Watching Lex when she hears a riff she really likes is like watching a kid in a giant candy store or a giant toy store, her reaction is so innocent and exuberant that it always brings a smile to my face, thank you!!!
Diamondhead wrote the song, in the Heavy Metal Britannia documentary, one of the band members thanks Metallica for covering it, as they still get good royalties from the cover. Such a great song!
@@MrJeddYoung Jedd are you not happy in life in general? My comment was a compliment for Lex and not a knock at Brad. It was more a rhetorical question. How about not assuming the negative in someone that you’ve never met ?
I love seeing Lex get so happy when she hears a great riff. Even when she’s like the guitar is like a piano on the up and down notes. She was born to be a rock chick!
Just picture a bleak Ohio winter's day, overcast skies. Drinking beer and smoking weed in the parking lot of our high school. Mullets and metal. Listening to the kill 'em all album on cassette. 6x9 speakers blaring in the Malibu classic. Almost 40 years later. It's still hypes me up. LOL
I was right there with ya, only no mullet and in Indiana - all my hair was long, front and back. Metallica, Maiden, Ozzy, Motley Crue, Van Halen, Def Leppard, Dio, Dokken, AC/DC, Ratt, KISS - all of it made the early and mid 80s a great time to be alive!
There's an amazing live performance of this cover that features Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax aka The Big Four all on stage at the same time!
Yup, there is, and I was there 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻 The Seek and Destroy version Metallica did then was epic too! It was a great 2-day event (Sonisphere Festival 2010) w many bands; day 2 - Rammstein were headliners.
Back in the day this stuff was so ahead of it’s time. Parents were scared shitless of this stuff and so much of it was inaccessible making it that much more mysterious and captivating. No internet in those days. You were lucky to get a tape depending on where you lived. Was sooo cool and an exciting time for this genre of music.
@@stridersmythe8860 hahahaha! I brought GNR Appetite into Sunday school. It became the discussion for class… how they all literally worship the devil with alters and the whole nine yards.
I had a great school teacher who gave me tapes of loads of great stuff all through high school. Metallica, type o negative, paradise lost, machine head, rob zombie. Salute to you Mr Johnson.
Lmao! Yeah, I remember a neighbor kid inviting me to church with his family one time in Mississippi... I must've been around 11 or 12. As soon as we arrived they put all of us kids in to a separate room for "Sunday youth studies", or some such shit. Anyways, this guy starts going on about how Satan was literally speaking to us through all of the popular music of the time. The biggest offender in his eyes were Motley Crue, of course lol. He went off for a good 45 minutes on everyone from Ozzy, to Madonna, to Led Zeppelin - he even tried playing "Stairway to Heaven" backwards on a turntable to illustrate how the devil was hypnotizing us through hidden messages in the music 🤣. But for some reason Motley Crue had him in the biggest twist. I mean, this guy was absolutely terrified of them! He was sweating profusely and kept blotting his forehead with a handkerchief as he yelled at us. He ended his little seminar by holding up a brand new copy of the Motley album "Theater of Pain" (because it had a scary pentagram on the cover 😂), and we all had to follow him outside to stand in a circle and pray while he burned the album in a barrel behind the church, along with a few others from AC/DC, Culture Club, and Nazareth. Such a strange mix of artists - I remember it like it was yesterday. On our ride home afterwards I remember the kid's father asking me how much I had enjoyed the experience of visiting their church, and we proceeded to tell him what we had witnessed. He apparently had absolutely no idea what they were teaching the children while the adults weren't around, but he thought it was GREAT. I had rarely been to church at all, and had certainly never been to a Southern Baptist church before, and I was SO full of questions, which kind of aggravated him - I guess I was supposed to just fall in line, so to speak. Even at that young age I was trying to poke holes in the "lessons" of the day... I mean, these were some of my favorite artists, and I suppose I was kind of offended in my own little 6th-grader kind of way lmao. Not so much because of what the guy had said about the music - I mean, the stuff that scared them so badly was the exact stuff that I LIKED about the music! But it was the burning of a perfectly good record that pissed me off the most, I think haha! On that ride home the kid's Mom seemed to know a lot more about that guest "youth speaker", and she had apparently been instrumental in bringing the guy there to teach the kids about the dangers of popular music. Looking back now, it makes since that THAT was the first (and only) day that I had been invited to join them for church service. You see, I was that kid who wore Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath shirts to middle school, and it was freaking out the parents in the neighborhood. They didn't want their little Timmy hanging around the likes of me! Funny, because I was an honor roll student, and a pretty respectful kid, for the most part. 🙄 I think the breaking point was when I pointed out that the guy had to PURCHASE those albums to burn them, because they were brand new lol. So really they were supporting the bands that they were going on and on about! I was a little too young to come up with that on my own, so I must have been regurgitating some talking points that I'd seen on tv or something - "devil music" was a really big deal at the time. But it steamed the father up pretty good, and needless to say I was never invited back to church with them again. Funny, I don't even remember that kid's name, but that day sure left an imprint on me! That kid wasn't allowed to play with me anymore 😕 Shit, I haven't thought about that day in a looooong time!! And people wonder why I grew up to be atheist 🤷♂️
Lex watching YOU, makes me want to go back 32 years and experience the absolute JOY I had experiencing this for the first time again! YOU are making me fall in absolute love with my metal genre of music all over again! Thank you!!!!
