The first one saved me from ending my life. Living with a disability is hard mentally more than anything cause you’re stuck with it forever. It spoke to me in a way that I realized I not alone and though I’m a very forgiving person the memory is the struggle remains. The memory remains you can say which or another favorite cause of the same reason kinda.
Yessir, I have more coming, this one took me a long time to do, next one will be back to normal run time of 30ish minutes lol Thanks for the support as always my G
I remember watching the unforgiven music video as a kid and the black and white with the skinny old dude scared me. But then it became one of my favorite songs so here we are. Solid vid
I've always interpreted The Unforgiven II opposite to what you have described here. The way I see it, the narrator is stating that he himself cannot forgive the other person rather than stating that she is unforgiven by society like him. I believe that at the beginning of the song he originally thought that she was unforgiven by society like him, however as the song passes he begins to question whether or not she is actually like him ('Or are you unforgiven too?') This along with the 'The door cracks open, but theres no sun shining through' line foreshadow his coming decision. By the end of the song he has decided that she is not like him and she is just another member of society, therefore he cannot forgive her ('Because you're unforgiven too') I think the 'I take this key, and I bury it in you' line is referring to how he leaves her only the memory of what could have been. As for the major note at the end of the song I don't hear it as very happy sounding, to me it still fits the depressing minor tone of the song.
Agreed. Giving the key could also mean giving the responsibility of the relationship to her, as he's already given up after realizing she's one of the unforgiven too. Part 3 follows up 2 by wondering how he could blame her when he is the problem (because of part 1).
At section 3, let us thank you for the deep dive into the unforgiven trilogy and section 4, the summation. Brilliant work!! The solo in 1 still makes my hair stand up. Not the fastest or technical but the feel is perfection. 2&3 are more are full track experience. I seriously can't call a favorite but my playlist of the 3 is a hell of an experience.
Firstly: I'm utterly shocked this video has so little views. Great, really great in both means, job, man. Keep up the good work! Secondly: I'm going through some serious personal shit right now, and, man, I find the topics covered by this video and topics mentioned in the songs so jarringly relatable. This video was like a bloody therapy session, man. Thanks a lot
I'm speechless here. You really outdone yourself Varvis, fucking masterpiece of a video. Despite the first one being my favorite, I always loved the third one and really find it massively underrated, truly one of the best Death Magnetic songs. Keep these analysis videos coming man, the 2 hours flew by!
I've been actively re-listening to Metallica for the last 3 weeks, Unforgiven 1 was the most listened to track from the whole discography. Incredibly excited about your retrospective on the trilogy!
First trilogy of songs that comes to mind, now that you ask, is "Wildfire "1-3 from the band Sonata Arctica. "Wildfire" was on Reckoning Night (2004), and "Wildfire II: One With The Mountain" and "Wildfire III: Wildfire, Town, Population 0" are both on Stones Grow Her Name (2012). Another trilogy I can think of is Epica's "Kingdom Of Heaven" Trilogy. "Kingdom Of Heaven (A New Age Dawns Pt 5)" is on Design Your Universe (2009), "The Quantum Enigma (Kingdom Of Heaven Pt 2)" is on the album (wait for it...) The Quantum Enigma (2014), and "The Antediluvian Universe (Kingdom Of Heaven Pt 3)" is on Omega (2021). I am sure there are others I am not thinking of off the top of my head right now. EDIT: almost immediately after, I remembered Kamelot's "Elizabeth" trilogy. All three parts are the final 3 songs of their Karma album from 2001. "Elizabeth I: Mirror Mirror", "Elizabeth II: Requiem For The Innocent", and "Elizabeth III: Fall From Grace".
The unforgiven trilogy is one of my favorite of all time. Only thing that can rival this for me is Rivers Of Nihil doing 4 albums in a concept with 4 Terrestria songs.
