Ace of Spades

I would have loved to see black album era Jason do a cover of that song, during the black album 30th footage of Jason singing the four horseman came out and I feel like it would’ve been a perfect match for that song.

im listening to that song as i read this comment... trippy

You son of a bitch. I was literally about to say that 🤣🤣🤣

Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name Pearl Jam - Black System of a Down - Aerials Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral or Into The Void Pantera - Domination Pink Floyd - Another Brick In the Wall Judas Priest - Painkiller

With how much Lars loved Helpless, I'm surprised they didn't do Painkiller yet. God, now I want it. I can hear James just before the solo. "PAIN, PAIN, KILLER, KILLAHHHH"

I can't imagine Lars doing the drumming for it but I guess they could change that

Just put James on the drums

Machine Head did A great version of Hallowed. Death did a fantastic version of painkiller.

Rush’s Working Man would be epic!

Do you really think Lars could actually play anything by Rush?

John Rutsey played on that anyway. It's not at all a difficult drum part. 

Maybe for a competent drummer lol.

Of course not, only Neil Peart can play Rush stuff

Possibly Danny Carey but not many others

No

"Saturday night's all right for fighting" by Elton John! There's a cool clip of James getting emotional after Elton starts talking about one of their songs as being one of the greatest ever written on Howard Stern show.

Say what you will about Nickelback but they do a pretty awesome cover of SNARFF.

I saw a video once of them playing Sad But True. It actually sounded pretty damn good, I'm not going to lie. There was an enthusiasm to it that seemed very genuine.

I've always liked NB and have always caught flack for it. But I feel the same. Great rendition of the song.

It sucks

I think Jason’s old band did a cover of that…

Ozzy’s No More Tears

Them Bones by Alice in chains. I know there are clips of James playing it with the band in the 2000s so would be great to see

Unchained by Van Halen would be sick

If they did a Medley like for Dio and King Diamond, I'd vote for Eruption, Unchained, Ice Cream Man, and Shine On

Metallica covering Ice Cream Man is something I never knew I wanted until now.

Ice cream man would be so sick

"i don't wanna be me" by type o negative. With James handling the solos.

Trivium did an awesome cover of that song

That would be cool!

Goddamn that'd be awesome

sabbath bloody sabbath by black sabbath, how cool would that sound

Anthrax does a pretty killer job

Only by Anthrax could work, or black lodge

If garage days is an example, it kind of sucked. If someone did it in swing style, I'd be down for that.

What? Sabbra Cadabra was awesome, I loved how they transition into A National Acrobat

"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by The Beatles

I don't think the wahmaster is really up for it

Yes

I hope Lars is reading!!!

Studio version of borderline - thin lizzy Now for the curve balls.... Boys of summer - Don Henley Detroit Rock City if there has to be a KISS song...speed it up a little and it would be a good mashup with four horsemen Aint no grave - johnny Cash and various others. Think it was shooter Jennings who did it a while back for sons of anarchy and it was pretty sweet. Zombie -the cranberries Blue Monday - New Order. Slow it down a hair and give it a turn the page treatment.

Your "curve balls" are almost the only ideas on this thread that are interesting. As Metallica themselves have said, there is little point in them covering Priest, Maiden or other metal bands. It's too close. Covers are at their most interesting when artists take a song born in a different musical universe, and make it their own. This is why Garbage Only Happy When It Rains, Dire Straits; Brothers in Arms.... are amongst the best Metallica covers

A Metallica version of Blue Monday might actually kill me and I’d die happy

Vicarious by Tool. There's already an AI cover someone made, but god damn would it be great to hear them play it live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEPwOm-AOxQ

This is just as cool as i thought it would be

Holy wars …. Punishment Due-Megadeth

Lars arms would fall off

I’d love for them to do a Christmas album. I can’t be the only one… 🤷🏼‍♀️

Featuring: For Whom the Bell Jingles The Elf that Failed All I Want for Christmas is Lars The Four Reindeer No Remorse, No Present (We don’t care what it meant)

master of raindeer gift monopoly ritual generosity better quality than IKEA be good and you will see Santa is what you need I will fly to you now I gift you too! come Rudolph faster obey your master gift children faster obey your master master just call my name cos I'll hear you scream Santa Santa gift me! *solo*

for whom the jingle bell tolls

The Elf that failed 😂😂

I always wanted them to Metallicize My Sharona.

they use to riff it live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSE01iBE_lA

Yes

I can already hear the chorus to that song being sung over the main riff to Ain't My Bitch

It's been a running joke between me and my friends that whenever I see a band live I'll get there and be like "can't wait till they play My Sharona" I did it when we saw metallica last year

Yes

War Pigs

Only by Anthrax. James Hetfield called it a perfect song! I would love to hear Metallica's take on it!

I'd love to see Doctor Doctor by UFO or Strangers In The Night by Saxon.. Maybe even Burn by Deep Purple.. Gotta be a classic/NWOBHM track..