The original is done by the British band Diamond Head, so you kinda have to take this as a bit of a history lesson. Man (as in mankind) has done some horrendous shit throughout the ages, so Man asks himself “am I evil?” and answers “Yes I am, I am man”.
I spoke to Sean Harris in 2002, and he told me it was more specifically about a particular serial killer. I always took it as the revenge of a village kid whose mother was the victim of a witch trial.
I love watching Lex's reactions to songs that I grew up with! After so many years it's like I almost take these songs for granted. Seeing her exuberance and energy and excitement, it's like I get to experience them again for the first time. Thank you for that.
Lex is turning hardcore metal great reaction. Brad will be sleeping with the light on. Brad's reaction is actually a sound track, Dazed and Confused. love watching these two.
@@nickcrisp7252 it's the first stage of metal madness.Don't you remember? It's like a drug.Early on you always take to much at once and it makes you a little crazy until you build a tolerance to it. lol
1984 I had this EP along with Creeping Death and Blitzkrieg on cassette. This song got me into Metallica in HS. Seeing Lex is like lookin'; in a mirror with a 38 year reflective delay :P
Yes Lex, there are rock/heavy metal “musicals”. You’ve reacted to some songs from them. They’re known as Concept albums. Tommy - The Who, Pink Floyd- The Wall and Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime. Tommy and Operation Mindcrime are literally rock operas. Which brings me to this: Mercyful Fate/ King Diamond. King Diamond does what could be described as heavy metal, horror, operas like “Them”, or “Abigail”, an absolute must for Halloween. It’s hard to make a first time recommendation, most people start with the song “Sleepless Nights”. Can’t wait for Savatage!
Diamondhead was the original artist that did this song. Lex, your soundtrack is definitely metal with a lot of guitar solos and thunderous drums. Theres another cover Metallica did Green Hell by the Misfits 👍🤘😎🤘
I think Lex would love Metallica's cover of "The Small Hours" from Garage Days Re-revisited. Starts off clean with some effects, then adds pounding drums, and finally that chunky, heavy guitar riff. I've always liked that song. "Helpless" would be another good one for her, too.
Cannot get over the fact Brad hears the lyrics first and Lex hears the tune first. It’s sometimes like they’re reacting to different songs! Intriguingly addictive.
Observes the beginning of truly advanced headbanging protocols...the sideways chin nod, the double dip... *sniffs* Our little Lex is growing up so fast...
Lex’s honesty and enthusiasm reminds me of how hearing these songs for the first time made me feel. Makes me go back and listen to my favorites with new excitement! Thanks!!!
@@eazye519 it's an exact copy, the vocals on the original one have much more variety and are many leagues above James' singing during this period of his life. He went to a vocal coach only after the release of Master of Puppets if I'm not mistaken.
That was awesome- Brad said "I was gonna ask what's goin on" & Lex just says "METAL"......AAAAAHHH THAT WAS THE BEST ANSWER EVER!!!! SHE IS A TOTAL METAL HEAD- IF NOT A TOTAL METALLICA FAN THRU & THRU! It would be SO much fun to go see Metallica live with those 2!
I've never been so happy I subscribed to a RUclips channel😁. You're both so cool. I once wrote, "Am I evil? I am mad yes I am" on a work place white board. Boss wasn't happy, but a couple friends knew it was me because I was the only metal head there. Laughed their heads off. You'd never have known I was a complete thrashed like Lex said. But I'm not evil really.
Wish badly there was a Metallica or Diamond Head reaction to this reaction to see. Lex is so friggin' hilarious & I love seeing Brad's reaction to her comments. Fun to watch their musical journey and discoveries.
not only their cover is mesmerizing, making it like one of their very best songs, but also I'm baffled by the sound, it sounds even better than their albums at the time.
That's because they didn't try to get too clever with it. They said themselves that this whole recording was done in the time it took to set the mics up for Ride The Lightning. Imo it sounds better than most of their other recordings,especially And Justice For All.
@@jeffreycherep8264 I do agree! I love how sound lightning and puppets each in its own way, but garage days (i mean am i evil/blitzkieg) and garage days revisited sound waaaay better than justice! And I think Am i evil/blitzkrieg sounds better than any 80s albums, but that's personal.
DiamondHead (who wrote this song) recently re-issued Lightning To The Nations, the album quite a few songs Metallica covered are on (Am I Evil, The Prince, Helpless). They also have their own cover of Metallica's No Remorse on that album. Great band who I'm hoping to go see next month.
"oh, heavy, I like it, metal" love ya Lex and so nice Brad gets you - "you were totally born for this". Saw Jinjer last night in Seattle, got to get you two to a concert
Lexies eyes are wide opened now, and the world has never sounded better! Love her reactions as she has multiple eargasms all while Brad is just chill, soaking it all in but struggling to understand the plot of the song. Great old Diamond Head band cover by Metallica. Nightwish is the best musical Metal Opera out there right now. The vocalist FLoor Jansen is considered the GOAT female vocalist ever in Rock!
