Metallica Praises ‘Stranger Things’ for ‘Next Level’ Use of Their Song ‘Master of Puppets’

“It’s an incredible honor to be such a big part of Eddie’s journey,” the band said

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Metallica has responded to Eddie Munson’s guitar solo scene in Volume II of “Stranger Things” Season 4 which rocked streaming services this weekend and shot the track to No. 1 on the iTunes rock chart.

In the 2.5-hour season finale, titled “The Piggyback,” Munson (Joseph Quinn) shreds an epic segment of the metal band’s “Master of Puppets,” to distract Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) in a four-phased plan to attack and kill the big bad of the Upside Down.

“The way the Duffer Brothers have incorporated music into ‘Stranger Things’ has always been next level,” the band wrote in an Instagram post.

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