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"Harvester of Sorrow" is a song by the American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released on August 28, 1988, as the first single from their fourth studio album, ...And Justice for All (1988). The song debuted at a live performance prior to the release of ...And Justice for All while the band was on the summer Monsters of Rock Tour in 1988 ...
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Harvester of Sorrow is the sixth track off of Metallica's fourth album ...And Justice for All and is written by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.
In 1986, two years before the live debut of the song, a book was written called The Harvest of Sorrow. It revealed the story of the deaths of five to ten million Ukrainians at the hands of the Soviet government, called the Holodomor. The Metallica song is strikingly similar to the images presented in the book. The term "Harvester of Sadness" has been used to refer to the Grim Reaper, but in this case, it is especially appropriate because the Holodomor was a mass starvation due to government destruction and takeover of farming: the communist farm "Collectivization" program, in which soldiers invaded peasant villages, beat and killed people or sent them to be worked to death in concentration camps, destroyed their crops and executed anybody who stockpiled food or tried to replant. Holodomor means "death by hunger". The collectivization was presented to the public as sowing the seeds of a better world through more efficient central farms, but the reality was the destruction of the Ukraine.
Structurally, it is similar to Leper Messiah, a song in the "Master of Puppets" album.
•"Harvester of Sorrow" was first performed live on May 23, 1988, in Los Angeles, CA.
•As of December 2022, "Harvester of Sorrow" has been played live 801 times.
Nov 15, 2023 · Metallica have released new pro-shot footage of the band playing Harvester Of Sorrow live. The song, which was originally featured on 1988’s …And Justice For All, was filmed during the band’s set in St Louis, Missouri, on November 3.
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