What a brilliant video. Thank you for inviting me to revisit these classic songs, especially the often overlooked two and three. The video highlights what an amazing songwriter James is. We can all relate to his struggle. My favourite is number one. 😊
Damn, I was in the middle of writing something similar but you did it much better than I ever could. I’ll still touch the topic with how I personally relate to it cite this video.
A 2 hour şpng video for 3 songs? Are you insane? Will I watch it? Ofc. Am I insane? Well whatever, good job man. I’m digging on your shit recently. Keep up the good work.
Great video, very in depth, and the deep dive into the story and the musical breakdown was very intruiging, even tho I personally didn't understand much of it lol. Great vid, you earned a sub.
Fr said brief and dropped a 2 hour vid, I can bear watching up to an hour but anything more and I start to drift off and fall asleep. Will watch through the week! Cheers from the mountains.
I sometimes write poetry and the main criticism I get is over my usage of thee, thou, thine, etc. and how it makes it sound too old-fashioned; thanks for reaffirming why I use them (i.e., implying double meaning).
Somehow I sat through all that in one sitting, when I'd rarely sit through a whole film these days without several breaks! Interesting stuff. Death Magnetic's production/mastering was improved a while back, without any fanfare or announcement. It's still clipped in places but WAY better and (IMO) not fatiguing now, and also without all the flaws of the fan mixes based on Guitar Hero etc. (which improve some things but ruin others, IMO). I used to feel like a load of my favourite songs were trapped in something I couldn't listen to all the way through, or often, but now I can listen to this all day. The 24/96 version they sell on their website is the one I listen to and far better than the release-day CD which I also have. Not better *because* it's 24/96, but that's the version I know, and you can see and hear it has been re-done to fix a lot of the clipping. I don't know if some/all/any of the other versions they sell are updated or not, but that one definitely is. Rumour was the newer version was originally done for the Apple Music release, long before they started re-releasing all the older album remasters. Also, I think the lyric in Unforgiven III is "They've gone away" not "Blame gone away"; the official website agrees, at least. Oh, and on the subject of improved versions of albums initially ruined by Rick Rubin's brickwalled production, anyone who hasn't tracked down the not-quite-finished version of RHCP's Californication is in for a delight, as that version of the album sounds significantly better than the original CD release. (Although I think that has an official remaster now? I haven't got that so IDK how they compare.)
Re Unforgiven, there's an explicit reference to it on If Darkness Had A Son (72 Seasons), and I wonder if "The Son/Sun will shine" line in The Day That Never Comes (Death Magnetic) also ties into things. TDTNC has a lot of overlapping themes in general, I think, with Unforgiven 1. But you could probably find those in a bunch of songs, including stuff like Dyers Eve, so IDK if it's really connected or just similar themes from Hetfield's life. I love that we can listen to these things for decades and still wonder about the exact details and meanings.
I think you are right about the lyrics lol. Very interesting about the various versions of DM. I considered that about the day that never comes but I thought for brevity (lol) i would keep it ONLY to the 3 songs. Thanks for watching it all and leaving a great comment my man 👍
Great job! I always thought that the trilogy deserved deeper analysis. People seem to write Metallica off these days and sort of under rate what they can do/ have done. Unforgiven 2 is my fav, and I’m so glad someone loves all 3, since a lot of fans like 1 or the other but not usually all 3.
A trilogy of songs I particularly enjoy is the Murmaider trilogy by Dethklok. It even technically has a part 2.5 with The Ocean Galaktik from Brendon Small’s Galaktikon II
You know Unforgiven is a good song when even Dave Mustaine had to admit that's the best song they've ever written (even if it was definitely said in a sorta backhanded way 😂), and this was amidst their feud, even if a handful of years out
"A brief analysis" * Ends up being 2 hours * "Yeah this one's going on the shelf for later." I'm sure it's a good video, and hopefully I actually revisit it and don't leave it gathering dust.
