METALLICA Performs 'My Apocalypse', 'Hole In The Sky' In Birmingham

March 26, 2009

METALLICA performed the "Death Magnetic" track "My Apocalypse" for the first time last night (Wednesday, March 25) at the LG NEC Arena in Birmingham, England. The band also included a cover of the BLACK SABBATH classic "Hole In The Sky" in its set, and dedicated the track to the "godfather of riffs" Tony Iommi, who was in attendance watching the show from the pit. Brian Tatler from DIAMOND HEAD was also in the house, and "Prince" was dedicated to him.

The group's setlist was as follows:

01. That Was Just Your Life
02. The End Of The Line
03. Creeping Death
04. Ride The Lightning
05. One
06. Broken, Beat And Scarred
07. My Apocalypse
08. Sad But True
09. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
10. The Judas Kiss
11. The Day That Never Comes
12. Master Of Puppets
13. Blackened
14. Nothing Else Matters
15. Enter Sandman
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16. Hole In the Sky
17. The Prince
18. Seek and Destroy

A review of the concert (including a photo gallery) can be found at Express & Star.

METALLICA is issuing a digital "box set" called "The Complete Metallica" that will feature the band's entire 163-track recorded catalog. According to the band's publicist, the package will be available exclusively through iTunes beginning on March 31, before surfacing at all other digital outlets on April 28.

"The Complete Metallica" will include all nine of METALLICA's studio albums, including the current "Death Magnetic", the 1998 covers collection "Garage Inc.", 1999's concert set "S&M", the 2004 EP "Some Kind of Monster", the 2007 EP "Live From Live Earth", and "I Disappear" from the 2000 "Mission Impossible 2" soundtrack. Buyers will also receive eight bonus live tracks: "The Four Horseman", "Whiplash", "For Whom The Bell Tolls", "Creeping Death", "Battery", "The Thing That Should Not Be", "One", and "...And Justice For All".

(Thanks: Johan Mörling)

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