Harvester of Sorrow
| Harvester of Sorrow | |
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| Metallica | |
| publication | August 28, 1988 |
| length | 5:45 |
| Genre (s) | Heavy metal |
| Author (s) | James Hetfield , Lars Ulrich |
| text | James Hetfield , Lars Ulrich |
| music | James Hetfield , Lars Ulrich |
| album | ... And Justice for All |
Harvester of Sorrow ( English for "Harvest of Sorrows") is a song by the US metal band Metallica . It was released in the UK as the second single from their fourth studio album … And Justice for All , while Eye of the Beholder was released as the second single in North America .
background
Harvester of Sorrow was written by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich . The song is kept at a slow pace for the band at the time. Towards the end of the song she plays it in a counter tactical way. The lyrics are about a man who leads a normal life and has a wife and three children. One day the man goes crazy and kills everyone around him.
As the B-side , the band recorded cover versions of the songs Breadfan and The Prince , which were originally written by the Welsh heavy metal band Budgie and the English heavy metal band Diamond Head .
Live performances
The song was first played on May 23, 1988 at a concert in Los Angeles . Harvester of Sorrow is one of the band's regularly played songs and has been performed over 600 times. Only between 1995 and 2003 was the song not played. A live version of the song was used as the B-side for the single Nothing Else Matters . On this version, the band forgot to play the second chorus .
reception
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The single reached number 20 in the British singles charts . Harvester of Sorrow was ranked 31st on Guitar World magazine's list of the 100 Best Metallica Songs of All Time.
Cover versions
- 2000: Link 80
- 2001: Funker Vogt
- 2003: Apocalyptica
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joel McIver: Justice for All: The Truth About Metallica . Bosworth Music GmbH, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86543-368-8 , p. 249 .
- ↑ Mick Wall, Malcolm Dome: Metallica - story and songs compact . Bosworth Music GmbH, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86543-273-5 , p. 54 .
- ↑ cf. McIver, page 246
- ↑ metlists.com: Harvester Of Sorrow
- ↑ cf. McIver, page 283
- ↑ Chart positions: DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ chartstats.com: Metallica - Harvester Of Sorrow
- ↑ guitarworld.com: The 100 Greatest Metallica Songs of All Time ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
