Metallica Kicks Off M72 World Tour: Set List and Videos

Metallica kicked off their M72 World Tour at Amsterdam’s Johan Cruyff Arena on Thursday, starting a sprawling highway journey that may run by way of late 2024.

You can see the set listing and movies from the efficiency beneath.

The steel giants kicked off their 16-song set with “Orion” — their first time utilizing the Master of Puppets instrumental as a present opener since 2011, in line with setlist.fm. Other mainstays comparable to “Master of Puppets,” “Battery,” “Fade to Black,” “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and “Sad but True” additionally appeared.

Several traditional songs have been notably omitted on opening night time, together with “Enter Sandman” and “One” (the band performed no tracks off … And Justice for All). Metallica is taking part in two exhibits in every metropolis on this tour, altering set lists and opening acts every night time to create a “No Repeat Weekend,” so these songs might nonetheless seem at their subsequent present.

Watch Metallica Play ‘Lux Æterna’ at M72 World Tour Kickoff

Watch Metallica Play ‘Fuel’ at M72 World Tour Kickoff

The band additionally performed three songs off its new album 72 Seasons: “Lux Æterna” and the dwell debuts of “Screaming Suicide” and “Sleepwalk My Life Away.” Metallica launched their eleventh album two weeks in the past, marking their first full-length since 2016’s Hardwired … to Self-Destruct. The LP debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, ending a chart-topping streak that dated again to their 1991 self-titled album.

James Hetfield described the album’s idea in an official assertion: “Seventy-two seasons. The first 18 years of our lives that form our true or false selves. The concept that we were told ‘who we are’ by our parents. A possible pigeonholing around what kind of personality we are. I think the most interesting part of this is the continued study of those core beliefs and how it affects our perception of the world today. Much of our adult experience is reenactment or reaction to these childhood experiences. Prisoners of childhood or breaking free of those bondages we carry.”

Watch Metallica Play ‘Seek & Destroy’ at M72 World Tour Kickoff

Watch Metallica Play ‘Screaming Suicide’ at M72 World Tour Kickoff

Metallica will return to the Johan Cruyff Arena on Saturday with Floor Jansen and Ice Nine Kills rather than Architects and Mammoth WVH. Other assist acts on completely different legs of the tour embody Pantera, Greta Van Fleet and Five Finger Death Punch.

Watch Metallica Play ‘Sleepwalk My Life Away’ at M72 World Tour Kickoff

Metallica, 4/27/23, Johan Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam
1. “Orion”
2. “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
3. “Holier Than Thou”
4. “King Nothing”
5. “Lux Æterna”
6. “Screaming Suicide”
7. “Fade to Black”
8. “Sleepwalk My Life Away”
9. “Nothing Else Matters”
10. “Sad but True”
11. “The Day That Never Comes”
12. “Ride the Lightning”
13. “Battery”
14. “Fuel”
15. “Seek & Destroy”
16. “Master of Puppets”