Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
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| "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" | ||
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| Cover of Master of Puppets | ||
| Song by Metallica | ||
| from the album Master of Puppets | ||
| Released | February 21, 1986 | |
| Recorded | Sweet Silence Studios Copenhagen, Denmark September-December, 1985 | |
| Genre | Thrash metal | |
| Length | 6:27 | |
| Label | Elektra Records | |
| Producer(s) | Metallica, Flemming Rasmussen | |
| Master of Puppets track listing | ||
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"Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" is the fourth song from Metallica's 1986 album Master Of Puppets. It was inspired by the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest from 1975.
Keeping with the theme of powerlessness of "Master of Puppets", the lyrics portray one being trapped in insanity, or perhaps incarcerated in a mental asylum. However, a sanitarium is usually a facility for treating tuberculosis and other chronic disease. The song is guided by powerful and moving riffs that give the song a cold, gloomy atmosphere, which goes well with the lyrics.
The original demo version of this song features an extended ending which is eventually used as bass and guitar solos in the song ""Orion" [1].
The section of the song that begins at 4:06 ("Fear of living on/Natives getting restless now...") bears a resemblance to a main riff in the Rush song "Tom Sawyer." Metallica thanks Rush in the liner notes for the album, so the riff may have been an intentional tribute, but it has not been confirmed by either band.
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- John Marshall, Mikkey Dee, Tony Levin, and Whitfield Crane for Metallica Assault: A Tribute to Metallica.
- Limp Bizkit (for the Metallica Tribute Concert and MTV Metallica Icon feature in 2003 and Summer Sanitarium Tour 2003)
- Dream Theater (From the bootleg Master of Metallica where the entire Puppets album is performed live)
- Bullet for My Valentine (From Kerrang!'s Master of Puppets: Remastered.)
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