Enter Sandman is a song of the American band Metallica that put it as the first track to the eponymous album. Also, release this one of the famous sport songs preceded the album. Music is written by Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. The producer of the song was Bob Rock. The text related to the topic of nightmares.

The single «Enter Sandman» went gold: the U.S. acquired more than 500 000 copies. Critics have reacted favorably to the song, and, since 1991, it is included to all the live albums and it performed at the awards ceremonies and other important events including sport events as Enter Sandman became one of the best sport songs.

«Enter Sandman» became the first song, written by a group for the Matallica album. Kirk Hammett Metalica guitar player and bassist Jason Newsted gave the record with blanks for future songs to the rhythm guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich. They, in turn, offered their own ideas, and Ulrich at home in Berkeley (California) held further work on the material.

«Enter Sandman» was born by the guitar riff that Hammett invented. The music was written quickly but Hetfield took much time to finish with vocals and text. Hetfield felt that music lyrics are very easy to grasp and has a commercial focus, and in contrast, he decided to write the text of the destruction of family happiness. For the first time in the history Ulrich and the band producer Bob Rock told James said that he could write a better text. According to Ulrich, even before they had the lyrics written the words to the «Enter Sandman» were the basis of the album.

Critics received «Enter Sandman» well. The Allmusic journalist Chris True called it “the best moment of the group” and said it was “explosive metal stadium level, which captures energy from the entry to the end”. Steve Huy, in his review on Allmusic calls «Enter Sandman» one of the best songs of the band album. A journalist from Rolling Stone Robert Palmer called the song to be the first Metallica lullaby. Steve Sid from BBC described «Enter Sandman» as dramatic, and noted that new motifs have shown changes in the sound of the band.

«Enter Sandman» received many accolades. Rolling Stone magazine placed it at the 399 position in the list of 500 greatest songs of all the times, and VH1 put it at the 22 place on the list of 40 best songs in the metal style as well as at the 18th in the list of 100 Greatest Songs of the 90′s.
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