Metallica lost its long-running legal battle against Lloyd’s of London, with a California judge awarding the insurance market company any financial losses stemming from the forced postponement of the band’s six 2020 South American shows due to the COVID-19 pandemic. freed from But just a day after announcing this disappointing decision, Metallica was in good spirits, returning to the stage for their third Helping Hands concert and auction fundraising event at the intimate Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles and giving back. .
Frontman James Hetfield expressed his delight at being able to play again for Metallica’s hardcore fans, saying, “We’ve been together forever, for 200 years. We’re so grateful for what we’re doing.”
Hetfield and company also treated Friday’s audience to a live debut of an exciting new track from Metallica’s COVID-delayed 72 seasons album, which is finally coming in April 2023. [72 Seasons], We’ll be running it live here for the first time. How about that?” Hetfield asked rhetorically. A scuffle caused the band to stop and restart the song, but the 7,100 in attendance excited the concert – among them Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Guns N’ Roses drummer Matt Sorum – hardly comes to mind or even notices.
While “Lux Eterna” was the only preview of the night 72 seasonsThe event, which benefited the band’s All in My Hands Foundation, featured a few other surprises. Metallica recorded Thin Lizzy’s “Borderline” (“Phil Lynott was writing that song about my life,” Hetfield quipped) and the UFO deep cut “It’s Killing Me,” their first album at the request of drummer Lars Ulrich. Play the cover “We keep playing covers because it’s fun,” Hetfield laughed.
Then there’s “new dude” St. Vincent—who actually covered Metallica’s “Sad But True” on last year’s all-star cover compilation, metallica blacklist – strutted to jam on the other black album power ballad, “Sad But True.” During the semi-acoustic/semi-electric concert, San Francisco folk singer/multi-instrumentalist and former AWMH trainee Avi Winokur also joined in, playing mandolin and acoustic, electric, and 12-string guitars. (“All things we don’t know how to do,” commented Hetfield.)
Jimmy Kimmel hosted Friday’s fundraiser, declaring Metallica “one of the best bands in the history of the world” to thunderous applause, while Robert Downey Jr. and Tony Hawk also sang the band’s praises and sang their own songs. Amazingly put together presentations to express the fandom. Rising hard-rockers Greta Van Fleet opened the show.
Since Metallica founded All Within My Hands in 2017, the charity initiative has raised $12 million to combat food insecurity, provide natural disaster relief, and build sustainable communities through workforce and community college programs. This year’s AWMH memorabilia auction, which began on December 5, will run through December 20; 100% of the proceeds from both the auction and benefit show will go directly to those in need. Friday’s concert was live-streamed via Paramount+, and will be available to view in full again on Monday, December 19.
What comes next for Metallica, post-lawsuit and post-pandemic, on April 27, 2023 — two weeks after the hotly anticipated release of 72 seasons, the band’s first studio album since 2016 – they will return to play stadiums on their two-year M72 World Tour. They would perform two shows in each city, with completely different setlists for each night. Below is the full list of their December 16 Helping Hands concert.
Acoustic:
black
the Unforgiven
range
it is killing me
Whiskey in the jar
pause (Introduced by Hetfield: “We’re gonna come right back, take a little intermission, and then come back and kick some metal ass”)
Electric:
the call of Ktulu
reaper of sorrow
holier than
all in my hands
creeping Death
enter Sandman
eternal light
Nothing Else Matters (with St. Vincent)
Search and Destroy
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