METALLICA's 'Enter Sandman' Gets A Techno Makeover

Fusing his innovative styles of techno and trance with METALLICA's "Enter Sandman", DJ Paul Edge has unveiled a demo of his "Enter Sandman Edge Rework" at this location.

Despite growing up in the British dance scene, heavy music was never completely foreign to Edge, who attracted many metal fans via heavier mixes and DJs at his Outer Limits U.K. club night. But the idea to rework METALLICA didn't come until recently, when his wife was playing the band in their car. "I immediately connected with 'Enter Sandman', he says. "Lars Ulrich's drums follow a relentless 4-4 rhythm, James Hetfield's voice has a dimension that transfers across to the dance floor, and the bass chord structure is pure techno. The second I heard it, I knew I wanted to work with it."

A pioneering force as electronic music blossomed worldwide throughout the 1990s, DJ Paul Edge headlined and promoted one of the United Kingdom's longest-running and most-successful club nights, The Outer Limits, and continues to place an undeniable thumbprint on the trance and techno scenes. Following the release of his seminal trance track "Metamorphosis Of Narcotics" in 1996, Edge headlined the North American Nintendo Cube Tour in 2001, and in 2002 became one of the first DJs to introduce the "electro-clash" style to American audiences on his Remote Control Tour (with Keoki in support). He soared to even higher notoriety with the release of the jarring "We Will Not Be Silenced" in 2004, and its "We Will Not Be Silenced II" follow-up in 2006, two of the most-viewed viral videos in internet history.