Metallica kicked off their M72 World Tour at Amsterdam’s Johan Cruyff Area on Thursday, starting a sprawling street journey that can run by way of late 2024.
You possibly can see the set checklist and movies from the efficiency under.
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, in accordance with setlist.fm. Different mainstays comparable to “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 evening, together with “Enter Sandman” and “One” (the band performed no tracks off … And Justice for All). Metallica is taking part in two exhibits in every metropolis on this tour, altering set lists and opening acts every evening to create a “No Repeat Weekend,” so these songs may nonetheless seem at their subsequent present.
Watch Metallica Play ‘Lux Æterna’ at M72 World Tour Kickoff
Watch Metallica Play ‘Gasoline’ at M72 World Tour Kickoff
The band additionally performed three songs off its new album 72 Seasons: “Lux Æterna” and the reside 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 advised ‘who we’re’ by our dad and mom. A attainable pigeonholing round what sort of persona we’re. I believe probably the most fascinating a part of that is the continued research of these core beliefs and the way it impacts our notion of the world at this time. 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 Area on Saturday with Ground Jansen and Ice 9 Kills instead of Architects and Mammoth WVH. Different help acts on totally different legs of the tour embrace Pantera, Greta Van Fleet and 5 Finger Demise Punch.
Watch Metallica Play ‘Sleepwalk My Life Away’ at M72 World Tour Kickoff
Metallica, 4/27/23, Johan Cruyff Area, 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. “Trip the Lightning”
13. “Battery”
14. “Gasoline”
15. “Search & Destroy”
16. “Grasp of Puppets”
Metallica Albums Ranked
There are moments of indecision when compiling this checklist. In any case, we actually may have had – for the primary time ever – a three-way tie for first.
