Metallica's 2023 setlist: Every song they played on Night 2 in Phoenix
Metallica dropped two songs from the opening night of their 2023 No Repeat Weekend in metro Phoenix on Friday, Sept. 1, before rescheduling the second night to allow James Hetfield time to bounce back from the bout of COVID-19 that led to him dropping those songs.
Eight days later, the thrash-metal icons returned to State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, bringing their concert to a headbanging conclusion with the one-two punch of “One” and “Enter Sandman.”
The thrash-metal icons have promised to deliver two completely different concerts in each city they hit on a stadium tour in support of their first studio release in seven years. And that’s exactly what we got – preceded by two different openers each night.
Pantera and Mammoth WVH got things going on that first date. On Night 2, Five Finger Death Punch and Suicidal Tendencies did the honors.
They even played three different songs each night from “72 Seasons,” an album that’s been hailed as both their best thrash album of the century and a savage return to the form of their earliest triumphs, in a set that touched on every era.
They did three songs each from “Ride the Lightning” and "The Black Album" and reached back to their seminal debut, the 40-years-old yet somehow ageless “Kill ‘Em All,” to open the concert with the aptly titled “Whiplash.”
And we got "Master of Puppets," the song that was supposed to end their set on Night 1.
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Metallica 2023 tour Night 2 setlist in Phoenix
Here’s every song Metallica played in their second show at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
“Whiplash”
“For Whom the Bell Tolls”
“Ride the Lightning”
“Dirty Window”
“72 Seasons”
“If Darkness Had a Son”
“Welcome Home (Sanitarium)” (preceded by “Miller Time,” an instrumental doodle by Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo).
“You Must Burn!”
“The Call of Ktulu”
“The Unforgiven”
“Wherever I May Roam”
“Master of Puppets”
“Blackened”
“Whiskey in the Jar”
“One”
“Enter Sandman”
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