METALLICA's 'Secret' Show In Austin: Photos, Video, Report Available

March 21, 2009

METALLICA played a "secret" gig earlier tonight (Friday, March 20) at Stubb's Bar-B-Q in Austin, Texas as part of the "Guitar Hero: Metallica" showcase during the Texas capital's annual South By Southwest music and media festival.

According to Keyetv.com, a dozen Austin police officers and 75 security guards were nearby for the show, which kicked off at 10:00 p.m. local time. Only 2,100 fans were let in.

The Stubb's manager said earlier in the day that he expected to turn away more than 5,000 people.

METALLICA's setlist was as follows:

01. Creeping Death
02. For Whom The Bell Tolls
03. Harvester Of Sorrow
04. One
05. Broken, Beat & Scarred
06. Cyanide
07. Sad But True
08. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
09. Master Of Puppets
10. Blackened
- - - - - - - -
11. Breadfan
12. Whiplash
13. Seek & Destory

A full report, including photos of the concert, can be found at Austin360.com.

Fan-filmed video footage of the "One" performance from Stubb's can be viewed below.

METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett spoke to a few hours before the concert at the Four Seasons Hotel. Watch the interview at this location.

Regarding the "secret" show, Hammett said the initial intent was for the show to be hush-hush, but that plan got foiled a couple months ago when word began spreading across the country of a "secret" show at SXSW.

On the subject of the upcoming "Guitar Hero: Metallica" game, Hammett said, "It is a different sort of experience. Going into this 20 years or so back this is something that definitely was not on the job description. But it's super cool, I mean, I love video games to the point where when I start playing video games I don't do anything else, and to actually become a video game it's really super right on."

Austin band THE SWORD is also included in the new video game.

"We love THE SWORD," Hammett said. "They're a great band, they're great people. They're great to hang out with and tour with, and they're just a bunch of decent folk and we just decided at one point that we were going to have them with us as much as possible."

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