@@VARVIS_ That's cool. I love your content, just always takes me a while to get around to finishing full things. Gotta budget time to watch your stuff, but it's worth it.
Unforgiven II feel so much more mature and emotional than the first part, and I think that's because the production on the first one is too slick and sterile (the problem the whole black album suffers from)
a 2 hour video for 3 shitty songs?
😂😂😂
You've successfully wasted several seconds of your life to give us an useless shitty opinion, congrats
if these songs are shitty then i'll gladly put shit in my ears
@@razormaw Perhaps you would enjoy Lulu and Mama Said also 🤣
@@NPK476 unironically, yes i do enjoy mama said! you may have your opinions and i may have mine :D although i don't touch lulu at all yikes
A brief analysis? Oh heck yeah let me watch this real qu-OH MY GOD ITS TWO HOURS LONG ITS BEAUTIFUL
The Unforgiven trilogy is probably some of the most well written music ever
Totally agreed
Easy easy
But the tv and the big metal website told me I’m supposed to hate Metallica after 1991 😡
You should Metallica sucks
BULLSHIT
The first one saved me from ending my life. Living with a disability is hard mentally more than anything cause you’re stuck with it forever. It spoke to me in a way that I realized I not alone and though I’m a very forgiving person the memory is the struggle remains. The memory remains you can say which or another favorite cause of the same reason kinda.
Thanks for sharing my man. Glad you are still with us
The ad is closed now but there’s no sun shining through.
2 hours? Time to queue this up in the living room with some refreshments! 🍺🍿
me too bro, me too
Never stop making these deep dives bro, absolute fucking banger to watch with dinner 😤
I SECOND THIS!
Yessir, I have more coming, this one took me a long time to do, next one will be back to normal run time of 30ish minutes lol Thanks for the support as always my G
@@VARVIS_ ofc homie 😮💨😮💨
@@vitodigiovanni4020YESSS MY BOY 😤😤
i’m glad they never cut the first part of III to make it a single. they don’t need to do that
Bro made a 2 hour video of the unforgiven, thank you for your service soldier
🫡🫡🫡
I'll eventually get to the video after I listen to that intro a million more times.
I remember watching the unforgiven music video as a kid and the black and white with the skinny old dude scared me. But then it became one of my favorite songs so here we are. Solid vid
this was NOT brief
Varvis you are criminally underrated, this content deserves millions of views. Excellent work here
Cheers my man, appreciate it a lot 👍
I've always interpreted The Unforgiven II opposite to what you have described here. The way I see it, the narrator is stating that he himself cannot forgive the other person rather than stating that she is unforgiven by society like him. I believe that at the beginning of the song he originally thought that she was unforgiven by society like him, however as the song passes he begins to question whether or not she is actually like him ('Or are you unforgiven too?') This along with the 'The door cracks open, but theres no sun shining through' line foreshadow his coming decision. By the end of the song he has decided that she is not like him and she is just another member of society, therefore he cannot forgive her ('Because you're unforgiven too') I think the 'I take this key, and I bury it in you' line is referring to how he leaves her only the memory of what could have been. As for the major note at the end of the song I don't hear it as very happy sounding, to me it still fits the depressing minor tone of the song.
Hmmm interesting perspective! I can definitely see your point
Agreed. Giving the key could also mean giving the responsibility of the relationship to her, as he's already given up after realizing she's one of the unforgiven too. Part 3 follows up 2 by wondering how he could blame her when he is the problem (because of part 1).
Fuck yeah, gonna watch this bit by bit over the work week
At section 3, let us thank you for the deep dive into the unforgiven trilogy and section 4, the summation. Brilliant work!!
The solo in 1 still makes my hair stand up. Not the fastest or technical but the feel is perfection. 2&3 are more are full track experience.
I seriously can't call a favorite but my playlist of the 3 is a hell of an experience.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Firstly: I'm utterly shocked this video has so little views. Great, really great in both means, job, man. Keep up the good work!
