Metallica React to Stranger Issues’ “Grasp of Puppets” Scene: “We Have been Completely Blown Away”

The fourth season of Stranger Issues featured a outstanding placement of the Kate Bush traditional “Working Up That Hill,” which launched the track to renewed industrial success. When half two of the season arrived earlier this month, a brand new episode featured one other important track placement: Metallica’s 1986 single “Grasp of Puppets,” shredded within the Upside Down by the character Eddie Munson. (That’s the scene under.)

Metallica have now launched a press release concerning the track’s look on the present. “The best way the Duffer Brothers have included music into Stranger Issues has all the time been subsequent stage, so we had 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,” they wrote. “We had been all stoked to see the ultimate outcome and after we did we had been completely blown away… it’s so extraordinarily properly performed, a lot so, that some of us had been capable of guess the track simply by seeing a couple of seconds of Joseph Quinn’s fingers within the trailer!! How loopy cool is that?”

“It’s an unbelievable honor to be such an enormous a part of Eddie’s journey and to as soon as once more be retaining firm with the entire different superb artists featured within the present,” the band added. The precise guitar solo carried out on the episode was recorded by Tye Trujillo, son of Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo. Trujillo praised his son on Instagram: “That’s my boy! Pleased with ya Tye!”

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Joseph Quinn, the actor who performs Munson, spoke with Leisure Weekly about filming the sequence. “We had a backing monitor and I used to be enjoying together with it,” he stated. “I wouldn’t wanna mess with what they’ve already obtained, but it surely was very helpful to have the ability to play alongside character-wise. It is a fairly adolescent fantasy to be a rock star, is not it? I felt like one for an evening. It was nice having Gaten [Matarazzo] up there with me. They actually turned it up once they performed ‘Grasp of Puppets’ and the entire crew had been there. It was the primary time that everybody felt like they had been seeing reside music—I say ‘reside music’—because the pandemic. So it felt like an actual celebration.”