Metallica, currently in the midst of their “M72 World Tour” played Cardiff in Wales and included in their set a cover of a controversial Tom Jones classic. The band has been playing covers with some connection to the area they are playing and during the band’s “Doodle” segment of their show, guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo played a segment of local legend Tom Jones’ “Delilah.” In his introduction Trujillo said that it is one of his favorite songs. Continue reading »
“Fade to Black” is Metallica’s first ever ballad. Though never released as a single, it is now a Top 10 song for the band in terms of streams. As their first ever ballad, it set the template for their later, more accessible sound. Even though it’s more accessible for a Metallica song of its vintage, it’s still a little bit of an odd cover for a jangle pop band. Continue reading »
‘The Best Covers Ever’ series counts down our favorite covers of great artists.
When Black Sabbath held their “Back the Beginning” show in Birmingham this summer, no one disputed it represented Ozzy Osbourne’s way of saying goodbye. They just didn’t know how soon that final goodbye would come. Seventeen days after singing with both Sabbath and his own band to a packed stadium of superfans (and sounding not bad, considering), he was gone.
So today, we honor Sabbath in our own way, giving them the Best Covers Ever treatment. There are some heavy covers below, appropriately enough. But there are also a bunch that translate Sabbath songs into surprising genres, from slocore to bluegrass, retro soul to Finnish trad-jazz. No one, however, sings them the same way Ozzy did. Attempting to do so would be a fool’s errand. He was one of one, and will be missed.
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Weezer played Coachella this past weekend and, on top of playing a bevy of their hits, they also threw in one of their more popular covers, Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.”
The group has performed this live in the past and, recorded a version of the song on the 2021 tribute album, Blacklist, which featured covers of every song on Metallica’s “Black Album.” Their version hews pretty closely to the original, with most of the joy of the performance coming from seeing lead singer Rivers Cuomo try to ape James Hetfield’s vocals. Though they did toss in a “Buddy Holly” reference into the song, ending the song’s solo with the popular nine-note ending riff. (They then closed their set with the song.)
Cuomo has said Metallica was his favorite band when he was in high school.
Weezer covers “Enter Sandman” by Metallica at #Coachella2025
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