“R.I.P. Ennio Morricone,” Metallica wrote on Twitter. “Your career was legendary, your compositions were timeless. Thank you for setting the mood for so many of our shows since 1983.” ...

Morricone’s “The Ecstacy of Gold”, from the movie The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, has provided the intro music to the thrash icons’ concerts since 1983.

She might as well have been singing the latest bit of background fodder from American Idol for how much you could tell that it was an Ennio Morricone tune. But that's who Celine Dion is.

In 2017, James Hetfield participated in a Q&A alongside a screening of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and detailed the origin of band’s use of “The Ecstasy of Gold,” attributing the idea to use the ...

Metallica have been using Italian film composer Ennio Morricone 's "The Ecstasy of Gold" as their concert intro music since 1983, an ongoing indication of the movie maestro's significant influence ...

Metallica's James Hetfield took to Instagram on Monday morning to remember Oscar-winner Ennio Morricone, who composed 1966's "The Ecstasy Of Gold," which has opened the band's shows for over 30 ...

The band has played "The Ecstasy of Gold," part of Morricone's score for the 1966 Sergio Leone-directed movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, before its concerts for decades.

Ennio Morricone was the movies. Turn on a Morricone soundtrack, close your eyes, and be transported to a genre paradise of gunslinging action, lush eroticism, and heart-stopping beauty.

He was the maestro — and I loved him dearly. John Zorn is a composer and instrumentalist. Among his many recordings is “The Big Gundown” (1986), an album reworking music by Ennio Morricone.

Besides his film music, Morricone wrote more than 150 concert works, which he considered absolute music, many avant-garde. There is a very good chance that you’ve heard none of them.

Ennio Morricone, who died Monday at the age of 91, wrote more than 400 original film scores, many of which have entered the classic movie-music pantheon. While trying to narrow them down to the 10 ...

Ennio Morricone, who died Monday at the age of 91, wrote more than 400 original film scores, many of which have entered the classic movie-music pantheon. While trying to narrow them down to the 10 ...