Being sent to the front lines is a soldier's greatest fear. Have you seen footage of the storming of Normandy? War is hell, and there's no better explanation of it. But we have to gain ground so, send some more losers to the front, where they'll probably die, but we'll just keep sending more and more. No one wins. We didn't win ww2. Too many lives were taken to get that "win". Not worth it. Not even close
Master of Puppets. In some way, we're all puppets. Slave to alcohol. Slave to weed. Slave to the grind. Slave to what others might think or say. slave to everything i fell like I can't live without. Slave to money. Slaves to ourselves. If I was born for dying, what's the point? A puppet only has life if and when the master gives life to it. And when/wherever the master pulls the strings is when/where the puppets go. A soldier loves this song, cos it represents what they went thru. Some may get flashbacks and other bad symptoms from it but, most soldiers I've known love this song
One thing about Metallica that I thinks flies under the radar far too much, is the lyrical genius of James Hetfield. I have heard hip hop fans refer to him as spitting bars.
When I was a teenager we'd have parties with all my stoner/punker/metal friends and all of my sister's hip hop friends. These black dudes would go through my music and skip any of my hip hop and always ask me to put on this album or And Justice For All...and they went absolutely nuts.
I served in Iraq. Lost a brother over there. In some aspects, I’m still over there as well and never fully made it home. This song was a great song when I was a kid, but has given me chills ever since I joined the Army and truly understood what the lyrics actually meant. Great video boys. Keep up the outstanding work
This was my squads "pre-game" song in Iraq. The song is straight fire and fact! Those who serve do so honorably, those that send us for the wrong reasons need to be held to account.
Dig on some fn Damage Inc. Too!.."Damage jackals ripping right through you!!!..Sight and smell of this,it gets me Going!! Know just how to get just what we want!!!..Tear it from your soul in nightly hunt"!!!!!Blood will follow blood!!!Dying time is here!!! Damage Incorporated! ✌💛🤘
Hey guys, I am not a vet, but my brother gave his life while serving in the US Navy. I love this song. It kind of tells both perspectives - the barking out of orders then the soldier trying to understand why he is fighting. I just appreciate Metallica for keeping the soldiers in people's minds and what the sacrifice really is. They aren't just props in some war game. So here's to the heroes!!
My dad served in Vietnam. A lot of the soldiers did not get treated very well when they came home. Respect to all who have served or are currently serving
@@juniorlupercio1470 your soldiers didnt die for the right of free speech.they died because usa wants to impose their influence to other countries so they can milk their resources for their own benefit.
When was about 7 years old in 1988, my dad would be listening to this at full volume while lifting weights in the basement. All I could hear was : "BACK TO THE FRONT"!!!! Of course I'm a superfan now. Thanks dad
Look at this song from the perspective of someone groomed to be a soldier since childhood. Raised in a military family, they never had a chance to know any other life than to live and die for their country and a cause they may have never fully understood or agreed with. I respect a person who chooses to serve in the military. I feel bad for the ones who never had a choice. 🇺🇸
Hetfield is a lyrical genius. Best line in the whole song is “soldier boy, made of clay, now an empty shell”. He’s saying the soldier was nothing more to the government than a bullet to be fired at the enemy, leaving behind only a spent casing on the battlefield (their dead or wounded body).
I wouldn't say it's underrated, it's definetely acknowledged for its awesomeness xD, unless you mean that it's even better than people think it id, which is fair
This is not underrated... It is very well respected and appreciated among us Metallica family members. This is not a mainstream song by any stretch. 9 minute blasting your face off song isn't very radio compatible...
This is the first Metallica album I bought on tape back in 1987 I was 12. Quickly became my favourite band. And then Tool came along few years later and i suddenly had 2 favourite bands.
The original idea came to James after hearing the line on an American Football Game! The announcer was saying that: "The players were a bunch of Disposable Heroes." But found it sounded better as an anti-war song!