Did she just say "What's the soundtrack of your energy?" Fricken hilarious!!!! Congrats on getting vision for the 1st time. True story: My neighbors kid was an overweight, couch potato. His mom asked me if I could help him. So we started lifting weight. He struggled with it big time, until 1 day I introduced him to Metallica/Metal. A year later he's a full blown head banger that looks like Mr. Olympia. I guess I found the soundtrack of his energy. We'll said girl!!
Diamondhead's version is definitely worth a listen. Have you guys done "Battery" or "Damage Inc." yet by Metallica? Oh and you should do the Unforgiven trilogy.
Love to see Metallica! A recommendation for a Metallica song Brad would 100% love is “The God That Failed”. It’s slow, groovy, heavy and is lyrically deep. Also it’s from the 1991 Black Album with co existing songs you guys previously reacted to such as “Enter Sandman” “Wherever I May Roam” and “Nothing else Matters”.
Let me be the millionth person to tell Brad how lucky he is. Lex is so fun, count your blessings dude, my girl over here listening to country and crap pop, I'm so close to killing myself, and you have her. The world's just not fair. Haha
Lex was a lower-class white teenage boy from the 80's in a different life. She digs this music the same way we did: an interesting combination of intellectual analysis and IDGAF-ness. I love it!!
"I thought musicals were for kids" lmao Brad has so much to learn and to be honest, he might not have the capacity to appreciate all of the noise that this channel gets
Hip hop heads are so obsessed with lyrics and understanding the 100% of them everytime they hear a song, and they forget to enjoy the music. Just relax more and live the metal music, like her! Cheers!
It's funny that lex said the intro was orchestral, because it actually is. The intro up until the mini solo transition is Mars, Bringer of war by Holst. There are a few bands that use it in songs.
It's always fun to witness the birthing of a new Metalhead. Especially as I'm now too decrepit to even headbang ( many years of metal gigs and music have taken a heavy toll ). It's good to see youngsters coming up through the ranks!
Lex, you described me perfectly. I was never in to music much, just none of it sounded that good to me. Then one day we moved to Dallas, TX, and I found a station called zz rock or z rock, something like that, and they played metal. I had never heard it before, it changed my life. I know exactly how you feel when you say you found metal.
Brad you have an inept ability to pause at all the wrong times, but I appreciate your desire to want to sit back and want to analyze everything. But I gotta say when you paused right before the solo and asked lex for her thoughts I laughed hard at her initial response... What's your thoughts on what's going on - METAL 😂.
This is hands down the best reaction channel out there. With is unshakable calm, and her head banging fire, yep I really like it... And yes, no way any random person passing her on the street would guess the soundtrack play in that, oh so easy to look at head
For "metal musicals" you'll want to seek out concept albums, typically from progressive metal bands. "Operation: Mindcrime" by Queensryche is probably one of the best known. There are a couple "singles" from the album but it definitely deserves a front to back listening to.
Dammmn, I hope you appreciate what an awesome woman you have beside you Brad. This was one of the Metallica’s first songs I ever heard and got me hooked when I was 16. If only my mrs would react the same way as Lex when I put them on… Lex, you’re every metal heads dream girl come true 🥳🤘
Metallica's brand of thrash metal was essentially playing Venom's brand of black metal, but tightening it up, and with less of a Hammer Horror influence. That's why I always tell people that thrash metal was born out of black metal, not the other way around. Sadly, too many poseurs heard Cradle Of Filth or Mayhem first, so they think Venom aren't black metal.
The great thing is seeing those that have been around other genres of music doing these type of reaction videos. It's fun to see those now hearing the actual musicianship that goes into this style of music.
This song is a cover. The original is from Diamond Head, but Metallica's version kills it. Speaking of Operas, check out Sebastian Back in Broadway's Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. He plays the lead role and kills it singing.
Hey kids!! How goes it? I have been watching you guys for about a year now and have finally subscribed, or should I say, prescribed. Both of you are real awesome, down to earth people and surely a dose of genuine positivity. I love watching both of you dissect the context of the literary art put to music. Lex is the child who is in awe of their surroundings and tickled pink with the newness of exploration. a gift and a treasure she surely is. Brad, do not ever let a day go by that you forget to appreciate her. Brad is more of the intellectual when it comes to music and I am sure with life in general. great quality as well cuz that is because that is without a doubt my operating platform. Do not ever get like these other reaction channels where they talk you to death with drivel before getting to it. Oh, on a funny note, I am very grateful that someone had to mention the over zealous squeels and hoots and hollers of the excitable one!! Lol. Peace and many blessings always!!
This is SO cool to watch!! The reaction looks so familiar to my own. And how I react every single time I have seen Metallica live. Horns up, girl!!! You are awesome. From one metal chick to another. \m/
My all-time fave review of yalls so far. I love how Brads so deep into figuring out the message/story...while Lex is lost in the riffs and energy of the song. Her point about inner soundtracks and aura...I get it 100%. Ive always had a knack for sniffin out other metalheads when I meet them. 6:37 "metal". Yes maam! As 50+yr old metal head...that main riff is probably my all time fave. So sinister. So nasty.
Should check out Metallica's S&M that was done in San Francisco where they play with a full symphony orchestra. Then they did it again with S&M 2 which I think was also in California just a few years back. And yes, they play Metallica song with the orchestra.
