Billy Corgan says Metallica’s ‘Fuel’ sounds “awfully close” to this Smashing Pumpkins song

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Billy Corgan has shared his views on Metallica’s song ‘Fuel’, and said that it is “awfully close” to one of his songs with The Smashing Pumpkins.The singer, songwriter and guitarist brought up the comparisons while appearing for an interview on the Everblack podcast.

At one point during the discussion, he was asked about the possibility of him performing ‘Tales Of A Scorched Earth’ live for the first time.While he didn’t explicitly reveal whether or not the band are thinking about embedding it into the setlists any time soon, he did go on to outline one thing he’s noticed about the track.“ Well, let me caveat this by saying that I love James Hetfield as a person.

I love Metallica … James is probably the greatest riff writer outside of maybe [Black Sabbath’s] Tony Iommi,” he began (via Blabbermouth).“James has written some of the greatest, most amazing riffs, and he’s still writing them.

But if you listen to ‘Tales Of A Scorched Earth’ and you listen to that Metallica song, ‘Give me fuel, give me fire, give me that which I desire.’ … Now, which song came first?”He continued, outlining that he doesn’t harbour any frustration over the move as he doesn’t think it was done deliberately.