All Nightmare Long
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| Single by Metallica | ||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Death Magnetic | ||||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Wherever I May Roam" (Live) "Master of Puppets" (Live) "Blackened" (Live) "Seek & Destroy" (Live) |
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| Released | December 15, 2008 | |||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | March 12, 2007–May 11, 2008, at Sound City in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, Shangri La Studios in Malibu, California and HQ in San Rafael, California |
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| Genre | Thrash metal | |||||||||||||||||
| Length | 7:58 | |||||||||||||||||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Robert Trujillo, Lars Ulrich | |||||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Rick Rubin | |||||||||||||||||
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"All Nightmare Long" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica, released as their fifth single from their ninth album Death Magnetic. The single was released on December 15, 2008. The song is in Drop D tuning. It was nominated for the Kerrang! Award for Best Single.
The music video, directed by Roboshobo (Robert Schober), debuted on December 7, 2008, on Metallica's official website and Yahoo! Video. The video, which does not feature the band, is an alternate history narrative done in grainy mockumentary style, depicting a sequence of fictional events following the historic 1908 Tunguska event, at which Soviet scientists discover spores of an extraterrestrial organism, a small harmless thing resembling an armored worm.
However, it turns out the incredibly hardy spores are able to reanimate dead tissue, and subjects turn violent sometime after exposure to the spores; a cartoon then shows the USSR adapting them as a bioweapon and scatters them from balloons in a preemptive strike against the U.S., causing a localized zombie apocalypse before intervening militarily to distribute humanitarian aid. At the end of the cartoon, a hybrid U.S.-USSR flag is raised in the now-Soviet-ruled America, and in 1972, a headless corpse is shown breaching containment and escaping from a Soviet biowarfare lab. The video ends with an incident in Arkansas, similar to the start of the video, with various news reporters reporting on chemtrails.
Initially, in a video on the website Metclub.com, Kirk Hammett explained the origins of the video. He claimed to have bought the film from a fan for $5 in Russia and soon forgot about it. After digging it up and watching the animated film, he said that he was fascinated by it, researched about its background, and asked a friend's Russian girlfriend to translate parts of it. Following this, Hammett had supposedly been trying to incorporate the film into one of the band's music videos. However, as it was later revealed, Hammett's story was a fake to produce hype about the video: the film was not made in Russia and Hammett did not actually buy it there. Rather, as the video's director Roboshobo stated in an interview, the live action segments (including the ending) were specially shot to look like excerpts of old Russian documentary footage. The video bears similarities to the underground documentary Experiments in the Revival of Organisms, where animal experimentation to produce life extension is depicted. The subtitles and everything else included in the video are part of its concept. The word "Тунгусский" ("Tunguska") appears several times with different typos ("тунгузский", "тунзский", "тчнгзский").
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