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Look: Metallica in the year of the Lord 2025 have with the lovable 20-year-olds, Dhe once terrorized the Bay Area and the world, nothing in common. Today they are in the sixties. Gentle, more relaxed and presumably rich rock gods – which you can easily imagine as eccentric neighbors in a grotesque wealthy enclave such as the Hamptons.
Siriusxm channel and surreal celebrity mix
Wikipedia describes the over 80 kilometer area as a “popular seaside resort and one of the historical summer colonies of the northeast of the United States”. Formally, this is true – as it is correct, to describe LeBron James as a “popular basketball player who makes points”. But the showy wealth markings here-from 100 dollar-lobster salad to melons for $ 400-have increased in the absurd, beyond what a Christopher Guest could have imagined.
So when the band enters the stage in the tent behind the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett, the idea of a parallel universe is paused in which the former Thrash pioneers, the hotel walls, now side side with Billy Joel, Jay-Z and Paul McCartney (today on the edge of the stage). In this scenario, Lars sips on the Chardonnay from Wolffer Estate on the Hampton Classic Horse Show. Robert drinks a “heavy metal detox smoothie” (with barley grass juice, bio-dulse algae and spirulina powder-allegedly the energy source of Exodus and Venom) around the corner in the organic restaurant.
Kirk leaves in Modern Luxury Hamptons before shopping at the Olsen-Twins. And James buys square in Amagansett for $ 19.95 goat butter-ghee, for $ 18.95 white truffle acacia honey and for $ 34.95 a sachet Mushroom-Mocha milk. The 500-person tent-the smallest show for almost ten years-is practically on your door.
Return to the club feeling
There was last such a small frame in 2016 or in Antarctic. The occasion was the premiere of “Maximum Metallica”, the new 24-hour band channel on Siriusxm. (Before that, Ua Coldplay, Dave Matthews, Ed Sheeran and Mumford & Sons-all also rather detox-smoothie-energy.) “The place of this concert is not the typical metallica environment,” said the band website.
That’s correct. Hardcore fans camp on the front of the railing that follow the band around the world. On the left, Howard and Beth Ostrosky Stern Michael J. Fox, while Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and wrestler Chris Jericho stand next to it. Colin Jost, Sylvester Stallone and Andy Cohen float separately through the tent, but you want to imagine them as a fan group. On the right ex-SNL star Heidi Gardner, behind me three women in the cocktail outfit-whether society or “Real Housewives” cosplay, remains to be seen. Even Topper Mortimer, ex-man of a real Housewife, is there. The band counters the surreal environment with classics for 95 minutes-nine of the 13 songs are permanent burners, only “Whiskey in the Jar” is half a outlier. “That reminds us of the club days,” calls James Hetfield and starts with “Fuel”. “Hot, sweaty, up close.”
Superfan Austin Manning explains: “We never experienced the club shows. There were only festivals, arenas and stadiums for us. This is the closest.” He scored Hetfield in the restaurant the evening before, the singer only said: “Nice, a familiar face to see here.”
Superfans from all over the world
Hetfield himself hardly talks – apart from a charming “We will hear it today, the neighbors should hear it” in front of “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and an ironic “You probably don’t like the next song, but he is quite good. Pretty heavy, however,” Sad But True “.
Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo are expanding their “Doodle” of the evening to Ozzy Osbournes “Crazy Train”, which is cheers. The last four numbers – “Seek and Destroy”, “One”, “Master of Puppets” and “Enter Sandman” – pop like ago. A teenager next to me calls his mother so that she can listen to “Enter Sandman” live.
The hardcore community also went home satisfied. Camila Guerrero Diaz, known for 180 metallica shows and several band tattoos, traveled from an Australian mining camp, flew Adelaide-Aucland-Houston-New York just to be here. “I was only in the air for the last 24 hours,” she says with a laugh. It goes back on Friday – three flights. Your longest trip? 63 hours on a boat in 2013 for the Antarctic show: “Everyone handed over, but it was worth it.”
And now? Rumors about a residency in Las Vegas Sphere make the round – fact or imagination is unclear. But that evening, Thrash pioneers and high-society combined themselves splendidly. Perhaps tomorrow a grumpy rocker with horseshoe beard quietly creeps out of the health food store, the bag of the Mushroom Mocha milk under her arm.
Setlist – Metallica, Stephen Talkhouse, Amagansett
- CREEPING DEATH
- For whom the Bell Tolls
- Whereever i may roam
- Kirk & Rob Doodle (Ozzy Osbourne: “Crazy Train”)
- Fuel
- Fade to black
- Sad But True
- The unforgives
- Whiskey in the Jar
- Nothing Else Matters
- Seek & Destroy
- One
- Master of Puppets
- Enter Sandman