The
Soundwave festival kicked off earlier tonight (Saturday, February 23), with headliners
METALLICA performing an 18-song set spanning the band's entire 30-year recording career.
METALLICA opened the show with
"Hit The Lights" and
"Master Of Puppets" and finished with
"Enter Sandman" before returning for a massive encore featuring
"Creeping Death",
"Battery" and
"Seek & Destroy".
The band's setlist was as follows:
01.
Hit The Lights02.
Master Of Puppets03.
The Shortest Straw04.
Harvester Of Sorrow05.
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)06.
Fuel07.
Cyanide08.
Sad But True09.
Fade To Black10.
…And Justice For All11.
One12.
For Whom The Bell Tolls13.
Blackened14.
Nothing Else Matters15.
Enter SandmanEncore:
16.
Creeping Death17.
Battery18.
Seek & DestroyIt was previously reported that
METALLICA would play a two-hour set at this year's
Soundwave, complete with the "Snakepit" rig.
The last time this rig was used was during
METALLICA's 2012 European tour where the band's self-titled 1991 album was played backwards, starting with closing number
"The Struggle Within" and ending with
"Enter Sandman".
The
San Francisco Giants recently announced that
METALLICA will throw out the first pitch and perform the National Anthem at the world champion baseball team's May 3 home game at AT&T Park, which will be dubbed Metallica Night. The
Giants will be playing against the
Los Angeles Dodgers that night.
METALLICA was originally formed in L.A. in 1981 but moved to San Francisco the following year to recruit bassist
Cliff Burton and be part of that city's heavier underground metal scene.
METALLICA has a busy year ahead. The night before the
Giants game, on May 2, the band will receive the Ronnie James Dio Lifetime Achievement Award and perform at the fifth annual
Revolver Golden Gods Awards at Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles. The band is also staging the second edition of its
Orion Music + More festival on June 8-9 in Detroit, and will release a 3D film called
"Metallica Through The Never" on August 9.
Photo below courtesy of
Metallica.com
