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Covers

Because of the song's popularity it has been covered many times, by both artists within and outside the rock genre. Bands who have covered the song include:

• Acid Drinkers for Fishdick Zwei - The Dick Is Rising Again tribute albums.
• Aliqua, a contemporary all-female choral act from Vancouver, Canada, on their self-titled album; they also released a music video of them performing the song.
• Angels of Venice as an instrumental harp solo (with backing instruments inc. cello) on their album Music for Harp.
• Apocalyptica, a band that plays metal music using primarily 4 cellos (Inquisition Symphony).
• Apoptygma Berzerk.
• String Quartet, in their Tribute to Metallica, a version quite similar to that of Apocalyptica but with more classical elements in it.
• Die Krupps for The Blackest Album tribute albums.
• David Garrett.
• Declan Galbraith on his album You and Me.
• Doro Pesch covered the song for the Metallica - A Tribute to the Black Album, which was released in Germany in the Special Edition of the Metal Hammer August 2011.
• Ercik Kral.
• Vienna Boys' Choir.
• Scott D. Davis.
• Iron Horse.
• Joe Lynn Turner for the Metallic Attack: Metallica - The Ultimate Tribute tribute album.
• Gregorian (a troupe of Gregorian chanters).
• Lissie (a folk-rock singer-songwriter).
• Lucie Silvas (a British pop singer-songwriter).
• LMP on their album A Century of Song.
• Bif Naked on the Superbeautifulmonster album.
• The Angels of Venice.
• Staind on MTV Icon.
• Erik Hassle on his Pieces (Deluxe Edition) album.
• Apoptygma Berzerk for the "Paranoia" single.
• Jon Oliva, Bob Balch (of Fu Manchu), Lemmy, and Gregg Bissonette for Metallica Assault: A Tribute to Metallica.
• Solarisis - Overload 2: Tribute to Metallica.
• Marco Masini (Italian singer-songwriter) as "E Chi Se Ne Frega" (moderately vulgar Italian for "Who cares"), for the album Uscita Di Sicurezza. (Marco Masini's version only covers the music. The lyrics for "E chi se ne frega" are not the Italian translation of Metallica's song.)
• Bugotak band from Novosibirsk released a Buryat language version with some Buryat instruments.
• The Dutch DJ DJ Zany & MC DV8 created a hardstyle version of the song.
• Tose Proeski during his concerts and on his album So Ljubav Ot Tose.
• Rev Theory on their acoustic EP Acoustic Live from the Gibson Lounge.
• Jaanus performed that in Estonian Idol ("Eesti Otsib Superstaari").
• In 2004, the season 2 Australian Idol winner Casey Donovan performed this song live on the Final 5 Up Close And Personal show and the live track was included as the b-side to her first single "Listen With Your Heart".
• In 2006, by Peter Cmorik, the winner of Season 2 Slovensko hľadá SuperStar show based on Pop Idol.
• In 2009, the song was also performed on Australian Idol by eventual winner Stan Walker on the Final 11 rock theme night.
• In 2009 by the a cappella group Club for Five featuring Johanna Kurkela on the album You're the Voice.
• Punk band The Vibrators.
• Shakira covered the song for her 2010 and 2011 tour, "The Sun Comes Out", and performed it for the first time on September 15 in Montreal, where the tour kicked off.
• Lissie covered the song during her Live Lounge session on the Radio 2 show 'Saturday Session' hosted by Dermot O'Leary in the UK. The song is on Disc 2 of the double CD release "Dermot O'Leary Saturday Sessions: 2CD".
• The song was covered as an instrumental for the album Buddha Lounge: Renditions of Metallica - * The Black Lounge along with ten other Metallica covers.
• Ed Alleyne-Johnson performed an electric violin cover on the album "Arpeggio".
• The Siege of Fort Wraganock covered this song in late 2011 using entirely different instrumentals and soul influenced vocals.
• Godsmack covered the song on their 2012 album Live and Inspired.
• Macy Gray covered the song on her 2012 album Covered.
• In 2012 Diogo Piçarra covered this song in the final of the show "Ídolos Portugal" and he won it.