Great song guys. When I was an Army Cadet here in the UK back in the early nineties, one of our COs, Captain Jones, used to blast us with this non-stop from his car stereo, especially whilst we were "square bashing" (marching drills around the parade ground), or when being put through some kind of tortuous physical training. Sometimes he played it so loud the police were called. As a Metallica fan, among many in the unit, we loved it, although it is hard to explain now, in my cynically philosophical, mature mind, how we managed to reconcile the meaning of the song with our experience. After all, we were being conditioned, groomed, to take orders without question, ultimately with the aim of making us risk our lives for a cause we don't necessarily believe in. So I have very mixed feelings about it now. As one of Metallica's hardest and heaviest songs, a real jewel in the thrash era, I love it. But it is not kind about the soldier, far from it. Maybe someone who actively served, far more a soldier than I ever was, can give you a proper perspective. Maybe there is some kind of nihilistic comfort to be found in it. I can see that. You find motivation in the strangest places when you have a difficult job to do. Anyway, great reaction, I'm glad you liked it.
This song hits different when you’ve spent time in a combat zone. I lost a few friends while out there and having been on that side of things, I can tell you the lyrics to this song are truly underrated. They are pretty spot on, depending on the kind of job you go out there to do. That being said, I am very proud of having served my country and would do it again in heartbeat if I could. But anyone who sheds light on what can actually be like for our service members is more than alright in my book.
Great song, by a great band. my dad served in Vietnam. My mom told me stories he told her, of how his platoon were climbing a hill one night on their bellies. The Vietnamese soldiers were below them, firing rockets up the hill at them, right over their heads. After he got back, he would sometimes wake up in the night, choking my mom because he thought he was back there, fighting again. Scary stuff. RIP dad, I never really knew you, but thank you.
Finally!!! My favorite Metallica song!!! I always felt this song is very illustrative of the brutality and morbidity of war and the soldiers involved. Gotta do Whiplash sometime!
I support our veterans 100% and it pisses me off that they're treated like shit. My stepdad is a Vietnam veteran and a retired Marine. If it wasn't for the VA's help, he would be paying more than the $225 per month for rent at the apartment complex he's at right now. That and he'd be homeless. Congress NEEDS to do something about the sorry ass state of affairs our veterans are in. Hoorah to all our veterans. Thanks, @Rappers React and the @Trash Talkers family for your support and, if you're a veteran, thanks for your service. The Marines are first in and last out.
My dad served in Vietnam as well, he was part of the crew that got the guys home so their families could give them a proper goodbye😔. I asked him when I was younger why they went, if no one was happy to see them come home. He said it was a political war and before this all happened you were supposed to be proud to serve your country, plus the draft was still in affect. He had a lot of issues with the VA and almost completely lost any benefits after he gave up his Purple Heart, but he believed that the true heroes never came home and didn’t want rewarded. When lost him Dec 2020❤❤❤
To all the Veterans and family members of Vets that served and and that didn't come home, many blessings to you all and your family. My uncle Fernando lost his life on the beach in Normandy. He was 19. His death had negative consequences for family for decades. Basically killed my grandmother and grandfather became cold and abusive. Trickled down through generations. War is hell!! Blessings.
Listen to anything off of Metallica's first 4 albums you will not be disappointed, they are all straight up bangers, dosent get any better imo, great reaction fellas, I love to watch how you immerse yourself in their music, I've been there thousands of times so I know how its making you feel 🔥🔥🔥
There's a reason the first line of warriors to lead into a battle was called a "Forlorn Hope", they were expected to give their lives so the troops behind them would have a chance to break the opponents formation & once the formation was broken all that was left was to run your enemy down. Thousands could die & it would be considered a worthwhile cost to win, which is a truly terrifying thing.
Im a combat vet and I was in Sadr city Baghdad 2004-2005 with A co 2/5 cav 1st cav div and have been in multiple fire fights and I would listen to seek and destroy from Metallica before we rolled out on missions because our job was to seek out the enemy and destroy but as far as disposable heroes goes it's still a dope song and I still listen to it
That whole album is incredible. I personally think it's their best, though I can see arguments for a few of their others. You guys need to react to the title track. Seriously. It's going through the various stages of drug addiction from both the drug's perspective and the addict's.
