Metallica - Welcome Home (Sanitarium) BASS ONLY

This is Cliff Burton's (RIP) bass track for the song Welcome Home (Sanitarium) off the album Master Of Puppets


"Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" is the second single and fourth song from Metallica's 1986 album Master of Puppets.

Keeping with the theme of powerlessness of "Master of Puppets", the lyrics portray one being trapped in insanity, or perhaps trapped in a mental asylum. It begins slowly with harmonics, which eventually leads into the main riff followed by the bass guitar, drums and solo. The lyrics progress and become more harsh, backed by harsher vocals (in comparison to the cleaner vocals of the song) and heavily distorted guitars. The song ends with several solos and a few lyrics that hint about an uprising in the asylum.

The original demo version of this song features an extended ending which is eventually used as bass and guitar solos in the song "Orion".

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.

In the later 1990s, Metallica would often combine the song with "Master of Puppets" in concert, calling it "Mastertarium".

This song is also featured as background music for the film Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, which details the controversial West Memphis Three murder case, as the three boys listened to heavy metal.