How does it feel to be alive? Metallica performs "Blackened 2020"
On May 1 Metallica joined John Fogerty, Dennis DeYoung, Paul Stanley, and other music artists in performing from their homes while the world deals with COVID-19. What better song than an uplifting tune about the end of the world?
The performance of the lead track off their 1988 album "...And Justice For All" is semi-acoustic with an altered arrangement and a new guitar solo by lead guitarist Kirk Hammett. All four members are performing from their homes in what oddly enough is the band's first "live" (or at least public) performance since September of last year when their Worldwired Tour went on hold while singer/guitarist James Hetfield went into rehab.
The video can be seen on YouTube and the band's various official social media and below this post. In my opinion, this is a great stripped-down rendition of one of the band's heaviest, fastest and complex songs. It would have been easy enough to just do an acoustic, sentimental performance of "Nothing Else Matters", but they went all out with a semi-obscure fan-favorite that clearly took a bit of work to put together. Big thumbs up here and it's also nice just to see these guys playing together again... even if they aren't actually together.
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