Rating: NN
If Kiss are worthy of a tribute album, then Metallica are as well, and Motörhead’s inimitably raspy cover of the classic Whiplash gets the album off to a great start. This collection features impromptu supergroups of colleagues and friends who interpret the San Francisco band’s work, primarily focusing on their groundbreaking early jams, although Nothing Else Matters and Enter Sandman also get their day in musical court. Unfortunately, the bottom line is that these supergroups, featuring artists as diverse as Scott Ian, Page Hamilton, Alex Skolnick, Bob Kulick of Deep Purple and the illustrious Whitfield Crane (of Ugly Kid Joe), rarely improve on the originals. Too bad.
