Jedna z nejvýraznějších metalových skupin světa, klasikové tohoto stylu (zpočátku řazeni k odrůdě thrash nebo speed). Sami přiznávají prvotní vliv Black Sabbath. Navíc výborní instrumentalisté. Skupina vzniká v r. 1981 v americkém Norwalku...

Píseň: The Shortest Straw

Interpret:
Metallica
Album:
...And Justice For All
Suspicion is your name 
Your honesty to blame 
Put dignity to shame 
Dishonor 
Witchhunt modern day 
Determining decay 
The blattand disarray 
Disfigure 
The public eyes' disgrace 
Defying common place 
Unending paper chase 
Unending 


Deafening 
Painstaking 
Reckoning 
This vertigo it doth bring 


Shortest straw 
Challenge liberty 
Downed by law 
Live in infamy 
Rub you raw 
Witchhunt riding through 
Shortest straw 
This shortest straw has been pulled for you 


Pulled for you 
Shortest straw 
Pulled for you 
Shortest straw 
Pulled for you 
Shortest straw 
Shortest straw has been pulled for you 


The accusations fly 
Discrimination, why? 
Your inner self to die 
Intruding 
Doubt sunk itself in you 
It's teeth and talons through 
Your living catch 22 
Deluding 


A mass hysteria 
A megalomania 
Reveal dementia 
Reveal 


Secretly 
Silently 
Certainly 
In vertigo you will be 


Shortest straw 
Chalenge liberty 
Downed by law 
Live in infamy 
Rub you raw 
Witchhunt riding through 
Shortest straw 
This shortest straw has been pulled for you 


Pulled for you 
Shortest straw 
Pulled for you 
Shortest straw 
Pulled for you 
Shortest straw 
Shortest straw has been pulled for you 


Shortest straw 
Pulled for you 
Shortest straw 
Pulled for you 
Shortest straw 
Pulled for you 
Shortest straw 
Shortest straw has been pulled for you 


Behind you, hands are tied 
Your being, ostracized 
Your hell is multiplied 
Upending 
The fallaout has begun 
Oppresive damage done 
Your many turned to none 
To nothing 
You're reaching your nadir 
Your will has disappeared 
The lie is crystal clear 
Defending 


Channels red 
One word said 
Blaclisted 
With vertigo make you dead 


Shortest straw 
Chalenge liberty 
Downed by law 
Live in infamy 
Rub you raw 
Witchhunt riding through 
Shortest straw 
This shortest straw has been pulled for you 
Pulled for you