This song about an abusive relationship was debuted by Metallica live on August 22, 2008 at the Leeds Festival in the UK, the day after it was first played on the radio.
When this debuted on the Hot 100 on the Billboard magazine issue dated September 6, 2008 this became Metallica's first entry on that chart since "I Disappear" peaked at peaked at #76 in June 2000.
Danish director Thomas Vinterberg directed the music video, which is in a war setting. Vinterberg co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, along with Lars von Trier. The movement was an attempt to simplify movie production. Drummer Lars Ulrich told MTV News that the content of the video is different to what the song's lyrics were actually about. He explained: "It's a story about human beings who don't know each other, in a particularly tense situation. It could be a contemporary war setting, but it's really about forgiveness and redemption and understanding what goes on in people's minds. We really feel that this was such a beautiful and epic way to treat the song in something that was really radically different than the specificity of the lyrics."
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