![]() But the amount of effort put into the stage show and design - on top of the coffins used for all of the Death Magnetic tour - is astounding. I found it funny that 'Through The Never' (off the Black album) never got a run, and 'One', 'Cyanide' and 'Wherever I May Roam' are all cut short. The actual concert itself is great - when you open with two of your best songs ('Creeping Death' and 'For Whom The Bell Tolls'), it's pretty amazing that you can still have songs just as good at the end! I wish they had the full 'Ecstasy of Gold' intro - it's pretty special live. ![]() And pretty frustrating with the intentional tease of what's in the bag? I admire what Metallica have tried to do here - spicing up a standard concert film by adding some narrative - but it doesn't really work as you don't really care what's going on outside the venue, especially since it makes no sense! It's basically just the roadie running around, being chased in a fantasy land. The only difference being that this concert is interspersed with 2-5min clips of the roadie (DeHaan) fetching a bag. Pretty simple - if you like Metallica, you'll enjoy this film, and if you don't like their music - don't watch it! It's essentially a concert film, although shorter than usual, since they only play 14 songs over 90min, rather than the usual 18-20 songs over 140min. There's nothing like seeing Metallica live, as the 15,000 people in the crowd can attest to! Reviewed by Gavin Purtell 6 / 10 2 stars for the "film" component, 4 stars for the concert. Meanwhile, the show must go on, and Metallica thrills the crowd with a thunderous collection of classics that include "Creeping Death", "Ride the Lightning", "Master. When Trip incurs the wrath of the ruthless, hammer-wielding psycho and his marauding gang, he realizes that he may not live long enough to complete his mission. The city is burning, and a mysterious, masked figure on horseback is thriving on the chaos. ![]() It's his job to recover it, but getting there won't be easy because as the elaborate concert gets underway, rioters and police begin clashing in the streets. As the band takes the stage before thousands of screaming fans, Trip is informed that a driver tasked with delivering a crucial item has gotten stranded on the other side of the city. Their story is, in essence, the story of metal itself: a push-pull of simplicity and complexity that continually challenges our understanding of fast and loud.A young Metallica roadie named Trip (Dane DeHaan) embarks on an apocalyptic journey through a decimated urban landscape as the band plays to a sold-out arena crowd in this high-concept concert film from director Nimrod Antal (Predators). Anger), and orchestral live albums (1999’s S&M). (Burton was killed in a bus accident in late 1986 and replaced by Jason Newsted the band regrouped for 1988’s epochal … And Justice for All.) Even as they became a global phenomenon in the wake of 1991’s record-breaking self-titled album, Metallica remained defiantly on their own path, dabbling in Southern rock (1996’s Load), high-concept dirges (2011’s divisive Lou Reed collaboration Lulu), stripped-down hardcore (2003’s St. Having moved to the Bay Area in the early ’80s to court bassist Cliff Burton, the band-Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett, guitarist-vocalist James Hetfield, and Burton-went on to fashion metal into a kind of art form, eschewing the glammy appeal of hair metal for ultra-serious, progressively complex song-suites that explored subjects like suicide, political corruption, and the psychological horror of war. Formed in 1981 when a “dorky, disenfranchised” teenager in Orange County, California-Lars Ulrich, his words-placed a classified ad name-checking Iron Maiden and Diamond Head, the band debuted in 1983 with Kill ’Em All and pioneered the blinding synthesis of punk and British metal we now call thrash. Metallica didn’t just help invent heavy metal, they evolved with it.
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