Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
| Welcome Home (Sanitarium) | |
|---|---|
| Metallica | |
| publication | October 23, 1986 (single) |
| length | 6:28 |
| Genre (s) | Thrash metal |
| Author (s) | James Hetfield , Lars Ulrich , Kirk Hammett |
| album | Master of Puppets |
Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (English for. " Welcome home (hospital) ") is a song by American Metal band Metallica . It was released as a single from their album Master of Puppets in October 1986. It was the band's last single with Cliff Burton .
Music genre
The semi-ballad in E minor with a tempo of 98 BPM begins in the intro with individual notes on the low and high E-string as well as the B-string of the guitar, between which flageolet notes are interspersed. This is followed by picking the clean guitar. The distorted guitar kicks in during the verse. This is followed by fast passages in double beat . The guitars are played in staccato , with quick solo passages by Kirk Hammett on top. In the final part, which is marked by breaks , a ritardando is used towards the end .
background
Welcome Home (Sanitarium) was inspired by the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest . The subject was also taken up in relation to the master of the impotence theme of the Master of Puppets album . Madness, or a person who experiences it in a psychiatric clinic , is treated.
“Fade to Black” worked well, and we wanted to have another slow, clean, picking type of song, this time with a chorus. I had trouble singing that chorus — it's really high. And the riff for the song was lifted from some other band, who shall remain anonymous.
In the play, the main riff is quoted from Tom Sawyer von Rush .
reception
Mick Wall and Malcom Dome called the piece "another ice-cold classic".
Live performances
The piece has already been played live over 800 times. At concerts in the late 1990s, it was combined several times with the Master of Puppets as a "Mastertarium". Two tours by the band were called Summer Sanitarium Tour .
Cover versions
- Anthrax
- Apocalyptica (on Plays Metallica by Four Cellos )
- Bullet for My Valentine (on The Poison , bonus track of the re-release, later included on a remaster compilation of the Kerrang! )
- Corey Taylor ( Slipknot / Stone Sour ) live cover
- John Marshall , Mikkey Dee , Tony Levin , Scott Ian and Whitfield Crane on Metallic Assault: A Tribute to Metallica .
- Limp Bizkit (for the Metallica Tribute Concert, the MTV Metallica Icon Feature 2003 and the Summer Sanitarium Tour 2003)
- Dream Theater (for the Bootleg Master of Puppets , where the entire Master of Puppets album is played live)
- Razed in black
- Thunderstone (on a cover album called A Tribute to the Four Horsemen )
- Machine head
- Primus
- Blind Guardian quotes the lines " Welcome to where time stands still / No one leaves and no one (ever) will " in the track Blood Tears on the album Nightfall in Middle-Earth .
- Metal Force (bonus track on Metal Rebirth )
- Sampled by Lost Boyz in Colabo , on the LB IV Life album
literature
Mick Wall, Malcom Dome: Metallica. Story and Songs compact , Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86543-273-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Metallica Master of Puppets , Songbook, Cherry Lane Music 1988, ISBN 0-89524-358-X , pp. 24-31
- ↑ a b Bienstock, Richard: Metallica: Talkin 'Thrash . In: Guitar World . December 2008.
- ↑ Welcome Home (Sanitarium) WhoSampled.com
- ^ Mick Wall, Malcom Dome: Metallica. Story and Songs compact , Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86543-273-5 , p. 44