Ok first of all now Brad has me too consumed with the lyrics....I've always been more like Lex just going with the vibe! Secondly I am convinced Lex NEEDS OZZY SOLO in her life now!!! Randy Rhodes and more Tool and White Zombie! What a rocker!
Brad: "What is this about?"
Lex: "Metal."
Brad has no idea how lucky he is.
@@PanzerblitzRnR yep
Lex has this shit on lock while our boy Brad is dazed and confused! \m/ lol
Good song from diamond head, Metallica did a great cover
Diamondhead were the original artist for this song.
Watching Lex when she hears a riff she really likes is like watching a kid in a giant candy store or a giant toy store, her reaction is so innocent and exuberant that it always brings a smile to my face, thank you!!!
I couldn't agree more! Well put 🎸🎸🎸
We all need a "Lex" in our lives!
Used to be cool. It’s just annoying now.
She really needs to sit down behind a drum kit.
You are so right she needs to go too a good rock concert she would really fit in
Brad is like the old dad driving his car while lex is rocking out in the back saying put it louder
Diamondhead wrote the song, in the Heavy Metal Britannia documentary, one of the band members thanks Metallica for covering it, as they still get good royalties from the cover.
Such a great song!
I'm just watching this and was trying to remember who originally sang this thanks.
I was in high school when the Diamond Head Version was released. Good Times!!!!!!!
good to hear DH gets paid for the cover!
Metallica did an amazing job with this , then again , all their covers are great
Lex definitely has fallen hard for metal. That girl NEEDS to get to a GOOD metal concert in a major way!!
Yeah she does, get her in front of the stage where she can feel it. I would love to see her reaction to that.
Good luck finding a decent metal show these days.
@@hmpz36911 KoRn
@@gashthrasher_8976 boy hell naw
Slayer or Judas Priest…. Both a bit long in tooth, but they still bring the energy, and the audience still responds the same!
Anyone else wonder if Brad realizes just how lucky he is to have Lex?
I am sure he knows!
He knows. but only just.
I've never seen a girl look any better in a leather jacket and Slayer shirt.
You make your own luck in life. She's with him for a reason and it isn't luck. So are you not happy with your girl or something ?
@@MrJeddYoung Jedd are you not happy in life in general? My comment was a compliment for Lex and not a knock at Brad. It was more a rhetorical question. How about not assuming the negative in someone that you’ve never met ?
brad "so whats going on" lex "grrr, metal" ... hell ya!!
I love seeing Lex get so happy when she hears a great riff. Even when she’s like the guitar is like a piano on the up and down notes. She was born to be a rock chick!
Brad: “There’s a whole Metal world that we don’t know about.”
Lex: in a flash…*Eyes fill with exuberance, wonder and anticipatory METAL delight* 💜🤘🏻
Just picture a bleak Ohio winter's day, overcast skies. Drinking beer and smoking weed in the parking lot of our high school. Mullets and metal. Listening to the kill 'em all album on cassette. 6x9 speakers blaring in the Malibu classic. Almost 40 years later. It's still hypes me up. LOL
Nky here... Don't even need to imagine it I lived it too brother! Albeit a little later than you...
Miss them ohio days
I was right there with ya, only no mullet and in Indiana - all my hair was long, front and back. Metallica, Maiden, Ozzy, Motley Crue, Van Halen, Def Leppard, Dio, Dokken, AC/DC, Ratt, KISS - all of it made the early and mid 80s a great time to be alive!
He'll yea, an ready to stomp ass.
It was a dark and grey rural Indiana day after the crops had come down, blaring this in my IROC before school. Still had my mullet though
When she grunted "oooo, I like it!" my heart started shedding tears of joy and pride. :)
Oh my God, Brad is so lucky- Lex is so effing fun, smart and hot. She is the coolest!
BINGO
Her enthusiasm is infectious. She's really fun to watch.. just as entertaining is the looks that he gives her LOL
Brad you are living with a total metal chick, who was metal before she even knew it...love it!
This song is literally the subatomic particle of all heavy metal universe….. so you dig the core
There's an amazing live performance of this cover that features Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax aka The Big Four all on stage at the same time!
Slayer didnt perform it it wss the other 3, they didnt think am evil was the right song to do so they didnt do it
@@chilledaussie7666 There’s literally a video of them performing this lol.
@@Ryan-sb5pc the big 4 dvd i have that was filmed in sofia slayer wasnt in the performance ,if they did it else where i didn't see it
Yup, there is, and I was there 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻 The Seek and Destroy version Metallica did then was epic too! It was a great 2-day event (Sonisphere Festival 2010) w many bands; day 2 - Rammstein were headliners.
@@danielsimeonov3504 ill have to look it up , didnt know ,thanks 🤘😎🤘
"It's like piano on electric guitar"
She knows what she's talking about.
Yeh....the original tune and riff came from a classical tune that Diamondhead picked up from...Lex has a keen ear!!❤
@@darrenaurisch2707 Gustav Holst's "Mars - The Bringer Of War". It's been influencing metal since the beginning.
This is the most wholesome reaction to metal possible. It’s exactly what metal is supposed to be, imho. A happy escape from the mundane.
