Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo Perform Black Sabbath’s “Electric Funeral” at Anniversary of Final Show

Black Sabbath’s final concert, “Back To The Beginning” in Birmingham last summer, ended a half-century run with an unmistakable gravity. A year later, the anniversary was observed in London with a quieter gesture: Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo playing “Electric Funeral.” The Metallica guitarist and bassist performed the track from Paranoid at an event tied to that milestone.

No ceremony surrounded it. The cover was not a statement of legacy so much as a footnote from two musicians who have spent decades carrying Sabbath’s influence into stadiums. Hammett’s lead lines stayed close to Tony Iommi’s original phrasing—bleak, deliberate, never overplayed. Trujillo’s bass thickened the low end with a familiarity that comes from having played Sabbath material on tour, in side projects, and in fleeting onstage jams.

The choice of “Electric Funeral” felt pointed without trying to be. It’s one of Sabbath’s most apocalyptic pieces, a wall of distortion and dread that predates thrash by more than a decade. In a London venue, removed from the farewell’s home-city intensity, the performance read less like tribute and more like a private recognition between musicians who understand exactly how that riff was built.

There was no grand narrative. Just two players, a riff that refuses to fade, and a year’s distance to make the absence clear.