Metallica gave us a new awesome version of their classic Blackened song playing from their homes! Blackened was the first track of the 1988 studio album …And Justice for All.

Enjoy:

And here are the lyrics – some say the band selected to perform this one because it somehow relates to the COVID-19 situation we experience. I don’t know, for me, it’s just because it is one of their best songs:

Blackened is the end
 Winter it will send
 Throwing all you see
 Into obscurity
 Death of mother earth
 Never a rebirth
 Evolution's end
 Never will it mend never
 Fire to begin whipping dance of the dead
 Blackened is the end
 To begin whipping dance of the dead
 Color our world blackened
 Blistering of earth
 Terminate its worth
 Deadly nicotine
 Kills what might have been
 Callous frigid chill
 Nothing left to kill
 Never seen before
 Breathing nevermore never
 Fire to begin whipping dance of the dead
 Blackened is the end
 To begin whipping dance of the dead
 Color our world blackened
 Blackened
 Opposition, contradiction premonition compromise
 Agitation violation mutilation, planet dies
 Darkest color
 Blistered earth
 True death of life
 Termination, expiration,…