Metallica: Until It Sleeps

Metallica: Until It Sleeps
  • 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.
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