Re-Mastered

For all you Metallica fans out there, check this out: Kerrang! just released a special re-recording of Metallica’s Master Of Puppets in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the classic album’s release. You can preview all the tracks here.

Or just go here and listen to what I’m guessing is going to be the best track: Trivium’s cover of the title track. It’s really quite awesome. They didn’t do anything new or original with it–they didn’t make it their own, as most good covers do. But it’s like a scene by scene remake of a film that somehow equals the original. Trivium are total Metallica fanboys, and they’re just totally true to that tune. Instrumentally, they sound almost exactly like Metallica, and vocally, Matt Heafy isn’t far off.