by OntiqoTapping into the Emotional Void by Excel and Enter Sandman by Metallica: how alike are they?
Sonalize compared the two recordings: 4%, unrelated.
| Harmony | 29% |
|---|---|
| Melody | 29% |
| Sound | 49% |
| Rhythm | 15% |
These tracks have no more in common than unrelated songs usually do.
| Tapping into the Emotional Void | Enter Sandman | |
|---|---|---|
| Artist | Excel | Metallica |
| Key | D# Major | E Minor |
| Tempo | 144 BPM | 123 BPM |
| Most alike passage | 3:55–4:11 | 3:42–4:01 |
Track B moved down 1 semitones (E Minor to D# Major)
On Sonalize’s other-version check (a cover-song model), this pair is alike in style, as songs of the same genre often are, though not the closeness of another version (distance 1.57; other versions of a song in these comparisons have a median of 0.31, different songs that sound alike 1.27, random pairs 2.95).
Why this pair
This is a pair from a publicly reported dispute. Public background: main riff; Reported in 2003 that Excel was considering action; no case on record. Sonalize's scores are measurements, not a view on any dispute.
How this was measured
Compared from the full recordings; Sonalize's fingerprint lookup confirmed both songs. The same engine runs in the Sonalize app on your own device. A score measures how alike two recordings are; it isn't a finding about copying, legal advice, or a rights clearance.
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