Dave Mustaine said Metallica stole the “Enter Sandman” riff from another band

Dave Mustaine said the riff of Metallica of “Enter Sandman” He was stolen from another band.

Mustaine, who was part of the iconic metal band in the 80s and is now Megadethhe accused his former bandmates of copying another metal band.

Speaking as part of The Shawn Ryan Show, the singer and guitarist said that Metallica’s greatest success, “Enter Sandman”, was based on a stolen riff from another band.

The band in question is the Crossover Thrash group Exceland the supposedly copied song in “Enter Sandman” is his theme of 1989 “Tapping into the emotional void”. Some claim to perceive similarities between both themes, not only in the guitar riff, but also on the initial battery.

Mustaine’s comments arose when he started talking about Metallica in the interview and his way out of the formation. “I made sure I never said that I had resigned, because I wanted people to know that they unjustly fired me and that I cared about a slum,” he said.

“Because we [Megadeth] Maybe we are not as big as they. Good heavens! His most important song, ‘Enter Sandman’ … Look for the Excel band right now … look for their song, I think it’s something like ‘Into The Unknown’. Quite similar, “he added, referring to “Tapping into the emotional void”.

It is not the first time that it is suspected that Metallica’s successful song copied the Excel riff. Comparisons have been made since the garbage icons shared the song, which would appear on the list of songs of their 1991 homonym album (also known as “The Black Album”).

Mustaine himself had already pointed out the similarities 20 years ago, and Concede It emphasizes that Excel members even considered to take legal actions against Metallica for the song in 2003, although this did not materialize.

Dave Mustaine and his departure from Metallica

In another part of the interview, Mustaine deepened more about his departure from the band and said how he initially felt offended because his replacement Kirk Hammett He used the material in which he had worked.

At that moment, I was very angry and I didn’t want to forgive them for what they did. And when I left, I said: ‘Don’t use my music.’ And of course they used it, “he said.

“I wrote ‘Ride The Lightning’. I wrote ‘The Call of Ktulu’. What else are ‘Phantom Lord’, ‘Metal Militia’, ‘Jump in the Fire’, ‘The Four Horsemen’. And I also wrote a lot of ‘Leper Messiah’. They didn’t give me credit for that,” he added. “You listen to the riffs and you know they are mine.”

“I wrote a lot of the music that made them famousand all the solos of that first album were mine: the best that Kirk could try to copy them. ”