Until It Sleeps

Until It Sleeps

Infobox Single
Name = Until It Sleeps

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Artist = Metallica
from Album = Load
B-side = 2 X 4 (live)/ F.O.B.D./ Kill/ Ride Medley (live)/ Until it Sleeps (Herman Melville Mix)/ Overkill (live)
Released = May 21, 1996
Format = CD single
Recorded = 1994
Genre = Hard rock
Length = 4:30
Label = Elektra Records
Writer = James Hetfield
Lars Ulrich
Producer = Bob Rock
James Hetfield
Lars Ulrich
Last single = "Sad but True"
(1992)
This single = "Until It Sleeps"
(1996)
Next single = "Ain't My Bitch"
(1996)

"Until It Sleeps" is the 4th song from Metallica's 1996 album "Load". It was written by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.

The song was performed with orchestral accompaniment the album "S&M". It was the band's first number one song on the US Mainstream Rock charts, as well as their first and only song to hit the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, reaching number 10.

An early demo version of this song was entitled "Fell on Black Days", because the demo reminded the band members of the Soundgarden song "Fell on Black Days".

The 10" vinyl version of the single is red in color.

Track listing

CD Single 1
#"Until It Sleeps"
#"2 X 4 (Live)"
#"F.O.B.D." (aka Until It Sleeps - Early 'Writing in Progress' version)

CD Single 2
#"Until It Sleeps"
#"Kill/Ride Medley (Live)"
#"Until It Sleeps (Herman Melville mix)"

CD Single (US version)
#"Until It Sleeps"
#"Overkill (Live)" (Motörhead cover)

Video

The song also has a video directed by Samuel Bayer (Nirvana, Green Day, The Smashing Pumpkins). It was shot in various locations around Los Angeles on May 6th and 7th in 1996. It was premiered by MTV on May 23rd. The video depicts surreal concepts dealing with fall of the human. The concept of the video was taken from various paintings by Hieronymus Bosch. Apart from the general forms inspired from Bosch's paintings, the prominent figures in the video are the human eating monster from "The Garden of Earthly Delights", the fall of Adam and Eve from "Haywain" and Christ in the "Crucifige Eum" (Crucify Him) scene of "Ecce Homo".

Awards

The video of the song won the MTV Video Music Award for The Best Rock Video in 1996.

Chart Positions

References


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