The Shortest Straw - 1986 / From James' Riff Tapes

Recording by Metallica.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
QMKHM1700256
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x8d09ec9edceafd0115792a702c9dec3e76c713887bc0f47cd0257b69fc6c5eaf
Copyright registration time
2026-06-22T15:56:31+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-02T03:55:08Z
Bitcoin block
956304
Canonical record hash
sha256:f21b5c29655bfbf4e8df5bd3db04d5050cc9b21f74d57a99fd3a12ab94932672

What this proof establishes

This recording belongs to ProofProfile's historical evidence base derived from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz corpus. 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.