Step forward, Creeper frontman Will Gould’s new project Salem…, This website requires Javascript to be enabled. “They were smashing guitars and singing about some horrible stuff – in pop songs,” the singer noted admiringly. Once upon a time Lars Ulrich slept on Diamond Head guitarist Brian Tatler’s bedroom floor: royalties from Metallica’s four recorded Diamond Head covers have since bought Tatler a new house. Louder is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Nowhere is Metallica’s debt to the NWOBHM more explicit than here, their take on the hard-riffing B-side of Blitzkrieg’s 1981 single Buried Alive. : Garage Days Re-Revisited in 1987, that they would record and release this Misfits medley. Lars actually witnessed what was to be Paul’s final show with Maiden in Copenhagen on September 10, 1981. If the band ever decide to release all six tracks as a standalone release called The Memory Ramones, we’d be quite happy for them to use the title in return for a case of Enter Night. It was the first single from Garage Inc. and spent 11 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The song that introduced Jason Newsted to Metallica fans, the opening cut on The $5.98 E.P. © It also appeared on the cassette single of Sad But True, where a further sticker informs the listened which colourful words appear in the song: fucking (2), sucked (3), pox (1), cunt (4), piss (1), prat (1), cock (2), scabs (1), fucked (5), jacked (1), spewed (1) and crabs (1). The song, written by bassist Dee Dee Ramone, recounts the story of a young male prostitute in a salubrious part of Manhattan, described by the New York times as “the Loop, where young male hustlers hang out out and older men cruise to buy sexual favours”. The creepy ‘Mommy, where’s fluffy?’ line was supposed to be at the start of their Diamond Head cover The Prince, but ended up on this song. "It's Electric" (Diamond Head) Metallica has recorded tons of Diamond Head covers of the years, but oddly this one always hit me the hardest. “Iron Maiden are 10 per cent cooler than every other band,” Lars tells K!. Charting Metallica’s best covers of everything from Misfits to Queen! Skynyrd fanatic Cliff Burton would surely have approved. Their music was so cool because it was completely anti-hippie. I hated The Beatles, Jethro Tull, Love and all that other happy shit.”, The band paid tribute to the fathers of heavy metal with a cover of Sabbra Cadabra (and part of A National Acrobat placed in the mid-section), taken from their 1973 album Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Mike Shinoda, Joe Hahn and Brad Delson re-live Linkin Park’s ground-breaking debut album as it turns 20. Since forming in 1981, Metallica have worn their influences on their sleeve. The song later appeared on the B-side of their Enter Sandman single the following year, and scooped a GRAMMY for Best Metal Performance. The latter appeared as a B-side on their 1988 Harvester Of Sorrow 12-inch single and the Eye Of The Beholder seven-inch, which enjoyed a U.S.-only release the same year. Sign up below to get the latest from Metal Hammer, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! The B-side to this Leicester metal band’s 1981 debut single Buried Alive was covered by Metallica at their very first show on March 14, 1982, at Radio City in Anaheim, California, appearing second on the setlist after Hit The Lites (sic). At The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness in 1991, a guitar-free Hetfield joined Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi and the surviving members of Queen for the song in front of a sold-out Wembley Stadium, as well as TV and radio audiences in 76 countries around the world. Thank you for signing up to Metal Hammer. Nowhere is Metallica’s debt to the NWOBHM more explicit than here, their take on the hard-riffing B-side of Blitzkrieg’s 1981 single Buried Alive. You’re off doing your own thing. With themes of bestiality, sexual diseases, fellating elderly gentlemen and visits to England’s southeastern coastal towns, this song originally appeared on the Anti-Nowhere League’s 1981 debut single Streets Of London. Heavy as shit.’ Sabbath was everything that the ’60s weren’t. A highlight from The $5.98 E.P. “We played Remember Tomorrow as it was basically the blueprint for songs like Fade To Black and Welcome Home (Sanitarium), and some of the more epic ballad-y type of songs that Metallica had done later. We’re A Happy Family, Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue, Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World, Commando and Cretin Hop appeared as B-sides on the various formats of the title track, which was released as a single in 2003. Metallica’s contribution to the 2012 Classic Rock magazine-curated Re-Machined: A Tribute To Deep Purple’s Machine Head collection was originally the B-side of Deep Purple’s 1972 single Never Before. Indeed, their early show setlists were populated by their British metal heroes Blitzkrieg, Diamond Head, Savage and Sweet Savage – their first show featured no less than seven covers and two original compositions. This Maiden song – taken from their 1980 self-titled debut – was recorded by Metallica especially for Kerrang!’s cover-mounted tribute album Maiden Heaven in 2008. England and Wales company registration number 2008885. The song – taken from their 1980’s eponymous album – is stripped of its post-punk angst and layered with aggressive thrash riffs. Here are their top 10 best cover songs, They might be stadium rock superstars now, but just like every other band Metallica started out playing cover versions in a garage. Freddie Mercury sings about shooting people with a ‘rubber Tommy water gun’, while James Hetfield’s shooter is ‘fully-loaded’. Visit our corporate site. Went down pretty good.”. (Metal Hammer) 23 November 2016, From Misfits to Diamond Head, Metallica have recorded some incredible covers. “If this is likely to offend, then move swiftly on… and buy some earplugs next time you walk out of the front door.”. ‘I’ve got something to say. : Garage Days Re-Revisited, this Killing Joke cover was debuted at Metallica’s legendary 100 Club show in August 1987, a warm-up for their Monsters Of Rock appearance at Castle Donington. “It’s just so quick and to the point.” Thanks to Cliff Burton – who’d play Misfits cassettes while on tour – Metallica introduced the New Jersey horror punks to the wider world in the mid ’80s, when he sported a Crimson Ghost tattoo on his arm; Hetfield can also be seen wearing a Misfits T-shirt on the back of the Master Of Puppets album. Metallica are hugely indebted to this Stourbridge metal band. Metallica’s version is heavier than Seger’s, and is accompanied by a gritty video directed by Jonas ‘Lords Of Chaos’ Åkerlund, featuring adult actress Ginger Lynn who plays a stripper and sex worker. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, : Garage Days Re-Revisited, the Garage Inc. compilation and limited edition EPs. When we were asked to be a part of a tribute album for Ronnie, of course we immediately said, ‘Fuck yeah!’ Choosing a song to record, however, was a much harder decision… so we did four!”. Probably not the sort of thing to consider when you’re about to sing with your heroes. It got us thinking, what are their most memorable tributes?