Ive ripped of riffs without knowing it too. Like I made a riff and then my dad was like "man that sounds like a part in sabbath bloody sabbath" well I have never even heard that before and then I looked it up and was like :O
of couse it is a rip off, but who cares really, all the bands rip each other off to some degree, i'm a huge Metallica fan myself, but if you don't see the similarities between the two songs you are kidding yourself. Excel were a well known band on the bay area scene and Metallica were very aware of the bands in and around that scene. Furthermore, if you do your homework, you will see there are a lot more connections bewteen the bands then you think, pushead being one of them.
By the way, James did an interview a while back admitting they lifted the riff from Sanitarium from Bleak House; so it's not exactly like they don't have previous.
As a musician I've ripped off riffs all the time without even knowing it. When you listen to a lot of music the way most musicians do it all just kind of creeps into your playing.
@BatteryRock yea... but weeks before metallica recorded enter sandman, their manage went to see excel live.... their is even an interview where James admits he stole it..
@BatteryRock I know, there were a lot of times where I've made a riff and I thought to myself, "Wow, this is a pretty awesome riff!" But found out later that it was a song that I already knew. I've even made riffs that were pretty much exact from songs that I didn't even know, that's a pretty crappy experience!
Just because it's Metallica, all the fanboys get protective. Same thing happens with Led Zeppelin fans. But you can't deny, this is a clear rip off, or a huge coincidence, if you believe in that sort of thing.
@Branovix Dude! that's exactly what i've been saying!.people are so goddamn ignorant!. you can only play so many chords,and sometimes you can accidentally rip off somethings. the same thing applies to people saying that the chilli peppers and green day have gone soft and "pussy" but you can only play so many songs in a particular fashion then you have to change up your style a bit or else everything you do will sound the same. only a true musician will understand this.
@nozen13 some dumb-shit will probably disagree with me and want to start shit over youtube but fortunately that individividual is probably gonnna be a little high school macho man punk
@nozen13 I see what you're saying, but Metallica has done this way too many times to be a coincidence. Check Out:
"Rainbow Warrior" by Bleak House (Welcome Home: Sanitarium)
"Tapping Into the Emotional Void" by Excel (Enter Sandman)
and "Unforgiven II is taken from Iron Maiden's "Children of the Damned, which is itself taken from Jimi Hendrix's "1983 (A Merman I should Turn To Be)
Many bands ripped off metallica's riffs specially in the early days. you can hear their riffs in almost all metal songs today. why only bash metallica for a single riff? c'mon!
Metallica is one of my favorite bands, and one of the reasons I am into Metal. I can honestly say, who cares? This is my least favorite Metallica song after King Nothing, so I'm not surprised it came from somewhere else.
It's worth noting that Hammet's Enter Sandman riff was originally played by just alternating from the first part to the tail - same structure as this Excel riff. Lars later suggested repeating the main part for 3 bars and then only playing the tail at the end. Compared that way, the riffs would sound even closer. But then, Metallica didn't record it that way. Could have been the inspiration though.
Well in the Metallica song, the note that rings at the end of the main riff is A, or the 4th to the root not which is E. In the Excel song, the note that rings is also A, but it's the flat 5th to the root note with is Eb.... Similar, but not same.
As with a lot of these 'are they rip offs', i think it's a sub conscious lift. The Excel song was released in '89 and probably got some play on Californian rock stations as they were based there. I'm sure Hammett might have heard this at some point and a very similar riff then emerged on one of his 'riff tapes' in early 1990 which of course, was turned into Sandman.
You always have to be careful that the new song you are writing isn't just something you've heard and used without thinking.
people who don't play music are so stupid. the reason that both these songs sound similar, and why many, many metal songs sound similar, is because metal is mostly written on the phrygian scale, which gives metal that "metal" sound.
here's a thought... in the same way that those who don't know politics shouldn't speak about politics, maybe people who don't know music shouldn't speak about writing music. Can you grasp this??
i like how this person just cant help but express his opinion on st anger is if its a fact. most ppl nowadays just hate on metallica cause its "cool" to do it
@LandynCaissie Well I think most musicians hate on Metallica because it's the RIGHT thing to do. But there is no doubt that Metallica is a good band, their fan base proves that.
