There was no roof to blow off of Orlando’s Camping World Stadium on July 5, 2017, but if there was, then Metallica might have been the band to do it. The heavy metal icons were there last night, and our summer intern LJ, had this to say about the show:
With an almost full moon poking through the a bruising dark sky, the lights went off and Metallica was ready to hit the stage. The hard rock legends came out in true hero fashion with a clip of Clint Eastwood from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly accompanied by the movie's famous western style theme song.
Through this, Metallica arrived to the stage in a rapture of fireworks and lights. The larger than life LCDs came to life with an eruption flipping back and forth between live footage and mechanical animations. The video presentation was similar to the state-of-the-art U2 show we saw at Raymond James in June.
Read the rest of LJ’s review here, and listen to a playlist with songs from the set below.
This article appears in Jul 6-13, 2017.