As Metallica’s iconic Black Album turns 30, loads of artists queued up to do a musical salute to the Four Horsemen’s enormous breakthrough, and the incalculable influence it’s had. Specifically, 53 artists have queued up, all brought together in the Metallica Blacklist covers album, released as part of the gigantic revisiting of the record. We’ve had Weezer doing Enter Sandman, IDLES taking on The God That Failed, and Royal Blood grooving through Sad But True. Just like Biffy Clyro, OFF! and The Chats, Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor has delivered his own version of Holier Than Thou. Check it out… During a recent panel chat about the album with U.S. DJ Howard Stern, frontman James Hetfield was so bowled over by Sir Elton John’s praise of album ballad Nothing Else ...
