The day after playing one of their smallest gigs in years at the BBC Radio Theatre, Metallica rocked London's O2 Arena on 15 September 2008 with a set that drew heavily from their new album Death Magnetic as well as including an assortment of classics.
Guitarist magazine's senior staff writer Rob Laing was on hand to witness a Metallica performance that proved beyond doubt that "27 years on from their formation this band have still got balls."
Click here to read the full review of the O2 set on the Guitarist blog.
The band played:
That Was Just Your Life
The End Of The Line
The Thing That Should Not Be
Of Wolf And Man
One
Broken, Beat And Scarred
Cyanide
Frantic
Until It Sleeps
Wherever I May Roam
For Whom The Bell Tolls
The Day That Never Comes
Master Of Puppets
Blackened
Encore
Stone Cold Crazy
Jump In The Fire
Seek and Destroy
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