{"id":791806,"date":"2019-01-07T14:25:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T21:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=776007"},"modified":"2019-01-07T14:25:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T21:25:59","slug":"see-metallica-play-country-version-of-four-horsemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/see-metallica-play-country-version-of-four-horsemen\/","title":{"rendered":"See Metallica Play Country Version of \u2018Four Horsemen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Metallica<\/a> played a twangy country arrangement of \u201cThe Four Horsemen\u201d on acoustic instruments at a special gig for charity late last year. In the just-released clip of the performance, James Hetfield amped up the grit in his voice as he sang, \u201cChoose your fate and die,\u201d while Kirk Hammett used a slide, Robert Trujillo played some rumbling funk bass and Lars Ulrich kept an easy groove on the drums.\u00a0The new version clocks in just over three minutes, a stark contrast to the original \u2013 the thrashy, angular second cut off the group\u2019s debut album, 1983\u2019s Kill \u2018Em All<\/em>, where it was the longest song on the track list.<\/p>\n

The group played the song, along with several others, in San Francisco last year to raise money for their nonprofit All Within My Hands Foundation. Another one of the more radically reworked versions was Master of Puppets\u2019<\/em> \u201cDisposable Heroes,\u201d which they transformed into something that sounded like a cross between Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and one of the lighter songs on Led Zeppelin III<\/em>. \u201cAll right, that song\u2019s a little different,\u201d Hetfield exclaimed at the end of it.<\/p>\n