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METALLICA
Enter Sadman
1991

EXCEL
Tapping Into the Emotional Void
1989

INTERPOLATION
TRIBUTE
COPY
PLAGIARISM
STOLEN - STOLE
COINCIDENCE

INTERPOLACIÓN
TRIBUTO
COPIA
PLAGIO
ROBO - ROBADA
COINCIDENCIA

Say you’re a heavy-metal band that recorded a song in 1989 only to hear a very similar song turn up as a big hit by Metallica in 1991. What do you do?

Sue, right? Just think what a piece of the monster album “Metallica” must be worth. The album has sold more than 3 million copies in less than three
months since its release.

But Excel, a Los Angeles quartet, isn’t going to court even though the group’s song, “Tapping Into the Emotional Void,” is being played by several metal radio deejays across the country who have noticed that the introduction and dominant musical riff are remarkably similar to that of Metallica’s Enter Sandman.

“You don’t know what to think,” said Excel singer Dan Clements, recalling the first time he heard Metallica’s Sandman.

A fan of Metallica who even stood in line at midnight when their album went on sale, Clements said he was shaken by the similarities of the two songs, and the thought of the potential financial gain from a copyright lawsuit was tempting. Excel’s album, “The Joke’s on You,” has built a solid core of fans, especially in the Los Angeles club scene, but sold only about 20,000 copies.

But Excel’s manager, Jane Hoffman, said the band is wary of a lengthy, tiring court battle and is just hoping that the new attention paid to its old
track, which was written in 1988, will give momentum to its next album, which is being written and recorded now.

“A lawsuit, unfortunately, sucks everything else out of your life,” Hoffman said from her Los Angeles office. “Every day you’re dealing with it. Instead
of dealing with positives, you’re dealing with negatives, and nothing is proceeding.”

Metallica co-manager Cliff Burnstein said he had never heard of the Excel song. But he is familiar with the group, which formed in 1983. Excel guitarist Adam Seigel has been playing recently with Infectious Grooves, a band that includes two members of Suicidal Tendencies, which Burnstein also manages. But he chalked up the songs’ similarities to coincidence.

“If Excel could write that one as good as that, I’m sure they can write more,” Burnstein said. “Then they’ll be successful.”

“I looked for the Excel record, and there it was,” Berger said. “We played it and some people called thinking it was a demo version of Sandman. ”

Caroline Records, which released “The Joke’s on You,” has reissued the song as a single and it’s getting airplay on college and metal stations. It was the “most added” song last week on metal-oriented radio stations reporting to industry tip sheets the Hard Report and Friday Morning Quarterback.

That, Clements said, is better for the band than winning a lawsuit would be. “I just want it to be known that it’s time more than 20,000 people recognized that musically Excel has it and is ahead of its time,” he said.

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Enter Sandman es una copia.

Ahora bien, ustedes se preguntarán a quién le habrá robado Kirk Hammett a la hora de componer la música?. La respuesta es sencilla: En 1988, Excel una banda de heavy punk que tuvo su mejor momento a fines de los ’80 editó la canción “Tapping into the emotional void”, perteneciente al disco The joke’s on you y a menos que el guitarrista Adam Siegel haya conocido al aprendiz de Satriani y a Hetfield a mediados de los ’80 y que estos ya tenían pensado el riff de “Enter Sandman” y que a su vez se lo contaron a Siegel, no me queda otra que pensar que fue un robo a mano armada.

La similitud entre ambas melodías es innegable, de hecho la canción fue compuesta en 1985, editada en el ’88 y lanzada en el ’89. En 2003, Excel inició acciones legales contra Metallica por esta situación algo que no quisieron hacer apenas salió a la venta el álbum negro, a lo que el Tribunal no reconoció las demandas por lo que no hubo un resarcimiento económico aparente (y después uno ve lo que le pasó a La Naranja Metálica y se pone mal). Otras versiones indican que integrantes de los 4 Horsemen eran fans de Excel y de ahí surge el parecido. En sus peores momentos de verborragia agresiva, Dave Mustaine de Megadeth, acusó a Metallica de plagio.

De todas formas, como aclaré al comienzo que si bien soy un ferviente seguidor de la M, trato de quitarme la venda de los ojos y separar el fanatismo de la realidad (el gran problema de los fans). Abajo, ustedes pueden dejar sus insultos, críticas, conjeturas y análisis de eternos insatisfechos. Por suerte, mi amor y admiración por Metallica no cambia en lo más mínimo, lo mismo me ocurre al momento de escribir sobre los numerosos plagios de LedZeppelin. Ya está todo inventado…y copiado, también.

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