The Thing That Should Not Be - 1985 / From James' Riff Tapes

Recording by Metallica.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
QMKHM1600413
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x3d1762c4c833d666f5919bcee3e557bd0d3fafef24f925584f081b2d7828378d
Copyright registration time
2026-06-25T15:11:13+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-02T03:55:08Z
Bitcoin block
956304
Canonical record hash
sha256:1e3895620c5617172e84e2309fa026f0aab5592ced2e3b08a4dde283d589738b

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.