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| live=[[Wave Goodbye Tour]]<br>[[Europe + Asia 2018]]through present}}'''"Metal"''' is the eighth track on ''[[Things Falling Apart]],'' a [[Cover Songs|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".

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*Manipulation: [[Trent Reznor]], [[Alan Moulder]]

This is the only available version. The end of the song features a drawn-out instrumental referencing several other Numan songs: the higher-pitched synth line is [[samples|sampled]] from "M.E." (also from ''The Pleasure Principle''), while the piano line references "Remember I Was Vapour" (from 1980's ''Telekon''). There is also a sample of "UFO" by ESG.

"Metal" 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 a few times in 2018.