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“All Nightmare Long” is the forty-fourth single by American thrash metal/heavy metal band Metallica, and the fifth from the band’s ninth studio album, Death Magnetic. The single was released on December 15, 2008
Music video
The music video, directed by Roboshobo, debuted on December 7, 2008, on Metallica’s official website and Yahoo Video. The video, which does not feature the band, is a 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 extraterrestrial organism, a small harmless thing resembling an armored worm.
However it turns out the incredibly hardy spores are able to reanimate dead tissue; the USSR adapts them as a bio-weapon and scatters them from balloons in a preemptive strike against the US, causing a localized zombie apocalypse before intervening militarily to distribute humanitarian aid. At the end of the video, a hybrid US/USSR flag is raised in the now-Soviet-ruled America, and a headless corpse is shown breaching containment and escaping from a Soviet bio-warfare lab.
Video origin:
In a video from the website Metclub.com, Kirk Hammett explained the origins of the video. He bought the film from a fan for $5 in Russia and soon forgot about it.
Music video
The music video, directed by Roboshobo, debuted on December 7, 2008, on Metallica’s official website and Yahoo Video. The video, which does not feature the band, is a 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 extraterrestrial organism, a small harmless thing resembling an armored worm.
However it turns out the incredibly hardy spores are able to reanimate dead tissue; the USSR adapts them as a bio-weapon and scatters them from balloons in a preemptive strike against the US, causing a localized zombie apocalypse before intervening militarily to distribute humanitarian aid. At the end of the video, a hybrid US/USSR flag is raised in the now-Soviet-ruled America, and a headless corpse is shown breaching containment and escaping from a Soviet bio-warfare lab.
Video origin:
In a video from the website Metclub.com, Kirk Hammett explained the origins of the video. He bought the film from a fan for $5 in Russia and soon forgot about it.
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Fedya wrote:
60 people said this is the best song on the new album... the point you guys missed is that this is the ONLY GOOD song on this album :S
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Graveworm09 wrote:
best song on the new album. [57]
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kirczek wrote:
Ou yeah!
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Shavo666 wrote:
best song on the new album.
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crackin wrote:
best song on the new album. [55]
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mcclellen2020 wrote:
what real kick-ass rock sounds like !!!! thnx Metalica !!!
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My_Riot wrote:
Awsome intro!!!
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szymongo wrote:
best song ever!
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EpsilonX wrote:
best song on the new album. [54] of course i haven't really heard the rest enough, whenever i try to listen to it i just put this song on.
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EpsilonX wrote:
i can't get enough of this song!
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Colony666 wrote:
best song since anything on AJFA/Black album easily
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MichelleMarsh wrote:
best song on the new album. [53]
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blitox wrote:
muy buena canción \m/
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imagesk8r6969 wrote:
top 5 Metallica songs of all time.
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Alekseer wrote:
Best song on the new album [52]
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nixus6 wrote:
Best song on the new album [52]
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Shafter92 wrote:
Best song on the new album [51]
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zim389 wrote:
lol... I think the video's fun to watch at least. It doesn't really fit the song well but I find it entertaining nonetheless.
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Vrtkrfth wrote:
Best video.
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xlkmx wrote:
Best song on the new album [50]
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