Metallica Applauds “Master of Puppets” Use in Stranger Things

Joseph, who played along with a backing track for the scene, can’t think of another song that would have fit the moment better.

“It just feels like it could have been anything else, right? I don’t know, it feels so perfect,” he exclusively told E! News. “When I read the script, it was kind of just perfectly realized. It felt that this was the only world where a sequence like that could exist and not feel ridiculous. I mean, it is ridiculous, but it feels perfect, you know?”

It appears Stranger Things fans agree. 

After the episode was released on July 1, “Master of Puppets” catapulted to #2 on the iTunes Top Songs chart, where it still remained as of July 6. The only song blocking it from the top spot? Kate Bush‘s “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God),” which became a viral sensation after being featured in Stranger Things 4: Volume I, nearly 30 years after its initial release in 1985.