To celebrate Record Store Day on April 16th, Metallica invited members of their Fan Club and some old friends from back in the day to Rasputin Music for a little gig. The show is available to download from Live Metallica.

Setlist:

“Helpless”
“Hit The Lights”
“The Four Horsemen”
“Ride The Lightning”
Kirk Solo
“Fade To Black”
“Jump In The Fire”
“For Whom The Bell Tolls”
“Creeping Death”
“Metal Militia”

Show notes:

This was the first time in 17 years that Metallica performed in Berkeley. They last played here on April 21st and 22nd, 1999 while they recorded S&M with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.

Metallica first played Berkeley on September 2nd, 1983 at the Keystone Berkeley at the tail end of the Kill 'Em All for One tour.

This was the first time in nearly four years that "Helpless" was played. It was last performed on August 2nd, 2012 in Mexico City.

This was the first time in over a year that "Hit The Lights" was performed. It was last played on February 9th, 2015 at a private party in San Francisco, CA.

Metallica last played "The Four Horsemen" on August 9th, 2014 at the Heavy Montreal festival.

"Jump In The Fire" was last played nearly three years ago on June 8th, 2013 during the secret dehaan set at Orion Music + More in Detroit, MI.

Metallica performed nine songs off of three albums: Kill 'Em All (4), Ride The Lightning (4) and Garage Inc. (1).

Metallica is no stranger to Record Store Day, a special day in support of independent record stores and record store culture worldwide, now in its ninth year. Metallica's support throughout the years has been more than noteworthy with in-store appearances, (remember Mountain View, CA Rasputin Records in 2008, when the band met their fans for hours to kick off the very first Record Store Day) and a healthy handful of special releases. In fact, members James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo made big news just last year when the band's cassette-issued demos collection, No Life Til Leather, ended up as Record Store Day 2015's highest seller. As well, Trujillo's lauded biopic, Jaco, about legendary bassist Jaco Pastorius, was RSD 2014's Official Film and a special Record Store Day exclusive version was released on DVD for Black Friday 2015, including a bonus CD featuring tracks from Trujillo himself.

On August 20th, Metallica will headline the first rock concert at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, the new home of the NFL's Minnesota Vikings. They are currently in the studio working on a new album.