The song in way is saying "I lived a life that wasn't mine, for you; now that it's over I can't forgive you for not realizing how wrong that is."

It is about a guy (him, you, me, anyone) who was never free to be himself. Instead, society forces us to adopt certain behaviours from the moment we were born. They tell us what's right or wrong, what's good or bad, whether legally (laws) or culturally (through the opinion of others). So the guy grows up and feels trapped and he can never escape from this prison. Then he just gives up. He doesn't care anymore and feels he might as well die right away since it's not he (the guy he was or could have been otherwise without all the social pressure he had to conform to) anymore who lives but some zombie who has had to live by society's standards. So in a sense, the unforgiven could refer to society as a whole. And I would greatly appreciate more reactions from Metallica's KILL'EM ALL album

@nadjimansouri8360

3 жыл бұрын

I allways looked at it that way too

You have to do the trilogy man! 3 songs from across their career, all amazing songs!

@ukraineme96

4 жыл бұрын

To clarify, they have three Unforgiven songs. This one, Unforgiven II from their Reload album, and Unforgiven III from their death magnetic album. The differences between the songs really show their development as a band.

there is a reason why the black album is the best selling hard rock album of all time

@Retseadog

4 жыл бұрын

Living the life that matters I’d still call it metal, since Sad But True is one of their heaviest songs. It’s more groove metal.

@adamgardner2244

4 жыл бұрын

@@Retseadog ya groove metal

@paulriddle7818

4 жыл бұрын

Thrash... groove was Pantera

@danielegiuliani2700

4 жыл бұрын

Wasn't that Back in Black?

@roaringviking5693

4 жыл бұрын

I would say that it's overrated, since there are many filler songs on it. But compared to the crap that came after it even the filler songs are great, so it feels wrong to call it that.

“I’m liking this already y’all” , damn right, it’s Metallica!!!

This is from the album Metallica (1991) commonly referred to as the The Black Album. If you watch the documentary "A Year And a Half in The Life Of..." it chronicles the making of this album and the monster tour that followed...in it Kirk Hammett is struggling to nail this solo but when he finally does he says it's the solo he's been trying to play his whole career. This album is also where they started getting away from their thrash tendencies.

@metalmellie4371

4 жыл бұрын

Watching the doc, you hear a solo Bob Rock is trying to force on Kirk to play. Lars tells Rock it's not Kirk's style and it might take him 6 months to learn it. Kirk has his own idea for a solo and Bob says, "Go ahead then, impress me. Let's see what you have, go ahead." Then Lars is like go ahead, you have his permission. Kirk then lays down this now epic known solo that's legendary! So the solo was Kirk's. It is not the solo that was originally supposed to be in the song. Thank goodness for that. Nice job Mr. Hammet.

Slower solos tend to have more time for emotions to breathe. Faster solos are like a high-energy explosion.. over too quickly in most cases.. but devastating in their raw power.

Regarding the solo: Kirk Hammett (the lead guitarist) was picked at, criticized and borderline bullied by the producer to perform a "real" solo, rather than the original solo Kirk had come up with for the song. So what you hear in this track was recorded in one take as a retort to the producer and comes from a real feeling of frustration and anger.

@davidvied2507

4 жыл бұрын

Not one take, in the making of the album you see him playing the solo many times but it isn’t flowing right, he clearly frustrated and pissed. But yes Bob kept ragging him and pushing him and after all that, he just fukkin let loose and ripped one of his best solos ever not to mention, what I think is one of the most killer solos in rock/metal. He even said in the making of vid that he had been trying to play a solo like that for quite a while. Killer solo, and killer they documented it and it’s awesome to watch it unfold and become a classic fukkin jam 🤘🔥☠️

You have to do The Unforgiven 2 & 3. These songs continue the story

The "airplane" at the start is actually a horn. It's a reversed (reversed to not get sued) version of a horn from the film "The Unforgiven" (completely unrelated btw) Also the album self named album "Metallica" is the Black Album

Best explanation of this song I ever heard thanks man brilliant

Your musical instincts are amazing

You're the only one I've seen who interprets the lyrics. It means a lot

If you're looking for new Metallica I'd recommend "All Nightmare Long"

@SgtJones-tz1sq

4 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah bro I’ve been trying to get him to do All Nightmare Long since the beginning.

"Metallica" is the name of their so called "black album". Self-titled. And this song is part of a trilogy and best doing them consecutively.

I have never heard anyone who reacts with such understanding and in-depth. I mean, thank you, I heard this one so many times, but it's like I'm hearing the song first time with you.

Beautiful song !!!🎶🎶🎶 Reaction 👍👍👍 !!! Thank you very much !!! 🍀

This is James’ favorite song in their catalogue.

Forst one down, #2 and #3 left to go I always love your interpretations of things. Something I've heard a thousand times and you have a different view than I ever came up with

Great reaction man. Would love to see you react to Metallica 'Moth into Flame". Incredible song

Metallica - Wherever I May Roam

One of my favorites off the Black album.. James's voice is awesome here.

Thanks to returning to some classic Rock/Metal, Dave! Looking forward to more.

Metal is all about emotion. The solos in particular emote images.

The god that failed is definitely one you should check out!

You have got to do Metallica's "To Live is to Die"!!! It's A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!!! You'll love to disect it! It's all of Cliff Burton's stuff he was working on before he died. The guys put it all together and made an A-M-A-Z-I-N-G track of it all!! You really need to do this!!!!

@whatitdodave

3 жыл бұрын

Already done! kzread.info/dash/bejne/eGGDlZZ9crPMn8o.html All my Metallica reactions. kzread.info/head/PLG217Y9Pofu5hs4Ged1MNFPt-JVcx_mqq

The "Black" album is the self titled album this song came from

Great insight man, thanks for sharing your thoughts with us! Those drums at the end hit HARD. I especially like that double-tap at at the 10:00 mark of your video that then cascades down. Like you said, sometimes the instruments tell just as much of the story as the lyrics.

