Since the concerto orchestrated by the British group Deep Purple at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1969, heavy metal music and the symphonic have been linked.
The Americans of Metallica, one of the most popular groups in the world, are not at their first attempt.
In 1999, the San Francisco band released their first live album accompanied by their city's Philharmonic Orchestra.
“When the Chase Center team asked us to do this again as part of the venue's opening week, we realized that the
S&M
album
had been released twenty years earlier.
The timing was perfect, the orchestra available, so we went for it
,
”
explains guitarist Kirk Hammett.
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Metallica, return on a concert of all the devils at the AccorHotels Arena
Like all the group's concerts since 1983, the performance opens with Ennio Morricone's composition
The Ecstasy of Gold
, taken from the film
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
.
"When I hear this song, wherever I am, my body reacts as if I was going to take the stage, which it is
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