The Unnamed Feeling

Infobox Single
Name = The Unnamed Feeling


Artist = Metallica
from Album = St. Anger
B-side = The Four Horsemen (Live)/Damage Inc. (Live)/Leper Messiah (Live)/Motorbreath (Live)/Ride the Lightning (Live)/Hit the Lights (Live)/The Unnamed Feeling (Music Video)
Released = January 12, 2004
Format = CD single
Recorded = May 2002-April 2003
Genre = Heavy metal
Length = 7:08
Label = Elektra Records
Writer = Kirk Hammett
James Hetfield
Bob Rock
Lars Ulrich
Producer = Bob Rock
Metallica
Chart position = * #28 (U.S. Mainstream Rock)
* #42 (U.K. Singles)
Last single = "Frantic"
(2003)
This single = "The Unnamed Feeling"
(2004)
Next single = "Some Kind of Monster"
(2004)"The Unnamed Feeling" is the third single by heavy metal band Metallica to be taken from their 2003 album "St. Anger". The song is about an unnamed feeling (anxiety, according to Hetfield) a person feels when they're close to the edge of losing control, just before he or she panics.

Along with a music video, the song was released as a single exclusively to Australia. It was released as part of an E.P. in The UK. The unique video, directed by The Malloys, featured the band performing in a virtually empty room that gradually closed in on them throughout the song. This was accompanied by visual stories of several people all experiencing that "unnamed feeling" in their own way.

Cover art for the CD single was chosen through a contest where fans could submit their own original artwork. The winning piece was an isolated illustration of a black heart roughly outlined in white with a black background (although the front cover is the "Monster" from their other St. Anger single, Some Kind of Monster).

Post-grunge band Nickelback have been criticized by some people over the fact that the intro to their song "Throw Yourself Away" from their 2003 album "The Long Road" is almost identical to that of "The Unnamed Feeling".

Track listing

#"The Unnamed Feeling"
#"The Four Horsemen (Live)"
#"Damage, Inc. (Live)"
#"Leper Messiah (Live)"
#"Motorbreath (Live)"
#"Ride the Lightning (Live)"
#"Hit the Lights" (Live)
#"The Unnamed Feeling" (Music video)