Back in the day this stuff was so ahead of it’s time. Parents were scared shitless of this stuff and so much of it was inaccessible making it that much more mysterious and captivating. No internet in those days. You were lucky to get a tape depending on where you lived. Was sooo cool and an exciting time for this genre of music.
I got" kill em all" off a burn pile at a church , ha ha
@@stridersmythe8860 hahahaha! I brought GNR Appetite into Sunday school. It became the discussion for class… how they all literally worship the devil with alters and the whole nine yards.
I had to buy the "Creeping Death" record to have this song back in the day (85???). Had Am I Evil? and Blitzkrieg on it.
I had a great school teacher who gave me tapes of loads of great stuff all through high school. Metallica, type o negative, paradise lost, machine head, rob zombie. Salute to you Mr Johnson.
Lmao! Yeah, I remember a neighbor kid inviting me to church with his family one time in Mississippi... I must've been around 11 or 12. As soon as we arrived they put all of us kids in to a separate room for "Sunday youth studies", or some such shit. Anyways, this guy starts going on about how Satan was literally speaking to us through all of the popular music of the time. The biggest offender in his eyes were Motley Crue, of course lol. He went off for a good 45 minutes on everyone from Ozzy, to Madonna, to Led Zeppelin - he even tried playing "Stairway to Heaven" backwards on a turntable to illustrate how the devil was hypnotizing us through hidden messages in the music 🤣. But for some reason Motley Crue had him in the biggest twist. I mean, this guy was absolutely terrified of them! He was sweating profusely and kept blotting his forehead with a handkerchief as he yelled at us. He ended his little seminar by holding up a brand new copy of the Motley album "Theater of Pain" (because it had a scary pentagram on the cover 😂), and we all had to follow him outside to stand in a circle and pray while he burned the album in a barrel behind the church, along with a few others from AC/DC, Culture Club, and Nazareth. Such a strange mix of artists - I remember it like it was yesterday.
On our ride home afterwards I remember the kid's father asking me how much I had enjoyed the experience of visiting their church, and we proceeded to tell him what we had witnessed. He apparently had absolutely no idea what they were teaching the children while the adults weren't around, but he thought it was GREAT. I had rarely been to church at all, and had certainly never been to a Southern Baptist church before, and I was SO full of questions, which kind of aggravated him - I guess I was supposed to just fall in line, so to speak. Even at that young age I was trying to poke holes in the "lessons" of the day... I mean, these were some of my favorite artists, and I suppose I was kind of offended in my own little 6th-grader kind of way lmao. Not so much because of what the guy had said about the music - I mean, the stuff that scared them so badly was the exact stuff that I LIKED about the music! But it was the burning of a perfectly good record that pissed me off the most, I think haha! On that ride home the kid's Mom seemed to know a lot more about that guest "youth speaker", and she had apparently been instrumental in bringing the guy there to teach the kids about the dangers of popular music. Looking back now, it makes since that THAT was the first (and only) day that I had been invited to join them for church service. You see, I was that kid who wore Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath shirts to middle school, and it was freaking out the parents in the neighborhood. They didn't want their little Timmy hanging around the likes of me! Funny, because I was an honor roll student, and a pretty respectful kid, for the most part. 🙄
I think the breaking point was when I pointed out that the guy had to PURCHASE those albums to burn them, because they were brand new lol. So really they were supporting the bands that they were going on and on about! I was a little too young to come up with that on my own, so I must have been regurgitating some talking points that I'd seen on tv or something - "devil music" was a really big deal at the time. But it steamed the father up pretty good, and needless to say I was never invited back to church with them again. Funny, I don't even remember that kid's name, but that day sure left an imprint on me!
That kid wasn't allowed to play with me anymore 😕 Shit, I haven't thought about that day in a looooong time!! And people wonder why I grew up to be atheist 🤷♂️
Lex watching YOU, makes me want to go back 32 years and experience the absolute JOY I had experiencing this for the first time again! YOU are making me fall in absolute love with my metal genre of music all over again! Thank you!!!!
Lex has discovered she's a Metal Head/ Head Banger!
The original is done by the British band Diamond Head, so you kinda have to take this as a bit of a history lesson. Man (as in mankind) has done some horrendous shit throughout the ages, so Man asks himself “am I evil?” and answers “Yes I am, I am man”.
I spoke to Sean Harris in 2002, and he told me it was more specifically about a particular serial killer. I always took it as the revenge of a village kid whose mother was the victim of a witch trial.
Really nice interpretations it's definitely a Revenge song!
Lex and Brad are very lucky when you think about it...
The joy of discovery, you know?
So cool to see...
😁🤘🤘🤘
I love watching Lex's reactions to songs that I grew up with! After so many years it's like I almost take these songs for granted. Seeing her exuberance and energy and excitement, it's like I get to experience them again for the first time. Thank you for that.
This song is so good that every time I hear it is like the first time hearing it.
OMG. hahaha this is the best reaction! Lex's enthusiasm and Brad's confused interest in her enthusiasm is priceless.
Lex is turning hardcore metal great reaction. Brad will be sleeping with the light on. Brad's reaction is actually a sound track, Dazed and Confused. love watching these two.
Brad cracking me up when he just moves his eyes over at Lex like " man she be tripping"🤣🤣🤣
I love how Lex gets it and gravitates toward this genre, she's so fun!
