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These mavericks of metal played a monstrous show at the Singapore Indoor Stadium – we lived to tell the tale
How do you prepare yourself for the gnarliest, most devastating metal band in the world? You can’t.
After a little over three years, Metallica was back again to promote their latest album Hardwired…To Self Destruct, and sure enough, the atmosphere that buzzed through the Singapore Indoor Stadium was nothing short of explosive.
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Having missed their sold-out tour back in 2013, this was my first Metallica concert, and I could only look on in awe as the film sequence from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966) played on the big screen while accompanied by the legendary score of “The Ecstasy of Gold” – the introductory music for Metallica concerts since 1983.
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Frontman, James Hetfield, kicked off the set with “Hardwired”, the first song of the latest album, with his brothers-in-arms delivering galloping riffs and thunderous drum beats that would induce head-banging amongst even the oldest fans.
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Throughout this final leg of their WorldWired Tour, they rocked out six new tracks from their latest album, proving that these phenoms had not lost their touch one bit. But undeniably, it was when they tapped into their historic repertoire of 10 previous albums that riled up the mob, inciting fervent fists in the air. Crowd favourites included “One”, “Master of Puppets”, “Nothing Else Matters” and “Enter Sandman” – anthems that never get old in my books.
The barrage of heavy riffs, coupled with spectacular laser light shows, and topped off with the monolithic showmanship of these four horsemen, truly made my Metallica experience an exhilarating one.