There comes a time in every rock bands life when they’ve thrown all of the tellies out of the hotel windows and parked their Rolls Royces in the swimming pool, and they’re wondering how to spend their advance from the record company, and somebody (probably the bass player) suggests recording a live album with (get this man) a full symphony orchestra, because Bach was like, really metal, if you think about it, dig?
The rest of the band will try to dissuade him, but then the accountant says it would probably be good for tax reasons so they book an orchestra and set to arranging their tunes for maximum epicness and coming up with a rude joke for the title - Symphony and Metallica (abbreviated to S&M - do you see what they did there?)
The results in this case are actually pretty good - the conductor and arranger Michael Kamen uses the orchestra to set the stage for Metallica’s signature metal songs and the audience is clearly loving it (and singing along). All of the favourites are here, but the highlight for me is probably the classic Enter Sandman which sounds suitably awesome.
Classical-tastic!
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