@DimitriVHefley no, james and dave have both used stuff with each other from kill em all, and ave mustaines solos and riffs tend to be more wild and free, meaning they can make sudden turns and spin -offs from the songs melody, James guitar stuff usally stays a bit closer to the melody, they dont steal because they're stuff is usually a bit different. and with kill em all, both bands had rights because both James and Dave worked on it together, they are both entitled to anything from that era
@DimitriVHefley and i dont believe they are sell outs, they write all their own lyrics and their music comes from the heart. for load/reload/st. anger they themselves as a band said that metallica is about not doing the same thing over and over again. they didnt change cause a corporate music company gave them more money to change, they did it cause its what they wanted to do, and most fans just dont like that
i doubt metallica has heard that song before. plus there are a bunch of metallica riffs that start out by sliding to the 7th fret on the A string like this one. If you want to hear similarities, try Metallica and Diamond Head,
@reydiyohed Actually, I'm not. I never listen to Metallica. Don't be an ass and say things stupid just for the sake of your argument. You know how many songs are probably out there that sound incredibly alike? Loads. I mean what about all the songs that consist of the same 3-4 chords? Aren't all those rips-offs of anything before them? What about all these dropped D bands that play power chords all day, they all sound alike to me...is that plagiarism too?
if you play guitar you would notice is not the same... the medoly seems to be like a rip off but... the notes are not the same... just stop folling you don't know bout music faggots!
This can be traced to an earlier song- "Magnum Opus" by Kansas ("Leftoverture"), back in the 1970s.............. The riff was played in the latter part of the song, at a faster tempo.
First off, some bands sign off this from other bands to use. Second, which one was made first, that my give you something to find out on who copied who. Third, what if one of them signed off on letting the other band use the beat/melody of their song?
only similarity is that intro, and that too so simple and catchy that even i could accidently play that, rest whole song is way different, good though.
sellouts? what are you 12? get your head out of your ass. selling out is a term used by non musician's that have no clue what the fuck they're talking about. not screaming at you thmf16 just some people in the comments.
Not for me, they sound similar yes. Similar songs are bound to come about, artist's "borrow" from other songs. Just imagine how many songs have been written, to find more than a dozen sounding similar will happen. You could probably pull up a blues song that uses this melody
what sellout It's in a guys nature to want to fix things. If a musician hears something and thinks that guy almost has something good I could make that great hey why not cuz I sure like the metallica reincarnation of those notes .
In any case metallica did it bigger better and meaner which made them the bucks. Bullshit baffles brains. Representaion character and style count for much in the business.
So what,alot of popular songs are rip off songs,just listen to Elimination by OverKill then compare it to Master Of Puppets,and while were at it Free Bird by Skynyrd is one of the most ripped off songs of all time.
I can say that back when I was real young and an aspiring guitarist, I wrote a song called gotta get away... and then heard it on the radio a few months later as a lenny kravitz song called fly away... sucked but shyte happens... I don't think he ripped me off, nor did I rip him off... I find a lot of creativity flows similarly given the life you let yourself see, whether in person or on T.V. or even movies... alot of bands now write similar songs all the time and get away with it.
It's not ripoff! It's coincidence! The songs sound acrtually pretty different when you think of it, I tried to make Enter Sandman into this other song, and didn't find a way to make it sound the same. It's not a ripoff, or else they just changed it ALOT.
Sigh. Underneath all these 'rip-off' videos in always some simple three or four chord progression. Add in a typical metal rhythm and, of course, a bunch of tracks will end up sounding similar or even the same. When you're talking about a single riff or intro it gets even sillier.
@ToughestMilkman quite a lot of songs start mellow and clean then go into something heavy, just because these two sound pretty similar it doesn't mean that it's ripped off
@ThazuaBlackarrow I write music myself, and I constantly find myself writing things that have already been written, it's bound to happen, certain melodies and chords sound good together.
@MCskittle23 But this is a very close match! The years and genres are very close too. And we're not talking about just a couple of notes, it's the entire riff.
@immortalperser Great minds think alike I suppose, honestly, in the millions and millions of songs written over the years, the fact that a COUPLE sound similar, isn't very surpising. I mean, the same 4 chords are used in every song, there are only so many melodies that you can come up with that are pleasing to the ear. Sometimes it's even a subconcious thing. Maybe that band had heard that song before, so the melody was familiar to him, that's why he played it.
@MCskittle23 i get what youre saying about commonly written stuff coming out. but two in one song? i can totally get it like the zeppelin SWTH thing, comon melody, but add in that they toured with the dudes before that, it becomes more than a simple coincidence
Kirk admitted that the riff was similar to another riff in a year and a half of Metallica. Theres riffs in sanitarium that sound quite similiar to Rush's Tom Sawyer. If you take the G C and D chords, you can play a thousand songs. And actually if you listen to the main riff of Livin after midnight, and then listen to the chorus of Fleetwood Mac's Dont stop thinkin about tomorrow, it is the same chord progression. E D A B.
there are billions of people in the world. There are millions of guitarists. Just because these riffs sound nearly exactly the same doesn't mean that kirk hammet (who wrote metallicas riff for enter sandman, the first riff he ever wrote for a metallica song) ever heard this song. Coincedences happen all the time, and even though the chances of winning the lottery are small, people still win it. all these rip off videos on here, go grab a guitar and smash yourself in the face with it!
