Metallica Launch Las Vegas Sphere Residency in Spectacular Fashion: Video + Setlist

Metallica kicked off their highly anticipated “Life Burns Faster” residency at Las Vegas’ Sphere on Thursday night with mesmerizing visuals and an electrifying 16-song set. The residency will run for a total of 24 dates on Thursdays and Saturdays through March 2027. The Thursday setlist is completely different from the Saturday setlist, meaning no songs are repeated from one show to the other each week. Get Metallica Tickets Here Metallica shared video of just about every song on their official Instagram page, showing an absolutely spectacular setting, with stunning imagery appearing on the Sphere’s giant interior wall. The visuals corresponded to each song, showing memorabilia, lightning and thunder, flying guitar picks, album artwork, a giant monster, and more. The legendary metal band kicked off the evening with “Battery” (first time leading off a show with the Master of Puppets track since 2014), and followed that up with “Creeping Death” off Ride the Lightning. The setlist represented 10 of the band’s 11 studio albums, with only St. Anger excluded. “The Black Album” (“Sad But True,” “Wherever I May Roam,” and “Nothing Else Matters”) and Ride the Lightning (“Creeping Death,” “T...