Where Kate Bush goes, Metallica follows… with the veteran rockers looking set to break into the UK music chart for the first time in 40 years, thanks once again to the phenomenon of Stranger Things
Heavy metal icons have seen their profile grow from their faithful fans to a mainstream audience. Master of PuppetsA key scene from the final season featured rock anthem as the soundtrack. Joseph Quinn’s character Eddie Munson used fretboard dynamics to distract the “demobats”The Upside Down and dedicating it to his friend, “Chrissy, this is for you!”
Over 17 million Spotify streams have been made of the song in the last week. It has been charted on the UK charts, and it is now charted on the US Billboard chart.
Tik Tok is where the real magic happens between actors, musicians, and fans. A video was posted by the band of them playing recently Master of Puppets, while wearing T-shirts with the logo of Eddie’s Dungeons & Dragons society, the Hellfire Club. They captioned their post “Heard any cool songs lately?”With tags such as #StrangerThings or #EddieMunson This video has received over 42 million views to date.
Metallica’s new success is evident despite the fact that they have already sold over 125 million albums during their 40-year careers. They shared this on social media:
“The way The Duffer Brothers have incorporated music intoStranger Thingshas always been next level, so we were beyond psyched for them to not only includeMaster of Puppetsin the show, but to have such a pivotal scene built around it. We were all stoked to see the final result and when we did we were totally blown away.”
Stranger ThingsThe Duffer brothers, the creators of Metallica, recruited the band early to the scene. The band’s guitarist Kirk Hammett, bassist Robert Trujillo and Trujillo’s son Tye recorded additional guitar tracks for the version of the song that appears in the show.