For Whom The Bell Tolls (The Irony Of It All)

Recording by Metallica.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USSM19701309
Release date of the album this recording appears on
1997-07-29
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x8e1a19a4ea3da08ea432027adaa5322eaa67a70ed2caa20d9ea196e0c55bbbc4
Copyright registration time
2026-06-07T19:31:29+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-06-13T12:53:06Z
Bitcoin block
953515
Canonical record hash
sha256:0d1fab638062c5d8775712ef622038e13a28976f640b90ad386232daec0b7799

What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 1997, before generative AI. ProofProfile's catalogue derives from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz source corpus, and ISRC is the stable recording-level bridge from that source corpus to the authoritative cc-db-prod track record.

CopyrightChains and Bitcoin OpenTimestamps make the exact committed record independently verifiable today. The cryptographic proof does not by itself establish authorship or ownership of the underlying recording.

Read the complete pre-generative-AI provenance and verification method.