13:38 At the end of the last chorus, James's voice gets a little louder and they pull out the reverb as if to imply he's crossed the room and got right up in your face as he yells, "Back to the front!" and shoves you out into the incoming fire. This was the first Metallica song I'd ever heard, a year or two before my enlistment started, it was music I had with me all four years I was in the army, and I never saw combat, I was in a heavy engineer HQ battalion, and I hesitate to say we were a rear echelon unit, but our deployment (yes, one deployment) was shortish and probably effective, but didn't involve any shooting. As an 81B (MOS Technical Drafting Specialist), I now and then put some lines on some blueprints here and there where an officer said they needed to be, but I was the new guy in the squad, so my real job was maintaining and driving the deuce-and-half. I wasn't great at it, either. I never felt this song was being sung to me. It was for a marine or a ranger from a long patriarchical line of marines or rangers. A marine or ranger might have interesting opinions of this song, but who I want to hear from is a captain or major, an officer that was in command of the marines or rangers in the boots on the ground in the line of enemy fire. I had one serious conversation with a captain I worked for, and he said something that stuck with me, something his father, who was also an officer, told him: that as an officer, his highest priority should always be the well-being of the soldiers under his command. "Take care of your soldiers and they'll take care of you," I believe is the quote. I was tasked to drive him to Frankfurt one day and I fell asleep at the wheel on the autobahn. He caught it in time, but it was almost bad, and I hope he's forgiven me for that. It scared me enough that the terror of it happening again keeps me so alert behind the wheel to this day, though. I cannot really relax when I'm driving anymore. _And I do not want to._ This song makes it clear how awful the fate is of someone trained and strengthened over a short brutal lifetime to become a combat force multiplyer being thrown into the meat grinder where all that strength and training, years of suffering endured for improvement and efficency, is then ended in a single burst of automatic fire. I'm not gonna say anything more about Cadet Bone-Spurs calling such men suckers and losers that knew what they signed up for except that I'm thinking about that he said those things. So soldiers get sent to the front by captains sent to the front by colonels sent to the front by generals sent to the front by governments. At some point in that chain, does 'The Front' start being a line on a map instead of place to die? An idea of victory instead of spilled blood? It shouldn't. Ever.
Back to the front = front lines of battle/war Absolute monster of a song, in a perfect resemblance of the life of soldiers and how they need to do as they are told and go die #THANKYOUALLWHOSERVED
Best Metallica song ever !! F**cking brilliant lyrics and one of my top 5 lead guitar solos ..true musicians with band members with a classical background.. RIP Cliff Burton ! A brilliant musician and best damn bass player ever !
When I first bought the Master of Puppets CD thirty years ago I listened to Battery, Puppets, Sanitarium and Orion on repeat, skipping the rest. I was an idiot.
80s Lars was really a great drummer for what he was. He never played drums before Metallica and he could lay down a fat beat and a great thrash beat. It was in the 1990s and 2000s where he really went downhill, especially live.
Another great song from Metallica about soldiers and veterans comes from their most recent album "Hardwired...To Self- Destruct". The song is "Confusion" it's a great and powercul piece about PTSD. You should react to the video. It's a powerful portrayal of the suffering veterans go through dealing with it in their everyday lives.
My first concert was Metallica, in the summer of 1988, tail end of the Puppets tour. When this went off the pits were insane! I was 12 years old , best memory of my life! BIRTH SCHOOL METALLICA DEATH \m/ 💀 \m/
This was the first song written for Master of Puppets. It was also the first song they premiered live in 1985. You should check out that performance too.
Love to hear discussion on this song. James Hetfield is a genius in writing deep lyrics and the rhythm guitar riffs he creates. Many of their songs have deep lyrics, don't be afraid to dive into more of their songs and analyze the lyrics.
19 March 2003 I listened to this with my squad leader as we mounted up for the invasion of Iraq. Thanks for doing this one. Y'all should check out their song Breadfan.
What I love about Metallica shows is that regardless of how many new albums they continue making they always play the classics and always do a tribute to Cliff Burton.
Just as a suggestion, you should do more of the Kill'em all album or just the whole thing song by song because I just can't believe only a few reactors have done just like the same 2 or 3 songs from this absolute beast album, pure raw Metallica, their beginnings, love that album entirely.
There was a tour called clash of the titans...in the 90's It was an amazing set in Vancouver. Megadeath Slayer Anthrax and Alice in Chains. Diamond Head is considered a grandfather band in the metal world. Major influence on the scene
I know this is 2 years old. Army vet, been there done that. This song pumps you up trust me!!! I listened to damage inc by Metallica before every mission. Check out that song guys.
