Metallica Shares a Recap of Their Drive-In Concert and Livestream

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Metallica broadcast a show to hundreds of drive-in and outdoor theaters across the U.S. and Canada on Saturday night (August 29), as part of the “Encore Drive-In Nights” series. The concert was filmed nearly three weeks earlier, on August 10, at the Gundlach Bundschu winery, about a 30-minute car ride from the band’s headquarters in San Rafael, California, and was subsequently edited and mixed by the band’s award-winning production team to the highest standards possible. Attendees were able to listen to the show through their FM radio or over the faraway speakers.

 

“It feels good to play again,” METALLICA frontman James Hetfield said during the show. “We’re not sure what everyone out there has been doing, but I know they’ve been listening to music and they’ve been praying and praying for something live they could grasp on to. Because music helps us through all things, including this.”

 

The band’s setlist was as follows:

  1. Hardwired
  2. For Whom The Bell Tolls
  3. Fuel
  4. Seek & Destroy
  1. Creeping Death
  2. One
  3. Now That We’re Dead
  4. Sad But True
  5. Moth Into Flame
  6. The Unforgiven
  7. Wherever I May Roam
  8. Fade To Black
  9. Master Of Puppets
  10. Battery
  11. Nothing Else Matters
  12. Enter Sandman

 

“What people don’t realize is that is a far clearer version of audio than the normal stacks and racks that you would see at a show,” Walter Kinzie, CEO of Encore Live, told the Albuquerque Journal ahead of the event. “And so the audio will be crystal clear. It was all produced in HD stereo format so it will be an absolute perfect combo for your FM station in your truck and your car and just crank it up and get ready and I’ll tell you that’s part of the magic of that evening is when you’re in there with a couple hundred cars and everyone has got their radios cranked up and it’s all to the same station it creates this real magical kind of atmosphere that’s a hell of a lot of fun and super rowdy.”

 

According to the Sonoma Index-Tribune, less than half a dozen locals were made aware that the biggest heavy metal band in the world was set up overlooking the vineyard of the Sonoma winery secretly performing some of their biggest hits without an audience.