Slayer: The Repentless Killogy

Note: This review contains spoilers for Slayer: The Repentless Killogy.

As Slayer wrapped up their final tour, they released The Repentless Killogy, a movie that combined an original short film with a concert film showing their full August 5, 2017 performance at the Los Angeles Forum in Inglewood, CA. As I was actually at the show they chose to immortalize, which also featured Behemoth and Lamb of God as supporting acts, I was excited at the idea of owning a version that I could watch/listen to whenever I wanted. During our annual movie day, the day after Christmas, we watched the short film preceding the actual concert and found ourselves disappointed in more ways than one.

Metallica & San Francisco Symphony: S&M2

20 years after the original collaboration between Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Symphony and Metallica (S&M), in 1999, the band was approached to do it once more for S&M2. Not only would this new concert celebrate the 20th anniversary of the original concert, it would also provide Metallica the opportunity to open San Francisco’s Chase Center. After a back-and-forth collaboration between the two groups over the course of Metallica’s WorldWired Tour, they performed two shows, one on September 6, 2019 and one on September 8, 2019. These performances were then edited together into a 160-minute concert film that was shown theatrically for one night on October 9, 2019. As a longtime Metallica fan, I naturally went out to see the theatrical showing and, fortunately, walked away satisfied.