

The critically acclaimed record is Metallica's best-selling project to date: It's been certified a whopping 16-times platinum and spent four consecutive weeks atop the all-genre Billboard 200 - Metallica's first No. The Black Album is Metallica's fifth studio album, and saw the band adopt a slight change in style. Guyton chose for proceeds from her cover to go to UNCF - an organization that focuses on minority education, supporting historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and their students - while Rucker opted to donate to MUSC Children’s Health, a network of children’s hospitals. Also featured on the album are the folk-rock band Goodnight, Texas, Miley Cyrus, Weezer, J Balvin and Rodrigo y Gabriela, among many others.Īll profits from sales of The Metallica Blacklist will be split between Metallica's All Within My Hands Foundation and a charity selected by each artist. Guyton and Rucker are not the only country stars included on The Metallica Blacklist in fact, they're not even the only country stars to cover "Nothing Else Matters." Chris Stapleton, too, covers the song, while Jason Isbell and Jon Pardi, perform "Sad But True" and "Wherever I May Roam," respectively. The song peaked just outside the Top 10 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock charts, but remains one of the band's best-known tracks. Learn more at Patreon."Nothing Else Matters" was the third single from Metallica's self-titled fifth studio album, often called The Black Album. There are a bunch of exclusive perks only for patrons: playlists, newsletters, downloads, discussions, polls - hell, tell us what song you would like to hear covered and we will make it happen. Check it out below:Ĭover Me is now on Patreon! If you love cover songs, we hope you will consider supporting us there with a small monthly subscription. Country star Chris Stapleton covers hard-rock giants Metallica in an expansive new anniversary set, putting his blowtorch vocal on the epic anthem, Nothing Else Matters. Listen to both songs on WhoSampled, the ultimate database of sampled music, cover songs and remixes. But it’s an extremely pretty version, and Bridgers shows a lot of restraint with the arrangement. 'Nothing Else Matters' by Juan Carlos Cano is a cover of Metallicas 'Nothing Else Matters'. Perhaps it’s a bit obvious, as going softer than the original is the easy route.

But even with the limited percussion, the vibe is still soft and somber. One of the most popular songs of metal music history, ‘Nothing Else Matters,’ was released in Metallica’s iconic fifth. Nothing else matters except for Miley Cyrus ’ new Metallica cover and she didn’t do the honors. On their official Twitter account, thrash metal legend Metallica shared the video of star-studded rendition of ‘Nothing Else Matters’ covered by the pop music icon Miley Cyrus which also features Elton John, Andrew Watt, Yo-Yo Ma, Robert Trujillo, and Chad Smith. At around three minutes, electronic percussion comes in to give the song a little more heft. Miley Cyrus Covers Metallica’s ‘Nothing Else Matters’ With Elton John, Yo-Yo Ma & More. It builds slowly and softly with additional strings entering and some double-tracked vocals on the refrain. The song is basically the same tempo, but is considerably softer.

So it shouldn’t be that much of a surprise when Phoebe Bridgers‘ new cover of “Nothing Else Matters” opens with piano (backed by something like a plucked cello?) that could almost recall baroque music. A video for Miley Cyrus's cover of 'Nothing Else Matters' featuring Elton John, Yo-Yo Ma, Robert Trujillo, and Chad Smith has also been released. The song appears on the upcoming charity compilation The Metallica Blacklist, which. As early as Ride the Lightning, the band introduced acoustic guitars that had a baroque feel. Phoebe Bridgers has shared a self-proclaimed Baroque cover of Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters. There’s long been a bit of a baroque feel to the softest parts Metallica’s music. (Apparently he didn’t initially write it to record with Metallica.) It’s since become Metallica’s best-selling song, and it’s perhaps most accessible to softer treatments of any song in their catalogue. Ten of the tribute’s covers–count ’em, ten–are of the song “Nothing Else Matters.” Arguably the most commercial song Metallica had yet written, it was a marked departure for the band when Hetfield wrote it. There are just an absolute slew of Metallica (the album) covers appearing these days, as part of the build up to The Blacklist, the forthcoming “Black Album” tribute album.
