Until It Sleeps

"Until It Sleeps"
Single by Metallica
from the album Load
B-side
  • "2 X 4" (live)
  • "F.O.B.D." (demo)
  • "Kill/Ride Medley" (live)
  • "Until It Sleeps" (Herman Melville Mix)
  • "Overkill" (live)
ReleasedMay 20, 1996 (1996-05-20)[1]
Recorded1995
GenreAlternative rock[2]
Length4:30
Label
Composer(s)
Lyricist(s)James Hetfield
Producer(s)
Metallica singles chronology
"Sad but True"
(1993) 		"Until It Sleeps"
(1996) 		"Hero of the Day"
(1996)
Music video
"Until It Sleeps" on YouTube

"Until It Sleeps" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on May 20, 1996, as the lead single from their sixth studio album Load. "Until It Sleeps" reached number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 making it Metallica's highest charting single and only top ten hit in the United States. The song was also their first number-one on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, peaked in the top five in the United Kingdom, and reached number-one in Australia, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, and Sweden. The song's music video, directed by Samuel Bayer and inspired by the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, won the Best Hard Rock Video award at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards.

Versions

An early demo version of this song was entitled "F.O.B.D." (recorded on December 8, 1995) because it reminded the band members of the Soundgarden song "Fell on Black Days", in that the "It grips you...It stains you..." refrain is in the same 6/4 time signature that "Fell on Black Days" is in. The band can be heard saying "Fell on Black Days" on the fanclub-only Fancan 1 CD just prior to jamming on a portion of "Until It Sleeps". The 10-inch vinyl version of the single is red in color. Moby, credited as "Herman Melville", did an industrial-sounding remix used as a B-side.[3]

"Until It Sleeps" became the first "officially" pirated MP3 when it was released by Compress 'Da Audio (a piracy group and spinoff of the Warez scene) via an Internet Relay Chat network on August 10, 1996. An EFnet member on the #mpeg3 IRC channel named Coyote666 was responsible for creating the first mp3 ripping software.[4]

Moby produced a remix of the song, titled "Until It Sleeps (Herman Melville Mix)". The song was performed with orchestral accompaniment on the album S&M.

Lyrics

The lyrics of the song, written by Hetfield, address his mother's battle with cancer, to which the "it" in the title refers. They can be seen as either describing the emotional pain he feels for the loss, or the physical pain his mother was feeling while she was ill. Both of his parents were Christian Scientists, and did not believe in medicine. The lyrics are also interpreted as dealing with anger issues. Hetfield's father, Virgil, died in late 1996, during Metallica's Load tour.

Music video

The song also has a music video 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.[5] The video depicts surreal concepts dealing with the fall of man, 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. The video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video in 1996.[6]

Awards

The song won a 1996 Metal Edge Readers' Choice Award for Song of the Year.[7]

Track listings

US CD single[8]
No.TitleLength
1."Until It Sleeps"4:33
2."Overkill"4:07
UK and European CD1[9]
No.TitleLength
1."Until It Sleeps"4:33
2."2 X 4" (live at Castle Donington, England)6:06
3."F.O.B.D." (aka Until It Sleeps – early 'writing in progress' version)4:56
UK and European CD2[10]
No.TitleLength
1."Until It Sleeps" 
2."Kill/Ride Medley" (live at Castle Donington, England) 
3."Until It Sleeps" (Herman Melville mix) 
Japanese EP[11]
No.TitleLength
1."Until It Sleeps" 
2."Until It Sleeps" (Herman Melville Mix) 
3."Kill/Ride Medley" (live at Castle Donington, England) 
4."2 X 4" (live at Castle Donington, England) 
5."Overkill" (live at the Plant Studios in Sausalito, California) 
6."F.O.B.D." (aka Until It Sleeps – early 'writing in progress' version) 

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[57] Platinum 70,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ)[58] Gold 5,000*
Norway (IFPI Norway)[59] Gold  
Sweden (GLF)[60] Gold 25,000^
United States (RIAA)[62] Gold 500,000[61]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
United Kingdom May 20, 1996
  • 10-inch vinyl
  • CD
 Vertigo [1]
United States May 21, 1996
  • CD
  • cassette
 Elektra [63]
Japan July 3, 1996 CD Sony [64]

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