I'm surprised Brad isn't holding up crucifixes in Lex's direction when she gets possessed by those riffs. Too funny.
shes hilarious asf 👌
Lex …take it down a notch …I think you’re starting to, legitimately, scare Brad 😆
Where did the sweet, cute little Lex go? lol
😆😆🤘🏻🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@starrdemerest2156 😈😈😈😈😈
@@nickcrisp7252 it's the first stage of metal madness.Don't you remember? It's like a drug.Early on you always take to much at once and it makes you a little crazy until you build a tolerance to it. lol
@@nickcrisp7252 metal
One of their best songs. great reaction. Lex is like the most coolest wonderful chicks Id ever love to hang out with.
Perfect couple. I can’t stop moving to metal either and my wife is like Brad. Opposites do attract and makes us a perfect couple.
Love the Lex "oooh" she should have a T-shirt that says "oooh".
Metallica’s covers even slam! This is a classic and love seeing Lex digging on those riffs!
1984 I had this EP along with Creeping Death and Blitzkrieg on cassette. This song got me into Metallica in HS. Seeing Lex is like lookin'; in a mirror with a 38 year reflective delay :P
Too bad it's not a Metallica song
@@yarik14 Nope. Diamond Head. And Blitzkrieg was originally by Blitzkrieg. Metallica covered a lot at the start.
Yes Lex, there are rock/heavy metal “musicals”. You’ve reacted to some songs from them. They’re known as Concept albums. Tommy - The Who, Pink Floyd- The Wall and Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime. Tommy and Operation Mindcrime are literally rock operas. Which brings me to this: Mercyful Fate/ King Diamond. King Diamond does what could be described as heavy metal, horror, operas like “Them”, or “Abigail”, an absolute must for Halloween. It’s hard to make a first time recommendation, most people start with the song “Sleepless Nights”.
Can’t wait for Savatage!
The Crimson Idol by W.A.S.P. is a good one.
Lex said something which I relate when I found about metal. "It's like having vision for the first time". Well said, lady. :-)
Diamondhead was the original artist that did this song. Lex, your soundtrack is definitely metal with a lot of guitar solos and thunderous drums. Theres another cover Metallica did Green Hell by the Misfits 👍🤘😎🤘
They should also check out Diamond Head covering Metallica! They recently covered Metallica's No Remorse and it is pretty kick-ass! :-D
@@KabukiKid o yeah I forgot they did that lol yeah most definitely 👍 😅
I think Lex would love Metallica's cover of "The Small Hours" from Garage Days Re-revisited. Starts off clean with some effects, then adds pounding drums, and finally that chunky, heavy guitar riff. I've always liked that song. "Helpless" would be another good one for her, too.
@@jasonhitchcock8911 I think she would love their garage days stuff 👍
Cannot get over the fact Brad hears the lyrics first and Lex hears the tune first. It’s sometimes like they’re reacting to different songs! Intriguingly addictive.
Observes the beginning of truly advanced headbanging protocols...the sideways chin nod, the double dip...
*sniffs*
Our little Lex is growing up so fast...
There is just some music that scratches that itch better than others and we found what scratches Lex's itch for sure. LOL
If there were more “Lex’s” in this world, I’d be married.
Amen brother🤘🏻
Yep!
PREACH!
Lex’s honesty and enthusiasm reminds me of how hearing these songs for the first time made me feel. Makes me go back and listen to my favorites with new excitement! Thanks!!!
Lex, you’re starting to get it. Am I evil has such a catchy rift and it’s hard to the core. And Brad, what can you say bro the dude is evil!! 😂😂😂
You gotta do "the Prince" and "Breadfan" both epic b-sides
Great tracks off the Garage Inc. album. I really like the tribute to Merciful Fate off this same album. Absolutely slams.
Breadfan is great! Have no idea what it's about, or most of the lyrics, but damn they belt that song out with some good energy. Blitzkrieg too.
@@chocolate_squiggle - as far as I can tell, 'Breadfan' is about someone who loves money too much. Budgie were a great band!
@@L0stJ0hnny Ironic that Metallica would cover it 🤣
Wow man...he prince is great
You should check out the garage album! It's all cover songs. And then could go back and do the originals
I 2nd this statement.
Breadfan by Budgie
@@brettmoore1302 Absolutely!!!
Yes sir Lex would love it
great idea!
7:55 absolutely love the fact that she and all the rest of us enjoy this part sooo much its truly beautiful
That riff goes so hard. Yes, it does. Hats off to Diamond Head and a fine cover.
This blows the original out of the water
@@eazye519 it's an exact copy, the vocals on the original one have much more variety and are many leagues above James' singing during this period of his life. He went to a vocal coach only after the release of Master of Puppets if I'm not mistaken.
@@yarik14 Metallica absolutely destroys the original
@@eazye519 you're just blinded because they are mainstream. Generally speaking Diamond Head's version knocks Metallica out of the park
@@yarik14 lol no it doesn't. Your comment is illogical.
That was awesome- Brad said "I was gonna ask what's goin on" & Lex just says "METAL"......AAAAAHHH THAT WAS THE BEST ANSWER EVER!!!! SHE IS A TOTAL METAL HEAD- IF NOT A TOTAL METALLICA FAN THRU & THRU! It would be SO much fun to go see Metallica live with those 2!
