
And playing on this track, I just couldn’t wait. “Listen, this is one of the best songs ever written, to me,” John declared. John covered Nothing Else Matters for the project and decided to crash Metallica’s interview with Stern via Zoom to tell them how much he enjoyed the opportunity. The heavy metal legends appeared on Thursday’s (September 9) edition of The Howard Stern Show to talk about their new covers album The Metallica Blacklist, which celebrates 30 years since the release of their 1991 eponymous record (AKA The Black Album), with a massive 53-song tracklisting of high-profile artists all putting their own spin on tracks from the 1991 LP.

Elton John has moved James Hetfield to tears when he described the Metallica mega-hit Nothing Else Matters as “one of the best songs ever written” in a recent interview.
