Metallica kick off their massive summer Worldwired tour tonight in Baltimore, MD and last night, the band hopped on the stage to do a quick 45 minute rehearsal with all the bells and whistles.
Some of the songs performed include "Atlas Rise!," "For Whom The Bell Tolls," "Battery," "Now That We're Dead," and parts of "One," "Confusion" and more. Lars Ulrich spoke to a local ABC affiliate about what fans can expect from the show:
“The old fans and the new fans have embraced this record — like I said before — to a level that nobody expected, and for the first time in our career, people are really being adamant: ‘You’ve gotta play new songs. You’ve gotta play more new songs. Why are you only playing four new songs?'” he said. “So we actually have a pretty good degree of the new songs that are being aired for the first time in the States. And then, since it’s a stadium, it’s big, and when you’re in a stadium, you’ve gotta kind of have the size, even though the goal is always to create a level of intimacy. But still, with fifty thousand people, it’s gotta be big and it’s gotta hit people and it’s gotta be loud. So we’ve got all those things that we bring along to maximize the enjoyment for the fans and for ourselves. There’s lots of stuff that blows up and things that move around. Leaving all the sexual innuendos aside, size does matter, at least in the stadium thing.”
Get all the dates to the tour here and watch the rehearsal footage below:
