Concert Review: Metallica
2009 Death Magnetic Tour
Feb 24, 2009 Todd Christopher Petty
Forget potato chips, commercials, and rushing yards; for over fifteen thousand fans football was the furthest thing from their mind as heavy metal veterans Metallica played the last date of the North American leg of their Death Magnetic tour.
The Sword and Machine Head
Alternative metal act The Sword opened the show with heavy and bluesy guitar riffs. It is easy to draw comparisons to heavy metal legends Black Sabbath; the band's riffs have clearly been influenced by Sabbath. Front man J.D. Cronise sings in a style reminiscent of Ozzy Osbourne's drawling and gloomy sound.
Machine Head took the stage next with a sound that moved in the opposite direction from The Sword's heavy and groovy riffs. Machine Head are pioneers of the new wave of heavy metal, sometimes leaning towards a nu metal sound.
The band's set list featured a nearly relentless onslaught of the drummer's double bass pedal and vocalist Rob Flynn's barking. For an outside listener, it may have been difficult to distinguish between some of the bands songs; they all feature similar quick-paced crashing of guitar, bass, and drums.
Metallica Headlines
The lights dimmed, the crowd went wild, and Metallica's trademark walk-out song, "The Ecstasy of Gold" composed by Ennio Morricone, began playing. In a burst of lights and a laser show fit for the distant future awed fans while the band ripped through the first track (That Was Just Your Life) from their new album, Death Magnetic.
In-between songs vocalist James Hetfield interacted with fans, getting them pumped for sing-alongs in Creeping Death and Master of Puppets. The show featured enormous coffins dangling from the ceilings(thematic from the cover of their newest album), plenty of pyrotechnics, and black beach balls rained like bombs from the sky during their encore of fan-favorite, Seek and Destroy.
Metallica Set-List Prudential Center 2/1/09
- That Was Just Your Life
- The End of the Line
- Creeping Death
- Harvester of Sorrow
- One,
- Broken, Beat and Scarred
- Cyanide
- Sad But True
- Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
- All Nightmare Long
- The Day That Never Comes
- Master of Puppets
- Blackened
- Nothing Else Matters
- Enter Sandman
Encore
- Die, Die My Darling (Misfits Cover)
- Breadfan (Budgie Cover)
- Seek and Destroy
Metallica's Performance
Metallica sounded better than they had in years; their set list was also more satisfying to the bands devoted fans. The band played no material from their widely unpopular albums Load, Reload or St. Anger. Hetfield's vocals were right on key and Kirk Hammett dazzled fans with blistering guitar solos and interludes in-between songs. Their performance was nearly two and a half hours, the fans hardly noticed that they were missing an enormously popular American tradition: The Super Bowl.
Cover Art of Metallica's Death Magnetic
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