Listen To Metallica's Enter Sandman In The Style Of Iron Maiden

YouTube whizz Metal Börje has combined two of the biggest metal bands on the planet for an insightful – and genuinely really great – experimental cover: What would it sound like if Iron Maiden had written Metallica's Enter Sandman?

While the 'cover' is currently vocal-less (though the musician is looking for a singer to star in his rendition), Metal Börje asks – and answers – the all-important question: "What if in [1990] Steve Harris distracted Kirk [Hammett] by giving him a new wah pedal and meanwhile stole the Sandman riff?" It's something we've often wondered too, to be fair…

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Explaining how he came up with the musicality and how it's not actually just a straight-up cover song, he continues: "I know some of you consider this sacrilegious, especially when this is not basic 1:1 cover. You're entitled to your opinion. But it's not what I like to do.

"I like to put in my creativity, make it different somehow. The riffs and stuff are not the same, because I don't think that's how Maiden would've done it if they made this. I wanted to capture the essence of Iron Maiden with each instrument and as a whole. Hope you dig it!"

It'd be interesting to know what either band think of this mash-up. While Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson has previously backed his band as "better than Metallica", ’Tallica drummer Lars Ulrich responded to The Guardian in 2014: "I will never argue with that. I will always support Bruce Dickinson in whatever nonsense he says. That's part of the fun. So go Iron Maiden! It's fine."

Hear Enter Sandman in the style of Maiden below:

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Bonus! This isn't Metal Börje's first time fusing two metal greats together. In fact, earlier in the year he asked: "What if Slipknot made Enter Sandman?"

Here are the results…