Blackened - Acoustic Metallica Cover

UPDATE, July 29th 2024. You, yes you, the listener. You are amazing. This video was created almost 8 years ago and has been up on this particular channel for almost 5. For reasons completely beyond my understanding this cover version has proven to be incredibly popular in the last month or so. The views have quadrupled, the comments have been unfailingly positive and yeah, I don’t know what else to say except THANK YOU to everyone who’s taken the time to listen/Jeff Re-up from 2016. Blackened was the very first acoustic cover in the Big Four series. I came up with the idea in early 2016, and originally wanted to do the entire song and include every single guitar part; riffs, harmonies, solos etc. I soon realised that because of the slower tempo, recording the entire song would’ve meant the recording would be about 9 minutes long. Even at 6 minutes it goes on a bit too long, but yeah, I cut parts out and condensed the arrangement to something more approachable. Of course there