The Blizzcon keynote featured a musical performance from Metallica. The band is n’t new to Blizzcon, having first appeared at the conference in 2014.

Viewers on many platforms heard a performance of Metallica’s 1984 tune’for whom the bell tolls’. Several Twitch streamers broadcasting Blizzcon muted the feed during Metallica’s appearance.

Within seconds of the song beginning, the audio was replaced by what AV club summed up as’the dorkiest, most Zelda forest-ass music imaginable’.

”the transition really makes the whole story here,”explains explains explains CNN’s”CNN.com’s”. Cnn’s Pedro Pedro video video is a viral video.

This version of the opening keynote stream currently has over 1.2 million views. It currently has more than 1.2 M views.

The official Twitch gaming channel cut off the live Metallica concert to play 8bit folk music to avoid DMCA pic.twitter.com/scn56so8eeeeeeeeeeeeee.

It’s right at the 1:24:50 mark on either YouTube or Twitch. I’m always going to remember it the twitch gaming way.