It was Russia's first-ever open-air rock and metal concert. There were 1.6 million people in attendance at this concert, and the show was free.

I was there at the '91 Moscow show. I walked around and counted 1,514,849 people in attendance. It was nuts.

Metallica never was the same when Corey left

Still, Corey's knowledge of music overall is mind-blowing. Legend

It wasn't a Metallica concert. It was a heavy metal festival. It had other bands as well. Pantera, AC/DC. Update: I fixed it.😆

Cory is a national treasure and Metallica historian.

I would watch every video from Corey talking about the metal/rock history

I love how no one ever mentions they weren't the headliner.

Another fun fact (thanks to Rex Brown's autobiography): There was no 'customs' in the USSR when that show happened. The August 1991 coup attempt happened a little over a month before the concert, & the country was pretty much locked down. Per Rex, the mayor of Moscow at the time (Gavriil Popov) had written a letter & sent it to Pantera, essentially functioning as their visa to enter the country. The USSR dissolved 3 months later on Christmas Day 1991.

Monsters in Moscow was wild. Pantera played that show too.

There was actually 6 bands playing but footage for Metallica is the easiest to find. Entrance was free but they stopped counting at 500,000 or something. 1.5 million is an estimate but I don't know what it's based off. Maybe the amount of area the crowd covered. It was on an airfield in Moscow. There's also military everywhere and helicopters flying over the crowd. Hetfield talked about it when he was on Joe Rogan which is worth listening to.

Pantera killed it at that concert. Never forget fuckers

AC/DC were the headliners

There was Metallica, AC/DC, Pantera and a couple other lesser known bands that played, those 3 alone would sell anything out, now add the Soviet Union collapsing to it, Rock & Metal + Freedom = Moscow 91

Stevo's laugh is infectious. Makes me wanna laugh at whatever he's laughing at. Motley claiming to be sober. LOL.

I love Metal history classes. I could hear Corey talk about this stuff all day.

Billy Joel played Moscow in 87 at Olimpiyskiy Stadium during his 6-show tour. He was the first Western artist to penetrate the curtain.

I swear every time I come back Corey’s hair gets crazier and crazier 😂

listening to one of fave singers talking about one of my all time fave bands...awesome!!

I got Binge and Purge Box Set as a Christmas present back in the 90's. It had all the "tabs" (mostly wrong) and hours and hours of video tapes. I learned every song from the first 5 albums. My mom still makes me play Nothing Else Matters on guitar to this day.

God i miss having these kind of conversations from highschool lol. 🤘

The headliner was AC/DC. It was only Metallica that has run around for 20 years making it seem like the crowd was there for them. Primarily because it was daylight during their set and you could see the crowd (unlike during AC/DC's set).

The way Steve O’s mic is set up makes it look like he’s wearing Charlie Brown’s shirt lol

Love that Corey is such a Fan as well … so cool 😎

I think the 1.6 mil is just what the ticket sales showed. They estimate a LOT more actually there.

Black Crowes, Pantera, and AC/DC as well... I've seen the VHS... pretty cool thing to happen.

To me the bigger thing of that monsters of rock festival has to be the pantera show. I mean they didn't have the same crowd yet, but the energy and power they must have brought to that stage. I always wondered if they actually filmed the entire thing because to my knowledge you can only find the clips they used for music videos.

People in that concert are still on their way home til now.

I saw Metallica last night in Arlington TX! Great concert.

I saw them at the Capital Center in DC in March of 92,I went to the 1st night (they played 2) they still had long hair….man….what a great show 🖤🤤

When Steve-O speaks I want to clear my throat, hehe

They still are the "biggest band" in the world today. No one else.

Bro talks more with his hands than a sign language interpreter 😂😂

> Invites Corey Taylor from Slipknot > Talks about Metallica

AC/DC and Pantera were there too! Insane lineup 🤘

Corey sure knows his metal...🤘

was just after the soviet union fell it was the moscow piece concert wasn't just mettalica crue, skid row, etc

Metallica always gets all the glory for this massive show in Moscow but everyones seems to forget that metallica were supporting AC/DC at this show

If I am not mistaken, that concerts lineup consisted of Metallica, Ac/DC and Pantera. It seems possible that there was that many people, knowing it was those bands at the first rock concert in Moscow post Berlin wall at an air base. The space would be big enough and this is Metallica and Pantera at peak powers in a location starving for live rock music.

Everyone seems to forget that Pantera, AC/DC, Black Crows played that show, too. Look up Pantera Domination Live. That's the show!!!

Before all those bands went to played in Russia. It was one solo recording artist his name Yngwie J malmsteen in 1989. Live in Lenigrand. St Petersburg Russia.

