This My Chemical Romance x Metallica Mash-Up Is Surprisingly Satisfying

We've seen some pretty mind-blowing mash-ups in our time, but rarely has such a grand crossover been attempted as this: Metallica and My Chemical Romance.

Two of the bands' biggest singles – Master Of Puppets and Welcome To The Black Parade, respectively – have been combined by YouTuber William Maranci in what he brilliantly dubs "emo thrash", with the theatrical musicality of My Chem's Black Parade single soundtracking James Hetfield's iconic vocals.

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Not everyone is instantly onboard with this mash-up, mind. While one comment underneath the video reads, "You combined two of my favorite songs. These songs are opposites in every way and yet this is perfection," another YouTube user writes, "This is one of the reasons why God nor Aliens come down here, they are frightened, and so am I." Yikes.

Check it out for yourself:

Oooooofffft.

In less confusing news, both My Chemical Romance and Metallica have been relatively active amid the coronavirus pandemic – of course, while adhering to global guidelines to stay at home and self-isolate.

’Tallica recently launched Metallica Mondays to help cure fans' boredom while under lockdown, unveiling epic concert streams once a week via their YouTube channel and Facebook page. And this past Monday's release featured "one of the best setlists ever"…

In the My Chem camp, meanwhile, last week the band launched new Desert Screening Device face masks to help those affected by coronavirus.

“We are living in strange times, alienating times, scary times,” they said. “These masks were the brainchild of our beloved Lauren Valencia, who died before this madness, not of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the older evil that is cancer. We had these masks made to keep you dust-free in the desert, a show that never happened, never will, a protection that then seemed timeworn. And here we are, with these masks, as though Lauren was prescient or we were unknowingly waiting for the right time…”

You can pick up one of the face masks here.

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