All Nightmare Long

"All Nightmare Long" is a song by American thrash metal band Metallica, released as their fifth single from their ninth album Death Magnetic. The single was released on December 15, 2008.^[1] The song is in Drop D tuning. It was nominated for the Kerrang! Award for Best Single.

Music video

The music video, directed by Roboshobo (Robert Schober),^[2] debuted on December 7, 2008, on Metallica's official website and Yahoo! Video.^[3]^[4] The video, which does not feature the band, is an 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, and subjects turn violent sometime after exposure to the spores; a cartoon then shows the USSR adapting them as a bioweapon and scatters them from balloons in a preemptive strike against the U.S., causing a localized zombie apocalypse before intervening militarily to distribute humanitarian aid. At the end of the cartoon, a hybrid U.S.-USSR flag is raised in the now-Soviet-ruled America, and in 1972, a headless corpse is shown breaching containment and escaping from a Soviet biowarfare lab. The video ends with an incident in Arkansas, similar to the start of the video, with various news reporters reporting on chemtrails.

Video origin

Initially, in a video on the website Metclub.com, Kirk Hammett explained the origins of the video. He claimed to have bought the film from a fan for $5 in Russia and soon forgot about it. After digging it up and watching the animated film, he said that he was fascinated by it, researched about its background, and asked a friend's Russian girlfriend to translate parts of it. Following this, Hammett had supposedly been trying to incorporate the film into one of the band's music videos. However, as it was later revealed, Hammett's story was a fake to produce hype about the video: the film was not made in Russia and Hammett did not actually buy it there. Rather, as the video's director Roboshobo stated in an interview, the live action segments (including the ending) were specially shot to look like excerpts of old Russian documentary footage. The video bears similarities to the underground documentary Experiments in the Revival of Organisms, where animal experimentation to produce life extension is depicted. The subtitles and everything else included in the video are part of its concept. The word "Тунгусский" ("Tunguska") appears several times with different typos ("тунгузский", "тунзский", "тчнгзский").

Lyrical meaning

In an interview, James Hetfield commented on the song's lyrical meaning:^[5]

“

It was an attempt to get back to the H. P. Lovecraft mythos with Thing that Should Not Be, Call of Ktulu.[sic] This was about the Hounds of Tindalos, which was another crazy mindfuck about these wolves that hunt through their nightmares and the only way you can get away from them is stay within angles (120 or less). You can't even escape through sleep.

”

Release versions

The single is available in a three disc collectors set.^[1] The first disc was released as a digipack to store the remaining two discs with the album version of "All Nightmare Long", along with the songs "Wherever I May Roam" and "Master of Puppets", recorded live in Berlin at the Death Magnetic release bash at the O₂ Arena back in September 2008.^[1] The second disc also has the studio version of "All Nightmare Long", along with the songs "Blackened" and "Seek & Destroy", also recorded at the Berlin O₂ Arena.^[1] The third disc is a DVD, which, along with the album version of the song as audio, includes a ten-minute-long mini-documentary about the bands' day in Berlin, along with twenty minutes worth of live tracks from that night's album release party, as well a fifteen-minute-long movie from the tuning room at the Rock im Park.^[1]

In pop culture

The song first appeared as one of the songs off of Death Magnetic that was made available as downloadable content for Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. In addition, "All Nightmare Long" can also be imported to several Guitar Hero titles as well as the stand-alone game focused around the band itself, Guitar Hero: Metallica.
"All Nightmare Long" appeared in the documentary McConkey.
The song was used as the theme for the WWE's 2008 pay-per view event No Mercy.^[6]

Track listing

International Single Part 1
No.	Title	Length
1.	"All Nightmare Long"	7:58
2.	"Wherever I May Roam" (Live)	6:37
3.	"Master of Puppets" (Live)	8:20

International Single Part 2
No.	Title	Length
1.	"All Nightmare Long"	7:58
2.	"Blackened" (Live)	6:29
3.	"Seek & Destroy" (Live)	7:45

International Single Part 3 (DVD)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"All Nightmare Long"	7:58
2.	"Berlin Magnetic" (Documentary)	31:51
3.	"Rock Im Park "Containter" Rehearsal"	14:46

Japanese EP
No.	Title	Length
1.	"All Nightmare Long"	7:58
2.	"Wherever I May Roam" (Live)	6:37
3.	"Master of Puppets" (Live)	8:20
4.	"Blackened" (Live)	6:29
5.	"Seek & Destroy" (Live)	7:45

Australian single
No.	Title	Length
1.	"All Nightmare Long"	7:58
2.	"Master of Puppets" (Live)	8:20
3.	"Blackened" (Live)	6:29
4.	"Seek & Destroy" (Live)	7:45

