Although it seems most shows are essentially Holmes (psych, the mentalist, house etc) I am pretty sure Monk was actually an extrapolation of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot. His pristine phobia's taken to an OCD extreme. His assistant an analog to Felicity Lemon. So…..I reject your premise as I read your article!

Much of this may have to do with how one defines metal. There was a re-issue of Badmotorfinger that had a second CD that along with some live tracks had covers of Black Sabbath's Into The Void and the Rolling Stone's Stray Cat Blues that did a great job of showing their infuences.