Indie rockers My Morning Jacket played their first-ever live cover of Metallica‘s “For Whom The Bell Tolls” during their set at the Brooklyn Paramount in Brooklyn, PA last night, October 17th. That cover found the band joined on bass by Karina Rykman and was part of medley of sorts of My Morning Jacket‘s “Cobra“.
It’s not entirely new ground for My Morning Jacket to find themselves in however, having previously shared their rendition of the thrash metal legends’ 1991 single “Nothing Else Matters” on the 2021 Metallica ‘Black album’ tribute, “The Metallica Blacklist“.
Fan-filmed footage of this partial cover of the 1984 Metallica classic can be seen below. You can skip ahead to 4:10 in if you just want to hear their cover without the rest of the medley. Rykman said on social media of the experience:
What can I say? Childhood dream come true covering @metallica with @mymorningjacket in my hometown? Yeah, that and about a million other words I’ll get to soon thank you thank you MMJ you’re just the fucking best and I’m honored
