


The song got another shot of adrenaline when the Undertaker used it as his walk-out music for his 2020 "Boneyard Match" against A.J. What makes that one better? Or is that lacking something?"įew would argue that "Roam," a Black Album favorite and decades-long set list staple, is lacking anything, and Metallica ultimately achieved a similar hard-rock grandiosity on "Now That We're Dead." The song became a fixture of the band's WorldWired Tour, with all four members banging enormous drums during a mid-song solo. "Because there's the extended thing that we've done in a few of these songs. "What happens in ' Wherever I May Roam'?" he asked. Hetfield, however, had a more familiar tune in mind. "It sounds to me like you're containing what you're saying.

Anger's closing track "All Within My Hands." "Is there someplace that's a little more intense vocally than where we are right now?" he asked. Metallica used a few telling reference points from their catalog while writing "Now That We're Dead." In a making-of video, Ulrich encouraged Hetfield to channel the anger and desperation of his vocal performance on St. It sounds like a living, breathing entity rather than something put together by a drill sergeant.' So we went with a version that was a little bit looser." There's a completely different vibe there. "We went back and listened to the preproduction floor takes - almost like the last rehearsals - and it's like, 'Hey, wait a minute. "With 'Now That We're Dead,' we recorded it and everything kept getting tighter and precise, and all of a sudden you go, wait a minute, I think we just beat all the life out of this thing," the drummer explained. Ulrich said this looseness eluded Metallica when it came time to record the track for real.
