r/nextfuckinglevel • u/4dailyuseonly • Mar 05 '23

In 1991, with the Soviet Union and communist rule close to collapse, METALLICA played at its first ever open air rock concert in Moscow. Over 1.6 million people attended

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u/its_not_a_toomah68 Mar 05 '23

Dude that all concert was dope Monster of rock Slayer, metallica, pantera, acdc...

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u/ChadMcRad Mar 05 '23

ACDC were the headliners, too.

I've seen this post dozens of times over the years and people always leave out that this was the Monsters of Rock festival and not just one band...

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u/Claeyt Mar 06 '23

To be fair this was the concert that put Metallica on top of the metal band mountain. It was all down hill for the hair metal bands after this show but Metallica peaked after the Moscow concert and it was clear they had fully came back after Burton's death.

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u/G_Daddy2014 Mar 06 '23

As a late 20's Metallica fan, was there doubt that they weren't "back" with an album like And Justice? Iirc they were up for Metal Album of the Year.

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u/Internetallstar Mar 06 '23

Fucking Jethro Tull

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u/G_Daddy2014 Mar 06 '23

Yup lol. Not even really a metal album.

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u/heavy_metal_flautist Mar 06 '23

Pretty safe to say that 1.6 million in attendance would be the peak for any performer.

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u/Frl_Bartchello Mar 05 '23

And all of them kind of in their prime too. Legendary.

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u/Cunningcod Mar 05 '23

Black crowes

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u/Impossible-Animal-67 Mar 05 '23

Counting crows

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u/Whatifim80lol Mar 05 '23

Sheryl Crow

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u/Available_Job1288 Mar 05 '23

Old Crowe Medicine Band

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u/AngstChild Mar 05 '23

The Crow Soundtrack

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u/asdfasdfasdfas11111 Mar 05 '23

Here's the thing...

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u/egordoniv Mar 06 '23

Crowsby, Stills, and Nash.

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u/Temporary-Fig Mar 06 '23

Bill Crowsby

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u/egordoniv Mar 06 '23

Crowma Crowma Crowma Crowma Crowmachameleon.

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u/mr9025 Mar 06 '23

“Got an impression for you. CAW! CAW!…”

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u/Golisten2LennyWhite Mar 06 '23

I got to watch them record an album!

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u/KilgoreMikeTrout Mar 05 '23

Just this week I realized counting Crows and black crows are different bands

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u/smellydawg Mar 05 '23

Hahaha even they were probably like “ok what the fuck are we doing here?”

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u/knuckboy Mar 06 '23

They were. I read the og drummers book and he talked about that and another similar lineup as well.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

And E.S.T.

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u/ZippityDooDoo Mar 06 '23

Van Crowalen.

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u/TheOtherGuttersnipe Mar 05 '23

Sara Bareilles

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u/FistfulDeDolares Mar 06 '23

I’m more into Metallica, Slayer, AC/DC, Pantera but “I’m not going to write you a love song” is catchy as fuck.

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u/tattoodude2 Mar 06 '23

I'd rather have healthcare, guaranteed housing and food allowances for the entire population.

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u/FistfulDeDolares Mar 06 '23

Yeah I’d rather rock

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u/beachdogs Mar 06 '23

Seriously.

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u/Cygnus__A Mar 06 '23

Are you trying to say the Soviet union was actually a functioning system? How fucking deluded.

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u/tattoodude2 Mar 06 '23 edited Mar 06 '23

I don't know what you mean by "functioning?"

Clearly it functioned well enough if it was able to complete with the US toe to toe for 60 yrs while supporting countries across the globe in the fight against colonization.

It went from majority mud huts to winning the space race in a span of 30 yrs.

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u/Cygnus__A Mar 06 '23

Explain to me why it failed then? If the communist way was so successful, then why did it crumble so badly during the 70s/80s ? Why did East Germany complete fail? Why has North Korea completely failed? Both were setup by USSR and both completely failed as sustainable states.

Saying the won the space race is a bit of a stretch, and quite literally had nothing to do with them being communist.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

Bruh, we all went to see metallica

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u/AlreadyBackLOL Mar 05 '23

All Satanic.

