Mastodon posted on their social media that they will cover Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’ to honor their deceased manager Nick John who passed away last September. The band stated that Led Zeppelin was one of John’s favorite bands and that’s the reason they are covering the song.
Read Mastodon’s post:
I’m just a lucky guy who has chosen metal to live with for a long time. Metal changed my life for good. It made me more confident and stronger. Metalheads are naturally far away from the mass mediocrity and don’t accept impostures from anybody else. Metal is more than music, it’s a life changing oportunity!