I love Lex's energy from the metal! You're a true metal head Lex!!
I've never been so happy I subscribed to a RUclips channel😁. You're both so cool. I once wrote, "Am I evil? I am mad yes I am" on a work place white board. Boss wasn't happy, but a couple friends knew it was me because I was the only metal head there. Laughed their heads off. You'd never have known I was a complete thrashed like Lex said. But I'm not evil really.
Wish badly there was a Metallica or Diamond Head reaction to this reaction to see. Lex is so friggin' hilarious & I love seeing Brad's reaction to her comments. Fun to watch their musical journey and discoveries.
Am I Evil was literally .. literally the first ever ever Metallica's song I heard, that was like 30 years-ish ago .. so so good
not only their cover is mesmerizing, making it like one of their very best songs, but also I'm baffled by the sound, it sounds even better than their albums at the time.
That's because they didn't try to get too clever with it. They said themselves that this whole recording was done in the time it took to set the mics up for Ride The Lightning. Imo it sounds better than most of their other recordings,especially And Justice For All.
@@jeffreycherep8264 I do agree! I love how sound lightning and puppets each in its own way, but garage days (i mean am i evil/blitzkieg) and garage days revisited sound waaaay better than justice! And I think Am i evil/blitzkrieg sounds better than any 80s albums, but that's personal.
DiamondHead (who wrote this song) recently re-issued Lightning To The Nations, the album quite a few songs Metallica covered are on (Am I Evil, The Prince, Helpless). They also have their own cover of Metallica's No Remorse on that album. Great band who I'm hoping to go see next month.
"oh, heavy, I like it, metal" love ya Lex and so nice Brad gets you - "you were totally born for this". Saw Jinjer last night in Seattle, got to get you two to a concert
damn Brad never let LEX go , she's got the sweetest, beautiful soul, so fun to watch you guys, GREAT CHANNEL!!
Great reaction as always! Megadeth- In my darkest hour should be next.🤘
Nice one!
we definitely need more megadeth here \m/
@@majam6162 Damn right!!!
Yes, more Megadeth please!
Last Rites/Loved To Deth
Good Mourning/Black Friday
Rattlehead
In My Darkest Hour
She-Wolf
I promise Lex will love these! ❤
Lex, your reaction right at the end, we could see a life changing moment. Thank you letting us watch that beautiful moment in time.
Lex is what every man's dream of a woman should be, and Brad is, well, he's Brad.
😱
Brad is.................................................. Lucky
Brad is analyzing the lyrics and music. I love their dynamic
5:27 Spot the moment Lex becomes possessed, a true metalhead! By far my favourite reaction from this channel.
Lexies eyes are wide opened now, and the world has never sounded better! Love her reactions as she has multiple eargasms all while Brad is just chill, soaking it all in but struggling to understand the plot of the song. Great old Diamond Head band cover by Metallica. Nightwish is the best musical Metal Opera out there right now. The vocalist FLoor Jansen is considered the GOAT female vocalist ever in Rock!
Did she just say "What's the soundtrack of your energy?" Fricken hilarious!!!! Congrats on getting vision for the 1st time. True story: My neighbors kid was an overweight, couch potato. His mom asked me if I could help him. So we started lifting weight. He struggled with it big time, until 1 day I introduced him to Metallica/Metal. A year later he's a full blown head banger that looks like Mr. Olympia. I guess I found the soundtrack of his energy. We'll said girl!!
Diamondhead's version is definitely worth a listen. Have you guys done "Battery" or "Damage Inc." yet by Metallica? Oh and you should do the Unforgiven trilogy.
Diamondhead is way better , Budgie :Breadfan also . Rock On
@@Abraham0031 Breadfan for sure
And Diamond Head's "Lightning To The Nations" track is excellent.
They did both of those. A lot of other Metallica too. Not sure on "Unforgiven" though.
I have seen this song live so many times too. I love it.
Love to see Metallica! A recommendation for a Metallica song Brad would 100% love is “The God That Failed”. It’s slow, groovy, heavy and is lyrically deep. Also it’s from the 1991 Black Album with co existing songs you guys previously reacted to such as “Enter Sandman” “Wherever I May Roam” and “Nothing else Matters”.
Lex is a trip lol. I love how you are really getting to know true metal the way its meant to be heard. You guys rock!!
Let me be the millionth person to tell Brad how lucky he is. Lex is so fun, count your blessings dude, my girl over here listening to country and crap pop, I'm so close to killing myself, and you have her. The world's just not fair. Haha
Lex was a lower-class white teenage boy from the 80's in a different life. She digs this music the same way we did: an interesting combination of intellectual analysis and IDGAF-ness. I love it!!
"I thought musicals were for kids" lmao Brad has so much to learn and to be honest, he might not have the capacity to appreciate all of the noise that this channel gets
🤟 that girl is a full-fledged metalhead for sure.
My dream woman: Lex wearing a Slayer shirt rocking to Metallica.
Hip hop heads are so obsessed with lyrics and understanding the 100% of them everytime they hear a song, and they forget to enjoy the music. Just relax more and live the metal music, like her! Cheers!