Secondly: I'm going through some serious personal shit right now, and, man, I find the topics covered by this video and topics mentioned in the songs so jarringly relatable. This video was like a bloody therapy session, man. Thanks a lot
Thanks man! It was therapeutic for me to make. Glad you enjoyed it
I'm speechless here. You really outdone yourself Varvis, fucking masterpiece of a video. Despite the first one being my favorite, I always loved the third one and really find it massively underrated, truly one of the best Death Magnetic songs. Keep these analysis videos coming man, the 2 hours flew by!
Thanks so much my man!
I already know this is gonna be a great vid!
Based big Vito 💪🏻💪🏻
I've been actively re-listening to Metallica for the last 3 weeks, Unforgiven 1 was the most listened to track from the whole discography. Incredibly excited about your retrospective on the trilogy!
First trilogy of songs that comes to mind, now that you ask, is "Wildfire "1-3 from the band Sonata Arctica. "Wildfire" was on Reckoning Night (2004), and "Wildfire II: One With The Mountain" and "Wildfire III: Wildfire, Town, Population 0" are both on Stones Grow Her Name (2012).
Another trilogy I can think of is Epica's "Kingdom Of Heaven" Trilogy. "Kingdom Of Heaven (A New Age Dawns Pt 5)" is on Design Your Universe (2009), "The Quantum Enigma (Kingdom Of Heaven Pt 2)" is on the album (wait for it...) The Quantum Enigma (2014), and "The Antediluvian Universe (Kingdom Of Heaven Pt 3)" is on Omega (2021).
I am sure there are others I am not thinking of off the top of my head right now.
EDIT: almost immediately after, I remembered Kamelot's "Elizabeth" trilogy. All three parts are the final 3 songs of their Karma album from 2001. "Elizabeth I: Mirror Mirror", "Elizabeth II: Requiem For The Innocent", and "Elizabeth III: Fall From Grace".
The unforgiven trilogy is one of my favorite of all time. Only thing that can rival this for me is Rivers Of Nihil doing 4 albums in a concept with 4 Terrestria songs.
Ah yes, a “brief” 2 hour analysis, a trend passed down from the Kingdom Hearts community.
😂😂😂
I like the first one a lot. And the concept is interesting as a whole even if the sequels aren't as good
Excellent video, a thoroughly enjoyable watch from beginning to end.
Ayy cheers man
The Unforgiven II is my favorite 😢💔 "If you can understand the me, Then I can understand the you"
OH FEED THIS IN MY VEEEEINS!
Time to enjoy this with my lunch and the next 3 days of lunches 😅
Ayyyy enjoy the lunch breaks my man 👍
What a brilliant video. Thank you for inviting me to revisit these classic songs, especially the often overlooked two and three. The video highlights what an amazing songwriter James is. We can all relate to his struggle.
My favourite is number one. 😊
He is a very underrated songwriting forsure
Deaf Magnetic makes your speakers scream in agony. Especially in "All Nightmare Long".
Rush's "fear" trilogy goes pretty hard
Thats a good idea! Thanks man
Damn, I was in the middle of writing something similar but you did it much better than I ever could. I’ll still touch the topic with how I personally relate to it cite this video.
Write it man!
A 2 hour şpng video for 3 songs? Are you insane? Will I watch it? Ofc. Am I insane? Well whatever, good job man. I’m digging on your shit recently. Keep up the good work.
Cheers brother 😂
Great video, very in depth, and the deep dive into the story and the musical breakdown was very intruiging, even tho I personally didn't understand much of it lol. Great vid, you earned a sub.
Thanks man I appreciate it. 🙏🏻
Fr said brief and dropped a 2 hour vid, I can bear watching up to an hour but anything more and I start to drift off and fall asleep. Will watch through the week! Cheers from the mountains.
