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| live=N/A[[Wave Goodbye Tour]]<br>[[Europe + Asia 2018]] through present}}'''"Metal"''' is the eighth track on ''[[Things Falling Apart]],'' a cover of [[Gary Numan]] from his 1979 album ''The Pleasure Principle''. An early, partial leak of the cover from ''[[The Fragile]]'' era was remixed and shared under various names, most often the "Lee Completion Mix."

'''"Metal"''' is the eighth track on ''[[Things Falling Apart]].'' It's a cover of ''"Metal"'' by [[Gary Numan]]. The end of the song features a drawn-out instrumental which references referencing several other Numan songs. The : the higher-pitched synth line is taken from "M.E."(also from ''The Pleasure Principle''), while the piano line references "Remember I Was Vapour"(from 1980's ''Telekon'').

"Metal" has never been was performed live for the first time on the [[2009/05/08 West Palm Beach, FL|opening date]] of the [[Wave Goodbye Tour|NIN|JA 2009]] tour and was performed frequently through the final [[Wave Goodbye Tour|Wave Goodbye]] dates. The song returned after nine years when it was played livea few times in 2018.

And I'm frightened by the liquid engineersengineer

I could should learn to be a man

Picture this if they could I should make the change

Here inside I like the metal On Don't you?

==External Links==*[[Categoryhttp://vimeo.com/6859071 NIN Songs: "Metal" with Gary Numan, live from on stage, London 7.15.09]*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz9-gpeDMO0 "Metal" with Gary Numan, live on the Cold And Black And Infinite Tour] [[Category:NIN Songs Never Played Live]][[Category:Covers]]