Following months of relentless rumors and fever pitch speculation, it was announced today that Metallica will debut its Life Burns Faster residency at Sphere in Las Vegas. The highly anticipated eight-show run will take place on October 1st and 3rd, 15th and 17th, 22nd and 24th, and 29th and 31st — and will continue the “No Repeat Weekend” tradition that began with the 2023 kick-off of the band’s M72 world tour, with no songs repeated on each Thursday and Saturday throughout the course of the run.
Two-night “No Repeat Weekend” tickets and single-night tickets will go on sale March 6th at 10 a.m. PT. To register for tickets or for further information regarding pre-sales, enhanced experiences, travel packages and more, visit metallica.lnk.to/MetallicaSphere.
The band’s Sphere residency will see live staples and surprises spanning the METALLICA catalog enhanced by the venue’s immersive technologies that will allow fans to experience the sound and fury of the band’s live performance in new experiential dimensions. Whether you’ve seen METALLICA from the upper reaches of a stadium or arena, at an intimate club or theater gig or from the famed Snake Pit surrounded by the 360-degree “M72” stage, Sphere’s technology, including the world’s highest resolution LED display that wraps up, over and around the audience; Sphere Immersive Sound, which delivers audio with unmatched clarity and precision to every guest; and multi-sensory 4D technology, will present a wholly unique and entirely new METALLICA experience for all who attend — including James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo.
Metallica‘s standing at the vanguard of new and unique live experiences has seen the band play to millions of fans across all seven continents in every shape and size of venue imaginable. Their current M72 world tour has played to more than four million fans from Europe and North America to the Pacific Rim and Middle East since its spring 2023 kick-off, its performances and production universally hailed as among the best of Metallica‘s 40-plus years of traversing the globe.
Metallica co-founder/drummer Lars Ulrich commented, “About 12 seconds into the opening night of Sphere with U2 back in ’23, I thought, ‘We have to do this. It’s completely uncharted territory!’ This residency gives us another chance to reinvent how we interact with our fans in a live setting. We are beyond excited to share this with the world in six months’ time, and way fuckin’ psyched to go next level.”
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A massive, spherical venue known for its immersive entertainment experiences, including concerts and films, featuring a state-of-the-art 16K resolution wraparound screen and a powerful sound system, the Las Vegas Sphere is nestled near the Venetian Resort and Wynn Las Vegas just off the Las Vegas Strip.
The Sphere has already hosted residencies from a number of legendary rockers, including U2, Phish, Dead & Company and The Eagles.
A massive, spherical venue known for its immersive entertainment experiences, including concerts and films, featuring a state-of-the-art 16K resolution wraparound screen and a powerful sound system, the Las Vegas Sphere is nestled near the Venetian Resort and Wynn Las Vegas just off the Las Vegas Strip.
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Fook YES!! I’ll be for at least one weekend. Hell, I’ll be there this Friday nite to see the Eagles for a 2nd show. Very excited! \m/ \m/
You should come check it out @ Rattlehead. It will be EPIC–hahahaa
Tasker, Meh-tallica does alot of great things for its fans (except make great heavy metal music…ha ha) so I’m sure they will take advantage of the technology offered at The Sphere and put on a killer show (except for the music…..ha ha).
My sister just texted me about going, cuz she wants to go see Meh-tallica with her husband. I took her to see the “Blah-k album” tour….we had 9th row floor seats!
No, I will not be attending. I’m sure it will be an awesome experience at The Sphere. Have fun!
I’ve seen pics of the inside of that place and it looks horrible if you are on the floor or higher than the first deck. I did sign up for a pre-sale so we’ll see what happens. I’m glad they’re still doing the No Repeat thing. Everybody else can suck it that plays the same thing over, and over, and over…
I disagree. I was just there last night for the second time in less than a year. It’s a fantastic musical experience. However, if a person has issues with vertigo or motion sickness they should take precaution. It’s worth checking out.
Metallica could get Exciter, and maybe get Angel Witch to reform….and then pull Saxon into it….and get this crazy bill going……
…$850…, a billing like that is the only way I’d ever again attend another Meh-tallica show.
Sh-t, you should be a promoter! :o)
Rattlehead, do you remember that band Alibi from Cardiff?
…$850…., I sure do remember Alibi! One of my best friends was the drummer, and they had a female vocalist. My favorite song by them was “Honeymoon is Over”. Too bad they never released an album or EP. I have a cassette of their music somewhere.
How are you familiar with them?
I can’t remember if it was the drummer….this dude wore glasses, but I remember watching Alibi videos…they had some $$ behind them…and them making this big deal out of a little drum fill the drummer did because in the 80s it was this different aesthetic where it was, and you know this of course, all about the guitars and singer….eg. Priest. They had this huge debate over whether this very minor transitional fill should be there…and they did keep it…but if you heard it …it was nothing.. some Dave Holland type little accent thing.
…$850…,yes the drummer, Brad Williams, wore glasses….kinda like Abaddon from Venom. Not sure whatever happened to them. Brad would tell me they were hoping to record an EP, but that never happened. Don’t know about them having financial backing, but they sure seemed like they were heading places. They gigged around the area, like at The Distillery in Escondido.
Brad Williams went on to play drums for Dirty Blonde. I know he recorded one album with them. I lost touch with Brad after I graduated from SDSU, but I’d love to reconnect with him again, if possible. I first met him in high school when I was a freshman. We became friends because of our mutual love of KI$$. He had the rare KI$$ “The Originals” album….I thought that was super cool.
How did you learn of Alibi as a band? Are you from Encinitas/Cardiff area?
I followed my High School girlfriend to CA …and then when i worked at the Triton, I met people in that scene….but those videos of Alibi were when they taped their rehearsals, an idea they got from Kiss…lol…Kiss is everywhere….the huge deal they made out of some drum fill was funny…they wanted no drum fills in their songs.