Jon Pardi mixes twang with metal on his cover of Metallica’s “Wherever I May Roam.”
Pardi has flirted with heavy music on his albums, most recently infusing “Me and Jack” from 2019’swith thrash tempo and an unhinged guitar-fiddle throwdown. The California native’s take on “Wherever I May Roam” is fairly straightforward, emphasizing the song’s bottom-heavy sonics and adding some fiddle and steel to make the signature minor-key melody feel more haunting.
To their credit, Pardi’s band does an admirable job and finds ways to emulate Kirk Hammett’s finger-tapping and shredding without copying it verbatim. It also forces Pardi to show off some new tricks as a singer: He commits to the bit and nails the odd intervals of James Hetfield’s melody with precision. Like Metallica’s original, Pardi’s version stretches past the 6-minute mark, but ends with a brighter fiddle outro.
Pardi’s recording is one of two new versions of “Wherever I May Roam” out this week, as reggaetón star J Balvin also introduced
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