'Stranger Things' Eddie Munson Trends After Lollapalooza Metallica Cameo

The "Stranger Things" is not yet done, especially for the heavy-metal band Metallica, who gave the show a cameo in their Lollapalooza festival performance.

"Stranger Things" Season 4 ushered in the rebirth of 80s classic songs like Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill," Journey's "Separate Ways," and Metallica's "Master of Puppets."

Metallica has been grateful since the Stranger Things Season 4 Finale aired earlier this July, and since then their 1986 classic hit, "Master of Puppets" has been surging in the charts.

Metallica's Lollapalooza 'Master of Puppets' Performance

The four-piece heavy metal band rocked Grant Park Chicago on the first night of Lollapalooza 2022.

As usual, Metallica gave an all-out performance, since this is their first performance in years at the festival since their 2015 set. (via NME)

Of course, the band would not pass up the chance to perform one of their most famous songs now, "Master of Puppets."

Thanks to the feature on the "Stranger Things" Season 4 Finale episode, the song shot up to great heights, especially on streaming surge and sales spike.

While performing the hit track, Metallica gave an homage to the worldwide Netflix sensation by playing footage of Joseph Quinn's character Eddie Munson on the stage screens.

The footages were all from the season finale of the cult show, which shows Eddie Munson shredding his electric guitar back in 1983. Because of the huge cult following, "Master of Puppets" and Metallica gained a whole new audience and have revived their sleeping ones.

Fans even pointed out that Eddie Munson was the first-ever person who had played "Master of Puppets" since he performed it in the upside down which stopped time in November 1983.

Since Metallica's Lollapalloza performance, both the band and Eddie Munson has been trending worldwide on Twitter.

Metallica 'Master of Puppets' Streaming Surge

"Master of Puppets," released in 1986, has only debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 charts this week at No. 40, almost four decades since.

According to Billboard's Luminate, the metal track has generated 9.6 million streams and has sold 7,000 downloads in the first week of July 2022.

Concurrently, the song earned the band's top leader on the Hot Hard Rock Songs chart after charting No. 4 and No. 6 on the Hot Rock Songs and Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, respectively.

Earlier this week, the band debuted the first-ever lyric video of the track.

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