Metallica: Until It Sleeps
- IMDb link: 6854148
- IMDb rating: 7.3 (179 votes)
- Genres: Fantasy, Music, Short
- Director: Samuel Bayer
- Cast: James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Metallica, Jason Newsted and others
- Release date: 21 May 1996
- Release year: 1996
- Runtime: 4 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: music video, 20th century, 1990s, heavy metal
Plot:
The music video was directed by Samuel Bayer (Nirvana, Green Day, The Smashing Pumpkins). It was shot in various locations around Los Angeles on May 6 and 7 in 1996. It was premiered by MTV on May 21. The video depicts surreal concepts dealing with fall of a human, 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.