The crowd is packed with uniformed military personnel, helicopters are flying overhead - the entire country seems to be watching with both enthusiasm and wariness as the biggest metal band in the world play songs about death, evil, and lashing out against authority. The footage is amazing to behold partly to watch Metallica shred in 1991, and partly to witness the vast ocean of people who came out to see them (estimated at 1.6 million, though some counts put the audience at a scant 500,000), but also to witness how a Metallica concert was regarded in 1991 Moscow. Around when the Black Album came out and Enter Sandman became a massive music video hit, the band was so popular that even America's enemies wanted to see them play - a fact evidenced by this archival footage of Metallica playing to an estimated 1.6 million fans at the Monsters Of Rock festival in Moscow, Russia. It's easy to think of Metallica as a household name these days, but once upon a time the Four Horsemen were at the forefront of bringing what was considered dangerous music to the entire world.
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