Metallica's Sleepwalk My Life Away Sounds familiar...

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  • @baronvon2012
    @baronvon2012 Год назад +233

    James stated in an interview I believe that this was a successor to Enter Sandman and King Nothing.

    • @charlesbaker7505
      @charlesbaker7505 Год назад +21

      This song needed the most editing or repurposing, could have been an amazing song

    • @q-petebassin2557
      @q-petebassin2557 Год назад +2

      @@charlesbaker7505 it is an amazing song

    • @dr.loomis4221
      @dr.loomis4221 Год назад +2

      @@q-petebassin2557 I find most of the songs on this album could be trimmed down. They're too self indulgent and overlong imo. They're just not interesting enough to justify 6-7 minutes.

    • @charlesbaker7505
      @charlesbaker7505 Год назад

      @@q-petebassin2557 I like the pre-chorus, chorus and intro and that is it
      A new verse structure and tempo would make this song top tier on the album but it loses me so quickly

    • @theguyof360
      @theguyof360 Год назад +3

      Sandman Trilogy:
      1. Enter Sandman
      2. All Nightmare Long
      3. Sleepwalk My Life Away

  • @ladesgracia7723
    @ladesgracia7723 Год назад +319

    It's basically sad but sandman

  • @MrArashtafarian
    @MrArashtafarian Год назад +4

    I feel its a sequel lyrically as well. A living nightmare (or sleepwalking while you are supposed to be awake) vs a dreaming nightmare (running for your life while sleeping)

  • @JSmith-dj2pi
    @JSmith-dj2pi Год назад +10

    They've been in that narrow blues box ever since. Also your tone is truly amazing.

  • @connormccourt3098
    @connormccourt3098 Год назад +73

    One riff in Shadows Follow sounds exactly like Confusion and another riff in the same song sounds like Atlas, Rise!

  • @WastelandBowman
    @WastelandBowman Год назад +35

    Sounds killer.

  • @wyzlight2028
    @wyzlight2028 Год назад +17

    It sounds like Enter sandman and Now that we're dead

  • @coldvoid
    @coldvoid Год назад +16

    Since Load you can see those patterns James likes more than others and uses often.

    • @NewKillerStar_34
      @NewKillerStar_34 Год назад +3

      Still less often than any solo Kirk has done for 20 years lol

  • @mr.x4964
    @mr.x4964 Год назад +3

    When i listened to the new album at the cinema for the first time i listened that sleepwalk my life away's riff is very similar to enter sandman by the first notes ahahha (i'm a guitarist) and when i listened to you must burn! i thought that was very similar to sad but true in the complex. but all the album has songs that are similar to each other and I FUCKING LOVE THIS ALBUM

  • @otto10000ify
    @otto10000ify Год назад +5

    A riff in Inamorata reminded a lot of the main riff in Are You Gonna Go My Way by Lenny Kravitz.

  • @grahamashcroft871
    @grahamashcroft871 Год назад +4

    It's hilarious that people actively waste their time to find stuff to hang on this band. All the best to you 😂 life well spent

    • @StateOfMercury
      @StateOfMercury  Год назад +2

      its hilarious you just wasted that much time typing that for free while also making me money 😂life well spent

    • @StateOfMercury
      @StateOfMercury  Год назад

      lol I work for a major label you unformed twit, also I didn't realize being a male escort could make u that much money

  • @StarfruitStirfry
    @StarfruitStirfry Год назад +4

    Earlier today I was listening to the beginning part of Shadows Follow and you could so easily overlay the lyrics to Frantic

  • @dillonmacpherson3350
    @dillonmacpherson3350 Год назад +6

    Exit 2, enter by
    Take my 4

  • @michaelbordignon5909
    @michaelbordignon5909 Год назад +3

    So you are saying that parts of the new album sounds like older albums. Kinda like almost every other band like for example AC/DC LOL.

    • @dubjubs
      @dubjubs Год назад

      Disturbed, Breaking Benjamin, Red, lol honestly seems like to me people don't understand that things called style exist. Love to hear their thoughts on Megadeth doing fast Open E note hammer on notes for half their songs in their career

  • @Epd3mik
    @Epd3mik Год назад

    This, slither, King Nothing and Enter Sandman. ;)

  • @xanniieeyy
    @xanniieeyy Год назад +1

    Now that Sandman are Sad.
    3 song in 1 riff

  • @Joushbawxxx
    @Joushbawxxx Год назад

    Nice Smokes Poutine sticker

  • @Dimabayanov
    @Dimabayanov Год назад

    what guitar do u use?

