Watch footage from Metallica's pre-Grammy rehearsal with Lady Gaga

Dan Weir

8 years ago

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Monty Brinton/CBSMetallica has shared footage from their rehearsal with Lady Gaga prior to their ill-fated collaboration at the Grammys earlier this year. You can watch the four-and-a-half-minute clip now on YouTube.

The rehearsal footage demonstrates what the Grammy performance could’ve sounded like, which was infamously hampered by technical problems. As soon as they started playing the Metallica song “Moth into Flame,” frontman James Hetfield‘s microphone did not work, and he eventually had to share mics with Gaga.

Along with the rehearsals, the behind-the-scenes clip shows Gaga and the metal legends bantering and discussing the performance. “This is a tricky one,” the pop star says at one point. “I gotta get this one right, can’t piss off those Metallica fans.”

Metallica recently wrapped up a North American stadium tour in support of their latest album, Hardwired…to Self-Destruct. They’ll kick off a European tour in September, which will stretch all the way into May 2018.