10 Best Uses Of Metallica Songs In Movies

10 Best Uses Of Metallica Songs In Movies

While they started out as underground thrash icons, Metallica has become mainstream over the years and their songs have played in some big movies.

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With over 125 million albums sold worldwide, Metallica is one of the most successful heavy metal bands of all time. At one time, Metallica had an almost underground following, but with the release of their self-titled black album in 1991, the band went mainstream. Leaving their thrash metal roots behind, they sold over 16 million copies of that album in the United States alone and it made them a target of movie studios looking for music to put in new releases.

If some fans thought Metallica sold out when they released that self-titled album, in 2021, the band’s music plays in everything from horror movies to indie releases. Even more horrifying for Metallica’s old-school fans, the band even had a song pop up in a Disney movie in 2021.

10 “Motorbreath” In Any Given Sunday

Metallica songs weren’t used in too many movies in the 1990s, but one of their most notable exceptions was Oliver Stone’s football movie, Any Given Sunday. This was a harsh movie about the violence of football, using a fictional league with Al Pacino starring as the head coach.

The action scenes are the highlights of this movie, and that helped Metallica’s “Motorbreath” fit in perfectly. The team is celebrating in the locker room to hip-hop when the rugged linesmen crank up Metallica on their boombox and one of them exclaims, “Hetfield is God!”

9 “For Whom The Bell Tolls” In Daddy’s Home 2

Daddy’s Home 2 is the sequel to the 2015 movie starring Will Farrell and Mark Wahlberg as a father and new stepfather who can’t get along. Wahlberg is the rough no-nonsense dad and Farrell is his usual awkward self.

In the sequel, they are now friends and are perfecting co-parenting, with the kids rotating between their homes. A new stepfather is presented here in John Cena’s Roger and his introduction when he pulls up on a motorcycle plays out perfectly with Metallica’s “For Whom The Bell Tolls” playing over the moment.

8 “Eye Of The Beholder” In The Big Short

It might seem hard to believe, but a drama movie about the 2008 financial meltdown has strong metal roots. The Big Short stars Christian Bale as Dr. Michael Burry, a genius who predicted the entire housing market bubble two years before it occurred.

While he is a socially awkward genius, he is also a metalhead and the movie uses a ton of great metal songs by bands including Metallica, who has two songs — “Master of Puppets” and “Eye of the Beholder.” The second song is played in a perfect spot, as Burry stops people from selling early because he sees the end coming and wants to make his profit.

7 “Master Of Puppets” In Old School

In 2003, Todd Phillips directed the comedy Old School. In this movie, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, and Luke Wilson star as three middle-aged men who decide to turn one of their houses into a frat house to keep the local university from reclaiming the house for the university housing.

The three guys then go overboard living the college life, despite being years removed from that time of their lives. There is a scene where they head around in a van to kidnap their pledges and the song playing is the guitar riff from “Master of Puppets.”

6 “The Four Horsemen” In X-Men: Apocalypse

It seems like a no-brainer that a superhero movie where the bad guys are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse would include the Metallica song, “The Four Horsemen.” In X-Men: Apocalypse, the mutant heroes battled the first mutant, the evil Apocalypse.

As he does in the comics, Apocalypse finds four mutants to be his Four Horsemen — Death, Pestilence, War, and Famine. The scene placement is perfect in X-Men: Apocalypse, as the song plays out as Apocalypse recruits the Four Horsemen to do his bidding.

5 “Battery” In Project X

Project X is a smaller movie that hit in 2012, a found-footage teen comedy produced by Todd Phillips. The cast is full of lesser-known teen actors and the movie focuses on three friends who throw a party to become popular, but the entire thing rages out of control.

The entire movie is about partying and mayhem, and that makes Metallica a perfect option for the soundtrack. The Metallica song “Battery” plays over a scene where houses all over the neighborhood are burning and helicopters are dropping water onto the houses to fight the fires.

4 “For Whom The Bell Tolls” In Zombieland

A surprise horror-comedy arrived in 2009 by first-time director Ruben Fleischer. The movie was Zombieland and told the story of a zombie apocalypse from the point of view of four survivors who just wanted to stay alive. The movie was irreverent and that was on display from the credit sequence all the way through Zombieland’s unexpected cameos.

The opening credits showed people dying at the hands of zombies in a manic frenetic manner. Over the scenes of mass destruction — some in ridiculous moments — played Metallica’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls.”

3 “Master Of Puppets” In Zombieland: Double Tap

With the success of Zombieland, Sony went back to the well and brought back Ruben Fleischer and the original cast for more zombie mayhem. This time, the movie added more survivors, which caused more dangers for the four apocalyptic survivors.

Fleischer not only brought back the main cast, but he repeated some of the jokes. Zombieland: Double Tap started with the four in a field and then showed them start to mow down zombies with their guns, all to another Metallica song, this time “Master of Puppets.”

2 “Battery” In Hesher

In 2011, Joseph Gordon-Levitt starred in the indie movie Hesher. The movie is about a teen who loses his mother in an accident and ends up raising himself when his father is paralyzed with grief. Then, he meets a burned-out metalhead named Hesher, who shows up at his house and demands to be allowed to stay there.

The movie has strong ties to Metallica, and even uses Metallica’s logo design as the movie title’s design on the poster. There are five different Metallica songs in the movie, with the best use of one being “Battery,” which plays while Hesher and the boy are heading out to get revenge on a bully.

1 “Nothing Else Matters” In Jungle Cruise

In possibly the strangest use of a Metallica song, it appears in the 2021 Disney movie, Jungle Cruise. Not only did the Metallica hit song “Nothing Else Matters” appear in the movie, but the band actually re-recorded it specifically for the movie.

“Nothing Else Matters” also appears twice in the movie. The first time was when the guitar riff plays as they start to head into their journey. The song plays a big part in the movie and when the second instance comes, it is when Dwayne Johnson’s Frank tells the story of the Spanish soldiers slaughtering the natives that the song just explodes, one of the best scenes in the entire movie.

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