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Metallica's Sanitarium rip-off???

  • 13-07-2008 10:16pm
    #1
    Catari Jaguar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,649 ✭✭✭


    Did Metallica inadvertently "borrow" a musical idea from another band for their 1986 dark "power ballad" "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)"? Several Internet reports definitely seem to suggest so.

    A song called "Rainbow Warrior" by the obscure NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) band Bleak House (photo) appears to contain undeniable similarities to the Metallica classic. The Bleak House track was released as a seven-inch single in 1980 via Buzzard Records, and was followed up by another seven-inch single in 1982 and various compilation appearances before the band apparently called it a day.

    A self-proclaimed NWOBHM fanatic, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich spent much of his time in the early '80s tracking down obscure recordings from his favorite groups of the era. Ten years after the NWOBHM's glory days of 1982, Ulrich took time out to put together a multi-band compilation, "'79 Revisited: New Wave of British Heavy Metal", along with journalist Geoff Barton, whose work in the now-defunct weekly U.K. rock paper Sounds had kept Ulrich posted while he was in the States.

    This is old news, but it's a shock to me. There is a def similarity, but seems to be only the intro. It's a class song imo. Both songs are on the link.

    What do you think?

    Clicky Link


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  • #2
    lord lucan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,576 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    any similarity is pretty vague imo. but it's not beyond the bounds of possibility as lars in particular has been noted for his love of all things NWOBHM so he'd probably be familiar with it.

    tbh you could go through every band in music history and find "rip-offs" all over the place. there's very little truly unique stuff now,most is influenced or elaborated on by bands.


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