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"One" was the first Metallica song for which a music video was created. The music video, directed by Bill Pope and Michael Salomon , debuted on MTV on January 20, 1989. The video, shot in Long Beach, California on December 7, 1988, is almost entirely in black and white , and features the band performing the song in a warehouse.
Octave tuning – E-A-D-G-B-E Six full steps (one octave) down from standard tuning. The Low E has the same fundamental frequency as a bass guitar, essentially the same standard tuning as a bass guitar but with a high B and E added to mimic a regular guitar. This tuning is used on the Fender Bass VI and similar instruments.
The single "One" backed the band's debut music video, and earned Metallica their first Grammy Award in 1990 (and the first ever in the Best Metal Performance category). It was successful in the United States, peaking at number six on the Billboard 200 , and was certified 8× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in ...
[11] At 79 minutes, Load is Metallica's longest studio album. Load received mixed reviews from critics but was a commercial success, debuting and spending four consecutive weeks at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart. Load sold 680,000 units in its first week, making it the biggest opening week for Metallica as well as the biggest debut of ...
The new line-up has continued to make music and tour worldwide. Metallica's ninth studio album, Death Magnetic, was released on September 12, 2008. Like St. Anger and every album of original material released by Metallica since 1991's Metallica, Death Magnetic went to #1 on the Billboard charts in over 30 countries during its first week of ...
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.
"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.
The band's first studio album with Newsted, ...And Justice for All, was released the following year; the bassist was credited on one song only, opener "Blackened". [6] In 1991 the self-titled Metallica was released, which is considered to be the band's mainstream breakthrough album. [7] Load and Reload followed in 1996 and 1997, respectively.