Creeping Death

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"Creeping Death"
Single by Metallica
from the album Ride the Lightning
B-side	"Am I Evil?" "Blitzkrieg"
Released	November 23, 1984[1]
Recorded	February–March 1984
Studio	Sweet Silence (Copenhagen)
Genre	Thrash metal
Length	6:36
Label	Megaforce Elektra
Composer(s)	Cliff Burton James Hetfield Lars Ulrich Kirk Hammett
Lyricist(s)	James Hetfield Kirk Hammett
Producer(s)	Flemming Rasmussen Metallica
Metallica singles chronology
"Fade to Black" (1984) "Creeping Death" (1984) "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1985)
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"Creeping Death" is a song by American thrash metal band Metallica. It was released on November 23, 1984, as the lead and only commercial single from their album Ride the Lightning ("Fade to Black" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls", from the same album, were issued as promotional singles). Written from the perspective of the Angel of Death, "Creeping Death" describes the tenth plague of Egypt. It is often thought of as one of the band’s most popular songs and is currently the second-most-played song live by them.