At the end of last month Firaxis and 2K revealed Marvel’s Midnight Suns, featuring a cover of Enter Sandman by Metallica.

That cover was by Alessia Cara and The Warning as part of The Metallica Blacklist, a compilation album of dozens of standalone artists and bands trying their hands at songs by the famous heavy metal band.

At the time The Metallica Blacklist had not released on digital but today, 10th September, that changes.

We’ve embedded the Spotify link for the album below but you can also listen to it on just about every music streaming platform, links to all of them available here.

The album is a charity project with all the profits going to charities chosen by the artists featured.

Just remember to set some time aside to listen to the whole album or give it a go in parts. There’s 53 tracks here totalling in just under six hours.

We’ve had a chance to listen to the album and it’s best to start with that Enter Sandman cover. It stands great on its own and it’s clear why it’s the very first track on the album as a simple new rendition, unlike some other versions of songs here where the original Metallica song is more of an inspiration.

It definitely didn’t get us as hyped up as when it appeared in the Midnight Suns reveal, but it’s still a good song.

We’ve got a few other favourites including another Enter Sandman, this time by Rina Sawayama with the instrumentals impressing here.

We’re very happy to see The Chats covering Holier Than Thou. The Australian band is best known for its comedic song Smoko which is a legitimate banger that shouldn’t be overlooked due to its light-hearted nature.

The Unforgiven by Flatbrush Zombies and DJ Scratch brings some welcome rap into the mix – not something you’d expect here. If you want to know what this song is like without actually listening to it, well it sounds like it comes from an alternate reality version of Linkin Park’s remix album Reanimation from 2002.

Another version of The Unforgiven worth mentioning is by Ha*Ash, which is really mellow and just nice to listen to.

Mongolian band The Hu also breaks things up here with Through the Never and is one of the surprising amount of songs here which aren’t sung in English.

The last track we want to mention is Nothing Else Matters by Phoebe Bridgers, a melancholic track which is a nice reprieve from the high energy of most of the songs here.