Membros de Refused e Scorpions tocam Metallica em premiação; assista

O Polar Music Prize é uma premiação da Suécia que busca homenagear artistas que tenham realizado “conquistas significativas na música ou em atividades musicais”.

Ao longo dos anos, músicos como Bruce Springsteen, Bjork, B.B. King, Pink Floyd e até mesmo o brasileiro Gilberto Gil já receberam a grande homenagem — e esse ano foi a vez do Metallica, um gigante do heavy metal.

Como forma de tributo à banda, os suecos Dennis Lyxzén (Refused) e Mikkey Dee (Scorpions) uniram forças para fazer um cover de “Whiplash” durante a cerimônia do Polar Music Prize.

A versão é certamente curiosa — ao invés de guitarras, os músicos estavam acompanhados de um violoncelista que fez uma adaptação das melodias de guitarra e baixo da canção original.

Além disso, os próprios membros do Metallica (e o Rei da Suécia) estavam presentes na cerimônia e pareceram bem empolgados com a homenagem.

Você pode conferir a performance logo abaixo, bem como a de membros do Ghost e Candlemass, que juntos tocaram o clássico “Enter Sandman”.

Last night I performed at the @polarmusicprize award. In front of Metallica and the Swedish king. It was a highly surreal experience. I was a metal head when I was young. But me not being talented enough or having patience to learn how to shred it was though. So when hardcore came into my life it was a sort of salvation for someone like me. But I never dreamt that music would take me to where I am today. I am eternally grateful for the opportunities given and to be able to play Whiplash together with @mikkeydeeofficial last night was rad as balls. Metallica were really nice and the king looked bemused. It was a night to remember. The 14 year old me still thinks this is some sort of elaborate prank. #metallica #whoshouldplayguitar #polarpriset oh, edit; I still think that the royal family should be dethroned and the castle and all their wealth and property should be distributed to the people. Expropriation style.

A post shared by Dennis Lyxzén (@dennislyxzen) on Jun 15, 2018 at 3:46am PDT

Came home from a most intense trip to Stockholm only to get in the car with my friends to go on a spectacular road trip. Here’s the “let’s go to dalhalla to see @nickcaveofficial crew” together with The Bad Seeds guitar player @georgevjestica who’s a super nice guy and who took good care of us last night. The show: one of the best Cave shows I’ve seen. The set list was insane and the setting was spectacular. #nickcave #georgevjestica #dalhalla #grateful

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Fonte: TMDQA!