@gogin1000 sorry to say man, but megadeth was formed after metallica, so the lil douche dave mustaine prolly ripped it off of them..... they kicked out dave for kirk, cuz kirk was/is better
@hellhorse1000 No, they kicked Dave for alcohol/drug addiction and attitude problem. and Dave write parts from Kill 'Em All songs and a little from Ride The Lightning
@gogin1000 metallica didnt really steal megadeth songs. when mustaine got kicked out of the band he asked metallica not to use is material but they did anyway. which they more stole from mustaine rather than megadeth
@gogin1000 metallica was around before megadeth, mustaine used to be part of metallica therefore technically hes not stealing any riffs that he helped write :L
@gogin1000 Metallica stole from megadeth !?!? AHAH, the only stuff you can consider stolen are Jump In Fire, and other things were Dave had an imput when he was in metallica apart from that i would say Megadeth Stole from metallica, go listen to Dread and the fugitive mind from Mega and tell me that intro isnt the same as Holier than Thou just broken down.... Im a Huge Megadeth, and a Huge Metallica fan
Wanna hear something that sounds really the same as enter sandman? im from finland where a band called ''Stone'' has a song called get stoned(released in 1988), which basically has this exactly same riff,so check it out and get amazed :)!its on youtube so just search it.
@Vaginaattori: Actually when you look at the songs the way they are played, they are too different to be a straight rip-off. The timing, tempo and feel are alot the same in both songs (Sandman and Get Stoned), but I think that Excel's song has more of that scale used in Sandman. But hey, it's just my opinion.
@Monkibomber93 nojoo en soita kitaraa ni en tiiä mite nää soitetaan, mut toi rytmikulku on erittäin samanlainen näissä biiseis. en tosin kyllä usko että metallica ois kopioinu jtn suomalaista thrashii :), mut silti mielenkiintoisia huomioita aina tällaset.
@Vaginaattori: Jep, rytmi onkin Stonella samaa, mut tossa Excelin kipaleessa tuntuu menevän enemmän samoilta säveliltä ku Enter Sandman. Ja tosiaan, olisko ollu Soundi missä tota Janne Joutsenniemeä haastateltiin, ja hänen tiedon mukaan heidän debyyttialbuminsa pääty myös Metallican käsiin tolla Amerikankiertueella 80-luvun loppupuolella. Tiedä sitten miten asiat menee, Metallican pojat varmaan koskaan tunnusta jos ovat tuon kopioineet.
i always felt that the 90s girl band "Elastica" was a metallica rip off, there song "Connection" was an instrumentally dumbed down version of enter sandman
yeah fuck bob rock, but metallica is quite well known for stealing music, hell they used mustaines music up untill master of puppets, cliff burton was something else though he is an amazing bassist
@ex5098 well everyone has an opinion i just like Metallica better lol
MissNightmare66 1 day ago
Crazy Train written 1980/1981.. Sweet Dreams (the Eurythmics song that Manson covered) was written in 1983.
Johnnysynth 4 days ago
an example of one is "crazy train" and "sweet dreams" by marylon manson
TheYoyo123144 5 days ago
Who gives a damn. Just shut up and listen to the music.
Kingddd333 5 days ago
I think its just a coincidence.
Guitraboy 6 days ago
Metallica didnt rip off anything they just took a bad song and made it better (:
MissNightmare66 6 days ago
@MissNightmare66 Are you joking, that excel song is way better than anything metallica EVER did
ex5098 2 days ago
I think they're in the same keys, which is why they sound similar. But no, it's not ripped off. I'm not even a Metallica fan.
RadioJack 1 week ago
Ive ripped of riffs without knowing it too. Like I made a riff and then my dad was like "man that sounds like a part in sabbath bloody sabbath" well I have never even heard that before and then I looked it up and was like :O
so yeah... it just happens sometimes...
JeffSeaboltVEVO 2 weeks ago 2
I used to think they sounded similar, but my friend, took an arrow to the knee and I had to nurse him back to health. :(
pingoothepenguin 2 weeks ago
@pingoothepenguin The arrow in the knee is getting old dude!
671kmn 1 week ago
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whydeemos 2 weeks ago
pendejo kuliao y aweonao!!!!
acidomuriatiko 2 weeks ago
Sandman still rocks...never have heard the other.
tfcrew 2 weeks ago
To the poster of this video...How about you write a peace of original music that sounds nothing like ANYONE else, then you can talk shit.
LayneStaleyRIP2002 2 weeks ago
Oh fucking wow. 3 or 4 notes that are similar for the riffs of the songs. Whoop de fucking doo.
BassmanCT69 2 weeks ago
You can't say one musician copies off another! It's hard to make music which is different from the millions of composed pieces already on earth!
kuba2542 2 weeks ago
THEY ARE JUST FAMILIAR !!!!!! -.-'
Kirk came up with enter sandman riff.
MetallicaLovern81 2 weeks ago
Metallica made a better cover !