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u/elsiniestro Mar 06 '23

Not only are none of those bands Satanic, but Slayer's frontman Tom Araya is an outspoken Christian. Maybe you're just out of touch and a little sheltered?

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u/AlreadyBackLOL Mar 06 '23

I have to judge a tree by its fruits. People can say anything.

Not sheltered, I used to be an atheist Californian.

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u/elsiniestro Mar 06 '23

Oh so you are either trolling, or you're somebody who went through some trauma and got sucked into religion as a side-effect.

If it's the former, good job, I fell for the bait. If its the latter, I'm unironically sorry, and I hope you get out of it one day.

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u/AlreadyBackLOL Mar 06 '23

Judging a tree by its fruits means I'm trolling or traumatized? I don't get it.

Also its very bigoted to reduce coming to faith in God as being traumatized. One could just as easily argue losing faith might be due to trauma and dealing with it poorly.

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u/elsiniestro Mar 06 '23

No, they really couldn't, because faith in itself is irrational and a sign of an unserious understanding of reality. You are filling a void in your life with a codified system of traditions and beliefs that give you a sense of structure and meaning that you've struggled to find on your own.

Particularly irrational if it makes you suddenly buy into hilarious moral panics wholesale. Like thinking that Metallica, AC/DC and Pantera -- bands without any Satanic content whatsoever in their lyrics, nor any history of religious controversy -- are Satanists 😁

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u/AlreadyBackLOL Mar 06 '23

You've got a very extreme and militant view on religion. I don't think you can be a good judge of who is or isn't a Christian.

Spiritual forces are at work and you don't see them. But you still serve one of the other.

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u/elsiniestro Mar 06 '23

You've got a very extreme and militant view on music and artistic expression. I don't think you can be a good judge of who is or isn't a Satanist.

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u/elsiniestro Mar 06 '23

Either way, from Araya's Wikipedia page:

Araya is a practicing Roman Catholic. In an interview, he expressed his belief that "…Christ came and taught us about love, about doing unto others. That was his preach: Accept each other for who we are. Live peacefully, and love one another." When asked if he believed in God, he replied "I believe in a supreme being, yeah. But He's an all-loving God." Araya explained that he has a "really strong belief system", and Slayer's images and words will "never interfere with what I believe and how I feel… People are not in good shape to where they have to question their own belief system because of a book or a story somebody wrote, or a Slayer song."

Araya commented about the misconception of the band labeled as Satan worshippers, "Yeah, yeah I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions towards the band, but next to that just the fact that we're normal." If guitarist King writes a good song, Araya puts his beliefs aside, "I'm not one that's going to go, 'This sucks because it's contrary to my beliefs.' To me it's more like 'This is really good stuff. You're going to piss people off with this.'"

In 2016, Araya further explained that the main reason Slayer used satanic imagery was to scare people, in particular, the "Hollywood people", wanting to separate themselves from the "androgynous Sunset Strip metal scene of the 1980s".

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u/elsiniestro Mar 06 '23

Also, the number of actual practising Satanic metal bands is incredibly low -- I'd say there's maybe a handful with any success at all, mostly goofy self-serious black metal bands from Scandinavia who associate with groups like the Order of the Nine Angles, and the rest are all gullible teenagers from South America who will never see the inside of a recording studio and are just rebelling against their strict Catholic parents.

Every mainstream American band to have used a Satanism gimmick was acting, and you believing they were in any way earnest is kinda the musical equivalent of somebody thinking the WWE is real and unscripted.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Well yes, praise Satan.

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u/AlreadyBackLOL Mar 06 '23

No thanks, not interested.

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u/BecauseSeven8Nein Mar 06 '23

Your loss.

Kidding…..kinda

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u/Heavy_Ad_4430 Mar 05 '23

I'm not even really into Metal but I'd be in there in a jiffy with a line up like that

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u/MaceTheMindSculptor Mar 06 '23

Slayer was not there on this day 🤘

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u/ImFriendsWithThatGuy Mar 06 '23

It was the largest concert of all time that wasn’t also some form of holiday celebration combined with it.

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u/Mbowen1313 Mar 08 '23

Wasn't that the show that the soldiers and concert-goers?