Metallica performed at the annual “Weenie Roast” festival
sponsored by Los Angeles
radio station KROQ-FM. The show, which took place last night (Saturday, May 17)
at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Irvine,
California, also featured The Raconteurs,
The Offspring, The Bravery, The Offspring, Pennywise, Scars on Broadway and
others.
The band did not disappoint, proving as mighty as ever. “We’ve
certainly missed you,” Metallica’s frontman James Hetfield told the crowd right
after a ripping version of “Fuel,” OC Register reports. Metallica’s setlist for
the concert was as follows:
01. Creeping Death
02. Fuel
03. For Whom the Bell
Tolls
04. Unforgiven
05. Wherever I May Roam
06. Harvester of Sorrow
07. The Memory Remains
08. Fade to Black
09. Master of Puppets
10. Battery
11. Sad But True
12. One
13. Enter Sandman
14. So What!
15. Seek and Destroy
The heavy-metal band adopted the name Metallica after a
suggestion from Bay Area friend Ron Quintana, and they quickly began gigging in
the Los Angeles
area opening for bands like Saxon. Metallica’s first album, “Kill ‘Em All”, was
released in late 1983.
Metallica released eight studio albums, two live albums, two
EPs, nine videos, and is working on a ninth studio album. The band has become
one of the most commercially successful and influential musical acts, with over
100 million records sold worldwide. Metallica earned seven Grammy Awards and
its 1991 album “Metallica” managed to sell over 15 million copies.
The band was ranked by MTV as the third “Greatest Heavy
Metal Band in History.”
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