I appreciate it brother
Please make a video about the Triology of Motionless In White Puppets 1, 2 and 3
A brief analysis of? Surely you jest 😂
😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
10:25 it's a perfect fourth since the intro is in A minor
Thanks yt recommendations for finding another masterpiece
Pretty good analysis, right on \m/
Cheers brother 👍
Lovely video!
Wow. This video and this channel is genius
I sometimes write poetry and the main criticism I get is over my usage of thee, thou, thine, etc. and how it makes it sound too old-fashioned; thanks for reaffirming why I use them (i.e., implying double meaning).
Somehow I sat through all that in one sitting, when I'd rarely sit through a whole film these days without several breaks! Interesting stuff.
Death Magnetic's production/mastering was improved a while back, without any fanfare or announcement. It's still clipped in places but WAY better and (IMO) not fatiguing now, and also without all the flaws of the fan mixes based on Guitar Hero etc. (which improve some things but ruin others, IMO). I used to feel like a load of my favourite songs were trapped in something I couldn't listen to all the way through, or often, but now I can listen to this all day.
The 24/96 version they sell on their website is the one I listen to and far better than the release-day CD which I also have. Not better *because* it's 24/96, but that's the version I know, and you can see and hear it has been re-done to fix a lot of the clipping. I don't know if some/all/any of the other versions they sell are updated or not, but that one definitely is. Rumour was the newer version was originally done for the Apple Music release, long before they started re-releasing all the older album remasters.
Also, I think the lyric in Unforgiven III is "They've gone away" not "Blame gone away"; the official website agrees, at least.
Oh, and on the subject of improved versions of albums initially ruined by Rick Rubin's brickwalled production, anyone who hasn't tracked down the not-quite-finished version of RHCP's Californication is in for a delight, as that version of the album sounds significantly better than the original CD release. (Although I think that has an official remaster now? I haven't got that so IDK how they compare.)
Re Unforgiven, there's an explicit reference to it on If Darkness Had A Son (72 Seasons), and I wonder if "The Son/Sun will shine" line in The Day That Never Comes (Death Magnetic) also ties into things. TDTNC has a lot of overlapping themes in general, I think, with Unforgiven 1. But you could probably find those in a bunch of songs, including stuff like Dyers Eve, so IDK if it's really connected or just similar themes from Hetfield's life. I love that we can listen to these things for decades and still wonder about the exact details and meanings.
I think you are right about the lyrics lol. Very interesting about the various versions of DM. I considered that about the day that never comes but I thought for brevity (lol) i would keep it ONLY to the 3 songs. Thanks for watching it all and leaving a great comment my man 👍
Great job! I always thought that the trilogy deserved deeper analysis. People seem to write Metallica off these days and sort of under rate what they can do/ have done. Unforgiven 2 is my fav, and I’m so glad someone loves all 3, since a lot of fans like 1 or the other but not usually all 3.
more of these long analyses please!
Coming up!
I LOVE YOUR CONTENT! I LOVE IT! You’re the best! 🤘
Thanks my man!!
III is my favorite and I've been a fan since the 80s!
The unforgiving II is the best one
Best drum sounds of all time? How about Black Sabbath Headless Cross
Great video analysis btw ;)
Gotta love kirks solo on these songs
Some of his best work forsure
@@VARVIS_ yep agree
Would you do this for Guns n Roses trilogy? id like to see it, amazing video
we clearly have different definitions of the word "brief" lol ♥
I didn’t notice your black Dahlia murder shirt the first time I watched this video. Fuck yeah dude.
A trilogy of songs I particularly enjoy is the Murmaider trilogy by Dethklok.
It even technically has a part 2.5 with The Ocean Galaktik from Brendon Small’s Galaktikon II
Unforgiven 3.5 = The Day That Never Comes. Some also call it the “real” unforgiven 3
I can totally see that
"A brief analysis..."
"Analysis" as long as two Load albums lol. But I dig it.
