“Unforgiven II” by Metallica

Metallica went back to one of their own for "The Unforgiven II", a track from 1997's Reload that picks up the thread of "The Unforgiven" from the 1991 self-titled album. James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett wrote it, and Bob Rock produced it for Elektra. The verses echo the chord progression of the old song's chorus, and Hetfield plays the verse melody on a B-Bender, a guitar rigged so the B-string can be bent on its own.

Matt Mahurin directed the video in Los Angeles in December 1997 and stayed close to the first clip's story, swapping its blank room for a tunnel: a shirtless boy is stuck in a wall that crumbles piece by piece as he grows up, until waves crash against the far side and the whole thing drifts into abstraction. A third installment followed in 2008.

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