Metallica earned a growing fan base in the underground music community and won critical acclaim with its first five albums. Guitarist Dave Mustaine (who formed Megadeth) and bassists Ron McGovney, Cliff Burton and Jason Newsted are former members of the band. Metallica's current lineup comprises founding members Hetfield and Ulrich, longtime lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo. The band's fast tempos, instrumentals and aggressive musicianship made them one of the founding "big four" bands of thrash metal, alongside Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer. The band was formed in 1981 by drummer Lars Ulrich and vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield. In the best possible meaning of the word.Metallica is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. Two: Metallica is the band, wether people like it or not, that turned Metal into Pop. He pulled everything out from that crowd, sang like a monster and completely stole the show. This night, specifically, belonged to James Hetfield. One: it doesn’t matter that Lars is still beating the shit out of his drums, Kirk is the maybe the most underrated guitar players ever and that Robert Trujillo makes us completely forget that a Jason Newted was once there. ![]() Two things must be said about this marvelous concert. Another surprise was Whiplash ( to almost kill all the old school fans in that sea of people ) and the traditional ending with Seek And Destroy. The brilliant lyrics of Blackened, the personal Nothing Else Matters and the perennial and maybe one of the most known songs in the entire popular music spectrum, Enter Sandman closed the first part of the concert.Īs it is traditional now, Metallica started the encore playing a cover song and this one was so great: Am I Evil ? from Diamond Head. FUCK !!! It was all I could say after they did just that. How many bands can finish a song like One and before the last chord already start a tune with the quality, importance and immortality of Master Of Puppets ? Not many, I can tell you. Cue for One and a very interesting trick in the screens: they showed the images of the band all in black and white, just like the video for the song. The band retreated and we started hearing the noise of machine guns. James said in the end: “In our hearts and in our minds, Mr. However, it was to honor the 25 years of the passing of the fantastic Cliff Lee Burton, so it was totally acceptable. Now, I’m not a big fan of instrumental tunes, mainly live and specially on festivals. A very welcome, er, Welcome Home ( Sanitarium ) was executed, followed by a great surprise: Orion. One of the things that make Metallica great is that they continually change their set-list and you almost never know what to expect. However, they played only two songs and exactly those that I like most: Cyanide ( it’s amazing the power of this song on a live environment ) and All Nightmare Long. I like Death Magnetic, but not as much as I like the 5 classic albums. Obviously every fan noticed at the end of Fade To Black that 4 of the first five songs on the set-list were taken from the ultra-classic Ride The Lightning. Even James joked about that at the end of the song. Detail: when came time for the heavier riff at the end of the song the distortion failed and the riff was played like on a rehearsal, it was funny. Never letting the pace slow down, James was on the higher part of the stage strumming the acoustic guitar for the beginning of the immortal Fade To Black. The crowd gave the band energy and the band gave it back with a stunning performance.īefore the following song, James announced that “maybe some new fans here don’t know the old stuff” and launched into an spectacular version of Ride The Lightning. James Hetfield was on fire, running on stage with grim from ear to ear. ![]() Starting with Creeping Death, For Whom The Bell Tolls and Fuel.The crowd roared and chanted like there was no tomorrow. ![]() it was clear that the 100 thousand plus crowd would make this one night to remember forever. In the main stage, we had a very good concert by the New Yorkers Coheed and Cambria ( who raised hell in the audience playing their incomplete version of Maiden’s The Trooper ), an always competent Motörhead, an incendiary, extremely heavy, and actually, quite good Slipknot ( despite the fact that I don’t fancy that kind of Metal that much ) and the headliners, the mighty Metallica.Įver since the intro Ecstasy Of Gold blasted from the P.A. Last Sunday was the day chosen by the heads of the Rock In Rio festival to be the Metal day of the festival. Metallica – Rock In Rio – Rio de Janeiro –
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