Nick Cave, with his band the Bad Seeds, found lyric inspiration in the darkest corners of the human condition.

Album:
Garage Inc.

The cover of:
The song "Loverman" was originally released by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in 1994 on the album "Let Love In".

What Metallica says about it:
Cave first came to James' attention through Metallica's producer Bob Rock who gave James a copy of Cave's death-song cycle "Murder Ballads".

James: "I went, Whoah! These are cool songs and they're all about murders, but that made me investigate his other material and I was turned on by it completly, by the moods he created."

James again: "He's got the nice mellow stuff and goes straight into chaotic hell. He builds these things into giant ugliness. That's the kind of stuff we were doing with 'Fade To Black' acoustic to heavy, one extreme to the other, and I saw a lot of that in Nick Cave. That's what this Loverman is really all about."