Marines of the first ones in last ones out the song is exactly talkin about what you think. It's that mindset you have a mission and the mission is to be carried out whether you live or die no questions when you're given an order carry out the order and whatever branch of the military you regardless of whether you live or die you always live on through them
Your reaction made me subscribe! We wore this album out when it came out ..they were FIRE .. UNTOUCHABLE....check out Cliffem'all..they opened for Ozzy ..I was at the Detroit show at the beginning...it BLEW up at Joe Louis Arena...cops stopped show and James said if floor did don't back up they were gonna have to stop playing .Great Reaction!
As a former Infantryman who loves Metallica I love the music. The lyrics seem condescending coming from someone who has not served. I like the message of “Don’t tread on me” much better but the riffage in “Disposable heroes” is god level.
It only took me about 40 years to truly appreciate just how awesome this whole album is musically. 15 year old me was too stupid to see it. Nothing has even come close to matching this album.
Memorial Day shout out to all the Trash Talking veterans. 🇺🇲
🦋 Happy Memorial Day! 😊
Being sent to the front lines is a soldier's greatest fear. Have you seen footage of the storming of Normandy? War is hell, and there's no better explanation of it. But we have to gain ground so, send some more losers to the front, where they'll probably die, but we'll just keep sending more and more. No one wins. We didn't win ww2. Too many lives were taken to get that "win". Not worth it. Not even close
Masters of War by Bob Dylan
Master of Puppets. In some way, we're all puppets. Slave to alcohol. Slave to weed. Slave to the grind. Slave to what others might think or say. slave to everything i fell like I can't live without. Slave to money. Slaves to ourselves. If I was born for dying, what's the point? A puppet only has life if and when the master gives life to it. And when/wherever the master pulls the strings is when/where the puppets go.
A soldier loves this song, cos it represents what they went thru. Some may get flashbacks and other bad symptoms from it but, most soldiers I've known love this song
I'm not. Was too fat. And blind. But tried! Ty sir for your service if you are!
One thing about Metallica that I thinks flies under the radar far too much, is the lyrical genius of James Hetfield. I have heard hip hop fans refer to him as spitting bars.
100% man!
When I was a teenager we'd have parties with all my stoner/punker/metal friends and all of my sister's hip hop friends. These black dudes would go through my music and skip any of my hip hop and always ask me to put on this album or And Justice For All...and they went absolutely nuts.
He is a master lyricist!!
listen to that was just your life he is like rapping on that song so fast
@@fleetadmiralsakazuki yes lord Vader
I served in Iraq. Lost a brother over there. In some aspects, I’m still over there as well and never fully made it home. This song was a great song when I was a kid, but has given me chills ever since I joined the Army and truly understood what the lyrics actually meant. Great video boys. Keep up the outstanding work
Thank you guys for your service
Respect Brother
Thankyou for your service and your sacrifice, from the UK.
Thank you for your service from one vet to another
Thank you for sharing your experience!
God bless you! ⚡⚡⚡
I wish you peace, light & good things always!
This was my squads "pre-game" song in Iraq. The song is straight fire and fact! Those who serve do so honorably, those that send us for the wrong reasons need to be held to account.
That's some dark humor you had there haha
Fuckin' A brother.
Dig on some fn Damage Inc.
Too!.."Damage jackals ripping right through you!!!..Sight and smell of this,it gets me Going!!
Know just how to get just what we want!!!..Tear it from your soul in nightly hunt"!!!!!Blood will follow blood!!!Dying time is here!!!
Damage Incorporated!
✌💛🤘
Thank you. Brave sob
Thank you for your service brother!@
Hey guys, I am not a vet, but my brother gave his life while serving in the US Navy. I love this song. It kind of tells both perspectives - the barking out of orders then the soldier trying to understand why he is fighting. I just appreciate Metallica for keeping the soldiers in people's minds and what the sacrifice really is. They aren't just props in some war game. So here's to the heroes!!
My sincere thanks to your family for your sacrifice.
So sorry for your loss brother. Sincerest condolences.
RIP to your brother, my friend.
Hate the war, love the soldiers.
My dad served in Vietnam. A lot of the soldiers did not get treated very well when they came home. Respect to all who have served or are currently serving
That’s the country we live in, the irony of the fact that our soldiers die for the right of free speech and other rights we have just to be hated on.
