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"Creeping Death" is a song by American thrash metal band Metallica. It was released on November 23, 1984, as the lead and only commercial single from their album Ride the Lightning (" Fade to Black " and " For Whom the Bell Tolls ", from the same album, were issued as promotional singles).
"Creeping Death" describes the Plague of the Death of the Firstborn (Exodus 12:29). The lyrics deal with the ten plagues visited on Ancient Egypt; four of them are mentioned throughout the song, as well as the Passover. [30] The title was inspired by a scene from The Ten Commandments while the band was watching the movie at Burton's house. [23]
Metallica's original lead guitarist Dave Mustaine co-wrote a number of the band's early songs. Bassist Jason Newsted joined in 1986, performed on four studio albums and co-wrote three songs. Producer Bob Rock performed bass on St. Anger and was co-credited for writing on all the album's songs. 2008's Death Magnetic was credited to the whole ...
Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres.. He is best known as the author of I Am Legend, a 1954 science fiction horror novel that has been adapted for the screen three times.
"Creeping Death" (1984) " Fade to Black " is a song and the first power ballad by the American heavy metal band Metallica , released as the first promotional single from their second studio album, Ride the Lightning (1984).
Jason Curtis Newsted (born March 4, 1963) is an American musician, best known as the bassist of heavy metal band Metallica from 1986 to 2001. He performed with thrash metal band Flotsam and Jetsam for the first five years of his career before joining Metallica in October 1986 to succeed Cliff Burton, who died the month prior.
The song was made most famous by Metallica's cover of the song, originally released as a B-side to the "Creeping Death" single in 1984, included on the 1988 Japanese re-release of its debut album, Kill 'Em All, and later re-released on Garage Inc. in 1998. The song has also been featured in Metallica's live set throughout its career, often in a ...
According to Hetfield, the song is about the "taboo word of suicide" and to communicate the "darkness we feel inside of us", [5] further adding how people cannot deny that they have had dark thoughts at one point in their lives.