WHEN METALLICA WAS METALLICA because of this era, I began to realize that jason Newsted was the actual, driving force, behind MetallicA’s rage….. Long Live Newsted, rest in peace

Imagine 1,000,000.5 people and soldiers, helicoptors patrolling the crowd directly overhead in Russia… yeah all those people singing along knowing the words and they didn’t have record store sales in their country. It was all bootleg. This is how popular metallica is no ticket sales… it was free “1991” what an epic time!🤘

Wish I hadn't lost all my albums, concert ticket stubs, autographs,concert drum sticks picks,etc... when storage locker got robbed. I seen on ebay the white import creeping death album in good shape is worth a couple hundred.

I love how over time the number of people at that show keeps magically increasing, it was 900,000. Then it was a million now it’s 1.5 million 🙄

Not sure how many people were there...but it was an ocean of humans as far as the eye could see.

Corny Taylor is a rockstar! Maggots unite! 🤘🏻 🔥💀🐍

Sometimes I think it would be really fun to invite someone who isn’t famous and have them tell their story. I know it brings clicks to have someone famous, but part of why we watch your clips is because we relate to them, the clips humanize celebrities. Let me know if you’d like me to tell my story 😅

Metallica is still the biggest band in the world 🌎

AC/DC was there too but the band that stole the show that day was Pantera without a doubt. Their rendition of "Domination" is the heaviest stuff ever witnessed by human ears.

"Arguably the biggest band in the universe" Yeah that's why ACDC was the headliner lol.

He forgot to mention Ozzy fucking Osborne was at that Peace Fest show in 89!

Your history lesson today was presented by Corey Taylor

Check out Domination by PanterA live in Russia. It's better than their studio version imo 🤘🤘

It wasn't just Metallica though AC/DC and Pantera was there and a few other bands.

Imagine if Slayer played that gig!

Corey looks like little kid wearing a big Corey Taylor mask

that concert was the closest the world ever came to peace

It was also Pantera and AC/DC

The logistics to handle that many people must have been mind-boggling. What did they feed them?

Corey knows more about Metallica than Metallica. He should host a Metallica podcast.

Pantera played that show too!

My father and uncle went to that festival

If AC/DC and GNRs played there would be crazy 😂

This was a reward to the pwople of russia for stopping a mikitay coup! AC/DC were the headliners.

People tend to forget that pantera was also there and did their best version of domination

ACDC and Metallica were the biggest bands in 1991 Razors Edge and Black Album were BIG albums

The next craziest crowd probably is the Woodstock 99 crowd that KoRn played for

And while 1.5 mil for the Mighty Met may sound like the largest audience of all time....nope. Rod Stewart and someone named Jean Michel Jarre both played to 3.5 million!!

Pantera dropped the greatest breakdown of all time at that show, and they’re talking about Metallica lol

Went to the concert after James got burnt in the kingdome. Someone else played rhythm. Axel stunk

He's right about 1.5 mil being a relatively small number compared to the total USSR's population at that time.

Monsters of Rock in 1991 was a free show

I thought Steve O was wearing a Charlie Brown shirt.

it was a free show thats why it was so big

Weird to not mention pantera was the first band to play that day and put on a devastating performance

It was a reward for the Russian soldiers, which bands they wanted to see. No tickets as was free concert hense why massive crowd on airfield. They came from all neighbouring countries also.

This is was bigger free show ever!!!

2:04 Wall came down in 1990, not 1989.

"Every boahdy & their moahhm came out, like, it was, like, so deeude bro, whuuuut?! At the time, neau-body, was doin that, like, deeude!!" -C. Taylor

Pantera lit em up though

Corey, I hope you'll change your mind about Russia one day. Until then, thanks for the music.

Small number? Kids! Stay away from drugs before you make statements like this.

If you never watched the moscow peace fest ozzy . Motley crew, scorpions.. was just as huge.. i thought metallica played this one as well.. i guess not.

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Funny thing is that Metallica playing this show is what everyone is talking about.. But the headliner was AC/DC... so did all these people really came to see Metallica??

Its too bad when a people are reduced to currency exchange. Unless its a Euro of course. 1.5 might be a 3rd of that in the West. Reason why we have sweatshops in the Far East.

In the world? Yes. In the universe? That's a stretch.

Steve o is the 💩 I watched every thing that is on the Internet 🤟🤟☠️

Metallica was good but Pantera stole the show! A true Vulgar Display Of Power!! 🤘

Those tickets were actually free

AC/DC was bigger than Metallica in 1991, 1991 was the beginning of Metallica getting huge. It was Pantera, The Black Crowes, Metallica, and then AC/DC headlining. And it was a free show, there were no tickets (to my knowledge)...so nobody knows for sure how many showed up.

It was a free concert.

The most modern show that was ever filmed later in Moscow … here “modern” just means American… as if Russia didn’t have its own modern music.

it was a free concert

Metallica stopped nuclear war

They came for PANTERA

I thought there were mo than one band playing at that time. On diff times ofcouse

Shiiit Metallica Pantera AC/DC!!! A free metal show with those bands!! You best believe I’ll swim across the ocean just to be there!

Pantera went first Lol