# Welcome Home (Sanitarium) guitar solo > Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield's guitar solo on Welcome Home (Sanitarium) by Metallica (1986) starts at about 4:26. From the album Master of Puppets. Canonical URL: Metallica, 1986, from *Master of Puppets*. Solo by *Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield*. Clean verses give way to harmonised leads and a heavy final section with some of Hammett's most melodic work. Welcome Home (Sanitarium) moves from quiet, clean arpeggios to crushing heaviness, and its guitar work follows that arc. The verses float on a haunting clean pattern, with Kirk Hammett's early melodic lines sounding fragile and sad. As the song builds, harmonised leads from Hammett and James Hetfield add weight and drama, and the final section breaks into a fast, heavy charge where Hammett's solos grow more intense and aggressive. It shows the band's gift for dynamics and storytelling through arrangement. Listen for the harmony lines that bridge the calm and heavy sections, and notice how the melodic phrases in the quiet parts return, transformed, in the song's furious final minutes. Welcome Home (Sanitarium) by Metallica is ranked #548 in our consensus of 80 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield and the song was released in 1986. It appears on 1 lists, placing as high as #220 (Digital Dream Door). ## In our lists - [The 25 Greatest Thrash Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/thrash/) — #12 - [The Best Kirk Hammett Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/kirk-hammett-guitar-solos/) — #7 - [The Best Metallica Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/metallica-guitar-solos/) — #8 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1986](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1986/) — #13 ## Sources - [Digital Dream Door: 250 Greatest Rock Guitar Solos](https://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_guitarsolo.html) — #220 ### Who played the guitar solo on Welcome Home (Sanitarium)? Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield played the solo on Metallica's Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (1986). ### Where does Welcome Home (Sanitarium) rank among the greatest guitar solos? #548 in the GreatestSolos consensus of 80 published lists; it appears on 1 of them. --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)