Metallica : For Whom The Bell Tolls (Featuring Cliff Burton)

January 15, 2014 by Jarrod Vrazel

Metallica’s For Whome The Bell Toll, featuring a searing into by Cliff Burton, was filemed live on August 31, 1985 at Day On The Green in Oakland, CA. Written by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Cliff Burton, For Whom The Bell Tolls was inspired Enest Hemingway’s 1940 novel.

Cliff Burton died September 27, 1986 in a bus accident on the Masters of Puppets Tour in Sweden. RIP Cliff.

“Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry

Stranger now are his eyes to this mystery

He hears the silence so loud

Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be

Now they see what will be, blinded eyes to see”

Featured on Metallica’s 1984 album Ride The Lighting, For Whom The Bell Tolls ranked Number 16 on the 1990 ZRock 1000.