Epic. Cinematic. I first heard this amazing cover of the Simon & Garfunkel classic on an episode of The Blacklist. It was the perfect soundtrack for the gripping and spiraling episode. So many cover songs are just glorified karaoke-fests. But Disturbed unleashed a newfound power in the song, a new meaning without changing a single word. They took “The Sound of Silence” and made it entirely their own.
“Hello darkness, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again. Because a vision softly creeping left its seeds while I was sleeping.”
“Nothing Else Matters” proves you don’t need thrash and speed to deliver a metal performance. It hailed from the album that finally launched Metallica to the masses. Up until then, they were the band that you only touched if you liked metal. But “Nothing Else Matters” wasn’t a small delicate thing either. It contained a slow-driving power, sung with conviction and structured with classic orchestral roots and metal-inspired arpeggios.
“So close, no matter how far, couldn't be much more from the heart. Forever trusting who we are, and nothing else matters.”
