draws a line through the old entry and then puts his new thought down before he forgets it and gradually starts marking his entries to dictate to himself which entries were really him. It's nearing 40 years since his infection.

Some amazing nuances are the way the music amps up and gets faster as he becomes more desperate and angry. Even the guitar solo has a very chaotic sound as if his thoughts are spiraling out of control. And the fast-paced drumming sounds like machine gun bursts.

Been waiting for this…fav reactors reacting to my fav song. ❤ y’all

The movie is really hard to watch if you have depression. The guy that says, "he's a product of your profession", was a priest talking to the general. And, he doesn't die in the end.

I'd like to see that Master of Puppets reaction

The man who said ''He's not a product of my profession, he's a product of yours." was an Army Chaplain, I believe. I could be mistaken, it's been a while since I watched ''Johnny Got His Gun''.

6:35 and on is some go to war shit. 30+ years later and still one of the sickest songs ever produced.

I have seen metallic 20 plus times that brings back memories

Alcohollica!!! 🤘

The Grammy award winning song Metallica didn’t get … this a masterpiece from its time it first came out 💯✌️❤️🙏🤘.. holds up today too 💯

Please anyone that respect the U.S. soldiers and what sacrifice they do really make for us, watch the movie " Born on fourth of July " starring Tom Cruise. It's an amazing movie that will make you feel something if nothing at all you will see 1st hand the struggles these men and women go through after returning messed up mentally and physically. Also a movie calles Ameican sniper is also a great true story, imo both these movie aren't your normal war movies these will touch your heart and help understand a little what soldiers go through after returning from a assignment. Sad God Bless and love to all the U.S.A soldiers!! Thank you!!

You know what, I love this reaction. Just like true art. you figured it out by yourself. No googling for the easy way out.

Can we expect more Metallica.?? 🙏

It was a breathing tube. He had damage to his face, so I assume he wasn't able to breath through it.

true example of when the music behind vocals really follows the lyrics, its crazy good written, almost like watching a movie

One of my favorite metallica songs

Fun fact - the intro notes are sampled into the beat for Eminem's "Same song, same dance".

Highly recommend y’all get into the Metallica library and dive deep. Personally I’m not a fan of much that came out after their self titled release usually referred to as the black album but anything off of that and their earlier albums are amazing. Master of puppets would be a great song for you to check out.

The key to listening to this song is to slowly raise the volume up the whole time, so at the end the lyrics take a back seat to the sonic avalanch of those final riffs.

Ponder this they were about 24 yrs old when they made this record..phenomenal record the whole thing cheers from Kansas city

Solid reaction y’all. Earned a sub

Nice reaction, more Metallica please! Do some more recent to balance out, like Inamorata or Halo on Fire. Cheers, and keep it up!

10:45 the nurse clamped off his air tube in an attempt to give him the release he wanted,but that army big-wig stopped her,him being shut behind the door was so they could keep experimenting on him.

He's banging his head in Morse code "saying kill me"

YES! 🤟🔥

'He's a product of your profession, not mine.' Also you can hear him say 'thank you' right before the nurse puts the pillow over his face

Одна из любимых песен! И уж точно любимый клип \m/

You jus witnessed greatness

I missed this reaction but here now. Legendary tune .

The destiny described in this song is so horrific and imaginable turtourus, it humbles any suicidal thought imaginable. Only _then_ - your not even able to end it. Your genuine apporoach = new subscriber, keep being u!

Yeeeeeeeeeees!!!!!

What? What!?! Why did nobody tell me!?! Thats it when we get home imma imma idk but imma do it !

The one "General" asked "Don't you have some message for him Padre" (meaning Priest)the Priest says "He a product of your profession not mine" The nurse was stopped therefore he was left alone to die.

Two things to say; 1) Best band ever 🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘 2) Much, much more Metallica 🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘…if you can take the otherworldly heat from these guys that awaits you 🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘

Been a min since been on this channel but dang bro good catch on your female. Cheers 🎉 You popped up when I searched One reactions. This gonna be good for sure. This song is an epic piece that I’ve listened to for years and would sing to myself in my head when I would go though traumatic times (Healthcare can be a bitch working in trauma units). The chorus is so dope.

Check out Welcome Home(Sanitarium) if you haven't yet. It was written after they watched One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

I worked the bar at Milton Keynes Bowl here in the UK for Metallica supported by Megadeth in 93. It was epic, not a bad 1st gig!

Metallica is such a tough band man! Great reaction video!

Dalton, the man who wrote "Johnny Got His Gun," wrote the book after visiting a home for injured WW1 vets. He claims to have seen a man in this condition and it haunted him. The book is fantastic, and the last few pages turn into a hell of an angry rant.

I'm the product of the 80's. This song is still by far my favorite.

This was Metallica's first music video.

The cut scenes pretty much tell the whole story and still people grasp to understand it. Imagine going to war and getting hurt so bad that you wake up trapped inside yourself, not able to speak, move, eat or breathe without a machine, still conscious and yet unable to communicate with anyone. To me is one of my worst nightmares, ending up like a vegetable....there are some fates worse than death.