As the lead single from Metallica’s game-changing self-titled fifth album – aka The Black Album – Enter Sandman was the track that launched the band into the mainstream. It became an instant hit on its release in July 1991, shooting up to No.10 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart and hitting No,16 on the Billboard Hot 100. Its ominous, chiming opening riff and blockbusting chorus were both instantly recognisable and inescapable.
However, within a few months of the track beginning its inexorable ascent to classic status, people began to notice it sounded in part like another song – Tapping Into The Emotional Void, by LA skatecore thrashers, Excel.
