The Outlaw Torn
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| Cover of Load | ||
| Song by Metallica | ||
| from the album Load | ||
| Released | June 4, 1996 | |
| Recorded | May 1995 - February 1996 at The Plant Studios, Sausalito, California | |
| Genre | Hard rock | |
| Length | 9:49 | |
| Label | Elektra Records | |
| Producer(s) | Bob Rock, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich | |
| Load track listing | ||
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The Outlaw Torn is a song by Metallica on their 1996 album Load. Because of its length and position as the final track on the album, the song had to be edited by one minute to fit on Load, because if the disc's total length passed 78 minutes, 59 seconds, the Load CD would not play without potentially skipping. With the fourteen songs completed, Metallica had recorded thirty seconds too much material. The jam at the end of the song had to be edited, and "The Outlaw Torn (Unencumbered by Manufacturing Restrictions Version)" can be found on "The Memory Remains" part 2 single in its entirety - 10 minutes and 52 seconds (Encyclopedia Metallica).
On a related note, the song "Wasting My Hate" also had to be edited--the demo version contained a guitar solo not found on the album's final version.
To this day, "The Outlaw Torn" remains the longest original song Metallica has recorded for a studio-album (the longest, at 11 minutes 11 seconds, is "Mercyful Fate" a cover medley by the metal band of the same name.) According to James Hetfield, the lyrics deal with losing a loved one, and "longing for a replacement that will never come" (Encyclopedia Metallica).
Like most songs from the album Load, and its sister-album Reload, this song was written in the key of Eb minor. There are structural similarities between The Outlaw Torn and ReLoad's Fixxxer. The song's demo was called "Outlaw" and was recorded by James and Lars in Lars' Dungeon on March 6, 1995.
"The Outlaw Torn" was included on the second disc (and DVD) of Metallica's collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (with Michael Kamen conducting), entitled S&M.
The song is considered by many fans to be one of the band's greatest epics.
It was played for the first time live in Albany,NY since the S&M tour.
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| Albums and extended plays: No Life 'Til Leather - Kill 'Em All - Ride the Lightning - Master of Puppets - Garage Days Re-Revisited - ...And Justice for All - Metallica - Load - ReLoad - Garage Inc. - S&M - St. Anger - Some Kind of Monster - Ninth studio album |
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