Metallica performed for BlizzCon this year to get people super amped about video games and the Twitch Gaming channel that was streaming the keynote and subsequent musical performance dubbed over the band’s ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls’ with elevator music to avoid any possible copyright infringement. Smart thinking, and I
This is a video of Black Sabbath’s inspiration for the comic book character Iron Man (don’t quote me on that) getting an orchestral arrangement courtesy of musician Micky Tejada and Epic Symphonic Rock. Just like the stuff my aunt makes after the summer berry harvest, it’s a pretty tasty jam.
This is a video of Leo Moraccholi performing a metal cover of the Beastie Boys’ 1998 hit ‘Intergalactic’. I wouldn’t really say the song lends itself to a metal rendition, but Leo makes the most of it. Did I try starting a mosh pit in my living room until my
Because what good is being an alien Disney star if you can’t have a little fun on set, this is a Twitter video posted by one of The Mandalorian directors Robert Rodriguez as he jams out with baby Yoda during a break. “His name is Grogu.” Um, no, I’m pretty
This is a video of Team USA Ice Dancers Oona and Gage Brown performing their 2020-21 Free Dance routine to Metallica’s 1991 banger ‘Nothing Else Matters’ at the Bryant Park’s Winter Village ice rink in New York City. Wow, has it really almost been thirty years since ‘Nothing Else Matters’
This is a video of Japanese Buddhist monk and musician Kossan1108 covering Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’ with traditional percussion instruments. He also sings, which I was not expecting. The video is almost ten minutes long, but the song is only the first five. After that is five minutes of Kossan meditating.
This is a timelapse video of an insanely large drumkit being set up at concert venue Turock in Essen, Germany. It’s allegedly the world’s biggest, but Youtuber Dr. Mark Temperato begs to differ. In his own words, which certainly sounded like fighting words to me: It takes 4 drum tech’s
This is a video of flutist Ariana Piknjac and sister/pianist Ella Piknjac performing a lovely rendition of The Simpsons theme on their respective instruments. Delightful, wasn’t it? I felt like I was right there in Springfield, racing to the sofa along with the rest of the family. I’m not though,