"Until It Sleeps" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on May 20, 1996, as the lead single from their sixth studio album, Load. "Until It Sleeps" reached number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100, making it Metallica's highest-charting single and only top-10 hit in the United States. The song also topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, peaked within the top five in the United Kingdom, and reached number one in Australia, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, and Sweden. The song's music video, directed by Samuel Bayer and inspired by the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, won the Best Hard Rock Video award at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards.