Go Inside Metallica's Tuning Room As They Rehearse For S&M2

With Metallica's S&M2 finally out there in the world (and doing incredibly well in both the U.S. and UK album charts), the band have shared a new video from their tuning room to show how they rehearsed for the two gigs.

Speaking to Kerrang! about the rehearsal process for these orchestral dates, bassist Rob Trujillo revealed that he wasn't actually especially nervous, as the band had spent all summer performing on their WorldWired Tour and were a pretty well-oiled machine at that point.

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“I remember James [Hetfield, frontman] coming in the dressing room a week or so before and asking, ‘Are you guys nervous?’” he recalled. “And we were like, ‘Actually, no!’ Because Europe was such an intense run for us that it’s hard for anything to outdo the nerves you feel when it’s just two of you [referring to Rob and guitarist Kirk Hammett’s nightly cover doodles] in a stadium playing some cover songs in a different language.

“We were actually very excited about it and not nervous; I love that feeling when you can go in with a different kind of nervousness. For me it was the excitement of doing something that I’d personally never done before, to feel the power of the orchestra, and to know that everybody in that building is absolutely excited and thrilled to experience this side of Metallica.”

As awesome of a peek behind the curtain as this whole thing is, surely the best part is Kirk just casually eating a banana during practice for The Outlaw Torn? What a pro…

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