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\nForgive me, writers, but I could not recite a single lyric from the Metal: Hellsinger soundtrack. I want to say this is nothing personal – I can’t remember the lyrics to anything, being honest; maybe I’m just a bad listener – but actually, it is also a bit personal. This is just how metal works, how listening to metal<\/em> works: a genre, like the classic music it’s always leant on, where each instrument has as much of a role in its storytelling and expression as a vocalist. To focus on one would be to miss the whole, enveloping gestalt of sound. You have to take it all in at once, to be both furiously dialled-in and totally zoned out, to enter the aural equivalent of a flow state. Or at least, this is what I would say if Mr. Hetfield ever quizzed me on why I can hum all eight-and-a-half minutes of Master of Puppets but only sing a couple words (Master, Master, something-something-something\u2026 faster<\/em>). And more importantly, this is why Metal: Hellsinger is such absolute magic.\n<\/p>\n