The Academy For Little Monsters is not your typical school. Here, the students are outcasts from society… literal monsters to the average person. Whether it's a young transgender girl who happens to also be a werewolf, or a quiet young boy whose scream of indifference is a banshee's call, the students are able find a home of acceptance here under the tutelage of the headmistress, Mother Monster.

While touring the country in support of their latest album, the members of Metallica find their bus unexpectedly stopped at a roadblock on a desolate country road. When they get off to investigate, they are thrust into a horrific nightmare scenario… an explosion at a local pesticide manufacturing plant has turned all of the local townspeople into bloodthirsty zombie-like creatures. Now, armed with only their manipulated instruments as weapons, the band must take on the creatures and KILL ‘EM ALL! Title based on the band’s iconic 1983 album.