Not to mention Celine Dion air-drumming to Lars! <p>The Background: Hugh Scott is the Syndication Editor for CinemaBlend. Before CinemaBlend, he was the managing editor for Suggest.com and Gossipcop.com, covering celebrity news and debunking false gossip. He has been in the publishing industry for almost two decades, covering pop culture – movies and TV shows, especially – with a keen interest and love for Gen X culture, the older influences on it, and what it has since inspired.&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>He graduated from Boston University with a degree in Political Science but cured himself of the desire to be a politician almost immediately after graduation.</p> <p><br></p> <p>What He's Into: When not writing and editing, he is usually going to concerts, curating playlists on Spotify, or watching concert films. In addition to music, he cooks, cleans, and fixes things around the house, especially things his 10-pound terror of a dog has destroyed in a fit of bordem.&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>What He's Excited About Right Now: &nbsp;Trips to the Cayman Islands and Alaska in 2024, and, as always, all the upcoming concerts he plans to attend.&nbsp;</p>
It all started with Natalie Fucci. She was one of the Sneider brothers' many babysitters, but she was by far the coolest, and she changed my life and my taste in music when she handed me a homemade mixtape featuring her favorite band -- Metallica. I was around 12 or 13 years old when I started listening to the metal band, and 20-plus years later, I still haven't stopped headbanging in my car, where I can really crank up the volume and rock out to "Blackened." So imagine my delight when a digital copy of Metallica's new album …
Metallica is working with Jungle Cruise composer James Newton Howard on an orchestral version of "Nothing Else Matters" that will play a key part in next year's Dwayne Johnson-Emily Blunt movie, and the band's legendary drummer Lars Ulrich offered his first thoughts on the collaboration in an upcoming interview with Collider pegged to the recent release of S&M 2. The idea of Metallica working on a Disney movie is sure to raise some eyebrows among longtime fans of the band, but it makes a lot more sense when Ulrich explains how it all came to …