Stern’s Metallica, released in 2013 under designer John Borg, is widely loved as one of the best music pins ever made — a relentless, heavy table that matches the band’s intensity shot for shot. This Pro edition keeps the layout lean and aggressive, built around an electric-chair “Sparky” shot up the center, a coffin captive ball, a snake, and a bank of in-line drop targets, all set to a soundtrack of Metallica’s thunderous catalog.

The depth here is enormous. Hammering the center repeatedly starts Sparky Multiball, while alternating the snake and the in-line drops builds simultaneously toward Snake and Grave Marker multiballs. The marquee feature is Crank It Up, where you pick a song and chase its scoring — and the experts know to shoot the FUEL lane for 2X doubling before cashing out to push scores past 100 million. Lighting all the inserts under a shot (Chair, Snake, Grave) and then hitting the captive ball locks that progress in for the rest of the game, a key to building toward the End of the Line.

Smart play is full of Borg’s signature risk management: backhand the grave targets from the left flipper to safely start multiball, and on the Pro specifically, a backhand off the right side of the coffin captive ball often rebounds into the snake, scoring both. Fast, brutal, and bottomless, the Metallica Pro is a tournament favorite and a headbanger’s dream — a machine that gives back exactly as much as the player puts in.