  • @thekaiseraiden
    @thekaiseraiden Год назад +26

    Classic modern Metallica recycling old riffs

    • @pegasus8727
      @pegasus8727 Год назад +9

      there is only so many power chords. They are kind of key for hard rock and Metal.

    • @alvinyakitori8720
      @alvinyakitori8720 Год назад +4

      ​@pegasus8727 you don't know what you're talking about

    • @KARLOS121
      @KARLOS121 Год назад +3

      ​@@pegasus8727 True story

    • @dubjubs
      @dubjubs Год назад +2

      ​@alvinyakitori8720 Learn to play a instrument and you'll understand that Key of E can only be done so many times

    • @DM-rc4yu
      @DM-rc4yu Год назад

      @@pegasus8727 Big if true.

  • @dransdell101
    @dransdell101 Год назад +1

    Very familiar!

  • @Marcelino1098
    @Marcelino1098 Год назад +18

    I do like this song. It washes the nightmare of If darkness had a son away 😂

    • @dubjubs
      @dubjubs Год назад +4

      Don't understand the hate for that song, it's almost Eye of the Beholder pt 2

    • @Marcelino1098
      @Marcelino1098 Год назад

      @@dubjubs i hate the vocal near dissonant part right + the riff after he says the "temptation" part. Also the rest of the song sounds so generic , not standing out. But that's my opinions and I guess i'm not the only one

    • @DM-rc4yu
      @DM-rc4yu Год назад

      @@Marcelino1098 Most of the album is very generic. Title track, Shadows Follow, Screaming Suicide. All "stock" Metallica songs.

  • @JohnnieVega20
    @JohnnieVega20 Год назад

    Now that we’re dead, sandman, sad,

  • @charlesrocks
    @charlesrocks Год назад +4

    Local Bar Band level achieved

  • @alvinyakitori8720
    @alvinyakitori8720 Год назад +64

    Sounds like every riff they've ever done in that tempo

  • @Ghoti165
    @Ghoti165 Год назад

    There's a riff from Sleepwalk My Life Away (not this one) that sounds like ManUnkind.

  • @bloodymoonlpima2320
    @bloodymoonlpima2320 Год назад

    That sounds more like kirk's original sandman riff tapes

  • @cicerodm
    @cicerodm Год назад +8

    Don't forget that the verse riff from inamorata is almost identical to are you gonna go my way by Lenny Kravitz

    • @StateOfMercury
      @StateOfMercury  Год назад +3

      oh...I haven't forgotten 😈

    • @ChrisYid
      @ChrisYid Год назад

      Masters Of Plagiarism

    • @dubjubs
      @dubjubs Год назад

      ​@chrissperrin7903 Funny because other bands have done the same thing yet don't get the criticism that Metallica do. AC/DC anyone? Repetitive riffs and Megadeth literally tried copying Hit the lights on the new album

  • @austinbourdages
    @austinbourdages Год назад +3

    It’s the sandman riff lmaoooo

    • @julianjsarmiento9406
      @julianjsarmiento9406 Год назад

      it’s just like played backwards or something idk

    • @austinbourdages
      @austinbourdages Год назад +2

      @@julianjsarmiento9406 I’m not gonna act like You Must Burn isn’t almost exactly Sad But True either 😂

    • @julianjsarmiento9406
      @julianjsarmiento9406 Год назад +2

      @@austinbourdages it has the same flow and almost identical drum beat I think as the song goes along it has a little bit of don’t tread

  • @SlacktivistWeeb
    @SlacktivistWeeb Год назад +6

    I’ve realised that the tone you use is better than official one. Riffs sound punchier here.

    • @sillkthashocker
      @sillkthashocker Год назад

      Yeah, idk why James uses that tone..is no good

  • @MetalString_
    @MetalString_ Год назад

    Exit Light!

