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Rating: Few people know about this collection of bootlegs that Metallica, not knowing what else to release, recorded. The CD in question, "Acoustic Metal", contains some of the tracks recorded during three concerts in 1997 by the Four Horsemen, an acoustic show, one for charity, and one held in Oslo.
The title, which for many represents an oxymoron, in my opinion, demonstrates an interesting experiment. The idea of reinterpreting, or at least trying to reinterpret, thrash metal pieces in an acoustic and, above all, country manner—something that showcases the country side of Metallica which, for better or worse, emerges more insistently from the mid-1990s onward—is a positive thing. I now have to discuss the methods with which this experiment is conducted, rather mediocre, to be honest.
The first two tracks, "Low Man's Lyrics" and "Helpless", provide the listener with a not entirely pleasant start: in the first, the four from San Francisco insert a wide array of instruments—such as the banjo, dobro, harmonica, etc.—typical of Tennessee-made country, in a completely chaotic manner while the second, a cover of Diamond Head, is more a song traditionally performed with Hetfield and Hammett wielding an acoustic guitar, whose sound is overshadowed by Ulrich's performance, which is characterized by his usual, fitting, soft, and delicate drumming (sarcastic). The "highlights" of this collection are those that are more suitable for being played this way, namely "Nothing Else Matters", "Tuesday's Gone", and "Fade to Black". The pseudo-country version of "The Four Horsemen" is also nice, managing to maintain its distinctive drive despite Hetfield's voice here in countryman version. Neither noteworthy nor shameful are "Poor Twisted Me" and "Bleeding Me" while truly inappropriate are "Creeping Death" and "Last Caress", which are completely distorted. The final piece is a medley composed of "and Destroy" and "Fight Fire With Fire" which, inexplicably, despite the title of the work, are played in a completely traditional manner. Why? Why, oh Metallica, did you include this last track on an album called "Acoustic Metal"? Bah?
All in all, a fairly rare bootleg that contains curious experiments, sometimes successful, more often, failed. Mainly intended for the curious and Metallica-maniacs.
Tracklist and Lyrics
02 Helpless (04:17)
I gotta see you moving fast
See you come my way
See the dreams, I hope they last
Never fade away.
Gotta see the lights above
Make it loud tonight
Gotta set it all a-fire
Set it all a-light
See the flashing lights
Hear the thunder roar
I am gonna set you all a-light
Gotta make it man
I ain't got a choice
Gotta fill this hall tonight
Helpless
Helpless
Helpless
Helpless
I don't know what I'm gonna do
Maybe not tonight
Gotta set you all a-fire
Gotta treat you right.
I can see the flashing lights
Lit before your love
Gotta hear the thunder roar
Coming from above.
See the flashing lights
Hear the thunder roar
I'm gonna set you all a-light
Gotta make it man
I ain't got a choice
Gotta fill this hall tonight
Helpless
Helpless
Helpless
Helpless
I can see the stars
But, I can't see what's going on
Every night alone
I sing my song just for fun.
Only time will tell
If I'll make it myself someday
This stage is mine
Music is my destiny.
Cannot squeeze the life from me!
I can see the stars
But I can't see what's going on
Every night alone
I sing my song just for fun.
Only time will tell
If I'll make it myself someday
This stage is mine
Music is my destiny.
Cannot squeeze the life from me!
03 The Four Horsemen (05:10)
By the last breath of the fourth winds blow
Better raise your ears
The sound of hooves knocks at your door
Lock up your wife and children now
It's time to wield the blade
For now you have got some company
The Horsemen are drawing nearer
On the leather steeds they ride
They have come to take your life
On through the dead of night
With the four Horsemen ride
Or choose your fate and die
You have been dying since the day you were born
You know it has all been planned
The quartet of deliverance rides
A sinner once a sinner twice
No need for confession now
Cause now you have got the fight of your life
The Horsemen are drawing nearer
On the leather steeds they ride
They have come to take your life
On through the dead of night
With the four Horsemen ride
Or choose your fate and die
Time
Has taken its toll on you
The lines that crack your face
Famine
Your body it has torn through
Withered in every place
Pestilence
For what you have had to endure
And what you have put others through
Death
Deliverance for you for sure
There is nothing you can do
So gather round young warriors now
And saddle up your steeds
Killing scores with demon swords
Now is the death of doers of wrong
Swing the judgment hammer down
Safely inside armor blood guts and sweat
The Horsemen are drawing nearer
On the leather steeds they ride
They have come to take your life
On through the dead of night
With the four Horsemen ride
Or choose your fate and die
04 Poor Twisted Me (03:40)
Oh poor twisted me
Oh poor twisted me
I feast on sympathy
I chew on suffer
I chew on agony
And swallow whole the pain
Oh it's too good to be
All this misery
Is just for oh poor twisted me
Poor twisted me
Poor mistreated me
Poor mistreated me
I drown without a sea
