List of songs performed live by Metallica
The following is a list of songs performed live by Metallica, an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1981 by drummer Lars Ulrich and vocalist and rhythm guitarist James Hetfield, the group originally also featured lead guitarist Dave Mustaine and bassist Ron McGovney. McGovney and Mustaine were later replaced by Cliff Burton and Kirk Hammett, respectively, in 1982 and 1983. Burton died on September 27, 1986 and was later replaced by Jason Newsted, who remained in the band until 2001, before Robert Trujillo joined in 2003. Since its first live concert on March 14, 1982, Metallica has played 2,020 official shows. As of the show on November 9, 2017, the band has performed 166 songs and medleys live. A total of 32 songs recorded by the band remained unperformed as of the same date.
The most frequently performed song is "Master of Puppets", which the band has played 1,561 times to date (not including appearances in medleys). The rest of the top five most-performed tracks have each been played over 1,400 times – "Seek & Destroy" 1,491 times, "Creeping Death" 1,461 times, "One" 1,416 times, and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" 1,407 times. Metallica has performed every song from Kill 'Em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, ...And Justice for All, Metallica and Death Magnetic live at least once. The latest song the band has debuted is Hardwired... to Self-Destruct track "Spit Out the Bone", which was performed for the first time on October 24, 2017. The group has also included cover versions in their set lists; Misfits song "Last Caress" is the most frequently covered track, with 797 performances to date.
Songs
![The band has covered [...] Joke's "The Wait" a total of 24 times. A recording of the song was released on The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited in 1987.](/images/wiki/449411/ea1ca1f54709d4e0bc0f4beb458c97e3.jpg "The band has covered [...] Joke's \"The Wait\" a total of 24 times. A recording of the song was released on The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited in 1987.")
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Title |
Original artist(s) |
First performance |
Latest performance |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
"2 X 4" |
Metallica |
10 |
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"53rd & 3rd" |
Ramones |
2 |
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"Ain't My [...]" |
Metallica |
175 |
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"All Day and All of the Night" |
1 |
||||
"All Nightmare Long" |
Metallica |
103 |
|||
"All Within My Hands" |
Metallica |
2 |
|||
"Am I Evil?" |
Diamond Head |
743 |
|||
"" |
Metallica |
257 |
|||
"" |
Metallica |
125 |
|||
"Atlas, Rise!" |
Metallica |
68 |
|||
"Battery" |
Metallica |
939 |
|||
"Blackened" |
Metallica |
486 |
|||
"Bleeding Me" |
Metallica |
160 |
|||
"Blitzkrieg" |
Blitzkrieg |
82 |
|||
"Breadfan" |
Budgie |
313 |
|||
"Broken, Beat & Scarred" |