I could have written more 😂😂 decided to keep it 2 hours or so lol
Can you please do a recap on holy wars by Megadeth, I really liked that series that was starting
I definitely plan on Holy Wars soon
To be honest, being a non-native speaker, for many years I thought he was singing "we share this pair of lives".
Unforgiven trilogy breakdown ✅
Fellow Alberta boy ✅
Fellow oilers fan ✅
Nice video, man; earned a sub
Ayyyyy welcome aboard my man 👍👍👍👍👍
Great video man
Great video....NPK476....you obviously listen to New Kids on the Block.
3:28 Hangar 18 and return to Hangar
That is a good idea
Damn this shows how effective those chords are. I love minors....
WAIT WAIT WAIT I DIDNT MEAN THAT
😂😂😂
Lars absolutely did not play the closed snare roll in the intro, nor the snare before the beat kicks in.
Yeah you are probably right 😂
I love the unfogiven
You know Unforgiven is a good song when even Dave Mustaine had to admit that's the best song they've ever written (even if it was definitely said in a sorta backhanded way 😂), and this was amidst their feud, even if a handful of years out
how can you misspell Unforgiven in your intro???
The spaghetti in my fridge was calling me when I saw the thumbnail
Only other trilogy I heard of comes from GNR: Don’t Cry, November Rain, Estranged
Iron Maiden has a series of songs. It’s the Charlotte the Harlot trilogy spanning from 1980-1992
YESSS great Idea thank you 🙏🏻
@@VARVIS_ Here are the songs. So they’d be Charlotte the Harlot (1980), 22 Acacia Avenue (1982), and last would be From Here to Eternity (1992)
brief?
I always thought the horn was from the original Godzilla movie
Love this video if UA-cam didn’t advertise every fucking minute
hey bud, there’s a video in your ads
Imagine watching this while being high
Metallica also has a Cthulu trilogy at this point
a brief summary thats two hours long😭
The unforgiven were the friends we made along the way.
I guess I should just pay for cable. How many commercials can yo have!?
Dethklok murmaider
Didn’t hear a word of what you said. too upset by the interruptions. Too many advertisements!!
Or how the first song was great and progressively became worse with each newer installment!
2 minutes later another advertisement!! Cool!!🙄
UA-cam/ advertisetube!!
Anyone favor the 2nd one like me??
Its super slept on
Hasnt Soulfly made a song with like 9 or so parts...
A estimate advertisement, advertisement, advertisement, advertisement, advertisement
"A brief analysis"
* Ends up being 2 hours *
"Yeah this one's going on the shelf for later."
I'm sure it's a good video, and hopefully I actually revisit it and don't leave it gathering dust.
I have the chapters ready so you can just watch one song at a time
@@VARVIS_ That's cool. I love your content, just always takes me a while to get around to finishing full things. Gotta budget time to watch your stuff, but it's worth it.
Hate to be that guy… but a Perfect 5th inverts to a Perfect 4th (not a Sus4).
Yeah you are right
@@VARVIS_Great vid man, super in depth. 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Why so many ads bro ?
Bro YT is so bad for them now 💀
Could had at least spelled the song right in the title card
😂😂😂 yeah no kidding. Oh well
So it's about Dave Mustaine.. interesting.
😂😂😂😂😂 how could I not have seen it!
Bro misspelled Unforgiven in the intro and put Unfogiven
He updated it lmao
😂😂😂 bro
I swear I did it on purpose for engagement 😅 trust me bro
You should reconsider the use of the word brief...
😂😂
Commercial commercial commercial
10 seconds and another fucking ad wow
“A brief analysis” 💀
Unforgiven II feel so much more mature and emotional than the first part, and I think that's because the production on the first one is too slick and sterile (the problem the whole black album suffers from)
A estimate advertisement, advertisement, advertisement, advertisement, advertisement. Fuck me another interruption.
Brief...?
I could have done longer lol