Metallica perform first concert of 2022: photos, setlist, video

Metallica played their first concert of 2022 in Las Vegas last Friday. The show was opened by Greta Van Fleet.

You can see our fan-filmed footage of the performance and the full set lis belowt:

Metallica, Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, Feb. 25, 2022

1. “Whiplash”
2. “Ride the Lightning”
3.  “The Memory Remains”
4. “Seek & Destroy”
5. “Fuel”
6. “One”
7. “Sad but True”
8. “Moth Into Flame”
9. “Wherever I May Roam”
10. “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
11. “Creeping Death”
12. “Fade to Black”
13. “Master of Puppets”

Encore:
14. “Battery”
15. “Nothing Else Matters”
16. “Enter Sandman”

When asked recently about their role as opening band, Greta Van Fleet‘s bassist Sam Kiszka noted their approach:

I think really harnessing all of our energy to stand up to an act like Metallica that plays so loud with so much gusto. The reality is, we’re nothing like Metallica. In some strange world, we are grouped in the same genre in a way, but there is no through-line between our music and their music. There’s everything in between, so it creates kind of a very cool bill.

Metallica are currently scheduled to play a handful of dates in South America in April. The band is slated to play only two stadium shows in the U.S. this summer: Highmark Stadium in Buffalo, N.Y. and PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pa., this August.