Metallica performed their first present of 2025 on Saturday night time (April nineteenth), performing a career-spanning set on the JMA Wi-fi Dome in Syracuse, New York.
They Syracuse live performance was considered one of a number of single-night-only reveals on this spring North American run (tickets accessible right here), versus the “no repeat weekends” they’ve been taking part in over two nights in most cities on this ongoing “M72 World Tour.” That meant that followers at Saturday’s gig bought parts of each units in a single night time.
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Metallica’s 16-song set represented 9 of their 10 studio albums (not counting Lulu, their 2011 collaboration with Lou Reed), as they performed songs from each studio LP besides 2003’s St. Anger.
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Frontman James Hetfield and firm launched the set with a 1-2 punch from 1984’s Experience the Lightning: “Creeping Dying” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” The band performed three songs from 1991 self-titled effort, aka “The Black Album,” together with “Nothing Else Issues,” “Unhappy however True,” and the set-closing “Enter Sandman.”
Different favorites all through the night included “Hit the Lights,” “Gas,” “Search & Destroy,” “One,” and “Grasp of Puppets.” Guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo performed Dying Magnetic‘s “Damaged, Beat & Scarred” as their improvised doodle of the night time.
The tour continues with a two-night stand in Toronto this Thursday (April twenty fourth) and Saturday (April twenty sixth), and runs by two reveals in Denver (June twenty seventh and twenty ninth). Different cities the place Metallica are taking part in single-night-only live shows embody Blacksburg, Virginia; Landover, Maryland; Atlanta, Georgia; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Houston, Texas.
Each James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett made Consequence‘s current listing of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, plus Hammett supplied us with an unique listing of 11 album he thinks each guitarist ought to personal.
See fan-filmed video footage and the setlist from the tour kickoff in Syracuse under.
Setlist:
Creeping Dying
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hit the Lights
King Nothing
Lux Æterna
Screaming Suicide
Damaged, Beat & Scarred (Kirk and Rob Doodle)
The Day That By no means Comes
Gas (James solo Serving to Fingers intro into common association)
Orion
Nothing Else Issues
Unhappy however True
One
Search & Destroy
Grasp of Puppets
Enter Sandman