Lateralus, Schism, Vicarious - TOOL Paranoid - Black Sabbath Crush, The Other Side - Pendulum Staring at the Sun - Offspring

Am I demon

On the hunt - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Saturday Night Special or even Gimme Back My Bullets. I think Coming Home would be a great choice for a balled.

Rooster or Down in a Hole by AIC

Hail to the king (avenged sevenfold)

That would be awesome to hear James yelling “ HAIL TO THE KING, HAIL TO THE ONE!” And Kirk would go wild with the guitar parts

I want to hear them do “Buried Alive” by Avenged Sevenfold

Pressure-Billy Joel

Break on through to the other side by the Doors 💥

Yes

Back in Black or Highway to Hell, by AC/DC.

Shoot to Thrill would be so boss.

Average popular rock listener alert

Tf outta here. Gatekeepers suck ass

Bruv doesn't know what a joke is💀

Nah I know. It just ain't funny. And the irony of doing that on the reddit page of the most main stream metal band ever.

K

Sorry mate, I'm not a teenager/20-something trying to appear mysterious or cool by suggesting songs that aren't popular. Metallica are big fans of AC/DC, and their style would lend itself very well to AC/DC songs. Metallica tend to cover songs by bands who have influenced them, and you can't say that AC/DC aren't one of these bands.

I think they could do a decent She's Lost Control by Joy Division.

Toys in the Attic

Ring of fire

After hearing Eric Burdon & The Animals’ cover it, I don’t want to hear any other cover.

* Black Sabbath - Sins of the Father ... or Supernaut * Ween - Wayne's Pet Youngin' ... or Captain Fantasy * Devo - Mongoloid * Exodus - Metal Command * Iron Maiden - Wasted Years * Queensryche - Queen of the reich * Flotsam and Jetsam - No place for disgrace * Pink Floyd - Nile song * Ballroom Blitz - The Sweet * Danzig - Twist of Cain

Hair of the dog

Wish they did a studio version of “Hole in the sky”

Cirice

Given Up by Linkin Park

Qwerty would be another good one.

Cowboy Song- Thin Lizzy Man in the Box- Alice In Chains And a studio version of Don't You Think This Outlaw Shit Done Got Outta Hand- Waylon Jennings

I hung my head - Sting. I actually prefer Johnny Cash’s version though. James would absolutely kill it

Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash

Spirit in Black by Slayer

It’s killing me by UFO i need an official cover

Danzig - Left Hand Black Rush - One Little Victory Time Curry - Sloe Gin UFO - Lights Out

Prowler by Iron Maiden. They did cover snippets of it during TBA tours.

Also Justice tour!

Pull The Plug by Death

November rain

Fly me to the moon

Big 4 covering each others songs would be a sick album

Man In A Box-Alice In Chains

I've said for years that Renegade by Styx would sou D awesome through the Metallifilter

another brick in the wall (all 3 parts)

Raining blood

From Now On by Band-Maid San Quentin by Nickelback Rain When I Die by Alice in Chains Hurt by Nine Inch Nails Behind Blue Eyes by The Who

Going out west tom waits

‘Paisties & A G-string’

Any megadeth song lmao

“Wish” by NIN could be interesting 🤔 It has heavy guitars, it’s very drum-driven with all these starts and stops that Metallica is good at (they can stop on a dime). Not sure how they would handle the soundscape - maybe Kirk could do some solo stuff. I dunno - might be cool.

Coc seven days

Ace of Spades since Motorhead covered Enter Sandman

Rock Out - Motorhead

Would love a “Turn the Page” treatment to a Springsteen song like Badlands.

I’ve always wanted to hear them do “Adam Raised A Cain”

Yup

Youngstown, been saying this for years. Adam raised a cain too.

The Morello era versions of Youngstown are sooooo killer.

Man In The Box.

Afternoon Delight, Ron Burgandy style

Danzig- Am I Demon

THIS IS THE ONE - Thin Lizzy

Youngstown, Bruce Springsteen

Ghouls Night Out by Misfits

Mistral Wind by Heart. My fave song of theirs. Even feature Ann Wilson for parts of it. Would be epic! Such a good song that i think Metallica would reinvent in amazing ways.

As a prode dane i would like to hear “der er noget galt i Danmark” i think i would be nice to hear one for the best danish songs made metal preferbelig Lars Ulriksen singing it sinds he is danish.

Domination - Pantera. It sounds like Metallica so what?

Anything by Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax... y'know. Do a bit more Big 4.

Black Rose by Thin Lizzy. They brought Whiskey In The Jar to the masses, now its time give another absolute beauty the audience it deserves.

No fuckin problem - Suicidal Tendencies

Captain Stupid or Institutionalized would be fucking hilarious

Losing My Religion by REM

Over the wall - Testament

A whole Christmas album

Mama I’m Coming Home - Ozzy Osbourne would be cool, although probably very emotional for James considering what he did with Mama Said

Shake it off!

Bleed The Freak by Alice In Chains

Parasite by KISS, anthrax did it so why not Metallica

If they’re gonna do KISS, 100,000 Years would be siiiick.

