Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and featuring an opening set by Greta Van Fleet, the show at the Microsoft Theater was to raise funds for Metallica’s All Within My Hands foundation, which works with partners around the world to combat food insecurity, provide funds in areas of natural disaster, and support education with the ground-breaking Metallica Scholars program, now in its fourth year.
Metallica played a brief acoustic set that included covers of tracks by Thin Lizzy and UFO before launching an electric performance with the 1984 instrumental, “The Call Of Ktulu”, and featured a mix of classic tracks and fan favorites; the band was joined by St. Vincent for their 1992 hit, “Nothing Else Matters.”
The recently-released “Lux AEterna” serves as the first preview to Metallica’s forthcoming album, “72 Seasons”; due April 14, 2023, the follow-up to 2016’s “Hardwired... to Self-Destruct” was produced by Greg Fidelman, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.
To learn more about the band’s foundation, visit allwithinmyhands.org.
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See also:
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