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"The Unforgiven" is a power ballad by American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released as the second single from their eponymous fifth album Metallica (also known as The Black Album ). The song deals with the theme of the struggle of the individual against the efforts of those who would subjugate him.
Musically, Death Magnetic is a radical departure from Metallica's previous album, St. Anger (2003), and is considered a return to the band's thrash metal roots, [5] with more complex compositions, standard guitar tuning on most songs and long guitar solos from Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield.
In 2020, the Mongolian hunnu band The HU released a cover of the song translated entirely into Mongolian. [6]The Metallica Blacklist, a compilation album released in 2021, features seven covers of the song, including a live version by Sam Fender and studio versions by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Mexican Institute of Sound, Royal Blood, St. Vincent, White Reaper and YB.
Hetfield co-founded Metallica in October 1981 after answering an advertisement by drummer Lars Ulrich in the Los Angeles newspaper The Recycler. Metallica has won nine Grammy Awards and released 11 studio albums, three live albums, four extended plays, and 24 singles. Hetfield is often regarded as one of the greatest heavy metal rhythm guitar ...
The music video, directed by Roboshobo (Robert Schober), [3] debuted on December 7, 2008, on Metallica's official website and Yahoo! Video. [4] [5] 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 ...
The Unforgiven II is one of their easier songs to play. The only difficulty in playing it would be the signature B-bends throughout the verses. James employs a Telecaster with a B-bender to bend the B string up a full step while maintaining open Cadd9 and open G chords (with the thumb on the low E string, third fret).
Kirk Lee Hammett (born November 18, 1962) [1] is an American musician who has been the lead guitarist of heavy metal band Metallica since 1983. Prior to joining Metallica, he co-formed the thrash metal band Exodus in 1979.
Lead guitarist Kirk Hammett was credited with songwriting on every Metallica album from Ride the Lightning to Death Magnetic. Metallica's original lead guitarist Dave Mustaine co-wrote a number of the band's early songs. Bassist Jason Newsted joined in 1986, performed on four studio albums and co-wrote three songs.