Metallica is unstoppable. While the band isn't exactly the best fit for kids’ movies, Metallica just announced they actually recorded a new orchestral version of the classic song “Nothing Else Matters” for a Disney movie. Now, a new collaboration between Metallica and Disney is about to see the light of the day.

The band's drummer, Lars Ulrich, recently revealed how he and the band came to collaborate with James Newton Howard on the music for the upcoming Disney movie “Jungle Cruise”. The film features Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Emily Blunt.

Lars explained the origins of the project:

"It really goes back to [Disney production president] Sean Bailey, who is a lifelong rock fan, and is just all-around one of the greatest, most friendly, generous, warm, and embracing people you'll find in the music business. I think he's always been a Metallica fan, and we've gotten to know each other well. My wife and I are big Disney fans, so there's a great friendship there, and he's always looked for the right match where there was a way that Metallica could contribute to some project of theirs. This was the right fit, with Sean leading the cavalry, and with James Newton Howard and his track record, and what he's done."

Lars goes into more detail and adds:

"James Newton Howard, the man, the myth, the absolute legend! Considering what's he's done, it's an absolute honor to have done this with him, and we're excited for the world to hear it. It's kind of an interesting morph, because it's kind of - and I don't want to give too much of it away - but it's a very unusual morph in that it's kind of his arrangement of 'Nothing Else Matters' that we're playing. We wrote the song, but he took the song and rearranged it to fit something specific in the film - and obviously, I'm not going to give any of that away - but we then kind of took on his version of it. I think that's all that should be said."

Metallica just released their new live album S&M2. The record was recorded on two nights in September last year. It was a celebration of the 20 years of a classic concert that happened with an orchestra in the late nineties. The reunion took place at the Case Center, California. The first time Metallica played with the San Francisco orchestra was in 1999.

In October, "S&M2" was shown in more than 3 thousand theaters worldwide.

Watch Jungle Cruise’s trailer below:

Metallica’s S&M2 Setlist

Set I

1. The Ecstasy Of Gold (performed by the San Francisco Symphony)
2. The Call Of Ktulu
3. For Whom The Bell Tolls
4. The Day That Never Comes
5. The Memory Remains
6. Confusion
7. Moth Into Flame
8. The Outlaw Torn
9. No Leaf Clover
10. Halo on Fire

Set II

11. Scythian Suite, Op.20, Second Movement (performed by the San Francisco Symphony)
12. Iron Foundry
13. The Unforgiven III
14. All Within My Hands (acoustic)
15. (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth
16. Wherever I May Roam
17. One
18. Master Of Puppets
19. Nothing Else Matters
20. Enter Sandman

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