{"id":445196,"date":"2026-09-23T14:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445196\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T14:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:46:10","slug":"metallica-played-lubbock-texas-four-times-heres-what-stood-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445196\/","title":{"rendered":"Metallica Played Lubbock, Texas Four Times. Here&#8217;s What Stood Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is certainly a fun exercise.<\/p>\n<p>The best I can tell, Metallica played Lubbock four times. At least that&#8217;s how many times it was reported to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.setlist.fm\/search?query=metallica%2C+lubbock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Setlist.fm<\/a>.\u00a0 Just for curiosity and giggles, I compiled the songs from all of those shows to let you know what songs they played most.<\/p>\n<p>First let&#8217;s get some housekeeping out of the way. Of course they started each show with &#8220;The Ecstasy of Gold&#8221;.\u00a0 They don&#8217;t play that, it&#8217;s a recording, that sometimes they play over a teensy bit while warming up.<\/p>\n<p>The next two items are very cool. <a href=\"https:\/\/kfmx.com\/tags\/lubbock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lubbock<\/a> is still the only place the band ever played Sweet Amber. It was a concert one and done. Next, Lubbock was the first of only three performances of Sad But True featuring guest vocals by Sully Erna of Godsmack. The other two performance were during back to back nights in Boston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"46\" data-end=\"133\">January 20, 1989 \u2014 Lubbock Municipal Coliseum<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"135\" data-end=\"222\">February 3, 1992 \u2014 Lubbock Municipal Coliseum<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"224\" data-end=\"374\">September 4, 2004 \u2014 United Spirit Arena<br data-start=\"267\" data-end=\"270\"\/> This was the show where Sully Erna joined them for \u201cSad but True.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"376\" data-end=\"459\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">March 2, 2019 \u2014 United Supermarkets Arena<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0So that&#8217;s the history of performances, and if you made all four here is what you saw:<\/p>\n<p>Played 4 Times<\/p>\n<p>Battery<br \/>Creeping Death<br \/>Master of Puppets<br \/>One<br \/>Seek &amp; Destroy<\/p>\n<p>Played 3 Times<\/p>\n<p>Enter Sandman<br \/>For Whom the Bell Tolls<br \/>Sad but True<br \/>Welcome Home (Sanitarium)<\/p>\n<p>Played 2 Times<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;And Justice for All<br \/>Am I Evil?<br \/>Blackened<br \/>Eye of the Beholder<br \/>Fade to Black<br \/>Fuel<br \/>Harvester of Sorrow<br \/>Last Caress<br \/>Nothing Else Matters<br \/>The Unforgiven<br \/>Whiplash<\/p>\n<p>Played Once<\/p>\n<p>Atlas, Rise!<br \/>Fight Fire With Fire<br \/>Frantic<br \/>Hardwired<br \/>Here Comes Revenge<br \/>Hit the Lights<br \/>I Disappear<br \/>Leper Messiah<br \/>Moth Into Flame<br \/>No Leaf Clover<br \/>Now That We\u2019re Dead<br \/>Of Wolf and Man<br \/>Ride the Lightning<br \/>St. Anger<br \/>Stone Cold Crazy<br \/>Sweet Amber<br \/>The Frayed Ends of Sanity<br \/>The Memory Remains<br \/>Through the Never<br \/>Wherever I May Roam<\/p>\n<p>Some of were also fortunate enough to catch Summer Sanitarium with a bus trip from Lubbock to Dallas, but I&#8217;m just saying that to rub it in.\u00a0 \u00a0You can catch them in Kansas City by entering below.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kfmx.com\/ixp\/366\/p\/metallica-m72-interview-contest-kansas-city\/?utm_source=tsmclip&amp;utm_medium=referral\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ENTER NOW: Win a Trip to See + Interview Metallica In Kansas City<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Metallica In Lubbock<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: R. Raven<\/p>\n<p>Shinedown Live<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Nessmania<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is certainly a fun exercise. The best I can tell, Metallica played Lubbock four times. 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