When Metallica frontman James Hetfield addresses the viewers on the Magna Racino in Ebreichsdorf, Decrease Austria, Saturday night is already properly underway – and the roughly 60,000 pilgrims are within the midst of a extremely skilled viewers of the thrash metallic legends.
The viewers had already decided forward of Metallica’s Austrian gig. At different stops on the present tour, the band will probably be on stage on two evenings with completely different set lists. If there is just one live performance, as within the Racino, the band graciously takes away the viewers’s agony of selection and fills the musical program with all of the hits. 15 songs are nearly sufficient, just a few of them are beneath 5 minutes lengthy. No hurt, the eager fan in all probability thinks – as a result of there may be extra happening in a median quantity from the metallic kings than in lots of a whole pop album.
Beer tents took view
And so the night begins with a robust “Whiplash”, which is already 41 years previous however has misplaced none of its power. The next “Creeping Loss of life” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls” are solely barely youthful and the efficiency instantly dispels any fears that arose following the opening acts (particularly the mood-setters 5 Finger Loss of life Punch) – the sound is on no account blown away by the wind and Hetfield’s crystal-clear voice does the remainder. The one factor that spoils the general image a bit are the beer tents positioned fairly centrally, which block the view of the stage – it would not assist that the yellow roofs match properly with the design of the present Metallica album when it comes to colour idea.
Subsequent up is the primary large spotlight, “Enter Sandman”. This isn’t solely expressed by the viewers’s capacity to recollect the lyrics, but in addition by the ten,000 cell phone movies made by the 60,000 listeners. The latter quantity would solely be exceeded later by “Nothing Else Issues” – and by a jam session between two songs, when Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo instantly began singing Falco’s “Der Kommissar” in a metallic model.
“We do what we love doing!”
4 songs which are carried out in “Vienna” (which admittedly rolls off the tongues of Individuals and never solely Individuals) are from the newest album “72 Seasons”, with which Metallica show that they’ll actually go for it with new songs. Similar to with their stage present following greater than 40 years of expertise – good, routine and at occasions maybe even too flawless and polished.
The viewers – from elementary school-age air guitarists to metallic veterans who had in all probability already grown out of social gathering age by the point of Metallica’s debut – have been nonetheless in a better sphere when the night ended with “One” and the epic “Grasp of Puppets”. “We do what we love doing!” Hetfield had already shouted into the microphone. There have been hardly any individuals at the moment and place who needed to disagree. That modified followingward the departure, nevertheless, when followers who had arrived each by automotive and by shuttle bus complained regarding ready occasions that typically lasted for hours. In all probability one of many predictable occurrences at a live performance of this dimension.
