S&M
Metallica

Pretty painful listen I won’t lie. The steep hurdle of a runtime would not be a problem if it wasn’t for the fact the whole performance feels like it loses all of its energy about 30 minutes in. They definitely thought this was going to be way more ‘epic’ than it turned out. Whenever the orchestra’s sound isn’t being overwhelmed by the band (Hetfields vocals are especially at odds) it always feels like a tacky inclusion to whatever song is currently playing, if we lived in some alternate universe where Pierce Brosnan got a 5th James Bond movie, I could see the studios getting inspired by Limp Bizkits involvement in Mission Impossible II and shitting out something like this for its soundtrack. (Tragically, Michael Kamen, who had the unfortunate task of conducting the orchestra half of this birth defect of a concert, was actually responsible for one of my favourite James Bond soundtracks)

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