Well. That was fucking glorious.
Not content with merely revitalizing their sound on record – Death Magnetic, go buy it already – Metallica decided to kick their stage show in the ass and get back to the business of being the best live band in the world.
But of course, I'm biased -- I've believed Metallica to be the best live band in the world for 24 years, give or take some late-'90s months when they were only great. But to bring 14,000 people out on a Monday night and then hoist them o
How do washed-up rock stars maintain lavish homes, fancy cars, stripper ex-wives, cocaine habits and scores of illegitimate children? Easy: They co-opt youth culture.
As if last week's Rick Astley/Nirvana mashup wasn't good enough, my pal Matt found and posted this fantastic conflation of Metallica's "Enter Sandman" and Bryan Adams' "Run to You." You wouldn't expect that James Hetfield's chipmunk-on-'roids vocals and Adams' epic wintry guitars would mesh so well, but they sure do. Credit goes to Wax Audio for the song and the Reborn Identity for the video.
