Review: METALLICA Blows Away Competition At San Francisco Event

August 12, 2003

Mark Whittington of The Mercury News reports that METALLICA returned home to San Francisco on Sunday (August 10) as rock's triumphant warlords.

"The band that brought heavy metal to the mainstream was greeted by 45,000 loyal subjects at Candlestick Park. They reveled for eight hours as the 18-city Summer Sanitarium made its final stop.

"Four pretenders to the throne — openers LIMP BIZKIT, LINKIN PARK, the DEFTONES and MUDVAYNE — bowed before the masters.

"METALLICA didn't disappoint. The fans began howling with the opening cannon shots from Lars Ulrich's bass drums. James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett gave harmony to their pain with dual guitar lines of 'Master of Puppets'. The crowd was still howling when the flames and fireworks died two hours later." Read more.

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