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<\/p>\nMetallica surprised a packed Eden Park crowd when they busted out two classic Kiwi covers at their only New Zealand show last night.<\/p>\n
Halfway into the show, guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo played Six60’s Don’t Forget Your Roots and Split Enz’s I Got You for the 55,000 eager metal heads, many of who had travelled from around New Zealand for the show. <\/p>\n
It’s become a tradition for the band to play local tracks at concerts – The Chats, Rose Tattoo and INXS were among the bands covered in Australia <\/p>\n
The set as a whole was definitely well received, with the metal legends treating fans to a set running through some of their biggest hits, including Master of Puppets, Nothing Else Matters and usual set closer Enter Sandman.<\/p>\n
One concertgoer said the show was “very, very impressive” and the crowd was “unbelievable”.<\/p>\n
“The stage show was a different level, also the little things like all the doors and stairwells in the stadium had Metallica branding on them.<\/p>\n
“For a country as small as us it was amazing to see how many hardcore fans there are.”<\/p>\n
Nick Hill of T\u0101taki Auckland said it was a \u201cfantastic show\u201d with an incredible atmosphere.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvents like that really do bring people out.\u201d <\/p>\n
It was the first time the multi-Grammy award winners had played in New Zealand since 2010, with Auckland’s hotels fully booked. <\/p>\n
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Metallica at Eden Park. (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n
A scheduled 2019 concert was cancelled due to lead singer James Hetfield entering a rehab clinic for treatment.<\/p>\n
The morning’s headlines in 90 seconds, including stalking bill passes through parliament, phone ban in class working, and Metallica deliver a Kiwi classic. (Source: Breakfast)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Metallica surprised a packed Eden Park crowd when they busted out two classic Kiwi covers at their only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[51,156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-143590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}