FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
Song: For Whom The Bell Tolls Artist: Metallica Here you have one of the greatest tracks in the history of heavy metal. When I first heard it, 35 years ago, I knew nothing on the Hemingway's namesake book that had triggered the song. For me it was all about the shivers and goosebums always at the beginning of the tune. Neither did I know that the infuriated notes that open the song were not an electric guitar but a bass. The opening riff would become one of the most remarkable riffs in the history of the metal genre. For me it was also all about how the drum's pace emphasises every tearing guitar noise and announces that the end is near. The end for some men in the middle of the battlefield and their last chance to watch the sky before dying. The first songs of Metallica deepened in war disasters and had an antiwar message showing how futile is the fated end of military men. Have a listen to this terrific song about the last instants of a soldier. There's a song for yo...