Seems like every opinion of Metallica I see is that they haven’t had any good ideas since the Black Album. Now, I’m no Metallica fan (Unless liking four or five songs off the Black Album qualifies me), but when I found this out today, you can imagine I was angry, seeing as Pearl Jam is one of my favorite bands.
Metallica’s new song “The End of the Line” steals a riff directly from Pearl Jam’s song “Why Go?”. Hear it here from 0:34 to 0:56:
Now listen to Pearl Jam’s “Why Go?” here:
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