Awards
VH1 ranked the song as the third greatest heavy metal song ever.
In March 2005, Q magazine placed it at number 22 in its 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks list.
Martin Popoff's book The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time ranked the song at number two. Popoff composed the book by requesting that metal fans, musicians, and journalists nominate their favorite heavy metal songs. The author derived the final rankings from a database tallying almost 18,000 votes.
The song also ranked number one on a 100 Greatest Riffs poll conducted by Total Guitar magazine.
The readers of Guitar World voted the song as ranking at number 51 among the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos. Lead guitarist Kirk Hammett's solos for "Fade to Black" and "One" ranked significantly higher on the same list.
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