Metallica |
156 |
|||
"Brothers in Arms" |
Dire Straits |
2 |
|||
"" |
Metallica |
82 |
|||
"Carpe Diem Baby" |
Metallica |
4 |
|||
"" |
Motörhead |
1 |
|||
"Clampdown" |
2 |
||||
"Commando" |
Ramones |
5 |
|||
"Confusion" |
Metallica |
11 |
|||
"Crash Course in Brain Surgery" |
Budgie |
1 |
|||
"Creeping Death" |
Metallica |
1,461 |
|||
"Cyanide" |
Metallica |
184 |
|||
"Damage Case" |
Motörhead |
3 |
|||
"Damage, Inc." |
Metallica |
293 |
|||
"" |
Metallica |
169 |
|||
"Dead Kennedy Rolls" |
Metallica |
2 |
|||
"Devil's Dance" |
Metallica |
44 |
|||
"Diary of a Madman" |
Ozzy Osbourne |
1 |
|||
"Die, Die My Darling" |
Misfits |
116 |
|||
"Dirty Window" |
Metallica |
31 |
|||
"Disposable Heroes" |
Metallica |
151 |
|||
"Don't Tread on Me" |
Metallica |
17 |
|||
"Dragon" (with Lou Reed) |
Metallica and Lou Reed |
1 |
|||
"Dream No More" |
Metallica |
8 |
|||
"Dyers Eve" |
Metallica |
35 |
|||
"" |
Ennio Morricone |
1 |
|||
"" |
Metallica |
149 |
|||
"Enter Sandman" |
Metallica |
1,259 |
|||
"Escape" |
Metallica |
1 |
|||
"Eye of the Beholder" |
Metallica |
125 |
|||
"Fade to Black" |
Metallica |
1,160 |
|||
"Fight Fire with Fire" |
Metallica |
329 |
|||
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" |
Metallica |
1,407 |
|||
"" |
Metallica |
536 |
|||
"Frantic" |
Metallica |
180 |
|||
"" |
Metallica |
12 |
|||
"Fuel" |
Metallica |
482 |
|||
"" |
Metallica |
88 |
|||
"Green Hell" |
Misfits |
11 |
|||
"Halo on Fire" |
Metallica |
46 |
|||
"Hardwired" |
Metallica |
73 |
|||
"Harvester of Sorrow" |
Metallica |
763 |
|||
"Hate Train" |
Metallica |
1 |
|||
"Hell and Back" |
Metallica |
16 |
|||
"Helpless" |
Diamond Head |
62 |
|||
"Hero of the Day" |
Metallica |
72 |
|||
"Hit the Lights" |
Metallica |
208 |
|||
"Hole in the Sky" |
Black Sabbath |
2 |
|||
"Holier Than Thou" |
Metallica |
81 |
|||
"I Disappear" |
Metallica |
92 |
|||
"I Just Want to Celebrate" |
Rare Earth |
3 |
|||
"Iced Honey" (with Lou Reed) |
Metallica and Lou Reed |
4 |
|||
"In My Life" |
1 |
||||
"Instrumental Medley" |
Metallica |
24 |
|||
"Iron Man" |
Black Sabbath |
3 |
|||
"It's Electric" |
Diamond Head |
1 |
|||
"" |
Metallica |
30 |
|||
"Jump in the Fire" |
Metallica |
91 |
|||
"Junior Dad" (with Lou Reed) |
Metallica and Lou Reed |
1 |
|||
"Just a Bullet Away" |
Metallica |
1 |
|||
"Justice Medley" |
Metallica |
203 |
|||
"Kill/Ride Medley" |
Metallica |
127 |
|||
"[...] Time" |
Sweet Savage |
18 |
|||
"King Nothing" |
Metallica |
358 |
|||
"Last Caress" |
Misfits |
797 |
|||
"Leper Messiah" |
Metallica |
113 |
|||
"Let It Loose" |
Savage |
6 |
|||
"London Dungeon" |
Misfits |
2 |
|||
"Lords of Summer" |
Metallica |
33 |
|||
"Low Man's Lyric" |
Metallica |
65 |
|||
"Mama Said" |
Metallica |
2 |
|||
"ManUNkind" |
Metallica |
2 |
|||
"Master of Puppets" |
Metallica |
1,561 |
|||
"Mastertarium" |
Metallica |
29 |
|||
"" |
Metallica |
29 |
|||
"" |
Metallica |
247 |
|||
"Mercyful Fate" |
Mercyful Fate |
8 |
|||
"Metal Militia" |
Metallica |
87 |
|||
"" |
Metallica |
4 |
|||
"Mistress Dread" (with Lou Reed) |
