Watch Metallica’s twisted new video for ‘Grasp Of Puppets’

Metallica have shared the first-ever video for ‘Grasp Of Puppets’ following the traditional monitor’s current resurgence.

There’s been an enormous renewed curiosity within the 1986 track of late after it soundtracked a pivotal scene within the Stranger Issues 4 finale.

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‘Grasp Of Puppets’ has since bagged Metallica their first UK Prime 40 single in 14 years, with the band additionally getting into the Billboard Sizzling 100 for the very first time. Moreover, on-line streams of the track have considerably elevated.

Now, Metallica have posted an all-new official lyric video for the monitor which incorporates an array of darkish and twisted imagery. Opening with the group’s iconic emblem, the fast-paced visuals takes us by animated photographs of neon crucifixes, lightning, puppets on strings and extra.

The lyrics, in the meantime, are displayed in a white, all-caps font. Try the brand new ‘Grasp Of Puppets’ video right here:

Within the finale of Stranger Issues‘ fourth season, Eddie Munson (portrayed by Joseph Quinn) performs the monitor on a rooftop within the Upside Right down to distract a horde of demonic bats defending the lair of sinister villain Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower).

“Are you prepared for probably the most steel live performance within the historical past of the world?” Munson says earlier than selecting up his guitar in the beginning of the scene in query.

Earlier this month, Metallica praised Stranger Issues creators the Duffer Brothers in an announcement on social media – saying they had been “completely blown away” by how the metal-inspired scene turned out.

“The way in which the Duffer Brothers have integrated music into Stranger Issues has at all times been subsequent degree, so we had been past psyched for them to not solely embrace ‘Grasp of Puppets’ within the present, however to have such a pivotal scene constructed round it,” the band wrote.

“It’s so extraordinarily properly performed, a lot so, that some people had been in a position to guess the track simply by seeing just a few seconds of Joseph Quinn’s fingers within the trailer!! How loopy cool is that?”

Elsewhere, Joseph Quinn’s co-stars Joe Keery and Maya Hawke reacted to his guitar-shredding expertise throughout an interview on the official Stranger Things YouTube channel.