BIFFY CLYRO’s joyously disrespectful deconstruction of METALLICA’s Holier Than Thou

08 July 2021

METALLICA announced their intention to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of their blockbuster ‘Black Album’ with not just a mammoth expanded box set, but also a covers album, The Metallica Blacklist, featuring more than 50 artists putting their own unique spin on tracks from their 30 million-selling self-titled fifth album.

Today we’ve been rewarded with a brace of covers of Holier Than Thou, one by Keith Morris’ LA punkers OFF!, the other by Scottish arena rock monsters BIFFY CLYRO. They sound nothing alike, naturally, but both have their idiosyncratic merits.