@@juniorlupercio1470 so true 😔
@@juniorlupercio1470 your soldiers didnt die for the right of free speech.they died because usa wants to impose their influence to other countries so they can milk their resources for their own benefit.
@@juventinos81 I’m not gonna deny anything you said, point is they died when shouldn’t have
@@juniorlupercio1470 i agree on this
Definitely MetallicAs number 1 underrated song! I believe it’s Kirks best solo hands down! Just an absolute genius solo
100%
After a lot of thought. I agree 👍🏼
One of hist best but fore me its the ride the lightning solo
This song and "Trapped Under Ice" will wake your happy ass up in the morning.
Agreed!! My favorite from RTL!
Metallica is beloved by our Military, I served 1985-1995 and l it listened to Metallica the whole time this song speaks truth!
When was about 7 years old in 1988, my dad would be listening to this at full volume while lifting weights in the basement.
All I could hear was :
"BACK TO THE FRONT"!!!!
Of course I'm a superfan now. Thanks dad
@happycatlady2012 I had just signed up for H.M FORCES IN 1988. THE METAL GOT ME THROUGH IT.
Look at this song from the perspective of someone groomed to be a soldier since childhood. Raised in a military family, they never had a chance to know any other life than to live and die for their country and a cause they may have never fully understood or agreed with. I respect a person who chooses to serve in the military. I feel bad for the ones who never had a choice. 🇺🇸
Facts!
Hetfield is a lyrical genius. Best line in the whole song is “soldier boy, made of clay, now an empty shell”.
He’s saying the soldier was nothing more to the government than a bullet to be fired at the enemy, leaving behind only a spent casing on the battlefield (their dead or wounded body).
I really think this is their most impressive song to me. The composition and execution are flawless
probably the most underrated song in all of metallica history...
I wouldn't say it's underrated, it's definetely acknowledged for its awesomeness xD, unless you mean that it's even better than people think it id, which is fair
This is not underrated... It is very well respected and appreciated among us Metallica family members. This is not a mainstream song by any stretch. 9 minute blasting your face off song isn't very radio compatible...
Ohhhhhhh def not underrated. Just overlooked cuzzzz of all thE BANGERS!!!!!⭐⭐🤘🤘
@@timometsanoja9666 nuff said🤘🤘🤘
@@bigemetalmilitia8462 If it's overlooked, it's underrated
This is the first Metallica album I bought on tape back in 1987 I was 12. Quickly became my favourite band. And then Tool came along few years later and i suddenly had 2 favourite bands.
The original idea came to James after hearing the line on an American Football Game! The announcer was saying that: "The players were a bunch of Disposable Heroes." But found it sounded better as an anti-war song!
American football represents sanctioned trench warfare or is symbolic of it-why it’s by far the better sport than girly soccer!
True, ive seen that documentary...thats how I feel about this song as well...
Every and i do mean EVERY song on Master gets the fn point across and ends with the greatest thrash ever!.......Damage Inc.✌💛🤘
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@@dominikweber4305 Your I.Q.?
Still my favorite album from them
@@dominikweber4305 what your mom was saying other night. ;)
Great song guys. When I was an Army Cadet here in the UK back in the early nineties, one of our COs, Captain Jones, used to blast us with this non-stop from his car stereo, especially whilst we were "square bashing" (marching drills around the parade ground), or when being put through some kind of tortuous physical training. Sometimes he played it so loud the police were called.
As a Metallica fan, among many in the unit, we loved it, although it is hard to explain now, in my cynically philosophical, mature mind, how we managed to reconcile the meaning of the song with our experience. After all, we were being conditioned, groomed, to take orders without question, ultimately with the aim of making us risk our lives for a cause we don't necessarily believe in.
So I have very mixed feelings about it now. As one of Metallica's hardest and heaviest songs, a real jewel in the thrash era, I love it. But it is not kind about the soldier, far from it. Maybe someone who actively served, far more a soldier than I ever was, can give you a proper perspective. Maybe there is some kind of nihilistic comfort to be found in it. I can see that. You find motivation in the strangest places when you have a difficult job to do.
Anyway, great reaction, I'm glad you liked it.
