Watch Metallica play Enter Sandman on kids' instruments

Metallica's Enter Sandman has been a staple of the band's live sets since 1991, but yesterday, the metal legends took a slightly different tack as they joined The Roots and Jimmy Fallon to perform the classic track on kids' classroom instruments.

The Tonight Show performance saw James Hetfield in particularly fine vocal form, but also proved he was a dab hand at the toy clarinet, while Kirk Hammett unplugged the wah to lay down some melodica leads. The full instrument list is below:

  • James Hetfield - Vocals, Toy clarinet
  • Jimmy Fallon - Vocals, Bass Drum, Casio Keyboard, Kazoo
  • Lars Ulrich - Fisher Price Drum, Toy Cymbals
  • Kirk Hammett - Melodica
  • Robert Trujillo - Baby Electric Axe
  • Questlove - Hand Clappers, Kazoo
  • Kamal Gray - Xylophone
  • James Poyser - Melodica
  • Captain Kirk - Ukulele
  • Tuba Gooding Jr. - Kazoo, Banana Shaker, Apple Shaker
  • Mark Kelley - Kazoo
  • Frank Knuckles - Bongos
  • Black Thought - Tambourine, Brown Hat

Ahead of the release of Metallica's new album, Hardwired... To Self-Destruct, tomorrow, Kirk Hammett has also announced the KHDK Dark Blood distortion pedal, which he used "all over" the record.

Michael Astley-Brown

Mike has been Editor-in-Chief of GuitarWorld.com since 2019, and an offset fiend and recovering pedal addict for far longer. He has a master's degree in journalism from Cardiff University, and 15 years' experience writing and editing for guitar publications including MusicRadar, Total Guitar and Guitarist, as well as 20 years of recording and live experience in original and function bands. During his career, he has interviewed the likes of John Frusciante, Chris Cornell, Tom Morello, Matt Bellamy, Kirk Hammett, Jerry Cantrell, Joe Satriani, Tom DeLonge, Radiohead's Ed O'Brien, Polyphia, Tosin Abasi, Yvette Young and many more. His writing also appears in the The Cambridge Companion to the Electric Guitar. In his free time, you'll find him making progressive instrumental rock as Maebe.