METALLICA Perform Secret Show At SXSW - Official Video Footage Online
March 24, 2009, 15 years ago
As previously reported, METALLICA played a "secret" show on March 20th at Stubb's in Austin, TX as part of SXSW. Official Metallica.com footage can be viewed below.
Pictures from the show are available at this location.
An excerpt of a report filed by AP writer Jake Coyle for Austion360.com is available below.
Invading South By Southwest, Metallica attempted to pose as one of the hundreds of smaller bands there just hoping to get a record deal.
"We're a young band from Norway and we want to get signed," Metallica frontman James Hetfield told the audience at the heavy metal band's SXSW performance Friday night.
It was a widely expected but not officially announced show at a venue (Stubb's) that for a band like Metallica is downright minuscule, holding about 2,100 people. The band played for slightly more than an hour, performing both classics and, as Hetfield called it, "new stuff" off their 2008 album "Death Magnetic" — a disc widely considered a return to form for the 28-year-old group.
But despite Hetfield's mock camouflage (and poor Norwegian accent), Metallica stood out on the SXSW landscape Friday. With more than 50 million albums sold, Metallica has probably outsold the other 1,900-plus bands at SXSW combined.
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The setlist was as follows: 'Creeping Death', 'For Whom The Bell Tolls', 'Harvester Of Sorrow', 'One', 'Broken, Beat & Scarred', 'Cyanide', 'Sad But True', 'Welcome Home (Sanitarium)', 'Master Of Puppets', 'Blackened', 'Breadfan', 'Whiplash', 'Seek & Destroy'.
