Everytime I see this video I get goosebumps
Mesmerized by this since age 13. Watched this hundreds of times. I know most of it on guitar. Ah, I just used to sit in awe, or head bang to it. And the storyline with the movie of the disabled man.
So crazy. So impressive.
Jake… THIS is still HEAVY:bangbang:
I’m in renal failure and have to have dialysis 3 times a week to remain alive.
Let me tell you…the hell that dialysis puts me through is difficult to describe in words.
Some days I feel like I will never get that kidney transplant and that this is my Hell.
It is difficult to keep going.
this is a piece of art…
august burns red is awesome!!!
I am a heavy metyal guy but until this song came out I was not a Metallica guy but this song was like an explosion to my ears. I went back and listened to the prior material and I love Fade to Black and Master of Puppets and everything on Kill em All. But this song blew them up.
Just wanted to say love the channel and in this video you guys say this is the hardest music in that time, I’m from that time and found Metallica back then but SLAYER was the hardest and number metal band for ten years straight, a lot of people take them the wrong way, check them out 
F’king love Metallica, IMHO this is the Greatest Metallica song ever and it wasn’t an easy decision to make…So intense…A Masterpiece…
You should do Fiddler’s Green by the Tragically Hip
Metallica is the greatest band for the next thousand years!
No. The whole point is that we are all tools for the machine. And the machine doesn’t care.
The movie stuff is only on the video, the original track doesn’t have that crap 
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I remember being in my first psychology class in my senior year of high school, how transformative it was learning a lot of how I thought fit in these new styles of thinking I was introduced to, and how all psych professors and teachers can be distracted by asking about their family. Anyways, it was the year I was coming out of my shell, showing I was a fan if metal and how the music made me feel, and we were assigned a project to show a piece of media or music that relayed a complex myriad of emotion. This was the exact song I chose.
It didn’t really click too much with my peers other than something intense was being shared, but to my teacher I could tell I hit a deep level. Unfortunately he had to cut it short when the intensity grew, but I knew I had already hit the mark of emotions I wanted to share.
@7:00 That transition isn’t just awesome, it’s mimicking machine gun fire. Then they mention Morse code which is short bursts of noise. Genius.
I love this song for a lot of reasons. The story. It’s dramatic, not just loud the whole time. And it just keeps finding another gear musically. Ending with that face melting guitar solo. Pure art.
Still HEAVY af…
So they James wrote the basis of the song. At some point, they found out about the movie/book. They tried getting persmission to use it in the video and ended up just buying the rights to the movie. So yeah, with how well it related to their song and now owning the rights, might as well use the hell out of it. Also, it helps to convey the meaning, which is why they didn’t mind having it front and center, almost overpowering the music at points.
This song takes me places that hurt pretty bad sometimes, but I absolutely cannot stop listening if it comes on. After my grandma passed in 1990, my mom left my shtty stepdad, packed up my brother and me, and moved in with grandpa. That summer my cousin Michael came to live with him too, in a 5th wheel trailer that grandpa had towed to his driveway. I was 12, Michael was 16, and he was the coolest guy I knew. Living in his own trailer at 16? Not having any parents to deal with? It seemed like a dream. I would go hang out with him in his trailer in the evenings. He had the first blacklight poster I ever saw, the Led Zeppelin Icarus design. On another wall he had a poster of the Kill 'Em All album cover. He had a bunch of tapes and he would play me music I had never heard of in my life. He popped in a tape one night and started telling me what the song was about. How the guy was in the war and he lost his limbs and his senses and couldn’t communicate, all he had was himself and these thoughts. And then he played it. It was one of the most incredible things I had heard. Michael had long hair, past his shoulders, and I can still picture that brown arc of hair frozen in air and in time as he headbanged to the second half of this song. It was the first time I’d ever seen anyone react to music like that. It was a moment that most definitely changed my life.
Summer ended, I had to go to school, and for some reason that I never really learned Michael had to go somewhere. I know that he had my mom drive him into the city to meet some of his friends, and then he didn’t come back. The trailer was towed away. And I didn’t see him again for years. He showed up as a surprise on Christmas in 99, bringing his new wife and her kids. And he looked happy, like he had finally found something that was missing.
As an adult I learned about what was missing. Why a 16 year old kid would be on their own. Why my aunt and uncle rejected him and he rejected them. The horrible things people are capable of even when they are supposed to love you unconditionally.
August 2001 I’m helping my girlfriend move into her dorm before school starts and I get a call from my mom. Michael is gone. He confronted his wife with a gun after she was unfaithful. But the only person this sweet boy could have ever hurt was himself. So he did.
When I hear this song it brings all of that back. That second half helps me fight through the hard parts.
hi Therapist. i so enjoy your videos. ty for your talent and sharing them with us. Jake. Ty so so much for your music and talents. It is definitely medicine to the soul. Please tell your bandmates ty and you guys better never stop rocking.