Waiting7up 2 weeks ago
Metallica sucks, long live suicidal punk! The jokes on u weak ass Metallica fans.
killmybuzz 3 weeks ago
@killmybuzz No matter what you like, You should respect other musicians
kuba2542 2 weeks ago
of couse it is a rip off, but who cares really, all the bands rip each other off to some degree, i'm a huge Metallica fan myself, but if you don't see the similarities between the two songs you are kidding yourself. Excel were a well known band on the bay area scene and Metallica were very aware of the bands in and around that scene. Furthermore, if you do your homework, you will see there are a lot more connections bewteen the bands then you think, pushead being one of them.
crushingalldeceivers 3 weeks ago
By the way, James did an interview a while back admitting they lifted the riff from Sanitarium from Bleak House; so it's not exactly like they don't have previous.
xSODxDeMoNiaC 3 weeks ago
Wow Dude striking similarities that are way to close to be a coincedence> LMFAO!
TheKaz197 3 weeks ago
As a musician I've ripped off riffs all the time without even knowing it. When you listen to a lot of music the way most musicians do it all just kind of creeps into your playing.
BatteryRock 3 weeks ago 28
@BatteryRock yea... but weeks before metallica recorded enter sandman, their manage went to see excel live.... their is even an interview where James admits he stole it..
Metallica fucking sucks.
metalqueenofnothing 1 week ago
@BatteryRock I know, there were a lot of times where I've made a riff and I thought to myself, "Wow, this is a pretty awesome riff!" But found out later that it was a song that I already knew. I've even made riffs that were pretty much exact from songs that I didn't even know, that's a pretty crappy experience!
ShortFingeredShreder 1 week ago
The Excel song is better....LA hardcore.
anvilofcrom 3 weeks ago
What's lovely is that towards the end of tapping.. it turns into a ripoff of YYZ by rush which got released in 1981. But we won't mention that.
Bidwell93 4 weeks ago
Check out Stone "Get Stoned" from 1988.
arad310 4 weeks ago
sounds similar. *shurgs*
GrimRDrag 4 weeks ago
metallica also ripped off Saxon
fredam6666 1 month ago
metallica rip the hell of a lot of things
warchild027 1 month ago
excels is sweet!
sonicsteev 1 month ago
not the same song by far! those who don't hear it c'mon unplug your ears will you? XD
Jesusikproductions 1 month ago
welcome to the Metallica haters part of youtube.
ern1982 1 month ago
metallica sounds better
TheAcdcnz 1 month ago
Just because it's Metallica, all the fanboys get protective. Same thing happens with Led Zeppelin fans. But you can't deny, this is a clear rip off, or a huge coincidence, if you believe in that sort of thing.
SolidLittle 1 month ago
@SolidLittle we dont know if metallica actaully knew about excels version you cant be sure
GoSomzy 4 weeks ago
Probably every combination of guitar notes is already made so noone can make a riff thats sounds a differnt from others
Branovix 1 month ago
@Branovix Dude! that's exactly what i've been saying!.people are so goddamn ignorant!. you can only play so many chords,and sometimes you can accidentally rip off somethings. the same thing applies to people saying that the chilli peppers and green day have gone soft and "pussy" but you can only play so many songs in a particular fashion then you have to change up your style a bit or else everything you do will sound the same. only a true musician will understand this.
nozen13 1 month ago
@nozen13 some dumb-shit will probably disagree with me and want to start shit over youtube but fortunately that individividual is probably gonnna be a little high school macho man punk
nozen13 1 month ago
@nozen13 I see what you're saying, but Metallica has done this way too many times to be a coincidence. Check Out:
"Rainbow Warrior" by Bleak House (Welcome Home: Sanitarium)
"Tapping Into the Emotional Void" by Excel (Enter Sandman)
and "Unforgiven II is taken from Iron Maiden's "Children of the Damned, which is itself taken from Jimi Hendrix's "1983 (A Merman I should Turn To Be)
TeenApe9001 4 weeks ago
they sound vaguely similar.
HighestCalendar 1 month ago
Thats insane! I knew that intro riff is originally in some spanish or portugese traditional music but that excel sounds identical.
P4nzerk93 1 month ago
Many bands ripped off metallica's riffs specially in the early days. you can hear their riffs in almost all metal songs today. why only bash metallica for a single riff? c'mon!
ChinoBoomslang 1 month ago
Metallica is one of my favorite bands, and one of the reasons I am into Metal. I can honestly say, who cares? This is my least favorite Metallica song after King Nothing, so I'm not surprised it came from somewhere else.
SycamoreHill14 1 month ago
EXCEL's sounds waaayyyy better !!! they sure did ripped it off !!! they used to it anyway!!!!
psvg4 1 month ago
Two songs sound somewhat similar! Call the police!
goodygoody23 1 month ago
you are right, but the thing with Metallica is, they publicly say their music is an inspiration of a lot of bands
SolucoGuy 1 month ago
lars ulrich supports SOPA!
