METALLICA bassist Robert Trujillo is featured in a new interview with Peru This Week. An excerpt is available below:

Due to the energy and velocity of a great majority of the songs on the set list, some commenters on social media sites are questioning the band members’ ability to play it without suffering the consequences of playing such an aggressive and demanding set list. We sat down with Metallica bassist, Robert Trujillo, to talk about this and other things.

“It may be more demanding, but only up to a certain point,” says Robert. “The best thing about Metallica at the moment is that are trying everything. And this is the beautiful thing. In Lima, we’re going to get onstage and have fun and have a good time with our fans. Yes, I’ve seen the setlist and some songs have never been played live before. But our attitude is ‘Come on, we’ll try this.’”

One thing that was clear from the Lima show’s set list is that the huge preference of audiences over here are for songs from the first five albums. We ask Robert why that is.

“I think that there are some really good songs on those albums,” he says. “Metallica’s catalog has a lot of music. Usually the fans of a band like the oldest songs the most. In fact, the energy and the spirit of the first five albums is special. And it helps us write music now that still has that flavor, without leaving behind what we are now, obviously.”

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March 16th show from Parque Simon Bolivar in Bogotá, Colombia is now up for digital download at LiveMetallica.com.

The gig was the first stop on this year's Metallica By Request tour and included the debut of a brand new song, 'Lords of Summer', alongside 17 other songs voted on by everyone with tickets to the show.

Tracklisting:

'Blackened'

'Master Of Puppets'

'Welcome Home (Sanitarium)'

'Fuel'

Kirk Solo #1

'The Unforgiven'

'Lords Of Summer'

'And Justice For All'

'Sad But True'

Bass Solo

'Fade To Black'

'Orion'

'One'

'For Whom The Bell Tolls'

'Battery'

Kirk Solo #2

'Nothing Else Matters'

'Enter Sandman'

'Creeping Death'

'Ride The Lightning'

'Seek And Destroy'

'Lords Of Summer' (Garage Demo Version)

10-camera fan-filmed video of Metallica's performance of the new track 'Lords Of Summer' is streaming below:

"We promised our fans we'd play a new song and we've been writing and creating away and we're going to throw something at them on Sunday," Metallica's Lars Ulrich told Rolling Stone last week. "We have something lined up that is fairly representative of where our creative headspace is at right now. It's one of those things that's like, 'Here, we're writing and we're creating.'"

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Metallica's South American tour schedule is as follows:

March

20 - Lima, Peru - Estadio Nacional
22 - São Paulo, Brazil - Estádio do Morumbi
24 - Asunción, Paraguay - Jockey Club
27 - Santiago, Chile - Estadio Monumental
29 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - Estadio Ciudad de La Plata
30 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - Estadio Ciudad de La Plata