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Creeping Death is de eerste single van Metallica's album, Ride the Lightning uit 1984. Het nummer is geschreven door Cliff Burton, Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield en Lars Ulrich. De tekst beschrijft enkele van de Tien Plagen uit de Exodus. Het nummer dankt zijn titel aan een moment waarop de band de film, The Ten Commandments, aan het kijken was. Op een zeker moment in de film sprak bassist Cliff Burton: "Whoa, that's like creeping death!" waarop zanger/gitarist James Hetfield zei: "Whoa, man, write that down, sheer poetry!"

"Creeping Death" is a song by American thrash metal band Metallica. It was released on November 23, 1984, as the lead and only commercial single from their album Ride the Lightning ("Fade to Black" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls", from the same album, were issued as promotional singles). Written from the perspective of the Angel of Death, "Creeping Death" describes the tenth plague of Egypt. It is often thought of as one of the band’s most popular songs and is currently the second-most-played song live by them.