

It culminates in a furious closing guitar solo that stretches on for three minutes while the rest of the band hangs in the pocket. Like James Hetfield, Stapleton doubles his own voice, harmonizing with restraint until he wraps up the chorus with a spine-tingling wail. Fans of the country artist will recognize his round, resonant guitar tone and playing, which gets as much of a spotlight here as his singing.

Stapleton fuses his country-soul leanings with heavy-metal undertow in his sprawling eight-minute rendition, substituting groove for the thunderous crunch of the original without sacrificing its bite.

I think that’s all that should be said.Chris Stapleton has dropped his rendition of Metallica’s 1992 single “Nothing Else Matters,” which appears on The Metallica Blacklist as part of the band’s 30th anniversary reissue of its self-titled album, also known as The Black Album. We wrote the song, but he took the song and rearranged it to fit something specific in the film - and obviously, I’m not going to give any of that away - but we then kind of took on his version of it. It’s a very unusual morph in that it’s kind of his arrangement of ‘Nothing Else Matters’ that we’re playing. Lars Ulrich told Collider, “ James Newton Howard, the man, the myth, the absolute legend. The band has re-recorded the song with orchestrator James Newton Howard for use in Disney’s latest summer blockbuster, Jungle Cruise, starring Dwayne Johnson.

The clip is perhaps best remembered for a scene where Lars Ulrich throws darts at a poster of Winger frontman Kip Winger.” The accolades for Metallica continue to roll in, with the band’s video for 1991’s “ Nothing Else Matters” surpassing one billion views on YouTube.īlabbermouth posted: “The ‘Nothing Else Matters’ video, which was uploaded to YouTube in October of 2009, was directed by Adam Dubin and edited by Sean Fullan and is made up of clips from the 1992 Metallica documentary, A Year And A Half In The Life Of Metallica. RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – SEPTEMBER 19: James Hetfield (L) and Kirk Hammett of the band Metallica perform on stage during a concert in the Rock in Rio Festival on Septemin Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
