Few heavy metallic riffs hit fairly like Metallica’s Unhappy However True. Positive, there have been many metallic subgenres since its launch with the Black Album in 1991 which arguably blow its ‘heavy issue’ out the water, however these stomping D normal chugs that observe the intro’s precipitous chord grasp simply smack otherwise.

So each time we see Metallica have uploaded a brand new pro-shot dwell efficiency of the monitor, you possibly can wager we’re watching it on repeat (even when simply to relive the time I noticed the music dwell at Twickenham Stadium in June 2019…)

The most recent pro-shot efficiency comes after the band’s latest set at San Francisco’s Chase Middle, throughout Salesforce’s annual Dreamfest fundraising occasion, which raises cash for UCSF Benioff Kids’s Hospital.

Accessible in wonderful 60fps, the video sees frontman James Hetfield asking followers (for the thousandth time, in all probability): “Would you like heavy?!” to which the gang responds with stadium-filling rapturous noise. We will’t fairly make it out, however we reckon there have been just a few sure’s in there…

Following Lars Ulrich’s four-count, Hetfield and Kirk Hammett enter with the monitor’s suspenseful opening energy chords – armed with a black ESP Snakebyte and Jackson Rhoads mannequin, respectively.

And when that mega riff lastly lands, you’re taken again for the thousandth time to the primary time you heard it. Kind of like a consolation blanket that punches you within the face.

Anyway, that’s sufficient rambling from us, let the efficiency converse for itself…

Metallica carried out a 12-song set through the occasion, which additionally noticed a efficiency from pop megastar Benson Boone.

The set was fully populated by the classics, with Creeping Dying because the opener, adopted by For Whom The Bell Tolls, Gasoline and The Reminiscence Stays, and closed out with Grasp of Puppets and Enter Sandman. Check out the complete setlist beneath.

1. Creeping Dying
2. For Whom The Bell Tolls
3. Gasoline
4. The Reminiscence Stays
5. The Unforgiven
6. Unhappy However True
7. Wherever I Could Roam
8. Nothing Else Issues
9. Search & Destroy
10. One
11. Grasp Of Puppets
12. Enter Sandman

The annual Dreamfest profit live performance has beforehand seen performances from Fleetwood Mac, Crimson Scorching Chili Peppers, Inexperienced Day and plenty of extra. Since its inaugural occasion in 2010, the exhibits have raised $120 million for UCSF Benioff Kids’s Hospitals.

Metallica’s M72 World Tour continues, with an Australia/New Zealand leg set to kick off on 1 November in Perth, and a string of Europe exhibits deliberate for summer time 2026.

View a full record of the band’s upcoming tour dates at Metallica.com.

Sam is the Affiliate Information Editor for Guitar.com and MusicTech. Totally immersed in music tradition for almost all of his life, Sam has performed guitar for 20 years, studied music expertise and manufacturing at college, and likewise written for the likes of Guitar World, Whole Guitar, Steel Hammer and MusicRadar.