VonyeWest808 1 month ago 17
@VonyeWest808
No he doesn't you fuck wit. The guys a bit of an idiot and has some stupid ideas, but atleast he isn't a fucking moron and a liar like you.
Carthsgtr 1 week ago
@VonyeWest808 Lars said in an interview that sharing is great.
MrShaboo22 2 days ago
Who the fuck is Excel?
shadowfigure2 1 month ago
@shadowfigure2
A stupid kid like you wouldn't know.
justforthelulzzz 1 month ago
It's worth noting that Hammet's Enter Sandman riff was originally played by just alternating from the first part to the tail - same structure as this Excel riff. Lars later suggested repeating the main part for 3 bars and then only playing the tail at the end. Compared that way, the riffs would sound even closer. But then, Metallica didn't record it that way. Could have been the inspiration though.
johnnyckrock 1 month ago 3
Well in the Metallica song, the note that rings at the end of the main riff is A, or the 4th to the root not which is E. In the Excel song, the note that rings is also A, but it's the flat 5th to the root note with is Eb.... Similar, but not same.
yellowmegavidz 1 month ago
As with a lot of these 'are they rip offs', i think it's a sub conscious lift. The Excel song was released in '89 and probably got some play on Californian rock stations as they were based there. I'm sure Hammett might have heard this at some point and a very similar riff then emerged on one of his 'riff tapes' in early 1990 which of course, was turned into Sandman.
You always have to be careful that the new song you are writing isn't just something you've heard and used without thinking.
Desotoguitarist 1 month ago 2
bullshit.
djukicuros 1 month ago
similar but not rip off
JustWannaFeelGood 1 month ago
Metallica ran out of Mustaine's material...period
rockonabc1 1 month ago
Good musicians rip off, greatest musicians steal!
RockNRollpt 1 month ago
ok well i didnt learn much but i know now when someones says entersandman ima showem the excel version man
hizoepoler 1 month ago
people who don't play music are so stupid. the reason that both these songs sound similar, and why many, many metal songs sound similar, is because metal is mostly written on the phrygian scale, which gives metal that "metal" sound.
here's a thought... in the same way that those who don't know politics shouldn't speak about politics, maybe people who don't know music shouldn't speak about writing music. Can you grasp this??
MrThoughtsfortoday 1 month ago
Excel is still held in high regard in the punk scene on the west coast, Metallica on the other hand is just considered a sell out hipster band.
LONGBEACH90804 1 month ago
the secound part of the riff is different but ofc verry (familliar)
Oscarskate1001 1 month ago
Enter Sandman's main riff was Kirk Hammett's when he was in Exodus. That was WAY before 1989.
TwoEqualifiesOne 1 month ago
this song is actually the song they made enter sandman from, its a fact ;)
aZtfuCker99 1 month ago
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Metallica are known for ripping people off so this isnt really a suprise to me atleast
skaterobban 1 month ago
Metallica are known for ripping people off so this isnt really a suprise to me atleast
skaterobban 1 month ago
Six degree of Excel! skate punk RIOT now!
pricklyphlox 1 month ago
i like how this person just cant help but express his opinion on st anger is if its a fact. most ppl nowadays just hate on metallica cause its "cool" to do it
LandynCaissie 1 month ago
@LandynCaissie Well I think most musicians hate on Metallica because it's the RIGHT thing to do. But there is no doubt that Metallica is a good band, their fan base proves that.
DimitriVHefley 1 month ago
@DimitriVHefley how is it the right thing to do?
LandynCaissie 1 month ago
@LandynCaissie Well first off, they steal music-most notably from Dave Mustaine. Secondly, because they are sell outs.
DimitriVHefley 1 month ago
@DimitriVHefley no, james and dave have both used stuff with each other from kill em all, and ave mustaines solos and riffs tend to be more wild and free, meaning they can make sudden turns and spin -offs from the songs melody, James guitar stuff usally stays a bit closer to the melody, they dont steal because they're stuff is usually a bit different. and with kill em all, both bands had rights because both James and Dave worked on it together, they are both entitled to anything from that era
LandynCaissie 1 month ago
@DimitriVHefley and i dont believe they are sell outs, they write all their own lyrics and their music comes from the heart. for load/reload/st. anger they themselves as a band said that metallica is about not doing the same thing over and over again. they didnt change cause a corporate music company gave them more money to change, they did it cause its what they wanted to do, and most fans just dont like that
sorry for making these responses so long
LandynCaissie 1 month ago
Who the fuck is Excel?
GoJays09 2 months ago
@GoJays09 excel is a kick ass crossover thrash metal band! thats who they are!
jfleming23 1 month ago
Plagiarism full of alcohool in head and lack of criativity to release a COMER$IAL album in the early 90's.
ECOCIDIUM 2 months ago
Well, I would certainly agree that if the song by excel was made prior to Enter Sandman then they ripped off the lick.
