{"id":172714,"date":"2025-11-10T07:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/172714\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T07:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:09:13","slug":"metallica-and-john-butler-recently-covered-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/172714\/","title":{"rendered":"Metallica And John Butler Recently Covered Each Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Metallica<\/strong>\u2018s recent trip down under saw the thrash metal juggernauts give a nod to some local talent. During their November 01st Australian tour opener at the Optus Stadium in Perth, Australia, the band\u2019s guitarist <strong>Kirk Hammett<\/strong> and bassist\/vocalist <strong>Robert Trujillo<\/strong> took part in their customary off the cuff \u2018doodle\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>That medley of covers  found them delivering rough renditions of <strong>Budgie<\/strong>\u2018s \u201c<strong>Crash Course In Brain Surgery<\/strong>\u201d and \u201c<strong>Zebra<\/strong>\u201d by Aussie roots rockers <strong>The John Butler Trio<\/strong>. Now <strong>Butler<\/strong> himself has responded in kind. Taking to his Instagram, <strong>Butler<\/strong> recently served up the below rendition of <strong>Metallica<\/strong>\u2018s 1991 9x platinum megahit, \u201c<strong>Enter Sandman<\/strong>\u201c, serving up his version via a Chaturangui, an Indian slide guitar. He said alongside that:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201c@metallica <strong>Enter Sandman<\/strong>, but make it John Butlery It\u2019s taken me a minute to pull my shit together after <strong>Metallica<\/strong> covered my song Zebra last weekend in Perth\/Boorloo\u2026 I thought I\u2019d tackle one of their lesser known tracks, I hope you like it..\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Metallica\u2018s recent trip down under saw the thrash metal juggernauts give a nod to some local talent. During&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,19,17,98575,16577,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-172714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-john-butler","13":"tag-metallica","14":"tag-music"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115524151750288741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}