Diet Cig are the latest act to share a Metallica cover as part of the massive ‘Metallica Blacklist’ covers collection.Selecting a song from Metallica’s self-titled ‘black album’ from 1991 to cover, Diet Cig optioned ‘The Unforgiven’.
The song was the album’s second single, and became the first part of a trilogy in Metallica’s discography – ‘The Unforgiven II’ followed in 1998, then ‘The Unforgiven III’ in 2008, on the albums ‘Reload’ and ‘Death Magnetic’ respectively.Listen to Diet Cig’s cover of ‘The Unforgiven’ below, as well as watch the music video for the original:Diet Cig are the tenth act thus far of the 53 assembled for ‘The Metallica Blacklist’ to share their cover.
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