Personnel

Metallica

James Hetfield – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Kirk Hammett – lead guitar, backing vocals
Robert Trujillo – bass, backing vocals
Lars Ulrich – drums, percussion

Production

Charts

Chart ^[7]	Peak
Spain Singles Top 20	1
Finland Singles Top 20	11
Italy Singles Top 50	12
Germany Singles Top 100	15
Belgium Singles Top 50	27
Dutch Top 40	7
Sweden Singles Top 60	44
Austria Singles Top 75	51
France Singles Top 100	55
US Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks	7^[8]
US Billboard Rock Songs	28

References

1 2 3 4 5 "METALLICA: 'All Nightmare Long' Single Details Revealed". Blabbermouth. November 15, 2008.
↑ "Metallica video director EXCLUSIVE pic and interview". Metal Hammer.
↑ "Metallica ‘All Nightmare Long’ Video". rockdirt.com. 2008-12-09. Archived from the original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-11.
↑ "Metallica’s "All Nightmare Long" Video Premieres". Rolling Stone.
↑ "CANOE - JAM! Music - Artists - Metallica : Interview with James Hetfield". Jam.canoe.ca. 2008-12-08. Retrieved 2011-07-11.
↑ "METALLICA's 'All Nightmare Long' is NO MERCY's Theme Song". Blabbermouth. September 12, 2008.
↑ "Metallica - All Nightmare Long - Music Charts". Acharts.us. Retrieved 2011-07-11.
↑ "Artist Chart History - Metallica (Singles)". Billboard. Retrieved 2009-07-02.

Metallica
James Hetfield Lars Ulrich Kirk Hammett Robert Trujillo Ron McGovney Dave Mustaine Cliff Burton Jason Newsted Bob Rock
Studio albums	Kill 'Em All Ride the Lightning Master of Puppets ...And Justice for All Metallica Load Reload St. Anger Death Magnetic Hardwired... to Self-Destruct
Cover albums	Garage Inc.
Collaboration projects	S&M The Big Four: Live from Sofia, Bulgaria Lulu
Extended plays	The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited Beyond Magnetic
Live albums	Orgullo, Pasión, y Gloria: Tres Noches en la Ciudad de México Six Feet Down Under Six Feet Down Under Part II Live at Grimey's The 30th Anniversary Celebration Through the Never
Box sets	The Good, the Bad & the Live Live Shit: Binge & Purge Limited-Edition Vinyl Box Set The Metallica Collection
Singles	"Whiplash" "Jump in the Fire" "Creeping Death" "Master of Puppets" "Harvester of Sorrow" "Eye of the Beholder" "One" "Enter Sandman" "The Unforgiven" "Nothing Else Matters" "Wherever I May Roam" "Sad but True" "Until It Sleeps" "Hero of the Day" "Mama Said" "King Nothing" "The Memory Remains" "The Unforgiven II" "Fuel" "Turn the Page" "Whiskey in the Jar" "Die, Die My Darling" "Nothing Else Matters '99" "No Leaf Clover" "I Disappear" "St. Anger" "Frantic" "The Unnamed Feeling" "Some Kind of Monster" "The Day That Never Comes" "All Nightmare Long" "Broken, Beat & Scarred" "The View" "Lords of Summer" "Hardwired" "Moth into Flame" "Atlas, Rise!" "Now That We're Dead"
Promotional singles	"Fade to Black" "For Whom the Bell Tolls" "Don't Tread on Me" "Ain't My Bitch" "Bleeding Me" "Better than You" "My Apocalypse" "Cyanide" "The Judas Kiss"
Other songs	"Seek & Destroy" "Am I Evil?" "Blitzkrieg" "Breadfan" "The God That Failed" "Astronomy" "Tuesday's Gone" "Last Caress/Green Hell" "Stone Cold Crazy" "So What?" "Overkill" "The Unforgiven III"
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Tours	Kill 'Em All Tour Ride the Lightning Tour Damage, Inc. Tour Monsters of Rock Tour 1987 Monsters of Rock Tour 1988 Damaged Justice Tour Wherever We May Roam Tour Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour Nowhere Else to Roam Tour Shit Hits the Sheds Tour Poor Touring Me Poor Re-Touring Me Tour Garage Remains the Same Tour M2K Mini Tour Summer Sanitarium Tour Madly in Anger with the World Tour Escape from the Studio '06 Sick of the Studio '07 2008 European Vacation Tour World Magnetic Tour 2012 European Black Album Tour The Full Arsenal Tour By Request Tour Lords of Summer Tour WorldWired Tour
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