Metallica garage inc videos6/17/2023 ![]() “Mama Said”, which was apparently never aired in America, makes for interesting viewing, as it’s a plainly acoustic country-tinged ballad that features him in a cowboy hat musing about his relationship with his mother. The transition into the Load/ ReLoad years is immediately apparent on The Videos: no longer does percussionist Lars Ulrich rule the rhythms like he does in the first six singles, and Hetfield’s singing style has a complete makeover. Fans who’ve always wanted to know how to play the interwoven electric/acoustic guitar riff of “Nothing Else Matters”, yet never could find the right tab, can finally find satisfaction here, via bare-bones footage of the band in the album’s recording studio, featuring the frequent close-up on Hetfield’s fingers.Ī decade later, they were copying Alice in Chains, with an animal menagerie taken straight from “Angry Chair” in the clip “Until it Sleeps”, with the darkness and religious symbolism borrowed from Live. ![]() Metallica obviously realize that mixing a stylized plot into their videos is distracting - I mean, are we meant to watch the storyline or listen to the music? - so the other singles are matched with filming of live and backstage highlights from the tour supporting The Black Album for the viewer’s pleasure. ![]() “Enter Sandman” is given big-budget video treatment, combining flashing stills of the band performing with a narrative that suits the sludgy riffs and James Hetfield’s twisted lullaby lyric… though I didn’t really need to see a child almost getting run over by a truck. Then it’s into Metallica’s mainstream days, a journey beginning with an indulgent five cuts from the mega-selling Black Album. Introducing a video clip that segues black and white footage of a band ‘jamming’ (that description’s self-pegged) with a war movie ( Johnny’s Got A Gun) that Alice in Chains later copied in their own hit “Rooster” to prove a point, “One”, from the band’s last thrash set, 1988’s …And Justice for All, is even more chilling when presented on the big screen, one of those rare songs that you can’t truly know until you’ve seen the clip, all seven minutes of it. How appropriate that their most influential and fondly-remembered video is also first. But for better or worse, their video singles have nearly all been strong, and this DVD proves it, doing its job admirably in being an accessible means of checking out the workings of an influential hard rock band. Jessica Norton is a Reporter for Youth Journalism International.Considering The Videos, a comprehensive run-down on Metallica’s MTV history spanning the years 1989 to 2004, and the aesthetic approach they’ve taken to some of the videos here, it’d be really interesting to see what sort of take they’d do on their thrash classics, if only they’d recorded film clips in those days… “Fade to Black” or “Master of Puppets” come to mind. until you can muster the strength to listen with an open mind. However if you are still aching over Reload then take a break from Garage Inc. If you have 20 bucks and want to listen to the second CD off of Garage Days Inc. I couldn’t even sit through “Whiskey in the Jar,” and, yes, there was another country song that brought back memories of Load. The only good songs were “Turn the Page,” “Die Die my Darling,” and “Loverman.” The second CD was good - VERY good actually - but the first CD took away what little faith I still had in Metallica as a “heavy” band. My first reaction is that this could have promise, especially with songs like “Blitzkrieg” that are considered to be in the list of greatest Metallica hits. On the second disc there are songs from some of Metallica’s earliest albums, Garage Days Re-Revisited from 1984 to 1987, B Sides and One-Offs from 1988 to 1991 - three albums that are hard to find items or simply no longer available. Some artists featured are Black Sabbath, the innovators of rock as we know it Bob Seeger and some others who obviously caught Metallica’s interest in one form or another. Plus any hard rock fan recognizes at least some of the songs they are covering on this CD.īack to the songs. Its two-CD cover pictures Metallica looking, well, grungy. If anything, it drove them into the perpetual hole that they have been digging since 1996.Īt first glance Garage Inc. All to get back their prior hard metal reputations. They made appearances, they did interviews, all to bulk up Garage Inc. So this was going to be their huge comeback. They’ve put out another album to rock the charts and seize back the love from their moshing fans since their last two releases, ReLoad and Load disappointed many.
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