...And Justice for All (album)

Song Notes

"One" was Metallica's first music video and incited much controversy among Metallica fans, who had valued the band's apparent opposition to MTV and other forms of obvious commercial metal. Importantly, Metallica chose a slower, more introspective song for their first video (rather than a generically consistent thrash song). Nevertheless, the video, in the course of presenting the storyline of the song (based on Dalton Trumbo's 1939 anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun), primarily presents the members of Metallica as a close-knit group of highly skilled musicians.

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Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun

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"To Live Is To Die" is a tribute to their former bassist Cliff Burton. Though the track is considered an instrumental track, it contains very few lyrics near the end of the song written by Burton which are spoken by Hetfield.

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