I would vote plagiarism on a trial.
bashfulbrother 2 months ago
it doesnt matter who rips off who it matters who makes the most money and who gets famous ask ANY musician and entertainer
metallica4ever65 2 months ago
Death Magnetic is crap.
jamie30jamer 2 months ago
That Excel song sounds more like Slayer or something
mychem1914777 2 months ago
The songs are in the same key and mode, but they are different.
slythe109 2 months ago
they are two completely different songs and riffs
vipery89 2 months ago
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i doubt metallica has heard that song before. plus there are a bunch of metallica riffs that start out by sliding to the 7th fret on the A string like this one. If you want to hear similarities, try Metallica and Diamond Head,
ikedrummer 2 months ago
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ikedrummer 2 months ago
OMG This song has notes in it! They ripped off everyone's music!
NotATubeSurfer 2 months ago 43
@NotATubeSurfer don't be a fanboy. whether they ripped of from excel or not, the songs are strikingly similar.
reydiyohed 1 month ago
@reydiyohed Actually, I'm not. I never listen to Metallica. Don't be an ass and say things stupid just for the sake of your argument. You know how many songs are probably out there that sound incredibly alike? Loads. I mean what about all the songs that consist of the same 3-4 chords? Aren't all those rips-offs of anything before them? What about all these dropped D bands that play power chords all day, they all sound alike to me...is that plagiarism too?
NotATubeSurfer 1 month ago
@NotATubeSurfer in this one, 1. the chord progression, 2. the arpeggi playing type, 3. the intro and its transition to the song is really similar.
reydiyohed 1 month ago
if you play guitar you would notice is not the same... the medoly seems to be like a rip off but... the notes are not the same... just stop folling you don't know bout music faggots!
danyzul 2 months ago
dam that band sounds amazing ....excel
mricycake 2 months ago
This can be traced to an earlier song- "Magnum Opus" by Kansas ("Leftoverture"), back in the 1970s.............. The riff was played in the latter part of the song, at a faster tempo.
Music2Die4 2 months ago
excel did it better
CraftedinGranite 2 months ago 30
@CraftedinGranite yep
manzalicous 1 month ago
bob rock sucks mediocrity's cock
waddellski 2 months ago 2
FIRST ... Metallica sucks ... especially live.
treid100182 2 months ago
@treid100182 and i suppose you like slayer
JwylieGuitar 2 months ago 3
First off, some bands sign off this from other bands to use. Second, which one was made first, that my give you something to find out on who copied who. Third, what if one of them signed off on letting the other band use the beat/melody of their song?
CoDFReakerz 2 months ago
Absolutely. Just absolutely laughable to say "coincidence/original". A clear ripp off.
RafaKBLudo 2 months ago
No, no, no. Its original. Alot of things are original and sound like things that have already been written. Its all NORMAL. SPECIALLY nowadays.
xXThrasherXxX 2 months ago
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natnat5577 2 months ago
the joke really isn't on metallica though
mortemdrummer 2 months ago
oh hell yes metallica ripped this.
mortemdrummer 2 months ago
stupid shit. just cuz they're the same notes doesnt mean its a rip off.
GORESOA666 2 months ago
Mustaine wrote a LOT of songs that Metallica used early on. Can't believe Metallica is even being defended. Metallica KNOWS they were thieves.
BuffaloPros 2 months ago
Rip Off!!
jujuslim 2 months ago
Your last words in the video are completely bullshit.
SolidShark 2 months ago
only similarity is that intro, and that too so simple and catchy that even i could accidently play that, rest whole song is way different, good though.
hunterhearsthelmsy 2 months ago 2
@hunterhearsthelmsy i agree, this whole problem is silly
carlosalford 2 months ago
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That's not te only copy of Metallica. Have you listen The God That Failed (Black Album - MetalliPOP) and Dawn Patrol (Rust In Peace - Megadeth) ???
Or Children Of The Damned (Iron Maiden) and Unforgiven II (MetalliPOP) ???
If you listen... you'll know...
Here in youtube shows a song from Entombed and one from Metallipop with the same riff!!
pastoponro 2 months ago
sellouts? what are you 12? get your head out of your ass. selling out is a term used by non musician's that have no clue what the fuck they're talking about. not screaming at you thmf16 just some people in the comments.
bigperson666 2 months ago
Not for me, they sound similar yes. Similar songs are bound to come about, artist's "borrow" from other songs. Just imagine how many songs have been written, to find more than a dozen sounding similar will happen. You could probably pull up a blues song that uses this melody
samliffe 3 months ago
METALLICA ARE NOT SELL OUTS DICKHEADS YES LULU IS CRAP BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEIR SELLOUTS
wwejheaton 3 months ago
@wwejheaton A "sell out" is a band that makes money for its music. Metallica are sell outs. And Lulu isn't by Metallica. Its by Lou Reed & Metallica.
