The place Kate Bush goes, Metallica follows… with the veteran rockers wanting set to interrupt into the UK music chart for the primary time in 40 years, thanks as soon as once more to the phenomenon of Stranger Issues.
The heavy steel stalwarts have seen their profile cross over from their diehard followers to a model new mainstream viewers since their Grasp of Puppets rock anthem supplied the soundtrack for a key scene within the finale of the latest season. Joseph Quinn’s character Eddie Munson used fretboard dynamics to distract the “demobats” within the Upside Down whereas dedicating the music to his murdered good friend, “Chrissy, that is for you!”
In latest weeks, the music has obtained greater than 17million streams on Spotify. In addition to hovering across the UK chart, it has appeared within the US Billboard chart for the primary time because it was launched in 1986.
However it’s on Tik Tok the place the actual synergy between musicians, actors and followers is obvious. The band just lately posted a video of themselves enjoying Grasp of Puppets, whereas sporting T-shirts with the brand of Eddie’s Dungeons & Dragons society, the Hellfire Membership. They captioned the submit “Heard any cool songs recently?” with tags together with #StrangerThings and #EddieMunson. The video has to this point obtained greater than 42m views.
Regardless of already promoting 125million albums of their 40-year profession, Metallica are clearly delighted with their contemporary influence. They posted on their social media:
“The way in which The Duffer Brothers have included music into Stranger Issues has all the time been subsequent degree, so we have been past psyched for them to not solely embody Grasp of Puppets within the present, however to have such a pivotal scene constructed round it. We have been all stoked to see the ultimate outcome and once we did we have been completely blown away.”
Stranger Issues creators the Duffer brothers recruited Metallica early on for the scene. The band’s guitarist Kirk Hammett, bassist Robert Trujillo and Trujillo’s son Tye recorded further guitar tracks for the model of the music that seems within the present.
