METALLICA's 'The Day That Never Comes' Named Top Metal Video Of Last Decade

METALLICA's "The Day That Never Comes" was voted the No. 1 metal video of the last decade in an online poll conducted by MTV Greece's "Headbangers Ball". The results of he poll, which ended on March 16, were announced on last Tuesday's show as well as on MTV Greece's official web site.

"Headbangers Ball Top 10" videos of the last decade:

01. METALLICA - "The Day That Never Comes"
02. LAMB OF GOD - "Walk With Me In Hell"
03. MACHINE HEAD - "Now I Lay Thee Down"
04. SYSTEM OF A DOWN - "Chop Suey"
05. SLIPKNOT - "Duality"
06. TOOL - "Schism"
07. NIGHTWISH - "Nemo"
08. RAMMSTEIN - "Mein Teil"
09. IRON MAIDEN - "The Wicker Man"
10. THE DEVIN TOWNSEND BAND - "Vampira"

"The Day That Never Comes" video was shot in July 2008 in Acton, California (about an hour's drive north of Los Angeles).

METALLICA guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield told MTV.com that the clip isn't making any lofty political statements about the war in Iraq. Instead, it's a statement on humanity, helmed by acclaimed Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking. Hetfield said that when he was writing the song's lyrics, he never envisioned the video would look anything like this.

"That's the beauty, I think, of writing vague but powerful lyrics — that someone like a movie director can interpret it in his own way and obviously, someone creative is able to take the metaphors and apply them to whatever he needs in his own life," the frontman explained to MTV.com. "The main [theme of the video] is the human element of forgiveness and someone doing you wrong, you feeling resentment and you being able to see through that in the next situation that might be similar and not take your rage or resentment out on the next person and basically keep spreading the disease of that through life."

He added, "The one thing that I wasn't keen on here was METALLICA plugging into a modern war or a current event [that] might be construed as some sort of political statement on our part. There are so many celebrities that soapbox their opinions, and people believe it's more valid because they're popular. For us, people are people — you should all have your own opinion. We are hopefully putting the human element in what is an unfortunate part of life. There are people over there dealing with situations like this, and we're showing the human part of being there.

"It's the forgiveness part — that is key," he continued. "METALLICA has never plugged into any current event visually, but this one is kind of a hotbed. People have very high opinions about this war, and we're trying to cut through all of that. The politics and the religion tend to separate people, and what we're trying to do is bring it together with the common thread of resentment and forgiveness."

The Greek version of MTV's "Headbangers Ball" is hosted by Orpheus Spiliotopoulos and Vanessa Christodoulou and airs every Tuesday at midnight. The show can also be viewed via MTV Greece's web site in the "Video Galleries" section.