In Other Media
- The song is included in Guitar Hero: Metallica.
- The song is covered by bluegrass band Iron Horse on their Metallica cover album Fade to Bluegrass.
- In the PC game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, the Bandit unit quotes this song, saying "Roamer, wanderer, nomad, vagabond, call me what you will", and the Beastmaster hero says, "Where I lay my head is home. See that rock? That's my pillow."
- Koopsta Knicca, a former member of Three 6 Mafia, used some instrumental parts of this song for his song "Torture Chamber" from the album Da Devil's Playground.
- Scottish Post-Hardcore band Yashin covered 'Wherever I May Roam' in Kerrang!'s "Metallica" tribute album.
- An instrumental cover version of this song can be found as track 5 on the 2005 album Hands Without Shadows by guitarist Michael Angelo Batio.
- Sinner covered the song for A Tribute to the Four Horsemen.
- Apocalyptica also covered this song on their album Plays Metallica by Four Cellos.
- The track is sampled by Chase & Status for the dubstep single "Saxon", which was sampled by Rihanna for her song "Red Lipstick".
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