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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. [1]
The song is composed in E minor. [5] It is one of several Megadeth songs referencing the occult, witchcraft, or black magic.Others include "Bad Omen", "Good Mourning/Black Friday", and most explicitly, "Five Magics" from their 1990 album Rust in Peace, which directly mentions wizardry, sorcery, alchemy, and magic.
"The God That Failed" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica from their 1991 self-titled album (often called "the Black Album"). The song was never released as a single, but was the first of the album's songs to be heard by the public. It is one of Metallica's first original releases to be tuned a half step down.
Metal lyrics often demonstrate a "bad attitude" and "political incorrectness" and it tends to have "occult and satanic symbolism". [14] Deriving from the heavy metal genre's roots in blues music, sex is another important topic—a thread running from Led Zeppelin's suggestive lyrics to the more explicit references of glam metal and nu metal ...
Mercyful Fate is a Danish heavy metal band from Copenhagen, formed in 1981 by vocalist King Diamond and guitarist Hank Shermann. [4] Influenced by progressive rock and hard rock, and with lyrics dealing with LaVeyan Satanism (often with ironic or sardonic use of Christian themes) and the occult, Mercyful Fate was part of the first wave of black metal in the early to mid-1980s, along with Venom ...
Metallica collaborated with Lou Reed for the concept album Lulu, which was released in 2011. Metallica have recorded cover versions of a number of songs by English group Diamond Head. "Die, Die My Darling" and "Last Caress/Green Hell" are Misfits covers originally written by Glenn Danzig.
"Screaming Suicide" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica, released as the second single in promotion of their eleventh studio album 72 Seasons. [4] It was released on January 19, 2023, along with a music video directed by Tim Saccenti.
Hetfield's revised lyrics for the album were written from Satan's point of view, describing how the devil watches people killing each other, and is sure they will go to hell for their actions. [37] "Jump in the Fire" was released as a single in the UK in February 1984 to promote a UK tour with Venom. [38]