EpicocityBP 3 months ago
what sellout It's in a guys nature to want to fix things. If a musician hears something and thinks that guy almost has something good I could make that great hey why not cuz I sure like the metallica reincarnation of those notes .
marcthemeatman 3 months ago
In any case metallica did it bigger better and meaner which made them the bucks. Bullshit baffles brains. Representaion character and style count for much in the business.
marcthemeatman 3 months ago
@marcthemeatman Oh yeah, being sell outs is so metal....
MinnesotaThrasher 3 months ago
@marcthemeatman "bigger better and meaner" They still stole the song ;)
KittyzKatterz 3 months ago
So what,alot of popular songs are rip off songs,just listen to Elimination by OverKill then compare it to Master Of Puppets,and while were at it Free Bird by Skynyrd is one of the most ripped off songs of all time.
TheMarkster1957 3 months ago
I can say that back when I was real young and an aspiring guitarist, I wrote a song called gotta get away... and then heard it on the radio a few months later as a lenny kravitz song called fly away... sucked but shyte happens... I don't think he ripped me off, nor did I rip him off... I find a lot of creativity flows similarly given the life you let yourself see, whether in person or on T.V. or even movies... alot of bands now write similar songs all the time and get away with it.
Daemongrad 3 months ago
It's not ripoff! It's coincidence! The songs sound acrtually pretty different when you think of it, I tried to make Enter Sandman into this other song, and didn't find a way to make it sound the same. It's not a ripoff, or else they just changed it ALOT.
andybirger 3 months ago
yes it is a ripoff
ImmortalSpammer 3 months ago 2
it is a rip off and they know it.
THRILLBILLYZ562 3 months ago
This song was a whole 'COLLAB' of stolen stuff, the whole intermission with
the christian prayer before sleep was first used by megadeth in Go To Hell
agentcamo 3 months ago
Sigh. Underneath all these 'rip-off' videos in always some simple three or four chord progression. Add in a typical metal rhythm and, of course, a bunch of tracks will end up sounding similar or even the same. When you're talking about a single riff or intro it gets even sillier.
mostmusicisbad 3 months ago
not even close to being the same thing
Spilorify 3 months ago
Excel > Metallica
JoeyDrunko 3 months ago
Similar but nowhere near plagiarism. They're not that close.
TheSilverhawaiian 3 months ago
The fucked up thing is..the got an award for this song.
ToughestMilkman 3 months ago
It's not stolen or ripped off, there's millions of guitarists in the world, a few are bound to make a similar riff
thrashmaster94 3 months ago
@thrashmaster94 notice both intros are mellow and accoustic and then a heavy riff follows..way too similar..just admit it....plagiarism.
ToughestMilkman 3 months ago
@ToughestMilkman quite a lot of songs start mellow and clean then go into something heavy, just because these two sound pretty similar it doesn't mean that it's ripped off
thrashmaster94 3 months ago
That album cover is fucking scary
DN311 3 months ago
It is a rip-off song, it rips off anyone who listens to it because it's one of the worst Metal songs ever made.
ThazuaBlackarrow 3 months ago
@ThazuaBlackarrow I write music myself, and I constantly find myself writing things that have already been written, it's bound to happen, certain melodies and chords sound good together.
MCskittle23 3 months ago 51
@MCskittle23 But this is a very close match! The years and genres are very close too. And we're not talking about just a couple of notes, it's the entire riff.
immortalperser 3 months ago
@immortalperser Great minds think alike I suppose, honestly, in the millions and millions of songs written over the years, the fact that a COUPLE sound similar, isn't very surpising. I mean, the same 4 chords are used in every song, there are only so many melodies that you can come up with that are pleasing to the ear. Sometimes it's even a subconcious thing. Maybe that band had heard that song before, so the melody was familiar to him, that's why he played it.
MCskittle23 3 months ago
@MCskittle23 Exactly, the same goes with me.
TBRHP 1 month ago
@MCskittle23 i get what youre saying about commonly written stuff coming out. but two in one song? i can totally get it like the zeppelin SWTH thing, comon melody, but add in that they toured with the dudes before that, it becomes more than a simple coincidence
macditty 1 month ago
@macditty you mean they (zep) toured with those blues artists?
cheesydarkside 1 month ago
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macditty 1 month ago
The inspiration for the enter sandman riff was loud love by Soundgarden, Kirk said so himself.
