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.
