Sad but True

Infobox Single
Name = Sad But True


Artist = Metallica
from Album = Metallica
B-side = "Harvester of Sorrow" (live)/"So What?"
"Nothing Else Matters" (Elevator Version)/"Creeping Death" (live)/"Sad but True" (Demo)
Released = 1992
Format = CD single
Recorded = 1991-1992
Genre = Heavy metal
Length = 5:24
Label = Elektra Records
Writer = James Hetfield
Lars Ulrich
Producer = Bob Rock
Chart position = * #98 (U.S. Hot 100)
* #15 (U.S. Mainstream Rock)
* #20 (U.K. Singles)
Last single = "Wherever I May Roam"
(1992)
This single = "Sad but True"
(1992)
Next single = "Until It Sleeps"
(1996)"Sad but True" is a heavy metal song recorded by Metallica for their fifth studio album "Metallica". The song was released as the album's fifth single in mid-1992. Its lyrical theme is based on the film "Magic" (1978).Fact|date=September 2008

"Sad but True" is one of five songs released as a single off "Metallica". The song was included on Metallica's live collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Michael Kamen), entitled "S&M".

Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Sad but True".

UK Single #1

#"Sad but True" (James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich) - 5:27
#"Harvester of Sorrow (Live)" (Hetfield/Ulrich) - 6:40
#"So What" (Nick "Animal" Kulmer, Chris "Magoo" Exall, Clive "Winston" Blake) - 3:09

"Harvester of Sorrow" recorded live on September 28, 1991 at Tushino Air Field, Moscow, Russia

UK Single #2

#"Sad but True" (Hetfield, Ulrich) - 5:27
#"Nothing Else Matters (Elevator Version)" (Hetfield, Ulrich) - 6:31
#"Creeping Death (Live)" (Kirk Hammett, Hetfield, Cliff Burton, Ulrich) - 8:01
#"Sad but True (Demo)" (Hetfield, Ulrich) - 4:53

"Creeping Death" recorded live on September 28, 1991 at Tushino Air Field, Moscow, Russia

UK Single #3 Picture Disc

#"Sad but True" (Hetfield, Ulrich)
#"Nothing Else Matters (Live)" (Hetfield, Ulrich)
#"Sad but True (Live)" (Hetfield, Ulrich)

US Cassette

#"Sad but True" (Hetfield, Ulrich)
#"So What" (Nick "Animal" Kulmer, Chris "Magoo" Exall, Clive "Winston" Blake)

Other appearances and covers

The instrumental structure of the song was sampled by rap/rock musician Kid Rock in his song "American Bad Ass" in 2000. This song was, at one point, used as entrance theme of World Wrestling Entertainment wrestler The Undertaker. It was later parodied by the rock band Tuff in a song called "American Hair Band" from their album "The History of Tuff". Kid Rock covers the song on his 2008 Rock N Roll Jesus Tour.

A snippet of "Sad but True" was performed live by Snoop Dogg on the tribute show MTV Icon Metallica edition in 2003.

The song was covered by Joey Belladonna, Bruce Kulick, Marco Mendoza, and Eric Singer for "Metallic Assault: A Tribute to Metallica". It was also covered by In Strict Confidence on "An Industrial Tribute to Metallica" and by Nickelback at Rock am Ring, a rock music festival held annually in Germany.