History NightmareFuel / Metallica

* Try listening to "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" and not imagining yourself [[MistakenForInsane in that situation]]. The narrator slowly becomes insane, and ultimately resorts to [[AxCrazy murdering the orderlies]] and [[TheBadGuyWins escaping]].

* Try listening to "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" and not imagining yourself in that situation.

!!''Music/[[LoadAndReLoad Load]]'':

!!''Music/[[LoadAndReLoad ReLoad]]'':

!!''Music/AndJusticeForAll'':

!!''Ride the Lightning'':

!!''Master of Puppets'':

!!''...And Justice for All'':

!!''Metallica'':
* "Enter Sandman" is a song quite explicitly about nightmares. It takes the lighthearted folktale of the Sandman, and twists it into something ''terrifying''.

!!''Load'':

!!''Reload'':

!!''St. Anger'':
* ''St. Anger'' its entirety, if you think of it as a [[ConceptAlbum concept album]] about someone slowly losing their sanity until the last track, "All Within My Hands". They go completely insane after two failed suicide attempts, those being "Purify" and "The Unnamed Feeling". The effect of this is that they violently murder their loved one and then the only thing they think about....is '''KILL.''' It's genuinely disturbing.

!!''Death Magnetic'':

[[caption-width-right:300:[[AndIMustScream Landmine has taken my sight, taken my speech, taken my hearing, taken my arms, taken my legs, taken my soul, left me with life in hell...]]

[[caption-width-right:300:[[LandMineGoesClick Landmine has]] [[EyeScream taken my sight]], [[AndIMustScream taken my speech]], [[ICantHearYou taken my hearing]], [[AnArmAndALeg taken my arms, taken my legs]], [[DreamCrushingHandicap taken my soul]], [[DespairEventHorizon left me with life in hell.....]]]]

* Try listening to "One" and not imagining yourself [[AndIMustScream in that situation]]. Watching the video is even worse.

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* "For Whom The Bell Tolls", based on [[{{Creator/ErnestHemingway}} Ernest Hemingway's]] [[Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls eponymous novel]], describes in excruciating detail the scene where the anti-fascist rebels are surrounded on a hill and bombarded into oblivion by the Falangist Air Force.

* "The House Jack Built" is quite possibly the most harrowing song about alcoholism ever written. Hetfield wrote the song about his own battles with alcohol addiction and the slow, plodding snails pace of the song perfectly emulates the feeling of being drunk and lethargic all the time.

* "Where The Wild Things Are" is about child soldiers, and whose playground became the battlefield.

* "Spit Out The Bone" is a horrific insight into the ever-increasing reliance and dependence on technology. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m46Z0-HXySo The video doesn't make it much better,]] as it's plagued with various slips of [[TransformationHorror people transforming into robots and/or androids]] and horrifying imagery.

* "The Memory Remains". You're lying if you say that the old woman ({{Music/MarianneFaithfull}}, a famous English singer and actor) singing and playing the barrel organ isn't going to keep you up at night. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnJcB2NvOYU Something like this]].