I'm filled with sorrow
Once filled with misery
And hated the deep dark blue
Such a burden to bear
Poor mistreated me
Finally reached the shore
Survival's gone
Now your feeling cold ever since he was born
Your pain is so over you
Finally reached the shore
Survival's gone
Now your feeling cold ever since he was born
Your pain is so over you
Could ya be my friend
Such a pain to see
Oh poor twisted me
05 Nothing Else Matters (06:32)
So close no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters
Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
And nothing else matters
Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
But I know
So close no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
But I know
Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
And nothing else matters
Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters
Never cared for what they say
Never cared for games they play
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
And I know
So close no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
No, nothing else matters
06 Creeping Death (04:45)
Slaves
Hebrews born to serve
To the pharaoh
Heed
To his every word
Live in fear
Faith
Of the unknown one
The deliverer
Wait
Something must be done
Four hundred years
So let it be written
So let it be done
I'm sent here by the chosen one
So let it be written
So let it be done
To kill the first-born pharaoh son
I'm creeping death
Now
Let my people go
Land of Goshen
Go
I will be with thee
Bush of fire
Blood
Running red and strong
Down the Nile
Plague
Darkness three days long
Hail to fire
So let it be written
So let it be done
I'm sent here by the chosen one
So let it be written
So let it be done
To kill the first-born pharaoh son
I'm creeping death
-Solo-
Die by my hand
I creep across the land
Killing first-born man
Die by my hand
I creep across the land
Killing first born man
I
Rule the midnight air
The destroyer
Born
I shall soon be there
Deadly mass
I
Creep the steps and floor
Final darkness
Blood
Lambs blood painted door
I shall pass
So let it be written
So let it be done
I'm sent here by the chosen one
So let it be written
So let it be done
To kill the first-born pharaoh son
I'm creeping death
07 Tuesday's Gone (08:50)
Train, roll on
On down the line
Won't you, please, take me far
Far away
Now I feel the wind blow
Outside my door, and
I'm leaving my woman at home (my baby's gone)
Tuesday's gone with the wind, yeah
My baby's gone, gone with the wind
Long gone
And I don't know, where I'm going
I just want to be, left alone (oh, yeah)
When this train ends, I'll try again, ooh
I'm leaving my woman at home
My baby's gone
Tuesday's gone with the wind (ooh, yeah)
Tuesday's gone with the wind, yeah
Tuesday's gone, gone with the wind, yeah
My baby's gone with the wind
Train, roll on
Jump on
Yeah
Haha, yeah
Tuesday's gone with the wind (yeah, yeah)
Tuesday's gone with the wind, yeah
Tuesday's gone, gone with the wind, yeah
My baby's gone with the wind
Train rolls on
Train, roll on, many miles from my home see I'm
I'm riding my blues babe, blues away, yeah
Well Tuesday you see, ooh, she had to be free, yeah
But somehow I've got to, to carry on (my baby's gone)
Tuesday's gone with the wind
Tuesday's gone, long gone with the wind, Tuesday's gone
Tuesday's gone with the wind
My baby's gone with the wind
Train, roll on
Train, roll on (yeah)
Ride on train
Ride on train
Ride on train
Train, ride, train, ride on
Train, roll on
The train it rolls on
Train, roll on
Train, roll on
Lord, I can't change (I can't change)
Lord, I can't change (I can't change)
Lord, I can't change
Lord, I can't change, yeah (yeah-yeah / train, roll on, yeah)
Ride on train, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah (yeah)
I can't change
Train, roll on
Ride on train
Lord, I can't change, no
I can't change
Ride on train
10 Bleeding Me (08:07)
I'm diggin' my way
I'm diggin' my way to somethin'
I'm diggin' my way to somethin' better
I'm pushin' to stay
I'm pushin' to stay with somethin'
I'm pushin' to stay with somethin' better
I'm sowing the seeds
I'm sowing the seeds I take
I'm sowing the seeds I take for granted
This thorn in my side
This thorn in my side is from the tree
This thorn in my side is from the tree I've planted
It tears me and I bleed
And I bleed
Caught under wheels roll
I take that leech I'm bleeding me
Can't stop to save my soul
I take the leash that's leading me
I'm bleeding me
I can't take it
Caught under wheels roll
Oh, the bleeding of me
Of me
The bleeding of me
Caught under wheels roll
I take that leech
I'm bleeding me
Can't stop to save my soul
I take the leash that's leading me
I'm bleeding me
I can't take it
Caught under wheels roll
Oh, the bleeding of me
Oh, the bleeding of me
I am the beast that bleeds the feast
I am the blood
I am release
Come make me pure
Bleed me a cure
I'm caught, I'm caught, I'm caught under
Caught under wheels roll
I take that leech
I'm bleeding me
Can't stop to save my soul
I take the leash that's leading me
I'm bleeding me
I can't take it
I can't take it
I can't take it
Oh, the bleeding of me
I'm diggin' my way
I'm diggin' my way to somethin'
I'm diggin' my way to somethin' better
I'm pushin' to stay
I'm pushin' to stay with somethin'
I'm pushin' to stay with somethin' better
With somethin' better
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