This song hits different when you’ve spent time in a combat zone. I lost a few friends while out there and having been on that side of things, I can tell you the lyrics to this song are truly underrated. They are pretty spot on, depending on the kind of job you go out there to do. That being said, I am very proud of having served my country and would do it again in heartbeat if I could. But anyone who sheds light on what can actually be like for our service members is more than alright in my book.
I was a teen when I first heard this song..i didn't think on the lyrics til i was older...memorial day to those that have served their country!!
Best Metallica song ever. 36 years later it's still melts my face. 😱 Anti war song bros
Great song, by a great band. my dad served in Vietnam. My mom told me stories he told her, of how his platoon were climbing a hill one night on their bellies. The Vietnamese soldiers were below them, firing rockets up the hill at them, right over their heads. After he got back, he would sometimes wake up in the night, choking my mom because he thought he was back there, fighting again. Scary stuff. RIP dad, I never really knew you, but thank you.
Finally!!! My favorite Metallica song!!! I always felt this song is very illustrative of the brutality and morbidity of war and the soldiers involved. Gotta do Whiplash sometime!
Killer song. The whole damn album is pretty much amazing.
one of my top 5 Metallica songs, if this doesnt get you jacked you dont have a pulse! Check out the live version from Mexico City, you will shit!!
Master of Puppets and Disposable Heroes are tied for my favorite Metallica songs...followed by Creeping Death
Awesome!!!
I support our veterans 100% and it pisses me off that they're treated like shit. My stepdad is a Vietnam veteran and a retired Marine. If it wasn't for the VA's help, he would be paying more than the $225 per month for rent at the apartment complex he's at right now. That and he'd be homeless. Congress NEEDS to do something about the sorry ass state of affairs our veterans are in. Hoorah to all our veterans. Thanks, @Rappers React and the @Trash Talkers family for your support and, if you're a veteran, thanks for your service. The Marines are first in and last out.
My dad served in Vietnam as well, he was part of the crew that got the guys home so their families could give them a proper goodbye😔. I asked him when I was younger why they went, if no one was happy to see them come home. He said it was a political war and before this all happened you were supposed to be proud to serve your country, plus the draft was still in affect. He had a lot of issues with the VA and almost completely lost any benefits after he gave up his Purple Heart, but he believed that the true heroes never came home and didn’t want rewarded. When lost him Dec 2020❤❤❤
We wore Disposable Heroes on our helmets. Grunts know they are disposable and really focus on each other. In the end that is all that matters.
We need a Metallica day. Mondays? To start the week with energy
Wishing you a Proud Memorial Day from Canada - we honour our veterans but not as much as we used to. 110% respect for anyone who signs up.
"Barking of machine gun fire does nothing to me now
The sounding of the clock that ticks, get used to it somehow"
-Best lyrics ever.
This song has ALWAYS been my favorite Metallica song since I got the album when it came out... I can play this on repeat for hours
The album that turned an old prog rocker into a Metallica fan.
Love love this song
one of my favorite anti-war songs from Metallica 🤘🤘
While in service, I listened to this every night before sleep. Good times.
I couldn't help but groove with you guys, great reaction to a great band. Still looking for that Ihsahn "on the shores" reaction lol.
To all the Veterans and family members of Vets that served and and that didn't come home, many blessings to you all and your family.
My uncle Fernando lost his life on the beach in Normandy. He was 19. His death had negative consequences for family for decades. Basically killed my grandmother and grandfather became cold and abusive. Trickled down through generations.
War is hell!!
Blessings.
Would A soldier enjoy this song!! .I use to listen to this song and Megadeath songs when I was training!! They made me more focused!.
Listen to anything off of Metallica's first 4 albums you will not be disappointed, they are all straight up bangers, dosent get any better imo, great reaction fellas, I love to watch how you immerse yourself in their music, I've been there thousands of times so I know how its making you feel 🔥🔥🔥
There's a reason the first line of warriors to lead into a battle was called a "Forlorn Hope", they were expected to give their lives so the troops behind them would have a chance to break the opponents formation & once the formation was broken all that was left was to run your enemy down. Thousands could die & it would be considered a worthwhile cost to win, which is a truly terrifying thing.
