While Metallica has steadily attracted more of a mainstream audience throughout its 35-year career, frontman James Hetfield feels they will never play the Super Bowl, and he doesn't seem to mind. Check out this footage from Associated Press:

On the eve of the nation's most anticipated sporting event, Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductees and Grammy Award winners Metallica will headline CBS Radio's The Night Before, a one-of-a-kind concert experience the evening prior to Super Bowl 50 at AT&T Park in the band's hometown of San Francisco, CA. The concert marks the band's first performance of 2016.

300 Metallica Fan Club members and friends of the band were invited down to AT&T Park last night (Friday, February 5th) for a special "The Night Before" Sound Check Party. Some live footage can be seen below:

Check out Photographer Ross Halfin’s “The Night Before Sound Check” gallery at this location.

SW! Editor Steffan Chirazi’s report on the event can be found here.

 

Sanitarium for our friends in the Fan Club at our Sound Check Party for #TheNightBefore. #tooheavyforhalftime pic.twitter.com/KUcE53pf8e— Metallica (@Metallica) February 6, 2016

Speaking to Kory Grow of Rolling Stone, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich revealed his band will be debuting a new stage production. "It's big," he says. "I mean it's really big. I haven't seen it yet, but I got sent the first pictures last night, and it's very vivid. It'll light up the sky."

Asked what fans can expect from tonight’s set list, Ulrich says he and the band have been readying what its production manager Dan Braun calls Metallica's "toe-tapping favorites."

"If I told you that we were going to play all the deep, obscure tracks from Load and ReLoad, you know I'd be lying to you," he says, chuckling. "I don't want to dampen anyone's enthusiasm, but we're leaning a little bit towards the classics. We do so many different configurations of set lists for if we're playing theaters, somebody's basement, arenas, and recently at our last couple of indoor shows, we went very deep. Last summer, we played 'The Unforgiven II,' which we'd never played live before, and we had tracks like 'Disposable Heroes' and 'Metal Militia' and 'King Nothing' after a long absence. But I will go out on a limb here and say we will lean on the classics. There will be a significant portion of those, whatever they may be."

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Metallica fans around the world will be able to tune in to a live webstream direct from the historic show. The webcast will be a free 1080p FullHD stream live from AT&T Park, available on mobile and desktop devices at this location, delivered by nugs.net. Metallica will take the stage at approximately 8:30 PM, PST. Fans can watch the show live for free! Pre­-order professionally mixed audio recordings of the show as downloads and collectible CDs are available at metallica.com.