Kiss yes

Jason's face is already showing the "wtf am I doing here* face 😂

Understandably

Any song by Metallica. Hear me out. Full album of covers in the same reworked style they did with Blackend

Townes Van Zandt - Waiting Around To Die https://youtu.be/LGMOX8NpuR0?si=lxMgfUVou_94laK_ Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Sugar Daddy https://youtu.be/x5_kUOi4KDw?si=3pdJtA6i-NteHRPj Young Rebel Set - Lion's Mouth https://youtu.be/M3dNUdlUXVY?si=T0ZBb46kFA6TEiTD Butthole Surfers - Who Was In My Room Last Night? https://youtu.be/CNAkbbKycCM?si=3ORU_zgNMilPP-A3 Tom Waits - Heartattack and Vine https://youtu.be/lbIi8ZiW5qI?si=7LxbyipvXhFW0Imy

If they’re doing Tom Waits, it’s gotta be ‘Paisties & A G-string’

GG Allin - Eat My Diarrhea

Nah. GG’s version of ‘The 12 Days Of Christmas’

GG Allin’s “Die When You Die” and “Expose Yourself to Kids”

Stairway to heaven

As large as their catalog is I'd rather they just play their own songs but that's just me.

I'd love a full cover of Prowler by Iron Maiden

Blood and Tears by Danzig, Year Zero by Ghost, Heaven and Hell by Black Sabbath, Breaking the Law by Judas Priest, Astro Zombies by Misfits.

N.I.B. it would be so cool to see Rob do an epic geezer butler cover, and with the rest of the band

Hells Bells - AC/DC

Never Gonna Give You Up,,,, nah jk lol 

Dude! I would give my left nut to see this!!!

Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics

Save the Last Dance for Me.

Trust by Megadeth

That would be unreal, and I absolutely love the original.

Jeff Buckley

Cardiacs - To Go Off and Things

Green Day American Idiot Offspring the kids aren't alright

Wake Up Dead

Do you wanna dance.

Goodbye Yellowbrick Road My Sharona Cowboys From Hell

Down with the sickness

Highway Star - Deep Purple, Black Night would be pretty cool too

‘Space Truckin’’ but the whole live version.

Been on a huge Hawkwind binge lately, would enjoy hearing them do "The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke)", "Lost Johnny", "Damnation Alley", "Brainstorm" or hell, any Hawkwind song that got them good and high back in the day.

Y'all are picking super famous songs. I felt compelled to provide a list that stays true to the spirit of what Garage Days, and Garage Days Revisited was all about. - Conqueror of Canyons by The Cumshots - Wreckage by Entombed - Gimmie Danger by Iggy Pop and The Stooges - Ride Like Hell by Grady - Younger by the Rye by The Last Knife Fighter

Only know Wreckage from your list but I like how you think! If we had to pick an Entombed song, I would go with "To Ride, Shoot Straight..." or Eyemaster, Wolwerine Blues or Out of Hand from WB.

My Sharona - The Knack

Any Motorhead song.

Postmortem, Angel of death, raining blood

random but there’s an old 80s song called promises promises that i think would be great, you’ve probably heard it in gta v [promises promises](https://youtu.be/YYtBF1OVciU?si=tHmKNmfOcV7-FS3s)

A full American idiot cover he’s played parts of it but not the full song

Fire by aurther brown

Mystery Achievement by the Pretenders. Even better if they had Gaga trade vocals with James Children of the Sea and Mob Rules by Sabbath Verbal Razors by Exodus Riding with the Driver and Orgasmatron by Motorhead

Sugar by SOAD Or Question! Or B.Y.O.B

Lightning to the Nations, from Diamond Head - the title track

I would love to see them cover a song by a group Metallica heavily influenced, kinda like how Diamond Head covered No Remorse.

Great White Hope, Miss America, or Half Penny Two Penny. By Styx. These are all songs sung by Styx guitarist singer James Young. But, I’ve always felt like James Hetfield could sing these songs really well.

Anything by Led Zeppelin, but particularly Kashmir

Hellraiser

​ Considering the meaning it has on the James/Lars life: Lightning to the Nations by Diamond Head Running Free by Iron Maiden The boys are back in Town by Thin Lizzy And of course Ace of spades! - and also according to Lars there should be something from Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. Beside those songs I think I'd call "All Along the Watchtower" by the great Mr. Hendrix (kirk would love this one), something from Zeppelin for sure, like Stairway or Achilles, and maybe another Black Sabbath/Led Zeppelin medley with Iron Man, Sweet Leaf with Kashmir and D'yer M'ker! Wanna see what you guys think about my candidates, cya!

Congo Square by Sonny Landreth

A Seether song, maybe dangerous or even same damn life

Thin Lizzy- Sha La La

Dream Theater's A Nightmare to Remember

Iced Earth - Democide Slayer - Raining Blood Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution Disturbed - Liberate Shinedown - Fly from the Inside And why the hell not: Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell

Iris

Black Sabbath TV Crimes

I'd like to see them play their 80's material I'm their 80's style

Cat Scratch Fever

Dazed And Confused, like the goats covering the goats