GJ I see you guys jumped on putting this out on Memorial day. Another great tune by the masters
Im a combat vet and I was in Sadr city Baghdad 2004-2005 with A co 2/5 cav 1st cav div and have been in multiple fire fights and I would listen to seek and destroy from Metallica before we rolled out on missions because our job was to seek out the enemy and destroy but as far as disposable heroes goes it's still a dope song and I still listen to it
That whole album is incredible. I personally think it's their best, though I can see arguments for a few of their others. You guys need to react to the title track. Seriously. It's going through the various stages of drug addiction from both the drug's perspective and the addict's.
Needles by SOAD is also a great song about that topic
13:38 At the end of the last chorus, James's voice gets a little louder and they pull out the reverb as if to imply he's crossed the room and got right up in your face as he yells, "Back to the front!" and shoves you out into the incoming fire.
This was the first Metallica song I'd ever heard, a year or two before my enlistment started, it was music I had with me all four years I was in the army, and I never saw combat, I was in a heavy engineer HQ battalion, and I hesitate to say we were a rear echelon unit, but our deployment (yes, one deployment) was shortish and probably effective, but didn't involve any shooting. As an 81B (MOS Technical Drafting Specialist), I now and then put some lines on some blueprints here and there where an officer said they needed to be, but I was the new guy in the squad, so my real job was maintaining and driving the deuce-and-half. I wasn't great at it, either.
I never felt this song was being sung to me. It was for a marine or a ranger from a long patriarchical line of marines or rangers.
A marine or ranger might have interesting opinions of this song, but who I want to hear from is a captain or major, an officer that was in command of the marines or rangers in the boots on the ground in the line of enemy fire. I had one serious conversation with a captain I worked for, and he said something that stuck with me, something his father, who was also an officer, told him: that as an officer, his highest priority should always be the well-being of the soldiers under his command. "Take care of your soldiers and they'll take care of you," I believe is the quote.
I was tasked to drive him to Frankfurt one day and I fell asleep at the wheel on the autobahn. He caught it in time, but it was almost bad, and I hope he's forgiven me for that. It scared me enough that the terror of it happening again keeps me so alert behind the wheel to this day, though. I cannot really relax when I'm driving anymore. _And I do not want to._
This song makes it clear how awful the fate is of someone trained and strengthened over a short brutal lifetime to become a combat force multiplyer being thrown into the meat grinder where all that strength and training, years of suffering endured for improvement and efficency, is then ended in a single burst of automatic fire.
I'm not gonna say anything more about Cadet Bone-Spurs calling such men suckers and losers that knew what they signed up for except that I'm thinking about that he said those things.
So soldiers get sent to the front by captains sent to the front by colonels sent to the front by generals sent to the front by governments. At some point in that chain, does 'The Front' start being a line on a map instead of place to die? An idea of victory instead of spilled blood?
It shouldn't. Ever.
Incredible choice for Memorial Day, guys.
Memorial Day is to honor and remember those that have died in service to the country. Respect.
Back to the front = front lines of battle/war
Absolute monster of a song, in a perfect resemblance of the life of soldiers and how they need to do as they are told and go die #THANKYOUALLWHOSERVED
Best Metallica song ever !! F**cking brilliant lyrics and one of my top 5 lead guitar solos ..true musicians with band members with a classical background..
RIP Cliff Burton ! A brilliant musician and best damn bass player ever !
This song still gives me chills 24 years later. It's amazing how well they made the major key motifs work in the solo too.
I have a friend that done 6 tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and he love that song and Metallica
When I first bought the Master of Puppets CD thirty years ago I listened to Battery, Puppets, Sanitarium and Orion on repeat, skipping the rest. I was an idiot.
Still the greatest metal album of all time. 🇺🇲🤘
This was the first Metallica song to blow me away lyrically... when I was just a lad
YOU'RE A GOD OF THE GODS!
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I saw them play for 3.5 hours straight at that pace. They dont get tired.
One of the most headbanging Metallica songs !!! So good.
Finally! Been requesting for this for a long time!
80s Lars was really a great drummer for what he was. He never played drums before Metallica and he could lay down a fat beat and a great thrash beat. It was in the 1990s and 2000s where he really went downhill, especially live.
