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Metallica

posted 14 years ago by skaz21
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The song during the beginning credits sounds like a really weak Enter Sandman rip-off.

It just bugs me when movies and tv shows do that sort of thing - rip off popular songs like that.

That's all, go ahead and flame away.

[–] Duragizer 12 years ago

I can't believe people are making such a big fuss over the theme's Metallica influence, calling it unoriginal, a rip-off, etc.

News flash people - nothing is original anymore, nothing. There are no new ideas anymore, and probably haven't been for centuries. Everything created by man - every idea, every story, every work - is just a new take on something already done before. Even Shakespeare himself took ideas from previously existent stories.

Life is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for.

[–] justyourfoolife79 12 years ago

The main title track blew me away, before I'd even HEARD of Metallica.

Pulse-pounding fury!

Shame the originality seems to be dying-out.

As long as it floats your boat, does it matter too much?

[–] ransax 12 years ago

Still sounds more like AC/DC to me. Which is interesting because Stephen King is a big fan of AC/DC and that is one of the inspirations for Sutter Cane.

[–] rustinleiker63 10 years ago

To me, this generic, bargain bin, Metadeth (Metallica + Megadeth) wannabe sounds like a bad reject from the Last Action Hero soundtrack. It would have been awesome to have some Lovecraftian-inspired Metallica like The Thing That Should Not Be or even Call of Ktulu instead of the hard-rock elevator music.

"Drain you of your sanity"
"Face the thing that should not be"

[–] seth-shaw23 9 years ago

It's disappointing and insulting that anyone could think this sounds like Metallica. I think I heard a synth in there. It's just a generic rock song from that time period.

[–] Horror-Joe 9 years ago

It is 100% a knock off of Metallica's Enter Sandman. The intro is a dead give away. Obviously, they had to make it different enough so that they wouldn't get sued by Metallica, but if you know the song's structure well enough, it's easy to tell what they were going for. The drums alone should be enough to tip you off.

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[–] trifocal_skink 9 years ago

Have you listened to Enter Sandman? Maybe not because it was quite an obscure little song but

THE THEME SONG SOUNDS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LIKE ENTER SANDMAN

A Metallica-esque thrash song but that's as far as it goes.

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[–] Danimal_77 8 years ago

How ironic considering Enter Sandman is a weak version of Metallica.

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