When it comes to Metallica, there are a handful of songs that always stand out first, and one of those is “Nothing Else Matters.”
This track nearly didn’t make it onto an album. In fact, James Hetfield didn’t even want to share it with the band when he first came up with it. While it didn’t make it to the top spots on the main music charts, it would go on to become one of the most hauntingly beautiful rock ballads of all time.
“Nothing Else Matters” peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart, and it made it to No. 6 in the UK on the Singles Chart. Becoming the third single from their fifth studio album in 1991, this track was originally just something Hetfield was working on as a way to deal with his homesickness.
While on the road with the band in 1990, he was struggling to deal with being away from his girlfriend at the time, and there are stories of him writing through tears. Think of this as more like a journal entry rather than something that was supposed to become the staple in live performances that it is now. In a 2008 interview, Hetfield even said, “At first I didn’t even want to play it for the guys.”
He believed Metallica’s sound was supposed to be about fast cars, head banging, and destroying things. The songs should be about the four of them, so he kept the track to himself.
We can thank Lars Ulrich for getting “Nothing Else Matters” out to the world. He heard Hetfield tinkering with it, and when he eventually managed to really listen to it, he was completely stunned. While Hetfield thought everyone would laugh at his love song, Ulrich found it moving and profound. He knew from that moment on that it had to go on the upcoming album at the time.
However, it turns out that the band has trouble learning the song. Hetfield admitted that he had to relearn the intro so that he could play it live, and it would be removed from the track list and added back in as the band figured out how to play it. He said in a 2014 interview, “Once we put our sights onto whipping a song into shape and getting it together and ready to play, we're pretty good about putting it together and making it happen.”
The rest is history. “Nothing Else Matters” is now the track most people think of when it comes to Metallica. Well, that and “Enter Sandman,” which has its own dark backstory.
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