Go see them live. You will be blown away. Seen them 9x's. Damage Inc. Should be your next reaction. 🤘🇺🇸🤘
F yeah dude!✌💛🤘
Another great song from Metallica about soldiers and veterans comes from their most recent album "Hardwired...To Self- Destruct". The song is "Confusion" it's a great and powercul piece about PTSD. You should react to the video. It's a powerful portrayal of the suffering veterans go through dealing with it in their everyday lives.
My first concert was Metallica, in the summer of 1988, tail end of the Puppets tour. When this went off the pits were insane! I was 12 years old , best memory of my life!
BIRTH
SCHOOL
METALLICA
DEATH
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Some of the best chugging ever written, let alone one of Metallicas fastest songs
This was the first song written for Master of Puppets. It was also the first song they premiered live in 1985. You should check out that performance too.
Probably their best song. IMO
Love to hear discussion on this song. James Hetfield is a genius in writing deep lyrics and the rhythm guitar riffs he creates. Many of their songs have deep lyrics, don't be afraid to dive into more of their songs and analyze the lyrics.
lost my buddy during those days... we were marines (ret)... orders means orders...
19 March 2003 I listened to this with my squad leader as we mounted up for the invasion of Iraq. Thanks for doing this one. Y'all should check out their song Breadfan.
All the was from Australia 🦘 love you guys love Metallica
this is my favourite metallica album, the whole thing is a masterpiece
🌴 SALUTE to those who serve✊🏽🌴
What I love about Metallica shows is that regardless of how many new albums they continue making they always play the classics and always do a tribute to Cliff Burton.
Just as a suggestion, you should do more of the Kill'em all album or just the whole thing song by song because I just can't believe only a few reactors have done just like the same 2 or 3 songs from this absolute beast album, pure raw Metallica, their beginnings, love that album entirely.
There was a tour called clash of the titans...in the 90's
It was an amazing set in Vancouver. Megadeath Slayer Anthrax and Alice in Chains.
Diamond Head is considered a grandfather band in the metal world. Major influence on the scene
Going down the deep rabbit hole is why I fell in love with Metallica.
RIP Cliff Burton
I know this is 2 years old. Army vet, been there done that. This song pumps you up trust me!!! I listened to damage inc by Metallica before every mission. Check out that song guys.
We understand! I was in the first gulf War and somolia and I can tell you at least with the grunts we love this song
Marines of the first ones in last ones out the song is exactly talkin about what you think. It's that mindset you have a mission and the mission is to be carried out whether you live or die no questions when you're given an order carry out the order and whatever branch of the military you regardless of whether you live or die you always live on through them
I seen them live in Melbourne Australia in 1987 and will never forget
Just when you think you can take a deep breath and relief, they hit you again
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Brutal
Lars in studio:🔥🔥🔥 Lars live:😬😬😬😬😶😶
I really like your reacts. Greetings from Chile!
Excellent reaction! Really enjoyed watching you guys!
I think this has to be my fav metallica track, no shortage of riffage
Your reaction made me subscribe! We wore this album out when it came out ..they were FIRE .. UNTOUCHABLE....check out Cliffem'all..they opened for Ozzy ..I was at the Detroit show at the beginning...it BLEW up at Joe Louis Arena...cops stopped show and James said if floor did don't back up they were gonna have to stop playing .Great Reaction!
Their best.... and heaviest song!!
Everything pre black album is really good
BANGER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!🤘🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🍺🍺🍺🍺
In the army, you have to obey orders. There are no excuses.
Yes and that's exactly the problem
Thumbs up for picking such a good song.
Great reaction, great song. Much respect & gratitude to our brave heroes.
Y’all should go to Louisville Kentucky Metallica is heading in September on Friday and Sunday.
Louderthanlife festival. Got my tixs Ill be there. Been every year but the canceled ones.
As a former Infantryman who loves Metallica I love the music. The lyrics seem condescending coming from someone who has not served. I like the message of “Don’t tread on me” much better but the riffage in “Disposable heroes” is god level.
Incredible song and album.
What a song, love it 🤘🤘
It only took me about 40 years to truly appreciate just how awesome this whole album is musically. 15 year old me was too stupid to see it. Nothing has even come close to matching this album.
Its the sad reality of war
It still shocks me that their bassist played the same rhythm as James with just his fingers!
This is one of my favorite songs from Metallica. Thank you
I just rewatched 300 such a good movie
RUSH THURSDAYS!!!