Cyanide

Happy 24th Metallica day! A very boring, boring-covered with boring filling 24th Metallica day...and past week. Weeks. Isn't fall just beautiful?

Shamefully updating the blog now, I just wanted to post this track that I've been listening for the past few days, and that is now my ringtone, and that starting blasting out of my pocket in the middle of the math test today. Oh, joy.

Exit Light, Enter Night

Metallica's most played song on the radio, Enter Sandman is a kickass classic, powerful, and with every note falling in its exact place. A milestone for the band, it was the first single from The Black Album/Metallica (self titled) album in '91, when the band headed towards a slightly more mainstream direction. The song became a huge succes after its release, battling Smells like Teen Spirit for popularity at the time.

Kirk Hammet wrote the intro trying to capture some of Soundgarden's energy into a powerful guitar riff, so after various attempts, Hammet recorded the final version of the solo on a tape that he later showed Ulrich, and the songwriting took off from there.

The band quickly put together the rest of the instrumental part, but the lyrics took a longer while, as Hetfield said that the commercial sound needed a dark story, so that it would be balanced. He first wanted the theme to be death, with references to crib death and destroying the perfect family. However, the band then decided to make the song the opening track for The Black Album and the first single, so they changed the lyrics' theme to something lighter, which was a child's struggle with nightmares.

Dreams of war, dreams of liars

Dreams of dragon's fire

And of things that will bite

Wicked

Single Covers

One (...And Justice for All, January 10, 1989)

Wherever I May Roam (The Black Album, October 19, 1992)

Creeping Death (Ride the Lightning, November 23, 1984)

Up all night to celebrate the day

Blink 182 is such a cute band. And this is the first new song released in, what, 8 years? Something like that. Upcoming album on September 27th, yaay. These guys are the only pop-punk(or whatever their genre really is) band left in my playlist. They're good. The kinda band that makes you think "Wow, this is awesome, I shouldn't be wasting time listetning to these dudes and I should go out and party and travel see places and meet people and develop crushes on cute strangers like their music suggests, but these guys sound so good, I'm gonna stay here and listen to them instead." Hehe.

Ain't No Sunshine

Bill Withers' original "Ain't no Sunshine" in 1971 has known, over time, quite a number of covers of various genres, from worldwide known artists such as Lenny Kravitz and Michael Jackson (back from when he was a kid) to more obscure bands that had a different approach to the original song resulting in tracks such as Atlas' smooth-jazzy-funky cover (my personal favourite) or Subsonica's dub sounding version, or, another great one, the drum'n'bass cover belonging to Bachelors of Science, which, i admit, slightly ashamed of my 21st century ignorance, was my first contact ever with this masterpiece. That doesn't change the fact that Bachelors of Science did an awesome job, though :)

The original song was inspired by the 1962 movie Days of Wine and Roses and its characters struggling with alcohol addiction, as they miss something that is obviously harmful to them.

P.S Sidenote on the original clip, that drummer is awesome xD as the people posting the comments noticed it too, "He knows something we don't." *drummer grin*

Until It Sleeps

This song quickly made its way to my heart a few days ago, after hearing it again in a while. It is the 4th song from Metallica's LP Load, released in 1996. The lyrics, written by Hetfield, speak about both his parents' death due to cancer, and the pain described can either be Hetfield emotional struggle or his parents physical pain through the disease.

Another amazing song added to the list of amazing songs written and performed by Metallica.

Metallica-Until it Sleeps