'We OPPROBRIUM love METALLICA and would never do such a thing to METALLICA. We OPPROBRIUM are surprised concerning this, and are very sad. 'This individual is spreading lies behind our backs. We OPPROBRIUM hold all the rights to all our songs. 'This individual is claiming that he holds the rights to one of our song 'Hunger For Power', and it's not true. We love METALLICA and are fans of METALLICA and would never do such a thing against METALLICA. 'We do not know the reason why this news is spreading. We love METALLICA and we are fans of METALLICA ourselves. We OPPROBRIUM have nothing to do with this. 'To all OPPROBRIUM fans and METALLICA fans, we OPPROBRIUM would never send a 'cease-and-desist' to METALLICA. 'It's been circulating that supposedly an individual is claiming that METALLICA copied one of our songs called 'Hunger For Power' and that this individual supposedly sent a cease-and-desist to METALLICA. On Friday (April 7),the members of OPPROBRIUM released the following statement regarding the supposed cease-and-desist letter: Confusingly, the March 24 e-mail alleged that 'Sadistic Sinner' was copied in the METALLICA song 'Spit Out The Bone', while riffs from another INCUBUS track, 'Hunger For Power', ended up in 'Moth Into Flame'.

In the fake cease-and-desist letter, the person claiming to be Michael Howard accused METALLICA of lifting riffs from the INCUBUS track 'Sadistic Sinner', from the cult metal band's 1988 album 'Serpent Temptation', for inclusion in the song 'Moth Into Flame' from METALLICA's 'Hardwired… To Self-Destruct' disc. Other news sites, however, did pick up the story and it quickly spread across the Internet, eventually catching the attention of the members of INCUBUS, who changed their name to OPPROBRIUM in 2000. '80s metal band INCUBUS (not to be confused with popular California rock band of the same name) has denied sending a cease-and-desist letter to METALLICA's legal team alleging that the heavy metal giants copied riffs from INCUBUS's songs.īLABBERMOUTH.NET was one of the media outlets which were sent a copy of the supposed cease-and-desist letter earlier this week - after receiving e-mail notification of the letter's existence on March 24 - from someone claiming to be Brutal Records' Michael Howard, but chose not to publish the poorly worded document (see below) on the account that it appeared to be fake.

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