Watch: METALLICA Performs 'Devil's Dance' For First Time In 18 Years At Second Show Of Las Vegas Sphere Residency

METALLICA played the second show if its "Life Burns Faster" residency Saturday night (October 3) at Sphere in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The residency includes 24 performances presented as 12 "No Repeat Weekend" engagements in October, November, January, February and March. Mirroring the structure of the band's ongoing "M72" world tour, each Thursday and Saturday pairing features entirely different setlists, with no songs repeated between the two nights.

On Saturday, METALLICA kicked off the show with "Blackened", and followed it up with "Fuel" and "Leper Messiah", before pulling out "Devil's Dance", a track from the "Load" album which hadn't been played live for 18 years. Later in the set, METALLICA also played "The Outlaw Torn" for the first time in seven years.

The band's setlist was as follows:

01. Blackened
02. Fuel
03. Leper Messiah
04. Devil's Dance (first performance since June 7, 2008)
05. 72 Seasons
06. King Nothing
07. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
08. The Outlaw Torn (first performance since September 8, 2019)
09. Kirk and Rob Doodle
10. The Unforgiven
11. Orion
12. Hardwired
13. Whiskey In The Jar
14. For Whom The Bell Tolls
15. One
16. Enter Sandman

Fan-filmed video of the concert can be seen below.

The "Life Burns Faster" residency runs from October 1 through March 13, 2027.

METALLICA originally announced eight dates at the Sphere between October 1 and October 31, but later added shows in November (November 5 and 7),January (January 28 and 30),February (February 4, 6, 18, 20, 25, and 27) and March (March 4, 6, 11, and 13).

The Las Vegas Sphere is a 17,600-capacity venue which has transformed live entertainment since opening in September 2023.

Known for its immersive entertainment experiences, including concerts and films, featuring a state-of-the-art 16K resolution wraparound screen and a powerful sound system, the Las Vegas Sphere is nestled near the Venetian Resort and Wynn Las Vegas just off the Las Vegas Strip.

The Sphere had previously hosted residencies from a number of legendary rockers, including U2, PHISH, DEAD & COMPANY and THE EAGLES.

When METALLICA announced it was playing the state-of-the-art venue earlier this year, the band's drummer Lars Ulrich said he was convinced he and his bandmates had to perform at the Sphere after seeing U2 open the venue three years ago.

"About 12 seconds into the opening night of Sphere with U2 back in '23, I thought, 'We have to do this. It's completely uncharted territory'," Ulrich said. "This residency gives us another chance to reinvent how we interact with our fans in a live setting. We are beyond excited to share this with the world … and way fuckin' psyched to go next level!"

Sphere's next-generation technologies include the world's highest-resolution LED display that wraps up, over and around the audience, creating a fully immersive visual environment. The venue also features the world's most advanced concert-grade audio system, Sphere Immersive Sound, powered by HOLOPLOT, which delivers audio with unmatched clarity and precision to every guest.

METALLICA's standing at the vanguard of new and unique live experiences has seen the band play to millions of fans across all seven continents in every shape and size of venue imaginable. Their current "M72" world tour has played to more than four million fans from Europe and North America to the Pacific Rim and Middle East since its spring 2023 kick-off, its performances and production universally hailed as among the best of METALLICA's 40-plus years of traversing the globe.