METALLICA: Pro-Shot Footage Of ROCK IN RIO MADRID Performance Available

June 16, 2010

METALLICA's June 14, 2010 performance in front of 48,000 fans on the closing day of the Rock In Rio festival in Madrid, Spain was televised on Televisión Española (TVE) (literally, Spanish Television),the national state-owned public-service television broadcaster in Spain.

You can watch footage of the concert at this location. A few of the clips are available below.

METALLICA's setlist was as follows:

01. Creeping Death
02. For Whom The Bell Tolls
03. Through The Never
04. Disposable Heroes
05. Fade To Black
06. That Was Just Your Life
07. The End Of The Line
08. Sad But True
09. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
10. Cyanide
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

"It is great to see you once again. We are grateful to be back in Madrid," METALLICA frontman James Hetfield told the crowd at Arganda del Rey some 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of Madrid after performing "Creeping Death", "For Whom The Bell Tolls" and "Through The Never".

According to Billboard.biz, attendance at the five-day Rock In Rio Madrid festival fell to 250,000 from the 290,000 who attended the five shows at the 2008 festival.

Rock in Rio founder and director Roberto Medina blamed the drop in numbers on bad weather on June 11 and the general economic problems in Spain.

"I am generally content with the festival, but the government's cuts announced two weeks ago have had a negative effect, especially the wage-freeze for civil servants [government employees]," said Medina.

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