What would it sound like if Iron Maiden had written Metallica's smash single Enter Sandman? We're glad you asked…
YouTube whizz Metal Börje has combined two of the biggest metal bands on the planet for an insightful – and genuinely really great – experimental cover: What would it sound like if Iron Maiden had written Metallica's Enter Sandman?
While the 'cover' is currently vocal-less (though the musician is looking for a singer to star in his rendition), Metal Börje asks – and answers – the all-important question: "What if in [1990] Steve Harris distracted Kirk [Hammett] by giving him a new wah pedal and meanwhile stole the Sandman riff?" It's something we've often wondered too, to be fair…
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Explaining how he came up with the musicality and how it's not actually just a straight-up cover song, he continues: "I know some of you consider this sacrilegious, especially when this is not basic 1:1 cover. You're entitled to your opinion. But it's not what I like to do.
"I like to put in my creativity, make it different somehow. The riffs and stuff are not the same, because I don't think that's how Maiden would've done it if they made this. I wanted to capture the essence of Iron Maiden with each instrument and as a whole. Hope you dig it!"
It'd be interesting to know what either band think of this mash-up. While Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson has previously backed his band as "better than Metallica", ’Tallica drummer Lars Ulrich responded to The Guardian in 2014: "I will never argue with that. I will always support Bruce Dickinson in whatever nonsense he says. That's part of the fun. So go Iron Maiden! It's fine."
Hear Enter Sandman in the style of Maiden below:
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Bonus! This isn't Metal Börje's first time fusing two metal greats together. In fact, earlier in the year he asked: "What if Slipknot made Enter Sandman?"
Here are the results…
