Legendary Rock Songs: ONE: METALLICA.
Hello my people I hope you are all super well, today friends I present this editorial of one of my favorite rock bands and which calls it the metal machine, it can not be other than METALLICA, so I hope you enjoy this report and the song which we are going to try.
Theme:ONE.
Disc:…And Justice For All.
Year:1988.
If not their compositional peak, “One” undoubtedly represents the most complex and epic Metallica. “And Justice For All” (to this day 8 million copies sold in the USA alone) was a turning point in the career of the San Francisco band, which took a step away from the bloodthirsty and relentless thrash metal of their beginnings and put their more ambitious and progressive side into action.
Nine songs of great length and musical conceptions of great dimension that saw the debut of the new bassist Jason Newsted, although his work is almost inaudible in the album due to its hermetic production. “One”, fourth cut of that monumental album, was an unexpected but long-awaited hit. The famous video was filmed for it with images from the movie “Johnny Got His Rifle”, when the band declared years before that they would never record a videoclip.
The song, which is something like the “Stairway To Heaven” of the four horsemen, was the first of the quartet to enter the top 40, something not common for a seven and a half minute song full of rhythm changes and intensity, how did they do it? By releasing a shorter radio edit where, as it usually happens in these cases, they ate part of the solos.
The distant sound of war artillery and a helicopter in the purest “Apocalypsis Now” style mark the beginning of the song, while Hetfield makes a nice arpeggio of clean and crystalline sound, creating an almost melancholic atmosphere. The melody progresses with Lars Ulrich flaunting his virtues until James gives a deep voice to the anti-war tale. Based, as it has already been intuited, on the main character of the novel “Johnny Got His Gun” by Dalton Trumbo, “One” tells the tormented story of a soldier deprived by a bomb of his limbs all his senses except touch, he can only externalize all his fears and pain by doing morse code with his head, it is a plea in favor of euthanasia.
As the minutes progress the theme becomes wild, as if the character remembered the battle and the watts of the band machine-gunned, with an indefatigable Ulrich and an orgy of thrash guitars at full volume and distortion that fleetingly shoot their ammunition in a fit of maniacal madness, leading to a climax of true ecstasy. Hammett stands out as a true electric artist and as one of the great metal soloists without underestimating Hetfield's enormous work on rhythm, and the result is a tremendous condensation of power, highly vibrant and suggestive. Quite a metal epic.
Due to its mastery and its ability to overwhelm the hardest of their followers, “One”, third and last single of the album, became one of the favorite compositions of Metallica's fans, who adopted it as a true anthem. Surely more than one was heartbroken when the band decided to dispense with it in its still recent download Madrid in the last tour of “St. Anger”, because it is also usually the time chosen in the shows of the group to deploy the pyrotechnics, causing that feeling of being in the trench surrounded by enemy fire that transmits this incisive ode to metal.
Well, my people, thank you for reading me and I hope you like this report of this incredible song that I am sharing with you, it is one of the most legendary songs of this band. A thousand blessings to all.
