This song is unnerving. Hammett's guitar work is slightly off, but purposely so. It's designed to throw the listener off and make him uncomfortable. Now I have to say that I love this song, and on any mortal album this would be a standout track. Here it's just plain good.
Heroes is an audio adrenaline rush.
It's not super complex, but it's fast and fast is good. The drumming is intense as is the 200bpm riffing of the rhythm guitar. Leper Messiah , while boasting a title guaranteed to set off alarmists, is not the anti-Christian tune it at first appears to be. This is a scathingly sarcastic indictment of that most wonderful of creatures, the Televangelist. Slowly at the edge of the audible range there's a noise, difficult to identify at first.