Metallica - S&M (Live with San Francisco Symphony) (1999)

Metallica - S&M (Live with San Francisco Symphony) (1999)

Tracklist front / back album covers

Disc one

1. "The Ecstasy of Gold" (instrumental)   2:31

2. "The Call of Ktulu" (instrumental)   9:34

3. "Master of Puppets"   8:55

4. "Of Wolf and Man"   4:19

5. "The Thing That Should Not Be"   7:27

6. "Fuel"   4:36

7. "The Memory Remains"   4:42

8. "No Leaf Clover"   5:43

9. "Hero of the Day"   4:45

10. "Devil's Dance"   5:26

11. "Bleeding Me"   9:02

Total length:   67:00

Disc two

1. "Nothing Else Matters"   6:47

2. "Until It Sleeps"   4:30

3. "For Whom the Bell Tolls"   4:52

4. "– Human"   4:20

5. "Wherever I May Roam"   7:02

6. "The Outlaw Torn"   9:59

7. "Sad but True"   5:46

8. "One"   7:53

9. "Enter Sandman"   7:39

10. "Battery"   7:25

Total length:   66:13

Video release

Metallica also filmed and released the concert in DVD and VHS with direction by Wayne Isham. The VHS set has only the concert video, while the double DVD set has 5.1 sound (also: 2.0 band+orchestra, 2.0 band-only and 2.0 orchestra-only), 41 minute documentary about the concert, and two "No Leaf Clover" music videos: "Slice & Dice" version and the "Maestro Edit". The DVD also contains four songs with multi-angles where each band member can be viewed individually: "Of Wolf and Man", "Fuel", "Sad But True", and "Enter Sandman".

 

Metallica Band Members / Musicians

James Hetfield – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, electro-acoustic guitar in "Nothing Else Matters"; solo in "Master of Puppets" and "Nothing Else Matters", outro solo in "The Outlaw Torn"

Kirk Hammett – lead guitar, backing vocals

Jason Newsted – bass guitar, backing vocals, co-lead vocals in "– Human"

Lars Ulrich – drums

Video production

Wayne Isham – video director

Bart Lipton – video producer

Dana Marshall – video producer

San Francisco Symphony

Michael Kamen – conductor

John Kieser – general manager

Eric Achen, Joshua Garrett, Douglas Hull, Jonathan Ring, Bruce Roberts, Robert Ward, James Smelser – French horns

David Teie principal, Richard Andaya, Barara Bogatin, Jill Rachuy Brindel, David Goldblatt – cello

Jeremy Constant concertmaster, Daniel Banner, Enrique Bocedi, Paul Brancato, Catherine Down, Bruce Freifeld, Connie Gantsweg, Michael Gerling, Frances Jeffrey, Robert Zelnick, Yukiko Kamei, Naomi Kazama, Kum Mo Kim, Yasuko Hattori, Melissa Kleinbart, Mo Kobialka, Daniel Kobialka, Rudolph Kremer, Kelly Leon-Pearce, Diane Nicholeris, Florin Parvulescu, Anne Pinsker, Victor Romasevich, Philip Santos, Peter Shelton – violins

Chris Bogios, Glenn Fischthal, Andrew McCandless, Craig Morris – trumpets

Stephen Paulson, Steven Dibner, Rob Weir – bassoons

Steven Braunstein – contrabassoon

Charles Chandler, Laurence Epstein, Chris Gilbert, William Ritchen, Stephen Tramontozzi, S. Mark Wright – double basses

Anthony J. Cirone, Ray Froelich, Thomas Hemphill, Artie Storch – percussion

Don Ehrlich, Gina Feinauer, David Gaudry, Christina King, Yun Jie Liu, Seth Mausner, Nanci Severance, Geraldine Walther – violas

John Engelkes, Tom Hornig, Paul Welcomer, Jeff Budin – trombones

Julie Ann Giacobassi, Eugene Izotov, Pamela Smith – oboes

Russ deLuna – English horn

David Herbert – timpani

Linda Lukas, Tim Day, Robin McKee – flutes

David Neuman, Carey Bell, Luis Beez – clarinets

Catherine Payne – piccolo

Douglas Rioth – harp

Robin Sutherland – keyboards

Peter Wahrhaftig – tuba

Bob Rock – producer, engineer

James Hetfield – producer

Lars Ulrich – producer

Michael Kamen – producer, orchestration, arranger, liner notes, music director

Randy Staub – engineer, mixing

Steve McLaughlin – engineer, recording

George Marino – mastering

Billy Bowers – digital editing

Paul DeCarli – digital editing

Mike Gillies – digital editing

Darren Grahn – digital editing, assistant

John Vrtacic – technical assistance

James Brett – assistant, music preparation

Billy Konkel – assistant

Leff Lefferts – assistant

Kent Matcke – assistant

Geoffrey Alexander – orchestration

Ted Allen – orchestration

Pete Anthony – orchestration

Chris Wagner – orchestration

Chris Boardman – orchestration

Bob Elhai – orchestration

Blake Neely – orchestration, music copyist, music preparation

Jonathan Sacks – orchestration

Brad Warnaar – orchestration

Michael Price – music preparation

Vic Fraser – music copyist

Andie Airfix – design

Anton Corbijn – photography

S&M (an abbreviation of Symphony and Metallica) is a live album by American heavy metal band Metallica, with the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Kamen. It was recorded on April 21 and 22, 1999, at The Berkeley Community Theatre. This is the final Metallica album to feature bassist Jason Newsted.

S&M contains performances of Metallica songs with additional symphonic accompaniment, composed by Michael Kamen, who also conducted the orchestra during the concert. According to James Hetfield, the idea to combine heavy metal with an epic classical approach was Cliff Burton's idea. His love of classical music, especially of Johann Sebastian Bach, can be found in many instrumental parts and melodic characteristics in Metallica's songwriting, including songs from Ride The Lightning and Master of Puppets. Kamen, who arranged and conducted the orchestral background tracks for "Nothing Else Matters", met the band at the 1992 Grammy award show for the first time, and after hearing the "Elevator version" of the song, suggested the band perform with a whole orchestra; the band, however, did not take him up on the offer until seven years later. Lars Ulrich's favorite band Deep Purple, whom he colorfully inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016, is noted for having kicked off this kind of approach 30 years before, in Concerto for Group and Orchestra (1969), although it had actually been done multiple times before, most notably with the Moody Blues' Days of Future Passed in 1967.

In addition to songs from previous albums spanning Ride the Lightning through Reload, there are two new compositions: "No Leaf Clover" and "−Human". "The Ecstasy of Gold" by Ennio Morricone, Metallica's entrance music, was played live by the orchestra. "No Leaf Clover" has since been performed by Metallica in concert, using a recording of the orchestral prelude.

Changes were made to the lyrics of some songs, most notably the removal of the second verse and chorus of "The Thing That Should Not Be" and playing the third verse in its place.

The "S" in the stylized "S&M" on the album cover is a backwards treble clef, while the "M" is taken from Metallica's logo.

The drum kit Ulrich used on the album currently resides in a Guitar Center in San Francisco.