Metallica kicked off their M72 World Tour at Amsterdam’s Johan Cruyff Enviornment on Thursday, starting a sprawling street journey that can run by means of late 2024.
You may see the set listing and movies from the efficiency beneath.
The steel giants kicked off their 16-song set with “Orion” — their first time utilizing the Grasp of Puppets instrumental as a present opener since 2011, based on setlist.fm. Different mainstays reminiscent of “Grasp of Puppets,” “Battery,” “Fade to Black,” “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and “Unhappy however True” additionally appeared.
A number of basic songs had been notably omitted on opening night time, together with “Enter Sandman” and “One” (the band performed no tracks off … And Justice for All). Metallica is taking part in two reveals in every metropolis on this tour, altering set lists and opening acts every night time to create a “No Repeat Weekend,” so these songs might nonetheless seem at their subsequent present.
Watch Metallica Play ‘Lux Æterna’ at M72 World Tour Kickoff
Watch Metallica Play ‘Gas’ at M72 World Tour Kickoff
The band additionally performed three songs off its new album 72 Seasons: “Lux Æterna” and the dwell debuts of “Screaming Suicide” and “Sleepwalk My Life Away.” Metallica launched their eleventh album two weeks in the past, marking their first full-length since 2016’s Hardwired … to Self-Destruct. The LP debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, ending a chart-topping streak that dated again to their 1991 self-titled album.
James Hetfield described the album’s idea in an official assertion: “Seventy-two seasons. The primary 18 years of our lives that type our true or false selves. The idea that we had been instructed ‘who we’re’ by our dad and mom. A potential pigeonholing round what sort of persona we’re. I believe probably the most attention-grabbing a part of that is the continued examine of these core beliefs and the way it impacts our notion of the world in the present day. A lot of our grownup expertise is reenactment or response to those childhood experiences. Prisoners of childhood or breaking freed from these bondages we stock.”
Watch Metallica Play ‘Search & Destroy’ at M72 World Tour Kickoff
Watch Metallica Play ‘Screaming Suicide’ at M72 World Tour Kickoff
Metallica will return to the Johan Cruyff Enviornment on Saturday with Flooring Jansen and Ice 9 Kills instead of Architects and Mammoth WVH. Different assist acts on totally different legs of the tour embrace Pantera, Greta Van Fleet and 5 Finger Dying Punch.
Watch Metallica Play ‘Sleepwalk My Life Away’ at M72 World Tour Kickoff
Metallica, 4/27/23, Johan Cruyff Enviornment, Amsterdam
1. “Orion”
2. “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
3. “Holier Than Thou”
4. “King Nothing”
5. “Lux Æterna”
6. “Screaming Suicide”
7. “Fade to Black”
8. “Sleepwalk My Life Away”
9. “Nothing Else Issues”
10. “Unhappy however True”
11. “The Day That By no means Comes”
12. “Experience the Lightning”
13. “Battery”
14. “Gas”
15. “Search & Destroy”
16. “Grasp of Puppets”
Metallica Albums Ranked
There are moments of indecision when compiling this listing. In any case, we actually might have had – for the primary time ever – a three-way tie for first.
