Metallica plays the Black Album front to back — and somehow makes 'Don't Tread on Me' slap.
Metallica's Orion Music Festival at Bader Field in Atlantic City. Setlist: Hit the Lights / Master of Puppets / Fuel / For Whom the Bell Tolls / The Shortest Straw / The Struggle Within / My Friend of Misery / The God That Failed / Of Wolf and Man / Nothing Else Matters / Through the Never / Don't Tread on Me / Wherever I May Roam / The Unforgiven / Holier Than Thou / Sad But True / Enter Sandman / Blackened / One / Seek & Destroy
Sound
The Black Album deep cuts finally get their due — and rip.
Production
Beach festival setup somehow makes 'One' feel even more epic.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Orion was Metallica's own festival, curated by the band with non-metal acts like Modest Mouse and Best Coast — it lasted exactly two years and lost millions.
This 2012 show captured the band at a strange crossroads: post-Lou Reed collab, pre-Hardwired comeback, still figuring out if they were heritage act or hungry predators. The answer, apparently, was both.
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