Metallica Concert

For the past couple of weeks, I have been going to one concert a week. I have been excited and enjoyed all of the concerts that I have been to but nothing compared to the concert that I recently attended.

A couple of friends and bought floor seats a while ago to see Metallica. This was the first time that I have ever seen the band in concert before, while everyone else in the group has been at least 3 times before.

The concert started at 7, so we got there around 5:30 and got places right up against the rail, which was about 5 feet away from the stage. There were a couple of opening acts that were pretty good. One band was a French-Canadian metal band that I could not understand what they were saying to save my life and the other band was Lamb Of God.

Lamb of God was my favorite of the two opening acts although the French-Canadian band did have a crazy bassist. The guy reminded me of what Animal from the Muppets would look like if he played the bass instead of the drums. The dude was just all over the place.

Around 9, when the opening acts were done, the lights were turned off and Metallica turned on their intro music. The band always chooses the same bad ass song that plays when they walk on stage. It is the theme song to The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. This song kicks ass when there is absolutely no lights on and it just pumps you up even more. In case you don't know what song I am talking about, then you can check it out here.

Once Metallica came on to the stage, the whole arena went crazy, including myself. The concert had pyro, lasers, and alot of awesome songs. The good thing that I really loved about the concert was that there was not that much time in between songs. The band just went from one song right into another. There would be time were James (the lead singer) would just talk a little bit, but that was mainly just to pump up the crowd for the next song.

Since the concert was in an arena, the band set up a round stage so that every band would be in the middle of the arena and every one could have an equal view of the band. It also allowed the bands to move all over the place as well.

Metallica went a step further than the other bands and set up microphones all over the stage. There had to be at least 10 mics set up everywhere and the band went to all of them through out the concert and each song.

The band did an encore, but they did not sing their own songs. In the encore, the band plays some songs that they liked as fans themselves. Once the cover songs were over, they finished the concert by playing "Seek and Destroy". As they were getting ready to start that song, Lars Ulrich, the drummer, grabbed some random 8 year old kid out of the pit and had him play the intro on the drums. I don't know if the kid was nervous, but he seemed to know how the song went and he was alright at it too.

The house lights were kept on during the last song and half way through it, tons of black beach balls of different sizes came down to the crowd. As this was going on, the band finished the song and started to throw out the pics that they were using and I was lucky enough to catch one from guitarist Kirk Hammett.

The band played for a little over two hours straight. It was a great concert and I cant wait to go see them again when they come back into town.