  • @MikeyO1000
    @MikeyO1000 Год назад +1

    It’s “will the real slim shady please stand up”
    That would work as a mash up lol
    Ding ding ding ding DING…ding ding…ding dilililing ding”

  • @TuturDrumz2731
    @TuturDrumz2731 Год назад

    Its hit the lights^^

  • @hellmachine9869
    @hellmachine9869 Год назад

    0:02This is from Enter Sandman. This must be a riff from Enter Sandman. This part is from there

  • @HorstKirkPageKian
    @HorstKirkPageKian Год назад +3

    Sounds also like a riff off Hardwired. The one right before the solo. It's just a bit slower obviously. But that's what you get when your riffs consist mainly of E, G, A, B.

  • @ducky2go
    @ducky2go Год назад

    king sandman

  • @christopherrust4570
    @christopherrust4570 Год назад

    Sounds like the main riff from Now That We're Dead...

    • @wyzlight2028
      @wyzlight2028 Год назад +1

      its enter sandman but now that u say it, it does kinda sound like ntwd

  • @julianjsarmiento9406
    @julianjsarmiento9406 Год назад +1

    backwards enter sandman ??

  • @cavaquinhojr
    @cavaquinhojr Год назад

    Listen to chasing light at 2:03, it seems like the AJFAs riff

    • @dawerewolf_1346
      @dawerewolf_1346 Год назад

      Totally bro although the dual guitar harmony of the title track also gives a vibe of AJFA

  • @striality
    @striality Год назад

    Vocal riff in Inamorata is almost identical Lenny Kravitz

  • @DaveFurbush
    @DaveFurbush Год назад +1

    Exit Sandperson?

  • @silly8395
    @silly8395 Год назад

    ...die by my hand

  • @Vade4545
    @Vade4545 Год назад +3

    Enter sandman 2? Interesting 🤔

  • @AndreiAlt
    @AndreiAlt Год назад +1

    Enter Sleepman?

  • @danielskar7783
    @danielskar7783 Год назад

    Exit SadMan

  • @thetonemaniac9449
    @thetonemaniac9449 Год назад

    It's some riff off the Beyond Magnetic EP

  • @OVERDRIVEN32
    @OVERDRIVEN32 Год назад +1

    hi, please never use that "subscribe and hit the bell" green screen thing ever again

  • @AceFaceOfficial
    @AceFaceOfficial Год назад

    Enter Sandman

  • @ahmetozcelik7627
    @ahmetozcelik7627 Год назад

    Now That We’re Dead

  • @JokingbombYT
    @JokingbombYT Год назад +1

    honestly sounded closer to slither or king nothing

  • @Nah_IdLose
    @Nah_IdLose Год назад

    Enter Sadman

  • @DethronerX
    @DethronerX Год назад

    Didnt Kirk play something like this this when asked what his first riff was when joining Metallica?

  • @somekindofgrinder
    @somekindofgrinder Год назад

    Double the pain by Heaven and Hell

  • @artlife6210
    @artlife6210 Год назад +2

    looking at the endless fanboy loadblowing in the comments of the new songs on youtube tells me many of them never heard anything before St Anger lol

  • @jacekpuzio
    @jacekpuzio Год назад

    Now open „Fleetwood Mac - The Chain” and play from 3:03 and you will hear the middle part of…. 😊 guess what

    • @0Fdigital
      @0Fdigital Год назад

      Eh, who hasn't been influenced by that riff (or the one before it)? I quoted it pretty heavily in one of my songs; I don't see anything wrong with that as long as it's not in exactly the same context.

    • @jacekpuzio
      @jacekpuzio Год назад

      @@0Fdigital I didn't say that it's wrong, it's such an amazing line

  • @loadedfry
    @loadedfry Год назад +1

    I presume it sounds like Enter Sandman

  • @ThatOneCappybara
    @ThatOneCappybara Год назад

    Slither

  • @roadtostrongestmanever2099
    @roadtostrongestmanever2099 Год назад

    I thought it sounded like manunkind

  • @DerHerrMitR
    @DerHerrMitR Год назад

    Say whaaaaaaaaaaaaatttttttttt??

  • @nathanthompson3549
    @nathanthompson3549 Год назад

    Don't tread on Sandman

  • @birdxsoldier106
    @birdxsoldier106 Год назад

    Sounds a lot like enter sandman

  • @theicephoenix
    @theicephoenix Год назад

    Enter sandman LOL

  • @KardboardKenny
    @KardboardKenny Год назад

    so has Grandpa James gotten Alzheimer's, gotten lazy or has just ran outta riffs?

