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July 24, 2017
Concert Review: Metallica
Metallica’s current world tour didn’t come to DC. The closest date was at the Ravens stadium in Baltimore on a Tuesday, so I opted for a vacation to Atlanta to see the tour at the new Braves stadium instead.
The new stadium is nice, albeit in the middle of a ridiculous area for a stadium (the DC equivalent would be having the Nats stadium in Tyson’s Corner). Getting there was a minor inconvenience. Getting out was a nightmare – my Uber couldn’t get anywhere near the rideshare pickup zone, so I walked a very long way to meet him on the street he was stuck on. I’m shocked he didn’t cancel on me.
This was my first concert in a baseball stadium. I had lower level seats on the first baseline and I was pleased with the view. I was especially happy to have some shade and not be in the GA pit with thousands of Metallica fans on a 90 degree-plus day with heavy humidity. That would have been a nightmare.
Volbeat opened the show. I’d never heard of them before, but they were highly enjoyable. It was a nice cross between the thrash metal of Metallica and the melodic, theatrical metal of Iron Maiden. Avenged Sevenfold was next and was more popular with the crowd, but I think they are awful generally and this was the second horrible set from them that I’ve had to sit through while waiting for a headliner. I don’t get the appeal at all.
After Avenged Sevenfold was done with their set, some ATL radio people took the stage and introduced surprise guest Mix Master Mike of Beastie Boys fame, which was 1) super random generally, 2) even more random at a Metallica show, and 3) perplexing considering he didn’t do any of his awesome DJ stuff – he basically just played AC/DC and such over the loud speaker, which was what the in-between set music was before him. Bizarre.
Metallica was amazing. Full stop. The setlist was great – a few songs off of their new (good!) album Hardwired the Self-Destruct, classics, and some rarities. The video production and pyrotechnics were as cool as you would expect them to be at a Metallica show. And everyone sounded great. An early highlight was “For Whom the Bell Tolls” as was “The Unforgiven.” “Moth into Flame” is the best song off the new album, but most of the new songs they played fit well in the set. “Wherever I May Roam,” “Halo on Fire,” “Sad but True,” “One,” and “Master of Puppets” was an epic five-song stint that got even better when they followed it up with “Fade to Black” and (my favorite) “Seek and Destroy.” The encore was similarly solid: “Battery,” “Nothing Else Matters,” and “Enter Sandman.”
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