The Premium edition of Stern’s Metallica takes John Borg’s beloved 2013 headbanger and adds the mechanical theatrics that fans covet. The bones are the same celebrated design — a center “Sparky” electric-chair shot, a coffin captive ball, a snake, and the band’s pummeling soundtrack — but the Premium layers in extra moving hardware that brings the macabre stage show to life, deepening an already bottomless table.

The scoring engine rewards a player who learns to juggle objectives. Bashing the center starts Sparky Multiball, while alternating the snake and in-line drops builds toward Snake and Grave Marker multiballs. The headline is Crank It Up, where choosing a song unlocks its scoring — and the masters shoot the FUEL lane for 2X doubling before cashing out to vault past 100 million. Lighting the inserts beneath a major shot and then striking the captive ball banks that progress for the entire game, the route toward the coveted End of the Line.

Borg’s gift for risk-and-reward shines throughout: backhanding the grave targets from the left flipper is the safe way to start multiball, and patient players build Sparky Multiball first so its random drop-target hits feed progress toward the graveyard. Heavy, deep, and dripping with morbid personality, the Metallica Premium is a definitive modern music pin — a machine that plays as hard and loud as the band it celebrates.