Mastodon's Bill Kelliher, Emma Ruth Rundle and more give Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill a moody metal makeover

We were thoroughly slayed by the recent cover of AC/DC’s Riff Raff from Two Minutes to Late Night, “the world's only heavy metal-themed talk show,” which brought together members of Clutch, Cave In, Converge and Carcass.

Now Two Minutes to Late Night is back with a similarly impressive, if decidedly more moody, cover: Kate Bush’s 1985 classic Running Up That Hill, featuring vocalist Emma Ruth Rundle, Mastodon electric guitar player Bill Kelliher, YOB bassist Aaron Rieseberg, Old Man Gloom drummer Santos Montano and Two Minutes to Late Night’s Jordan Olds.

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