Three things in life are certain: death, taxes and that Metallica will dominate the charts with every chance they get. Billboard has now reported that The Metallica Blacklist, the 53-track covers album of only “Black Album” songs, has peaked at No. 7 on the Top Album Sales chart for the week ending on Oct. 7.In a truly impressive feat, Metallica reached this mark in the second week after the star-studded tribute record was released with a…
Volbeat have joined the “blacklist.” The hard rocking Danish outfit are among the musicians from across all genres paying tribute to Metallica’s legendary self-titled “Black” album, providing their own cover of “Don’t Tread on Me” for the highly anticipated Metallica Blacklist collection.The band also just dropped a new Aaron Hymes-directed video for their cover featuring a military vehicle speeding across a terrain of scattered destruction along the way. Have a look at the clip in…
Biffy Clyro and OFF! have both dropped their own extremely different covers of Metallica’s self-titled “Black” album track “Holier Than Thou.”The bands are among the 50-plus artists who have contributed to the Blacklist tribute album — a collection of “Black” album covers by a wide variety of artists, which will be released on the same day as the massive reissue of Metallica’s historic and game-changing 1991 record.This pair of covers arrive on the same day Metallica debuted…