{"id":973647,"date":"2019-11-21T10:58:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T17:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=915172"},"modified":"2019-11-21T10:58:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T17:58:56","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-rodrigo-y-gabrielas-brutally-acoustic-metallica-cover-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-rodrigo-y-gabrielas-brutally-acoustic-metallica-cover-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Rodrigo y Gabriela\u2019s Brutally Acoustic Metallica Cover, \u2018Battery\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With its breakneck-paced galloping riffs and James Hetfield\u2019s snarls about weaker people being \u201cripped and torn away,\u201d Metallica<\/a>\u2019s \u201cBattery,\u201d off their magnum opus Master of Puppets<\/em><\/a>, is the apotheosis of thrash metal. The song starts with Spaghetti Western flamenco guitar, and that\u2019s the most clearly defined thread that connects it to Rodrigo y Gabriela<\/a>, the Mexican acoustic guitar duo which refigured \u201cBattery\u201d into a dynamic exercise in unplugged rage.<\/p>\n

Rodrigo y Gabriela have never hidden the debt they owe to heavy metal and especially Metallica \u2014 their self-titled 2008 LP featured a cover of the Master of Puppets <\/em>instrumental \u201cOrion,\u201d<\/a> and they\u2019ve done several other Metallica covers live over the years \u2014 and you can hear the deference they have for their heroes in \u201cBattery.\u201d Although the recording is instrumental, their fingers summon the fury of Hetfield\u2019s voice in a way that never sounds odd. It\u2019s a hard thing to do \u2014 only the cello quartet Apocalyptica have had the same success with their own instrumental rendition<\/a> of the track \u2014 but Rodrigo y Gabriela seem to tap into the song\u2019s natural propulsion. They even replicate Kirk Hammett\u2019s fleet-fingered solos perfectly (minus the wah-wah workout).<\/p>\n

The fact that it works so well is a curious thing, and it will be interesting to hear how the duo interprets the two other thrash classics on their upcoming Black Friday Record Store Day release, Mettal EP<\/em>. But chances are, they\u2019ll also fit perfectly since Megadeth\u2019s \u201cHoly Wars\u201d already sported a flamenco guitar interlude and Slayer\u2019s trippy \u201cSeasons in the Abyss\u201d is basically thrash metal\u2019s angel dust answer to the psychedelia of groups like Pink Floyd \u2014 and hey, Rodrigo y Gabriela already have Pink Floyd covered<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Find a playlist of all of our recent Songs You Need to Know selections on Spotify<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With its breakneck-paced galloping riffs and James Hetfield\u2019s snarls about weaker people being \u201cripped and torn away,\u201d Metallica\u2019s \u201cBattery,\u201d off their magnum opus Master of Puppets, is the apotheosis of thrash metal. The song starts with Spaghetti Western flamenco guitar, and that\u2019s the most clearly defined thread that connects it to Rodrigo y Gabriela, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 22:44:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}