Metallica "Frantic (Japanese Single & Video)"

"Frantic" is the second single and opening track from American heavy metal band Metallica's 2003 album St. Anger.

This song, like many others on St. Anger, is about the band's past struggles with addictions, particularly lead singer James Hetfield's alcohol problem, for which he spent many months in rehab. The lyrics also draw on zen axioms, most notably the Buddhist concept of dukkha brought up by Kirk Hammett: "Birth is pain. Life is pain. Death is pain. It's All The Same."

A music video, directed by Wayne Isham, was made to go along with Frantic's release as a single. The video, featuring a shortened version of the song, depicts a man looking back on his life (in which he is constantly drinking, having sex, and smoking) at the instant that he crashes his rotisserie delivery pickup truck into an RV at an intersection. Intercut with those clips are scenes of the band performing the song in front of a pile of scrap metal (Hetfield and Hammett) and a set of rocks (Ulrich and Trujillo) At the end of the video, although the man's truck is upside-down, he finds himself still alive and laughs loudly until another car crashes into the window where he is located. The video was shot in Montreal, Canada.

Despite many of the tracklists appearing to be the same, each version below has live tracks performed at different shows within that region.

International single part 2:

1. Frantic
2. No Remorse (Live)
3. Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (Live)

International 2-track single:

1. Frantic
2. No Remorse (Live)

Belgian single:

1. Frantic
2. Harvester of Sorrow (Live)
3. Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (Live)
4. No Remorse (Live)

Spanish single:

1. Frantic
2. Harvester of Sorrow (Live)
3. Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (Live)
4. No Remorse (Live)

Italian single:

1. Frantic
2. Blackened (Live)
3. Harvester of Sorrow (Live)
4. Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (Live)
5. No Remorse (Live)

Danish single:

1. Frantic
2. Blackened (live)
3. Harvester of Sorrow (live)
4. Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (live)
5. No Remorse (live)

German single:

1. Frantic
2. Harvester of Sorrow (live)
3. Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (live)

French single:

1. Frantic
2. Blackened (live)
3. Harvester of Sorrow (live)
4. Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (live)

Japanese EP:

1. Frantic
2. Blackened (live)
3. Harvester of Sorrow (live)
4. Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (live)
5. No Remorse (live)

International vinyl single:

1. Frantic
2. Frantic (UNKLE Reconstruction - Artifical Confidence)

Blackened (Live)

Recorded live on June 1, 2003 at the Download Festival in Donington, England

Mixed by Mike Gillies

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)

Harvester of Sorrow (Live)

Recorded live on June 1, 2003 at the Download Festival in Donington, England

Mixed by Mike Gillies

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)

Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (Live)

Recorded live on June 1, 2003 at the Download Festival in Donington, England

Mixed by Mike Gillies

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)

No Remorse (Live)

Recorded live on June 1, 2003 at the Download Festival in Donington, England

Mixed by Mike Gillies

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)

Harvester of Sorrow (Live)

Recorded live on June 15, 2003 at the Fields of Rock Festival in Nijmegen, Netherlands

Recorded by Kink FM

Mixed by Mike Gillies

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)

Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (Live)

Recorded live on June 28, 2003 at the Rock Werchter Festival in Werchter, Belgium

Recorded by Studio Brussel

Mixed by Mike Gillies

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)

No Remorse (Live)

Recorded live on June 28, 2003 at the Rock Werchter Festival in Werchter, Belgium

Recorded by Studio Brussel

Mixed by Mike Gillies

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)

Harvester of Sorrow (Live)

Recorded live on June 21, 2003 at the Doctor Music Festival in Barcelona, Spain

Mixed by Mike Gillies

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)

Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (Live)

Recorded live on June 21, 2003 at the Doctor Music Festival in Barcelona, Spain

Mixed by Mike Gillies

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)

No Remorse (Live)

Recorded live on June 21, 2003 at the Doctor Music Festival in Barcelona, Spain

Mixed by Mike Gillies

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)

Blackened (Live)

Recorded live on June 21, 2003 at the Imola Jammin' Festival in Imola, Italy

Mixed by Mike Gillies

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)

Harvester of Sorrow (Live)

Recorded live on June 13, 2003 at the Imola Jammin' Festival in Imola, Italy

Mixed by Mike Gillies

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)

Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (Live)

Recorded live on June 13, 2003 at the Imola Jammin' Festival in Imola, Italy

Mixed by Mike Gillies

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)

No Remorse (Live)

Recorded live on June 13, 2003 at the Imola Jammin' Festival in Imola, Italy

Mixed by Mike Gillies

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)

Blackened (Live)

Recorded live on June 26, 2003 at the Roskilde Festival in Roskilde, Denmark

Recorded by Danish Broadcasting Corporation P3

Mixed by Mike Gillies

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)

Harvester of Sorrow (Live)

Recorded live on June 26, 2003 at the Roskilde Festival in Roskilde, Denmark

Recorded by Danish Broadcasting Corporation P3

Mixed by Mike Gillies

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)

Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (Live)

Recorded live on June 26, 2003 at the Roskilde Festival in Roskilde, Denmark

Recorded by Danish Broadcasting Corporation P3

Mixed by Mike Gillies

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)

No Remorse (Live)

Recorded live on June 26, 2003 at the Roskilde Festival in Roskilde, Denmark

Recorded by Danish Broadcasting Corporation P3

Mixed by Mike Gillies

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)

Harvester of Sorrow (Live)

Recorded live on June 8, 2003 at the Rock Am Ring Festival in Nürburgring, Germany

Mixed by Mike Gillies

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)

Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (Live)

Recorded live on June 8, 2003 at the Rock Am Ring Festival in Nürburgring, Germany

Mixed by Mike Gillies

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)

Blackened (Live)

Recorded live on the hottest day in French history, June 11, 2003 at Le Bataclan in Paris, France, during our brief Three-Gigs-A-Day Club Tour.

Mixed by Mike Gillies

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)

Harvester of Sorrow (Live)

Recorded live on the hottest day in French history, June 11, 2003 at Le Boule Noire in Paris, France, during our brief Three-Gigs-A-Day Club Tour.

Mixed by Mike Gillies

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)

Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (Live)

Recorded live on the hottest day in French history, June 11, 2003 at Le Boule Noire in Paris, France, during our brief Three-Gigs-A-Day Club Tour.

Mixed by Mike Gillies

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)

Frantic (UNKLE Reconstruction - Artifical Confidence)

Remixed by J. Lavelle, R. File and D. Taylor for UNKLENTERTAINMENT

Pro-Tools & Programming: Damien Taylor and Richard File

Addional Programming: Richard Flack

Mixed by Damien Taylor and Richard Flack

Bass Guitar: Luke Hannon

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP) and EMI Blackwood Music, Inc./Mahina Hoku Publishing

Frantic (Video)

Director: Wayne Isham

Filmed in July 2003 in Montreal, Canada

© Creeping Death Music (ASCAP) and EMI Blackwood Music, Inc./Mahina Hoku Publishing