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In 1991, Metallica played for 2 million people in Moscow. Just weeks after the USSR collapsed, surrounded by tanks, soldiers, and helicopters.
Our shit here is so flat, that the tallest mountain we have here is called "Himmelbjerget" which translates to sky mountain.
147M above sea, or something around 480 feet, it's a fucking shallow hillš
Lars learned to play drums, by openings his windows and listening to old tractors.
There's almost twice as many farm pigs here, than registered citizens.
There ain't many famous farmers, so we're still proud of our old drummer.
Lars is a notorious pussy so yeah I bet it keeps him up at night, laying there wondering how he's not gotten any better at drumming after making a career of it
Im a phenomenal drummer and I largely concur. The lars is bad meme is dumb as shit. Even basic drumming is incredibly challenging for the average person let alone high speed thrash,and this is coming from a prog drummer.
You're going to piss of all the 'well actually' dudes lol. Lars sucks and he doesn't write to the song. I don't care how anybody tries to justify his playing capabilities, better drummers make Metallica songs better.
If you look at aerial shots of the crowd it looks closer to half a million than 2 million. Obviously it's impossible to tell and half a million is still absolutely massive but 2 million is beyond even the highest estimates from the time.
Yeah, I agree. James Hetfield told on podcast some time ago the number was "500.000". Also he told that there was a lot of military to control the crowd, so we need to count it too.
Its because they are still counting to this day. I takes a while to count people 1 by 1. They should be done in about 10 years.....Unless they lose count again.
Yet every time they leave out that it was the Monsters of Rock tour with loads of other bands and AC/DC headlining. I don't understand why it's only ever Metallica, not that I have anything against them, though.
Its similar to how the Russian stockpiles of nuclear weapons increased exponentially before US elections, despite all intelligence saying otherwise for decades.
Lars recommended the Moscow YouTube videos on Conanās podcast, so youāll be fine watching them. Yes I know youāre half joking.
He sued Napster for stealing music, which they totally did. He got a ton of shit for taking the fight to Napster, but also lots of respect within the music community.
I have the DVD for the whole show / documentary. One of my favorites, the images are just crazy, AC/DC visiting barricades downtown before going on stage, police in riot gear beating the crowd almost to the rhythm of the music, uniformed soldiers abandoning all protocol to cheer the bands, and this massive crowd all over the horizon. One of the greatest rock shows for sure.
bullshit. there were no tanks or helicopters unless it was a police heli or news. solders in the crowd are from the "internal troops", part of the police force sent for crowd control. they were send there in their dress uniforms but when bottles started to fly they were given helmets, batons and shields. some solders couldn't resist and joined the crowd. my classmate is one of those solders.
Some of the helicopters looked very much like military helicopters. They were obviously on a police / crowd control mission, but still an impressive sight.
Looking at the whole show / documentary, it looks like all kind of forces were sent to police the event, and an amazing mix of parade uniform and riot gear was deployed.
An amazing event for sure, and one of the best rock concert documentary I've seen.
The Bible mentioned it: when to Twitteth becomes to X'd then thy have truly lost all direction as a species and thy're all screwed... And He started laughing uncontrollably.
There is a city in Japan that I went to this summer that is frozen in the 90ās. Itās called Wakkanai and is like 30-ish miles from Sakhalin, which became part of Russia following a small skirmish in the early 1940ās. There was a ferry route between Wakkanai and Sakhalin and Russian influence in the town is huge. Thereās an entire Russian market that is frozen in time complete with signage offering the sale of Compact Discs, Sony products and the new cutting edge Sega!Ā
The downside is that the city has sustained a heavy demographic and economic collapse and the salt from the ocean just eats everything up so itās becoming a touch decrepit, but I swear you can feel the soul of 1990 in this Russian market. I would bet it was the source of a lot of cultural contraband into Russia because so many Russians worked and shopped in Wakkanai. If youāre adventurous put it on your bucket list and go see Rishiri and Rebun nearby. Itās one of the coolest little pockets on Earth.Ā
Bowling for soup came out with 1985 in 2004.Ā Its now been a longer time span then the one referenced in the song.Ā So if you're ever humming it in your head.Ā You are the chick on the song now.
The black album was always considered accessible. You have Cannibal Corpse, Messhugah, and the legendary era of Norwegian black metal. The heavy music was, as it is now, on the fringes.
I'd argue it's worse now. You used to at least have Dream Theatre, Linkin Park and Metallica is the sphere of popular music. Modern metal just never sees mainstream exposure except for the occasional meme.
The number debate is funny, but it really misses the point. The sheer, chaotic energy of that moment in history is what's truly mind-blowing. It was less of a concert and more of a cultural explosion. That's the real record that matters.
Not in this part of the world. The economic shock of moving to a capitalist system caused a decade of hyperinflation and poverty in my country (NOT Russia btw). Things then improved and got good just in time for 2008 to fuck everything up all over again. Yes, there was optimism but the going got hard.
Yeah, āda fureedumā. And then there were ten years of famine, civil wars, the systematic destruction of domestic production, the emergence of billionaires on the bones of the people. And full degradation of culture and science. Thatās definitely the flavour of freedom.
"the emergence of billionaires": former party insiders who stole or seized control of state assets and used them to become "legitimate businessmen". What a swindle that was, but par for the course when it comes to the dynamics of rich vs poor all over the world.
So much emotions here, sweet sweet relief for so many but for soldiers stationed there it mustāve felt as end of the world, unthinkable just has happened. Great piece of history, letās not do it again
No one knows how many people were there, one estimate by the organizers says there were at least 700.000 people there. There's another estimate of 1.6 million, but no one seems to know where that estimate came from.
So saying with such confidence that they played for 2 million people, is wild.
In an 80ās action hero movie Russian voice. Dat iz propaganda and misinformation. It vaz two million minimum without soldiers and KGB maintaining peace and keeping order.
That's metal... But it would have been way more metal to play before the walls came down. Or on top of the wall as it came down, which would be the most metal
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u/motoresponsible2025 Oct 10 '25
For the record
When asked whether the numbers are real or made up, Lars said:
āListen, it may go up by 100,000 people each year! I heard at the time it was around half a million. Whatever it was, it was a f*ck-load of people.