.....like the star destroyer at the beginning of New Hope, out of the darkness looms the biggest metal band of all time. They did reinventing your back catalogue with an orchestra back in 1999 and then sold it to the world as the platinum shifting “S&M”. Twenty years later they did it again and this live album documents that night in San Francisco. In some ways, we have heard this all before with the first “S&M” but being Metallica they are never afraid to push the envelope. The best bit is when they join the San Francisco Philharmonic to play Alexander Mosolov's Iron Foundry. Hearing them breath metallic fire into a hundred-year-old piece of music is nothing short of exhilarating.

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