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[andrewducker]

Metallica Sue Canadian Band over E, F Chords

Metallica are taking legal action against independant Canadian rock band Unfaith over what they feel is unsanctioned usage of two chords the band has been using since 1982 : E and F.

"People are going to get on our case again for this, but try to see it from our point of view just once," stated Metallica's Lars Ulrich. "We're not saying we own those two chords, individually - that would be ridiculous. We're just saying that in that specific order, people have grown to associate E, F with our music."

I rather liked Metallica, up to the Black Album. Sadly, following that they seem to have had problems being at all inspired, and instead fell back on "making albums that sound like Metallica", only not very good.

Comments

Re: heh

[andrewducker]

yeah, including that album.

I thought that chunks of the Black Album were fantastic (Enter Sandman is definitely up there in the "best riffs of all time" competition), other bits of it less so.

The stuff before that was frequently flawed, but it was them trying to stretch themselves and create the best music they could.

The stuff after that, meh.

Re: heh

[nosrialleon.livejournal.com]

I liked the Black Album for about a week, then hated it for about 10 years. Now I can listen to it as a well produced Metallica album, a creature that had not existed before...

I found 2 things really really funny about this in the moment before I realized it was a hoax: first, that the chord progression in question was one they had ripped off from their early influences; second, that there was a mini-scandal at the time - the song Enter Sandman had pretty much been lifted in its entirety from an LA metal band. Metallica denied any knowlege of them, saying something about there were anly so many progressions that worked in their style of music... The other band did not sue, and just enjoyed the publicity.