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Here are both setlists from Metallica’s massive 40th anniversary hometown shows

Fixxxer! Dirty Window! Bleeding Me! Metallica brought out all the career-spanning surprises at the San Francisco Chase Center this weekend…

Here are both setlists from Metallica’s massive 40th anniversary hometown shows
Words:
Emily Carter
Photo:
Anton Corbijn

Metallica performed a whopping 32 songs across two very special nights in San Francisco over the weekend, celebrating their 40th anniversary with a pair of sold-out nights at the Chase Center.

Such an occasion needed a couple of absolutely unreal setlists, and that's exactly what they delivered across two nights (December 17 and December 19).

At show one, the metal titans crammed in at least one track from each of their 10 studio albums (according to setlist.fm, for the first time ever), with the live debut of Fixxxer being the big talking point from that show.

Afterwards, drummer Lars Ulrich posted: "Insanity!!! Wow. Thank you making night one so special and beyond expectations. I knew it was gonna be loud and nutty, but I never would have guessed it would be this next level crazy. And seeing so many familiar faces was just the coolest. Hope you guys are digging the SF takeover and all the ensuing shenanigans… Cya tomorrow night for part two of the celebrations."

Then, on December 19, ’Tallica busted out another 16-song setlist, featuring the likes of The End Of The Line, Dirty Window, Bleeding Me and Wasting My Hate all played for the first time in over 10 years.

Both dates were livestreamed for free with The Coda Collection on Amazon Prime.

Check out both setlists below:

Night one – December 17

From tape:

It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock'n'Roll) (AC/DC song)
The Ecstasy Of Gold (Ennio Morricone song) (with voiceover from Jason Momoa)

1. Hit The Lights
2. Creeping Death
3. Trapped Under Ice
4. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
5. Orion
6. The Shortest Straw
7. One
8. Sad But True
9. Nothing Else Matters
10. King Nothing
11. Fixxxer
12. Breadfan (Budgie cover)
13. No Leaf Clover
14. Frantic
15. The Day That Never Comes
16. Spit Out The Bone

Night two – December 19

From tape:

It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock'n'Roll) (AC/DC song)
The Ecstasy Of Gold (Ennio Morricone song) (with voiceover from Tom Morello)
Hardwired intro

1. Hardwired
2. The End Of The Line (first time live since November 18, 2010)
3. Dirty Window (first time live since December 10, 2011)
4. I Disappear (first time live since August 10, 2013)
5. Am I Evil? (Diamond Head cover) (first full performance since December 5, 2011)
6. The Memory Remains
7. Fuel
8. Bleeding Me (first full performance since December 7, 2011)
9. Wasting My Hate (first time in front of a live audience since December 7, 2011)
10. The Unforgiven
11. Enter Sandman
12. Harvester Of Sorrow
13. Master Of Puppets
14. Fade To Black
15. Whiplash
16. Seek & Destroy

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