Listen: Miley Cyrus Covers Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters” w/ Elton John, Yo-Yo Ma and More
Earlier today, Metallica announced their plans for celebrating this year’s thirtieth anniversary of The Black Album, including a super-duper-extra-special deluxe edition as well as a project dubbed The Metallica Blacklist, which features “50+ artists spanning an unbelievably vast range of genres, generations, cultures, continents and more, each contributing a unique interpretation of their favorite Black Album cut.”
One of the songs from the Blacklist project sees pop singer Miley Cyrus tackle “Nothing Else Matters,” which she has been teasing since last year and has performed live in the past. The cover, which sees Miley aptly test the lower limits of her wide vocal range, also features Elton John (who also teased the collaboration last year), producer Andrew Watt (Ozzy, Post Malone), internationally acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and Metallica’s own Robert Trujillo.
This isn’t Cyrus’s first dance with the dark arts; she’s covered Nine Inch Nails as well.
Have a listen below!
Here’s the full tracklist of The Metallica Blacklist:
- ALESSIA CARA & THE WARNING / ENTER SANDMAN
- MAC DEMARCO / ENTER SANDMAN
- GHOST / ENTER SANDMAN
- JUANES / ENTER SANDMAN
- RINA SAWAYAMA / ENTER SANDMAN
- WEEZER / ENTER SANDMAN
- SAM FENDER / SAD BUT TRUE (LIVE)
- JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT / SAD BUT TRUE
- MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF SOUND FEAT. LA PERLA & GERA MX / SAD BUT TRUE
- ROYAL BLOOD / SAD BUT TRUE
- ST. VINCENT / SAD BUT TRUE
- WHITE REAPER / SAD BUT TRUE
- YB / SAD BUT TRUE
- BIFFY CLYRO / HOLIER THAN THOU
- THE CHATS / HOLIER THAN THOU
- OFF! / HOLIER THAN THOU
- PUP / HOLIER THAN THOU
- COREY TAYLOR / HOLIER THAN THOU
- CAGE THE ELEPHANT / THE UNFORGIVEN
- VISHAL DADLANI, DIVINE, SHOR POLICE / THE UNFORGIVEN
- DIET CIG / THE UNFORGIVEN
- FLATBUSH ZOMBIES FEAT. DJ SCRATCH / THE UNFORGIVEN
- HA*ASH / THE UNFORGIVEN
- JOSÉ MADERO / THE UNFORGIVEN
- MOSES SUMNEY / THE UNFORGIVEN
- J BALVIN / WHEREVER I MAY ROAM
- CHASE & STATUS FEAT. BACKROAD GEE / WHEREVER I MAY ROAM
- THE NEPTUNES / WHEREVER I MAY ROAM
- JON PARDI / WHEREVER I MAY ROAM
- SEBASTIAN / DON’T TREAD ON ELSE MATTERS
- PORTUGAL. THE MAN FEAT. AARON BEAM / DON’T TREAD ON ME
- VOLBEAT / DON’T TREAD ON ME
- THE HU / THROUGH THE NEVER
- TOMI OWÓ / THROUGH THE NEVER
- PHOEBE BRIDGERS / NOTHING ELSE MATTERS
- MILEY CYRUS FEAT. WATT, ELTON JOHN, YO-YO MA, ROBERT TRUJILLO, CHAD SMITH / NOTHING ELSE MATTERS
- DAVE GAHAN / NOTHING ELSE MATTERS
- MICKEY GUYTON / NOTHING ELSE MATTERS
- DERMOT KENNEDY / NOTHING ELSE MATTERS
- MON LAFERTE / NOTHING ELSE MATTERS
- IGOR LEVIT / NOTHING ELSE MATTERS
- MY MORNING JACKET / NOTHING ELSE MATTERS
- PG ROXETTE / NOTHING ELSE MATTERS
- DARIUS RUCKER / NOTHING ELSE MATTERS
- CHRIS STAPLETON / NOTHING ELSE MATTERS
- TRESOR / NOTHING ELSE MATTERS
- GOODNIGHT, TEXAS / OF WOLF AND MAN
- IDLES / THE GOD THAT FAILED
- IMELDA MAY / THE GOD THAT FAILED
- CHERRY GLAZERR / MY FRIEND OF MISERY
- IZÏA / MY FRIEND OF MISERY
- KAMASI WASHINGTON / MY FRIEND OF MISERY
- RODRIGO Y GABRIELA / THE STRUGGLE WITHIN
