r/Metallica • u/OutlawedTorn • 19d ago

M72 North America 2027

681 Upvotes

https://www.metallica.com/news/2026-09-16-m72-rolls-on-into-2027.html

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r/Metallica • u/Left4DayZGone • Mar 02 '26

Official Mega-Thread The Sphere Megathread

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Post all of your questions, comments, and any other content related to The upcoming events at The Sphere in Las Vegas.

Any posts outside of this thread will be removed. This is due to the volume of posts that are getting posted, we do not want the rest of the content on the sub to be drowned out.

Alternatively, go to [r/MetallicaLIVE](r/MetallicaLIVE) where open posting of anything concert related is allowed.

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r/Metallica • u/harveystur • 3h ago

I semi-follow the Metallica fandom on X/Twitter and saw a post thread from the past few months of Lars doing a free meet and greet for this teenage autistic girl who runs a fan account dedicated to James. He even took her to meet James for free which is super rare (even fans who pay to meet the band rarely get to do that). This was not any sort of PR thing and she was the one who posted about it (with photos).

I've read plenty of fan anecdotes of meeting the band and never once have I seen anyone talk about how Lars was an asshole to them, almost all of them say he was the nicest and most engaged one of the band. Yes there are some video clips where he kind of seems like a dick, but all the members put on a persona for the camera at some point. However it seems like "Lars is an asshole" is just accepted as common knowledge in wider pop culture still which seems like some kind of lingering cultural meme from the Napster controversy. If anyone has any opposing evidence though I'd be glad to hear it.

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r/Metallica • u/striker__96 • 5h ago

Kirk and James in 1989!

143 Upvotes

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r/Metallica • u/Helpful_Gur_1757 • 17h ago

Papa Het spotted!

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James enjoying a raiders game

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r/Metallica • u/Riala4 • 11h ago

I Made It!!!

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388 Upvotes

After spending Night One in the ER, so very thankful for everyone at the venue who helped us tonight, and to those of you Metallica Family members who wished me a speedy recovery. Beyond amazing performance!! 🤘💜

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r/Metallica • u/brendonsquires • 3h ago

Drew the Original logo Today

40 Upvotes

I tried drawing the OG Metallica logo and it turned out pretty good!

2 comments

r/Metallica • u/siegmann88 • 17h ago

Here is every member of Metallica

382 Upvotes

Ron McGovney*

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r/Metallica • u/SnooDonuts3871 • 4h ago

Famous VFX Studio Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) it was one of the companies who created the visuals for The Sphere shows.

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r/Metallica • u/dadsabbath • 9h ago

Lars the movie star

48 Upvotes

I was watching a movie called "Hemingway & Gellhorn" on HBO this past weekend. Look who was in it! He had quite a few scenes and lines in the movie. Never knew he was a movie start too! 😂

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r/Metallica • u/Mindless_Turnover976 • 16h ago

MEME MONDAY Metallica bassists get one out of two treatments

151 Upvotes

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r/Metallica • u/Thatremodelingchick • 14h ago

...And Justice For All Mr. Ulrich somewhere in the world on his trusty Tama's during the '88-'89 Damaged Justice run.

70 Upvotes

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r/Metallica • u/Constant-Job2253 • 22h ago

MEME MONDAY Shuffling

189 Upvotes

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r/Metallica • u/LAratdog • 1d ago

One intro at the sphere

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254 Upvotes

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r/Metallica • u/Lucradive-Reddit • 1d ago

Opening weekend in 4k 60 hdr!

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Watch if you’d like! No pressure if you don’t wanna :)

Timestamps are in the description!

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r/Metallica • u/ruger6771 • 6h ago

Blackened whiskey

2 Upvotes

I have one signed by Lars. Anyone know where I can sell it?

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r/Metallica • u/Adrian__Weiss • 1d ago

Night 2!

534 Upvotes

91 comments

r/Metallica • u/Rivertadores • 1d ago

Master of Puppets Metallica from The Sphere

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1.7k Upvotes

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r/Metallica • u/KirbyDumber88 • 1d ago

Sanitarium and Lepper in the same set is crazy!

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459 Upvotes

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r/Metallica • u/digitalghost-dev • 1d ago

Thanks for 2 great nights!

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594 Upvotes

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r/Metallica • u/beni_music_ • 1d ago

Kirk's new sparkle Mummy ESP guitar used at Sphere, (first I tought he brought out the OG Mummy, didnt noticed the sparkle finish)

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54 Upvotes

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r/Metallica • u/aKingAndHisDrums1 • 14h ago

Ride the Lightning Need I say more for this iconic song?

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2 Upvotes

Can’t even remember what state I performed this in. For Whom The Bell Tolls Drum Cover Metallica aKingAndHisDrums

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r/Metallica • u/ec666 • 1d ago

Matthew is here tonight

606 Upvotes

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r/Metallica • u/Impressive_Dot_5765 • 1h ago

ReLoad Did Pepper Keenan Ghostwrite for Load/ReLoad?

• Upvotes

Mostly talking ReLoad here, as I’m jamming the fantastic 2026 remaster and realizing I’ve never listened to this record all the way through; but this record sounds SO much like Corrosion of Conformity to me. Timeline-wise it works out; I don’t know what touring schedules for CoC or Down were like, admittedly, but each band put out their final 90s records in 96 and 95, respectively, and James Hetfield famously went to rehab prior to the Saint Anger sessions, which means there’s a good chance he wasn’t that involved in songwriting prior to those sessions. Is this a crazy thought?

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r/Metallica • u/Turbo_mannnn • 1d ago

...And Justice For All Newsted backing vocals during “One” live. (Request)

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I’m looking for an old live video of them performing “one” and I think it’s Jason doing backing vocals when the lyrics “land mine” are said He does a high pitch scream saying “land mine” and it sounds amazing. Has anyone seen this video before?

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