Footage of singer/guitarist reacting to the heavy metal titans’ pyro show has gone viral. A short clip of the 60-year-old sitting offstage and watching the pyro show that precedes performances of the band’s 1988 track shows him still being impressed by the scale of it all. Watch the video below.
The clip was filmed at an undisclosed date on the band’s ongoing world tour. The tour features ‘no repeat weekends’, where Metallica perform a pair of two-hour-long shows at the same venue without ever playing the same song twice. The band will next perform at PGE Narodowy in Warsaw, Poland, on July 5 and 7.
They’ll play two further shows in Europe – at the Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano in Madrid, Spain, on July 12 and 14 – before trekking across North and Central America in August and September. Sign up below to get the latest from Metal Hammer, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! See the full list of Metallica’s 2024 tour dates below. On a recent episode of official podcast , Hetfield about the anxiety issues he faced in advance of the first 2024 dates, which were the band’s first full-length concerts in six months.
“I start to doubt myself,” Hetfield confessed, “[thinking,] ‘We're old, we can’t do this’ – all that bullshit everyone tells themselves before they go into something they care about.” He added that he’d even had nightmares of malfunctioning equipment. “So, having the nightmares about how I’m the only one who ca.
