METALLICA Performs 'Orion' In Auckland; Professionally Filmed Footage Available
October 18, 2010METALLICA performed the instrumental track "Orion" in full for the first time since 2007 this past Thursday night (October 14) during the band's concert at the Vector Arena in Auckland.
"We were certainly treated to something special in having 'Orion' performed in its entirety — a fantastic tribute to [late METALLICA bassist] Cliff [Burton, who co-penned the track] and the Auckland crowds," The Rock FM's Riccardo Ball told 3 News.
Professionally video footage of the "Orion" performance can be viewed below (courtesy of MetOnTour.com).
The band's setlist was as follows:
01. That Was Just Your Life
02. Cyanide
03. Ride The Lightning
04. Fuel
05. Fade To Black
06. Of Wolf and Man
07. All Nightmare Long
08. Sad But True
09. The Unforgiven
10. Orion
11. One
12. Master Of Puppets
13. Fight Fire With Fire
14. Nothing Else Matters
15. Enter Sandman
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16. Am I Evil?
17. Phantom Lord
18. Seek and Destroy
METALLICA will release a live album called "Live At Grimey's" on Friday, November 26. The set was recorded on June 12, 2008 at the tiny 150-capacity venue The Basement, located below the Grimey's New & Preloved Music record store in Nashville. The intimate gig was a warm-up for the band's debut at the Bonnaroo Festival that same weekend.
Drummer Lars Ulrich told The Pulse of Radio at the time that even after years of playing outdoor arenas and stadiums, METALLICA still enjoyed doing intimate shows. "Playing small places are always fun. Any time you have a small place and you've got a lot of energy and a good vibe in a small place it's always fun 'cause the energy's contained," he said. "And obviously we spend a lot of time playing outdoors, and outdoors, it's great. But the energy kind of goes to the stars, you know. When you're playing small places and the energy's contained, it's pretty awesome."
"Live At Grimey's" will be sold as a standard CD and as a limited edition two-disc vinyl set in a gatefold sleeve.
The album will be sold only at the approximately 700 independent record stores that support the annual Record Store Day, held each year in April.
In announcing the album, METALLICA posted at its web site, "We were honored to be part of the first-ever annual event celebrating independently owned records stores, a.k.a. Record Store Day, with an in-store at Rasputin Music in Mountain View, California on April 19, 2008 and we're very proud to be a part of another special event with our friends at independent retail."
METALLICA is currently completing its touring cycle behind 2008's "Death Magnetic" album with shows in Australia and New Zealand.
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