Black Metallic

Dickinson and Futter wrote it. The single's producer is listed as Catherine Wheel while the album was produced by Friese-Greene and Lee; length is 7:18 on the infobox and Ferment tracklist and 7:16 on the single tracklist. The B-sides were "Crawling All Over Me", "Let Me Down Again" and "Saccharine". It reached 68 in the UK and 9 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks; Wikipedia says it broke Catherine Wheel to the American public, aided by a year-long US tour and heavy MTV rotation. PopMatters reads it as a love letter to an unnamed android tied to gadget lust, which is the reviewer's interpretation, not the band's.