PGROSYE02 4 months ago
Kirk admitted that the riff was similar to another riff in a year and a half of Metallica. Theres riffs in sanitarium that sound quite similiar to Rush's Tom Sawyer. If you take the G C and D chords, you can play a thousand songs. And actually if you listen to the main riff of Livin after midnight, and then listen to the chorus of Fleetwood Mac's Dont stop thinkin about tomorrow, it is the same chord progression. E D A B.
hoagie13365 4 months ago
there are billions of people in the world. There are millions of guitarists. Just because these riffs sound nearly exactly the same doesn't mean that kirk hammet (who wrote metallicas riff for enter sandman, the first riff he ever wrote for a metallica song) ever heard this song. Coincedences happen all the time, and even though the chances of winning the lottery are small, people still win it. all these rip off videos on here, go grab a guitar and smash yourself in the face with it!
rsoldford321 4 months ago
Thats no Coincedince metallica is one of my fav bands but they stole a few megadeth songs and now this
gogin1000 4 months ago 22
@gogin1000 that make you a fanboy
TheFernandeth 4 months ago
@gogin1000 sorry to say man, but megadeth was formed after metallica, so the lil douche dave mustaine prolly ripped it off of them..... they kicked out dave for kirk, cuz kirk was/is better
hellhorse1000 3 months ago
@hellhorse1000 No, they kicked Dave for alcohol/drug addiction and attitude problem. and Dave write parts from Kill 'Em All songs and a little from Ride The Lightning
ZZappeKristofferson 3 months ago
@hellhorse1000 you sound like a typical metallica fan... dont even know what they are talking about when they try to prove a point
electriceye53 3 months ago
@gogin1000 if you're referring to kill em all Dave and the rest of metallica wrote those songs together
wertyuioman 3 months ago
@gogin1000 metallica didnt really steal megadeth songs. when mustaine got kicked out of the band he asked metallica not to use is material but they did anyway. which they more stole from mustaine rather than megadeth
bravesfan528 2 months ago
@gogin1000 metallica was around before megadeth, mustaine used to be part of metallica therefore technically hes not stealing any riffs that he helped write :L
TheStevieD09 2 months ago
@gogin1000 Metallica stole from megadeth !?!? AHAH, the only stuff you can consider stolen are Jump In Fire, and other things were Dave had an imput when he was in metallica apart from that i would say Megadeth Stole from metallica, go listen to Dread and the fugitive mind from Mega and tell me that intro isnt the same as Holier than Thou just broken down.... Im a Huge Megadeth, and a Huge Metallica fan
jtturkel 2 months ago
thmf16 ..... you are an idiot.
GameCherryDotCom 4 months ago
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They did not copy that song.
lilkk711 4 months ago
kik came up with it in a hotel when he was drunk lol
machielste1 4 months ago
Wanna hear something that sounds really the same as enter sandman? im from finland where a band called ''Stone'' has a song called get stoned(released in 1988), which basically has this exactly same riff,so check it out and get amazed :)!its on youtube so just search it.
Vaginaattori 4 months ago
@Vaginaattori: Actually when you look at the songs the way they are played, they are too different to be a straight rip-off. The timing, tempo and feel are alot the same in both songs (Sandman and Get Stoned), but I think that Excel's song has more of that scale used in Sandman. But hey, it's just my opinion.
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Monkibomber93 4 months ago
@Monkibomber93 nojoo en soita kitaraa ni en tiiä mite nää soitetaan, mut toi rytmikulku on erittäin samanlainen näissä biiseis. en tosin kyllä usko että metallica ois kopioinu jtn suomalaista thrashii :), mut silti mielenkiintoisia huomioita aina tällaset.
Vaginaattori 4 months ago
@Vaginaattori: Jep, rytmi onkin Stonella samaa, mut tossa Excelin kipaleessa tuntuu menevän enemmän samoilta säveliltä ku Enter Sandman. Ja tosiaan, olisko ollu Soundi missä tota Janne Joutsenniemeä haastateltiin, ja hänen tiedon mukaan heidän debyyttialbuminsa pääty myös Metallican käsiin tolla Amerikankiertueella 80-luvun loppupuolella. Tiedä sitten miten asiat menee, Metallican pojat varmaan koskaan tunnusta jos ovat tuon kopioineet.
Monkibomber93 4 months ago
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s1i9wz0 4 months ago
it all come down to one thing MONEY!
tatease 4 months ago
Did you people know that, "Metallica", is actually an ancient word in Sanskrit meaning "Plagiarism". Yup they even ripped the name off.
gwargroupie 4 months ago
RIP.
TheOneTrueSpLiT 4 months ago
and they sued napster??? nigga plz
lgpjae 4 months ago
Enter sandmans main riff was written by kirk hammett in the ride the lightning days, just so you know
timmy20952 4 months ago
Metallica has ripped off everyone in music and now their scheme has failed hence their last 3 bombed out shit album releases
2011shonuff 4 months ago
i always felt that the 90s girl band "Elastica" was a metallica rip off, there song "Connection" was an instrumentally dumbed down version of enter sandman
aezeon 4 months ago
yeah fuck bob rock, but metallica is quite well known for stealing music, hell they used mustaines music up untill master of puppets, cliff burton was something else though he is an amazing bassist
311james311 4 months ago