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Metallica 2021–2022 Tour
American heavy metal band Metallica toured throughout 2021 and 2022 in support of the 30th anniversary of their fifth and self-titled studio album ''Metallica'', the 40th anniversary of the band, and in continuation of the WorldWired Tour. It was their first tour after the COVID-19 pandemic. It kicked off on September 16, 2021, in San Francisco. The 2022 portion of the tour was titled the ''Return Of The European Summer Vacation''. Their June 29, 2022 show for Frauenfeld Rocks in Switzerland was cancelled when a member of the band tested positive for COVID-19. The setlist has varied from show to show. They have played some of their hits, such as "Nothing Else Matters", "Enter Sandman", "One" and "Master of Puppets", as well surprises such as " Metal Militia". Setlist Sample 1 The following setlist was performed at Discovery Park in Sacramento on October 8, 2021, when the band did not perform any songs from '' the Black Album''. # "Whiplash" # "Ride the Lightning" # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metallica (album)
''Metallica'' (commonly known as ''The Black Album'') is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released on August 12, 1991, by Elektra Records. Recording sessions took place at One on One Recording Studios in Los Angeles over an eight-month span that frequently found Metallica at odds with their new producer Bob Rock. The album marked a change in the band's music from the thrash metal style of their previous four albums to a slower, heavier, and more refined sound. Metallica promoted ''Metallica'' with a series of tours. They also released five singles to promote the album: "Enter Sandman", " The Unforgiven", " Nothing Else Matters", "Wherever I May Roam", and " Sad but True", all of which have been considered to be among the band's best-known songs. The song " Don't Tread on Me" was also issued to rock radio shortly after the album's release but did not receive a commercial single release. ''Metallica'' received widespread critical acclaim and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Leaf Clover
"No Leaf Clover" is the eighth song on the live album '' S&M'' by Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony. The song (along with "–Human") was one of two new pieces completed for the band's collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony in 1999. It begins with an intro section played by the orchestra, before entering into a clean guitar part by James Hetfield. The rest of the piece alternates between clean choruses and verses backed by heavily distorted guitars. Nowadays when the song is performed live, the orchestra backing track or footage of the ''S&M'' performance is used for the orchestra intro. It was the band's fourth No. 1 hit on the ''Billboard'' Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It stayed at No. 1 for seven consecutive weeks. It was also featured in the trailer created by the distributor A.D. Vision for their DVD releases of the TV series ''Farscape''. "No Leaf Clover" is featured as a playable track in the 2009 music game '' Guitar Hero: Metallica''. Single track l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creeping Death
"Creeping Death" is a song by American thrash metal band Metallica. It was released on November 23, 1984, as the lead and only commercial single from their album ''Ride the Lightning'' (" Fade to Black" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls", from the same album, were issued as promotional singles). Written from the perspective of the Angel of Death, "Creeping Death" describes the tenth plague of Egypt. It is often thought of as one of the band’s most popular songs and is currently the second-most-played song live by them. Development Kirk Hammett wrote the guitar riff for the bridge section when he was 16 years old. The middle section, with its ominous chants of "Die!" set to a Phrygian mode chord progression, was originally written by Hammett while he was in Exodus. The song was called "Die by His Hand" and had been part of the Exodus setlist for live shows, but was never used on any Exodus albums. Metallica was inspired for the song by the second half of the film '' The Ten Comman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sad But True
"Sad but True" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released in February 1993 as the fifth and final single from their 1991 self-titled album. The music video for the single was released in October 1992. Music "Sad but True" is in D Standard tuning, however the song was originally written and demoed in E Standard. Bob Rock, who produced ''The Black Album'', recalled to Musicradar.com: "We were in pre-production, which was uncomfortable because nobody had ever made them go through their songs in such a deliberate way before, and six songs in 'Sad But True' came along. Suddenly, I realized that every song, including this one, was in the key of E. I brought this to the band's attention, and they said, 'Well, isn't E the lowest note?' So I told them that on Mötley Crüe's ''Dr. Feelgood'', which I produced and Metallica loved, the band had tuned down to D. Metallica then tuned down to D, and that's when the riff really became huge. It was this force that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Unforgiven (song)
"The Unforgiven" is a power ballad by American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released as the second single from their eponymous fifth album ''Metallica'' (also known as ''The Black Album''). The song deals with the theme of the struggle of the individual against the efforts of those who would subjugate him. The song has since spawned two sequels, in the form of " The Unforgiven II", from the album '' Reload'', and " The Unforgiven III", from the album '' Death Magnetic''. History Lars Ulrich explained that the band wanted to try something new with the idea of a ballad. Instead of the standard melodic verse and heavy chorus – as evidenced on their previous ballads " Fade to Black", "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" and "One" – the band opted to reverse the dynamic, with heavy, distorted verses and a softer, melodic chorus, played with clean electric and acoustic guitars. The opening section contains percussive instruments performed by Ulrich, and also a small amount of keybo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wherever I May Roam