Wow Dave! That was the best reaction to this song, I have heard. As a fellow musician and metal head, I appreciate how thorough you are. I was subscribed to your other channel and just hit the subscribe button for your new one. There is always such substance and insight to your reactions. Keep doing what you do! Have you heard Metallica s&m 1 and 2? They played with the San Francisco symphony for 2 concerts. Michael Kamen (conductor of the symphony, musical director, and Metallica fan) took Metallica's music and built and orchestral score around it. Even writing new songs for those specific concerts. Absolutely stunning. My favorite song(s) of those 2 concerts is from the first concert. "The Thing That Should Not Be". From there Kirk Hammit does this amazing transition into the song "Fuel" it gives me chills every single time. It is worth a listen

The album is The Black Album, which is also a self titled album called 'Metallica'.

This song came off of the ‘Black Album’ it’s self titled but because of the all black album cover, people just refer to it as the ‘Black Album’ 👍👍🤘🔥

Great dissection. I took it both ways too.

Awesome video man. Your really insightful.

just subbed.keep doin Metallica

Unforgiven II next ; )

Before 1991, Metallica had long bridges + songs more than 5 minutes Bob Rock era. No key change. No change in tempo. Improvement in bass guitar + in voices. 🤟

Its the best battle

Just found you man. Thanks for all this work.

Symphony X- Evolution!

The opening horn was actually a french horns recording played backwards.

Something different you can react to is blood and bone fight scenes. One of them is slower paced but it’s like that to really show the skill of each fighter

Slayer - Bitter Peace, it’s all i need

Would love to see a reaction to moth into flame by Metallica great song from their newer album, keep up the great work 👍

Please react to the s&m2 version of nothing else matters!!

Watch the part of the documentary where the producer Bob Rock is shitting all over Kirk about not being able to come up with a solo for this song, then he melts faces....pretty awesome...the whole documentary of the making of the Black album is great

Next you should react to is unforgiven 2 and 3 😍

Now im here

Metallica - Halo on Fire (official music video) off of the new album

Most reactors stop the song to say nothing other than "i like what they did there", cause of course they know not liking Metallica is bad for business. You actually try to get it, and not only are you trying to get it, you are spot on time and time again. When I listened to these songs for the first time in the 90s I just thought they were cool sounding, didn't know about the depth of em. We should all strive to be a bit more What I doish!

@iamtheresurrection7221

3 жыл бұрын

If I have ONE critisim, it's "guitarlos" haha! Never heard it before and in my mind these are the solos to end all solos, therefore they should be called simply "solos". Nitpicking here though, make nothing of it homie!

@whatitdodave

3 жыл бұрын

I like to call then guitar-los instead of guitar solo cause I think it’s funny, that’s all.

@iamtheresurrection7221

3 жыл бұрын

@@whatitdodave I just found it man, thanks dude! That's my night done then

@iamtheresurrection7221

3 жыл бұрын

@@whatitdodave Haha I get it, and you should keep doing it

Nice reaction!!, pls do, "don't tread on me" next!!

To "dub thee Unforgiven" is to dub someone other than yourself Unforgiven. This is a common mistake for people first listening to this song, partly because he is using a very old form of language (his father used to read the Bible to his family before bed). So yes, this song is indeed about how he (James Hetfield) was raised into a certain religion wherein he was alienated from the young kids he grew up with, and he dubs his parents (specifically though, his father and the religion) Unforgiven for causing him to grow up and become someone he wasn't meant to be.

@whatitdodave

4 жыл бұрын

I feel like I said that it was either or in the video. To dub yourself or someone else.

@JoeBlythe

4 жыл бұрын

@@whatitdodave Yep, you did. Just thought I'd help confirm it for you, if you hadn't figured it out already. I love your reaction vids man. Keep doing what you're doing!!

@dylankopff7139

4 жыл бұрын

Wow genius explanation

Hi man can you react to sobreviviré with Monica Naranjo live concert

the black album

1991 ;-)

Think about it. Never free never me, so I dub thee unforgiven (i.e. Yourself) (shouldn't be)

The corruption of a child’s innocence, a child's own mind & a child's uniqueness.... Metallica’s “Comfortable Numb” basically.... Lol....

React to goku vs naruto rap battle by ssj9k

Album name is Metallica but the fans call it the black album

REACT TO PENKYX VS TUINEB

Self entitled album. Metallica. The black album. That's what this album is.

@bobbythies8892

4 жыл бұрын

Self titled * sorry not self entitled. I don't know what I was thinking lol

What does it do? Necessarily listens to Metallica-- but stick to the 80's if we're being serious; some of that perfection was maybe diluted after the early 90's.

@martos60

4 жыл бұрын

Stop saying shit like this to people who get into this music, trying to make up their mind about something. Metallica has plenty of amazing stuff from the 90's and later. I might even say that some of their songs from Load and ReLoad are one of their best ever (Bleeding me, Outlaw torn, Fixxxer etc. )

@nupraptorthementalist3306

4 жыл бұрын

@@martos60 Well, whatever. Reaction channels are, dare I say, something of an apparent escape from the on-going political psychoses. 80's Metallica is objectively and veridically High Art, regardless.

@nupraptorthementalist3306

4 жыл бұрын

@@martos60 We don't consider Load and Reload and the similar as obviously cannon; it's certainly not quintessential. I'm one of those 80's Metallica idk, Absolutists? So fucking What?

@kimnora53

4 жыл бұрын

@@martos60 Agreed. bleeding me and fixxxer were amazing songs. some of their best work