SaD Symphony & Metallica

Metallica is one of the most famous band ever.
They’re extremely active since 1983 when they stepped into scene with their first album, and they’ve continued growing in the decades after (with record sales of more than 100 million copies sold), gaining fans all over the world and becoming one of the greatest live shows of all times.
In 1999, Metallica played a special concert in San Francisco where they were accompanied by the S. Francisco Symphony orchestra directed by Michael Kamen. That event got a huge success and the band produced a DVD of the show together with a double CDs, recording that unique whole night.

Metallica repeated that wonderful night on a double concert on Sept 6th and 7th 2019 for the 20th anniversary called S&M² with sold out tickets on both dates. The S&M² concert featured the first live performances of Michael Kamen’s original arrangements in 20 years, plus the first-ever Metallica/San Francisco Symphony renditions of songs written and released since the original S&M, with new orchestral charts by Bruce Coughlin and under direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.

Nowadays, the millions of worldwide Metallica fans are divided in two categories: the lovers of the first 5 albums (from 1983 to 1991) which include the major successful hits, and a “younger” slice of people following the band from 1996 ahead. The Symphony and Metallica performance is indisputably the junction point of these two generations. This great show has demonstrated that even metal/rock music is “universal” when joined to a more classical experience and therefore Metallica conquered also the hearts of a great part of market “out of the niche”.