![]() Metallica – “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” Ride the Lightningīeginning with the literal tolling of bells and based on the Ernest Hemingway novel, this battle cry of a doomed soldier is another one of the band’s most-performed songs. Metallica's 'Black Album': Happy 25th Birthday, Here's What You Have in Common with Shania Twainħ. It’s their seventh most-performed song ever, according to setlist.fm.Ĩ. For better or for worse, Kid Rock used the main riff for his song “American Bad Ass” in 2000, and it’s a great example of the band slowing down a bit, but not selling out. The song’s got a stoner-rock swagger to it, and unlike most of their songs, was written in D, a key lower than normal for them. This is as close to Black Sabbath worship as Metallica got without actually covering the band - which it did on Garage Inc. Metallica – “Sad But True,” The Black Album It even made its way to a Dodge commercial recently.ĩ. It’s a little cheesy, but all the more fun for it. “Fuel,” which kicks off Reload, is a driving rock song about, well, driving. Neither album was a fan favorite, but songs like “King Nothing,” “Until It Sleeps” and “The Memory Remains” were huge rock radio hits and songs worth mentioning if this were a best-of post- Black Album list. Coming off the massive success of The Black Album, the band became even more mainstream (“They cut their hair, man!”) than after their breakthrough album. Metallica found itself in a weird place over the one-two punch of Load and Reload.
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