"Wherever I May Roam" is a song by American Heavy metal music, heavy metal band Metallica. It was released in October 1992 as the fourth single from their eponymous fifth album, ''Metallica (album), Metallica''. It reached number 82 on the US ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' Billboard Hot 100, Hot 100 peaked at number 25 on the ''Billboard'' Mainstream Rock (chart), Album Rock Tracks chart and peaked at number two in Denmark, Finland and Norway. Music All stringed instruments featured in this song, both guitars and basses, use standard tuning. The intro of the song is notable for its unusual instrumentation for the band: Asian instruments such as a gong and sitar, along with an overdubbed Warwick (guitar manufacturer), Warwick twelve-string bass. This 12-string bass was only used for effect during the intro to emphasize several accented notes and then a standard tuned 4-string bass was used as the main bass instrument throughout the remainder of the recording. The song is perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Tread On Me (Metallica Song)
"Don't Tread on Me" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica from their self-titled fifth album. The title is connected with the American Revolutionary War. The words " Don't Tread on Me" constitute the motto of the Gadsden flag, and the snake image on the flag is pictured on the cover of the album. Music and lyrics The instrumental introduction uses an eight-bar phrase from "America", a popular song from the musical ''West Side Story''. It is in a moderate tempo of 104 bpm in The lyrics reference American Revolutionary Patrick Henry's quote "give me liberty or give me death!" with the line "liberty or death, what we so proudly hail". The lyric, "To secure peace, is to prepare for war" refers to the Latin adage ''Si vis pacem, para bellum'' ("If you want peace, prepare ora war"). The lyrics containing rattlesnake imagery are inspired by Benjamin Franklin's essay suggesting the rattlesnake is a good symbol for the American Spirit. Hetfield said the song was a reaction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The God That Failed (song)
"The God That Failed" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica from their 1991 self-titled album (often called "the Black Album"). The song was never released as a single, but was the first of the album's songs to be heard by the public. It is one of Metallica's first original releases to be tuned a half step down. Composition and recording Composer and lyricist James Hetfield described the song as "very nice... Slow, heavy and ugly." Lead guitarist Kirk Hammett recalls the inception of his solo in the song: "I had this whole thing worked out, but it didn't fit because the lead was too bluesy for the song, which is characterized by real heavy riffing and chording." According to Hammett, he and producer Bob Rock worked out his guitar solo on the song. Together they composed a melody to which Hammett wanted to add harmony. The producer suggested that this would make the song sound too "pretty", and instead recommended playing the melody an octave higher. The final guitar s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardwired (Metallica Song)
"Hardwired" is a song by the American heavy metal band Metallica from their tenth studio album, '' Hardwired... to Self-Destruct'' (2016). It was released as the album's lead single on August 18, 2016. It was the last song made for the album, being written and recorded in four days by band members James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. The two co-produced the song with Greg Fidelman. An accompanying music video, directed by Colin Hakes and "The Artist", was also released. A thrash metal song, "Hardwired" is stylistically similar to Metallica's earliest songs. It is one of their fastest and shortest songs, only being about three minutes long. It's pessimistic lyrics center around the concept of a civilization consumed by paranoia, pain, and insanity. According to Ulrich, the meaning of the song is how mistakes are inevitable and build who a person is, though the lyrics were also left open to interpretation. It has been interpreted as a song about 2016's political climate, with some view ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Master Of Puppets
''Master of Puppets'' is the third studio album by the American Heavy metal music, heavy metal band Metallica, released on March 3, 1986, by Elektra Records. Recorded in Copenhagen, Denmark, at Sweet Silence Studios with producer Flemming Rasmussen, it is the band's final album to feature bassist Cliff Burton. While Damage Inc. Tour, touring in support of ''Master of Puppets'', he died on September 27, 1986, after the band's tour bus was involved in an accident in Dörarp, Dörarp, Sweden. The album's artwork, designed by Metallica and Peter Mensch and painted by Don Brautigam, depicts a cemetery field of white crosses tethered to strings, manipulated by a pair of hands in a clouded, blood-red sky, with a fiery orange glow on the horizon. The album is the band’s most recent to date to feature a runtime of under an hour. Instead of releasing a single or video in advance of the album's release, Metallica embarked on a five-month American tour in support of Ozzy Osbourne. The Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fuel (Metallica Song)
"Fuel" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica. It was written by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Kirk Hammett, and was released as the third single from their seventh album, '' Reload'' (1997). Inspired by Hetfield's love of custom cars, the song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1999 but lost to Jimmy Page and Robert Plant for the song " Most High". It was moderately successful on the music charts, peaking at number two in Australia, number three in Hungary, number five in Finland and number six on the US ''Billboard'' Mainstream Rock chart. Since its release, "Fuel" has remained a regular on Metallica's live setlists. It has featured on the live albums '' Cunning Stunts'', '' S&M'', ''Français Pour une Nuit'', '' Orgullo, Pasión, y Gloria: Tres Noches en la Ciudad de México'', '' Live at Grimey's'' and '' Through The Never''. A demo version of the song called "Fuel for Fire" (with different lyrics) was used as the theme song for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seek & Destroy
"Seek & Destroy" is a song by the American heavy metal band Metallica and the ninth track from their debut studio album, '' Kill 'Em All'' (1983). It was also featured on the demo '' No Life 'Til Leather''. It was the first song the band recorded in a studio. "Seek & Destroy" has been frequently performed at the group's concerts since its live debut in 1982 and had been Metallica's closing song from the Madly in Anger with the World Tour to the Metallica By Request Tour. It is the third-most performed song in the band's history, having been played 1,610 times as of October 2024, behind only " Creeping Death" (1,637) and "Master of Puppets" (1,757). During the 2004 documentary film about Metallica, '' Metallica: Some Kind of Monster'', the song is used when footage of the band down the years is shown highlighting the progression in the group's appearance and sound over time. In AOL Radio's list of the 10 Best Metallica Songs, "Seek & Destroy" was ranked at number 4, and Allmusi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
