With its breakneck-paced galloping riffs and James Hetfield’s snarls about weaker people being “ripped and torn away,” Metallica’s “Battery,” off their magnum opus Master of Puppets, is the apotheosis of thrash metal. The song starts with Spaghetti Western flamenco guitar, and that’s the most clearly defined thread that connects it to Rodrigo y Gabriela, the Mexican acoustic guitar duo which refigured “Battery” into a dynamic exercise in unplugged rage.
Rodrigo y Gabriela have never hidden the debt they owe to heavy metal and especially Metallica — their self-titled...
Rodrigo y Gabriela have never hidden the debt they owe to heavy metal and especially Metallica — their self-titled...
- 11/21/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
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