It's funny that lex said the intro was orchestral, because it actually is. The intro up until the mini solo transition is Mars, Bringer of war by Holst. There are a few bands that use it in songs.
It's always fun to witness the birthing of a new Metalhead.
Especially as I'm now too decrepit to even headbang ( many years of metal gigs and music have taken a heavy toll ).
It's good to see youngsters coming up through the ranks!
Lex is having the proper reaction IMO.
If it moves you, you move.
Lex, you described me perfectly. I was never in to music much, just none of it sounded that good to me. Then one day we moved to Dallas, TX, and I found a station called zz rock or z rock, something like that, and they played metal. I had never heard it before, it changed my life. I know exactly how you feel when you say you found metal.
You guys should react to…
Metallica - My Friend of Misery
🎸🤘
One of the best songs of the Newsted era!
I love watching this metal journey with you guys. Rock on 🤘🏻🤘🏾
Brad you have an inept ability to pause at all the wrong times, but I appreciate your desire to want to sit back and want to analyze everything. But I gotta say when you paused right before the solo and asked lex for her thoughts I laughed hard at her initial response... What's your thoughts on what's going on - METAL 😂.
This is hands down the best reaction channel out there. With is unshakable calm, and her head banging fire, yep I really like it... And yes, no way any random person passing her on the street would guess the soundtrack play in that, oh so easy to look at head
For "metal musicals" you'll want to seek out concept albums, typically from progressive metal bands. "Operation: Mindcrime" by Queensryche is probably one of the best known. There are a couple "singles" from the album but it definitely deserves a front to back listening to.
YESSSSS!!!!!
King Diamond 'Abigail'
@@paulp9274 I was about to say: Anything by King Diamond fits in this category lol
*edit* also.. Dio: Magica
My Arms Your Hearse, Still Life, or Grand Conjuration as well.
Dammmn, I hope you appreciate what an awesome woman you have beside you Brad.
This was one of the Metallica’s first songs I ever heard and got me hooked when I was 16. If only my mrs would react the same way as Lex when I put them on… Lex, you’re every metal heads dream girl come true 🥳🤘
Lex for phuckin' President! Although most in the know wouldn't classify this as metal, it's still a classic song, that cannot be denied.
Learned this on guitar absolutely fell in love as a kid 🤘
WHIPLASH was the First Thrash Hit.
It started all the Heavy.
Metallica's brand of thrash metal was essentially playing Venom's brand of black metal, but tightening it up, and with less of a Hammer Horror influence. That's why I always tell people that thrash metal was born out of black metal, not the other way around. Sadly, too many poseurs heard Cradle Of Filth or Mayhem first, so they think Venom aren't black metal.
The great thing is seeing those that have been around other genres of music doing these type of reaction videos. It's fun to see those now hearing the actual musicianship that goes into this style of music.
This song is a cover. The original is from Diamond Head, but Metallica's version kills it. Speaking of Operas, check out Sebastian Back in Broadway's Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. He plays the lead role and kills it singing.
Hey kids!! How goes it? I have been watching you guys for about a year now and have finally subscribed, or should I say, prescribed. Both of you are real awesome, down to earth people and surely a dose of genuine positivity. I love watching both of you dissect the context of the literary art put to music. Lex is the child who is in awe of their surroundings and tickled pink with the newness of exploration. a gift and a treasure she surely is. Brad, do not ever let a day go by that you forget to appreciate her. Brad is more of the intellectual when it comes to music and I am sure with life in general. great quality as well cuz that is because that is without a doubt my operating platform. Do not ever get like these other reaction channels where they talk you to death with drivel before getting to it. Oh, on a funny note, I am very grateful that someone had to mention the over zealous squeels and hoots and hollers of the excitable one!! Lol. Peace and many blessings always!!
Lex you need to watch the heavy metal animated movies!
They have such incredible intros and timing. Great idea Lex about a metal musical. Like in New York!
Please react to Sepultura - Arise.
intention to deceive 🤘🏽
This is SO cool to watch!! The reaction looks so familiar to my own. And how I react every single time I have seen Metallica live. Horns up, girl!!! You are awesome. From one metal chick to another. \m/
The Retinal Circus by Devin Townsend is basically a metal musical, we probably won't get a react seeing as it's over 2 hours long though...
My all-time fave review of yalls so far.
I love how Brads so deep into figuring out the message/story...while Lex is lost in the riffs and energy of the song. Her point about inner soundtracks and aura...I get it 100%. Ive always had a knack for sniffin out other metalheads when I meet them.
6:37 "metal". Yes maam! As 50+yr old metal head...that main riff is probably my all time fave. So sinister. So nasty.
Should check out Metallica's S&M that was done in San Francisco where they play with a full symphony orchestra. Then they did it again with S&M 2 which I think was also in California just a few years back. And yes, they play Metallica song with the orchestra.
You guys are perfect together! Love the energy, keep exploring and spreading love!🤘❤️
Ok first of all now Brad has me too consumed with the lyrics....I've always been more like Lex just going with the vibe! Secondly I am convinced Lex NEEDS OZZY SOLO in her life now!!! Randy Rhodes and more Tool and White Zombie! What a rocker!
If everyone was as honest and raw about their true musical emotions as Lex is and not be afraid to express it, this world would be a better place.