Metallica and Lou Reed |
1 |
|||
"" |
Fang |
2 |
|||
"Moth Into Flame" |
Metallica |
71 |
|||
"Motorbreath" |
Metallica |
303 |
|||
"Motorcycle Man" |
Saxon |
2 |
|||
"Mr. Soul" |
Buffalo Springfield |
2 |
|||
"My Apocalypse" |
Metallica |
37 |
|||
"My Friend of Misery" |
Metallica |
18 |
|||
"" |
Metallica |
4 |
|||
"No Leaf Clover" |
Metallica |
113 |
|||
"No Remorse" |
Metallica |
231 |
|||
"Nothing Else Matters" |
Metallica |
1,137 |
|||
"Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue" |
Ramones |
1 |
|||
"Now That We're Dead" |
Metallica |
57 |
|||
"Of Wolf and Man" |
Metallica |
253 |
|||
"One" |
Metallica |
1,416 |
|||
"Only Happy When It Rains" |
Garbage |
1 |
|||
"Orion" |
Metallica |
67 |
|||
"" |
Metallica |
4 |
|||
"" |
Metallica |
13 |
|||
"Overkill" |
Motörhead |
65 |
|||
"Paranoid" |
Black Sabbath |
2 |
|||
"Phantom Lord" |
Metallica |
155 |
|||
"Please Don't Judas Me" |
Nazareth |
3 |
|||
"Poor Twisted Me" |
Metallica |
4 |
|||
"" |
Diamond Head |
33 |
|||
"Rapid Fire" |
Judas Priest |
3 |
|||
"Rebel of Babylon" |
Metallica |
1 |
|||
"Ride the Lightning" |
Metallica |
348 |
|||
"Sabbra Cadabra" |
Black Sabbath |
6 |
|||
"Sad But True" |
Metallica |
1,242 |
|||
"Seek & Destroy" |
Metallica |
1,491 |
|||
"" |
Metallica |
94 |
|||
"" |
Holocaust |
7 |
|||
"So What?" |
307 |
||||
"Some Kind of Monster" |
Metallica |
3 |
|||
"Spit Out the Bone" |
Metallica |
5 |
|||
"St. Anger" |
Metallica |
173 |
|||
"Stone Cold Crazy" |
Queen |
153 |
|||
"Stone Dead Forever" |
Motörhead |
2 |
|||
"" |
Metallica |
17 |
|||
"Sucking My Love" |
Diamond Head |
4 |
|||
"[...] & Redemption" |
Metallica |
2 |
|||
"Sweet Amber" |
Metallica |
1 |
|||
"Sweet Jane" |
1 |
||||
"T.V. Eye" |
1 |
||||
"That Was Just Your Life" |
Metallica |
170 |
|||
"" |
Metallica |
264 |
|||
"Through the Never" |
Metallica |
227 |
|||
"To Live Is to Die" |
Metallica |
1 |
|||
"Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World" |
Ramones |
1 |
|||
"Too Late Too Late" |
Motörhead |
7 |
|||
"" |
Tiny Bradshaw |
1 |
|||
"Trapped Under Ice" |
Metallica |
21 |
|||
"Tuesday's Gone" |
Lynyrd Skynyrd |
5 |
|||
"Turn the Page" |
Bob Seger |
91 |
|||
"" |
Metallica |
439 |
|||
"" |
Metallica |
6 |
|||
"" |
Metallica |
7 |
|||
"" |
Metallica |
17 |
|||
"Until It Sleeps" |
Metallica |
243 |
|||
"Veteran of the Psychic Wars" |
Blue Öyster Cult |
1 |
|||
"" (with Lou Reed) |
Metallica and Lou Reed |
4 |
|||
"" |
[...] Joke |
24 |
|||
"Wasting My Hate" |
Metallica |
100 |
|||
"" |
Motörhead |
1 |
|||
"Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" |
Metallica |
934 |
|||
"When a Blind Man Cries" |
Deep Purple |
3 |
|||
"Wherever I May Roam" |
Metallica |
791 |
|||
"Whiplash" |
Metallica |
888 |
|||
"Whiskey in the Jar" |
Thin Lizzy |
72 |
|||
"White Light/White Heat" |
6 |
||||
"You Really Got Me" |
1 |
See also
- List of songs recorded by Metallica
- Metallica discography
External links
- List of Metallica songs on the band's official website
- List of songs performed live on Metallica's official website