  • @unleashthebloodthirstpoopcrap
    @unleashthebloodthirstpoopcrap Год назад

    Exit sandman

  • @Samford_
    @Samford_ Год назад

    0356

  • @wahmeister666
    @wahmeister666 Год назад

    Well both are technically titles about sleep? 😂😅

  • @SpookyLukeyD
    @SpookyLukeyD Год назад

    A Metallica song sounds like a Metallica song. Wow, what a revelation.
    Who's next Slayer? how many of thier songs have the same gallop? 🤣

  • @chopmeatchuck
    @chopmeatchuck Год назад

    I mean it’s still Metallica right haha

  • @metalslayer777
    @metalslayer777 Год назад

    It reminds me Megadeth - Junkie.

  • @ClinicalDecisionYikesYT
    @ClinicalDecisionYikesYT Год назад +1

    Enter Sleepwalk

  • @tb2324
    @tb2324 Год назад

    Enter sandman backwards.

  • @dustblowingman
    @dustblowingman Год назад

    Lars doing that same drum part doesn't help it

  • @JeffSmith-it4tm
    @JeffSmith-it4tm Год назад +4

    Been listening to them since 1984, Their new sound blows.

    • @BourbonBandit-
      @BourbonBandit- Год назад +6

      cringe boomer take

    • @criddlegakes2650
      @criddlegakes2650 Год назад +2

      Been listening since 2004. Their new sound blows.

    • @KardboardKenny
      @KardboardKenny Год назад

      @@BourbonBandit- that's Gen X, ass wipe. started in "84 as well and if my x-wyf blew 1/4 as hard as Alzheimer's-tallica, i might have given half a damn when she left.

  • @JohnnyCashavetes
    @JohnnyCashavetes Год назад +1

    The fact that Inmorata is basically Lenny Kravitz Are You Gonna Go My Way is so funny to me

  • @cmd_f5
    @cmd_f5 Год назад

    Pentatonic abuse.

  • @wardkdouglas
    @wardkdouglas Год назад +1

    We gonna talk about how Imorata is just groove metal Lenny Kravits?

  • @BDFsecret
    @BDFsecret Год назад +2

    Metallica used to actively try NOT to recycle riffs, but now it's like they do it on purpose.

    • @AndDeathForAll82
      @AndDeathForAll82 Год назад +4

      No they fucking didn’t. Listen to Blackened, behind the solo. It’s the riff from For Whom the Bell Tolls. See also: Master of Puppets and Through the Never… Don’t Tread on Me and Bellz, Sanitarium and One, Ride the Lightning (under the solo) and Fight Fire With Fire…

    • @KardboardKenny
      @KardboardKenny Год назад

      Alzheimer's can be a bitch...LOL

    • @dubjubs
      @dubjubs Год назад

      ​@AndDeathForAll82 People also forget that other bands do the same thing (Disturbed is even more repetitive) yet seems like Metallica is the only one that gets this much hate

  • @ryangabbert3646
    @ryangabbert3646 Год назад

    Who else thought you must burn is a sad but true rip off

  • @knowur10sand18s
    @knowur10sand18s Год назад

    Makes it sound like Avenged 7X trying to rip off Metallica again lol

  • @AndDeathForAll82
    @AndDeathForAll82 Год назад +1

    Every band borrows from themselves… every single one.
    Metallica are the only ones who get shit on for it.

    • @StateOfMercury
      @StateOfMercury  Год назад +3

      Every band gets goofed on, only Metallica fans take it so seriously

    • @KardboardKenny
      @KardboardKenny Год назад

      don't worry. i'm sure granny-tallica will soon be popping up on more "plagiarizing" vids pretty soon.

  • @vincent2053
    @vincent2053 Год назад

    One riff in Shadows Follow sounds exactly like Confusion and another riff in the same song sounds like Atlas, Rise!

  • @thekaiseraiden
    @thekaiseraiden Год назад

    Classic modern Metallica recycling old riffs

  • @connormccourt3098
    @connormccourt3098 Год назад

    One riff in Shadows Follow sounds exactly like Confusion and another riff in the same song sounds like Atlas, Rise!

  • @connormccourt3098
    @connormccourt3098 Год назад

    One riff in Shadows Follow sounds exactly like Confusion and another riff in the same song sounds like Atlas, Rise!