Watch Metallica's full 2018 gig from Lincoln, Nebraska for one-off streaming event
Metallica Mondays made a one-off return this week in honour of the Month Of Giving – watch their full 2018 set from Lincoln, Nebraska now.
This week Metallica brought back their awesome lockdown streaming series as a special one-off in honour of the Month Of Giving.
As part of their All Within My Hands foundation, the metal giants unveiled a free pro-shot performance from Lincoln, Nebraska's Pinnacle Bank Arena on September 6, 2018 for fans to enjoy online.
"In honour of Month Of Giving, we are bringing #MetallicaMondays back for a special one-off event benefiting the All Within My Hands foundation's annual Month Of Giving," they said.
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As expected the killer 18-song set featured a wide range of hits from across Metallica's career – from early gems like Hit The Lights right through to their newest material such as Atlas, Rise!, Moth Into Flame and Spit Out The Bone. Lovely stuff.
Watch the full thing below:
And check out the setlist:
1. Hardwired
2. Atlas, Rise!
3. Seek & Destroy
4. The Memory Remains
5. The Unforgiven III
6. Now That We’re Dead
7. Creeping Death
8. For Whom The Bell Tolls
9. Fade To Black
Rob and Kirk’s doodle
10. Hit the Lights
11. Fuel
12. Moth Into Flame
13. Sad But True
14. One
15. Master Of Puppets
16. Spit Out The Bone
17. Nothing Else Matters
18. Enter Sandman
In other ’Tallica news, earlier this month James Hetfield said that the band have written "quite a few songs” in lockdown.
"Whatever you call it these days – I guess it’s an album, a CD, a group of songs, a collection, whatever, a stream or however you get your music now,” Papa Het revealed. "But, yeah, a bunch of songs. We wrote quite a few songs. So we’ll see how many we like first, and then we’ll put ’em out. We’re pretty selfish that way; we like what we write as well.”
Explaining how this material was written remotely, the frontman said that they initially "started doing a weekly Zoom with those guys, just to check in”.
"And then I just told them one time, 'Hey, I’m gonna write something. I’m just gonna play something and send it to you guys. You do whatever you want with it and see what happens and layer on to it.’ So that’s how we did a version of Blackened 2020. I just basically played something. They hadn’t heard it before. They played on it. Then it kind of got layered together.
"Then we started experimenting with writing on Zoom. Lars and I would get together, or Kirk [Hammett, guitar] and Lars [Ulrich, drums], and we would get little bits of time here and there writing. It was difficult because of the delay in the sound, so we couldn’t actually play together, but we would play to a click track and watch each other play.
"We had our producer, who was running my computer while I was playing. He was running my computer from LA, and I’m in Vail [Colorado]. And then Lars had an assistant running his computer from LA – he’s up here in San Francisco – and we were playing together, and it was pretty bizarre. We started writing. We got about – I don’t know – over 10 songs going that way. And then we finally got together. There’s only so much you can do on Zoom.”