All Nightmare Long (song)

Song

Tour Dates

All Nightmare Long is the fifth track and fifth single on Death Magnetic.

About

It appears to contain segments from two songs, an unused song from the St. Anger sessions entitled "Shadow of the Cross" and a song that was only peformed live entitled "The New Song". A single was released on December 15, 2008.

Video

A music video of this song was made in which in the year 1913 the USSR finds a spore that is able to reincarnate the dead. They learn how to control it and in 1949 release the spore on America. The spore causes a zombie apocalypse in the United States. Within days the country and its military forces are overrun. Russia then takes out the spore and claims America as its own.

Live

• "All Nightmare Long" has been performed live 103 times as of January, 2025.
• "All Nightmare Long" was first performed live on December 5th, 2008, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, at the Pengrowth Saddledome, during the World Magnetic Tour.
• It was last performed live on September 14th, 2015, in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, at the Colisée Pepsi, during the Lords of Summer Tour.

Lyrics

 Luck. Runs. Out.
 
 Crawl from the wreckage one more time
 Horrific memory twists the mind
 Dark, rutted, cold and hard to turn
 Path of destruction feel it burn
 
     Still life... incarnation
     Still life... infamy
 
     Hallucination 
     Heresy
     Still you run, what's to come, what's to be
 
           'Cause we...
           Hunt you down without mercy
           Hunt you down all nightmare long
           Feel us breathe upon your face
           Feel us shift, every move we trace
           Hunt you down without mercy
           Hunt you down all nightmare long, yeah
  
           Luck. Runs. Out.
           You crawl back in, 
           But your luck runs out
 
 Luck. Runs. Out.
 
 The light that is not light is here
 To flush you out with your own fear
 You hide, you hide but will be found
 Release your grip without a sound
 
     Still life... immolation
     Still life... infamy
 	
     Hallucination 
     Heresy
     Still you run, what's to come, what's to be
 
         'Cause we...
         Hunt you down without mercy
         Hunt you down all nightmare long
         Feel us breathe upon your face
         Feel us shift, every move we trace
         Hunt you down without mercy
         Hunt you down all nightmare long
  
         Luck. Runs. Out.
         You crawl back in, 
         But your luck runs out
 
 Then you crawl back in,
 Into your obsession
 Never to return
 This is your confession
 
      Hunt you down without mercy
      Hunt you down all nightmare long
      Feel us breathe upon your face
      Feel us shift, every move we trace
      Hunt you down without mercy
      Hunt you down all nightmare long
   
      Luck. Runs. Out.
      You crawl back in, 
      But your luck runs out
 
 Your luck runs out