On Sept. 26, 1986, Metallica unknowingly performed their ultimate live performance with Cliff Burton, which featured a 17-song set with two encores.

Tragically, the 24-year-old bass participant died the very subsequent day in a bus accident in Sweden throughout Metallica’s Damage Inc. tour. The run was in help of Master of Puppets, the thrash pioneer’s third album and first on main label Elektra.

Earlier that 12 months, Metallica had supported Ozzy Osbourne, who had simply launched The Ultimate Sin, all through North America. Later that summer season, James Hetfield broke his wrist mid-tour, resulting in guitar tech Jim Marshall filling in for him till this Sept. 26 gig in Stockholm.

Papa Het’s first present again on guitar since sustaining the harm occurred to be Burton’s final, making for a novel footnote in Metallica’s historical past.

The band opened with “Battery,” an intense kickoff as Metallica positioned themselves for world domination. Their first encore featured 4 songs and that apparently wasn’t sufficient for the followers in Stockholm because the thrash icons got here again out and performed one other two songs, ending with “Fight Fire With Fire.”

See the complete setlist and hearken to audio from your entire present additional down the web page.

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Scott Ian Recalls News of Cliff Burton’s Death

Joining Metallica on the European run of the Damage Inc. Tour have been Anthrax, who departed the Stockholm present early. The band had elected to get on the highway to their subsequent locations, Lars Ulrich’s hometown of Copenhagen in Denmark, as a consequence of icy circumstances.

Those similar icy circumstances are what led to Metallica’s tour bus accident and Burton’s subsequent loss of life.

After the surviving members of Metallica met up with Anthrax when lastly reaching Copenhagen, Scott Ian describes the following occasions in, I’m the Man, his autobiography co-authored with Jon Wiederhorn.

Ian describes Hetfield and Kirk Hammett as being closely inebriated. Kirk was “stable,” he recollects, including that Hetfield was given sedatives on the hospital “because he was freaking out.” The frontman, nevertheless, continued to drink closely via the night time, grappling with the sudden loss.

“James suddenly started crying and screaming, ‘Cliff!!! Cliff!!’ Then he became destructive,” Ian provides, “He kicked over lamps and threw bottles of booze. Frankie and Charlie looked at each other and without saying a word, mutually decided to get James outside before the hotel had him arrested.”

Ian additional particulars, “I stayed inside with Kirk. We could hear James down the street screaming Cliff’s name over and over. I was completely heartsick.”

Metallica Live in Stockholm, Sweden — Sept. 26, 1986 (audio solely)

Metallica Setlist — Sept. 26, 1986 (Last Show With Cliff Burton)

01. “Battery”
02. “Master of Puppets”
03. “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
04. “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)”
05. “Ride the Lightning”
06. “(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth” (preceded by The Star-Spangled Banner jam)
07. “Whiplash”
08. “The Thing That Should Not Be”
09. “Fade to Black”
10. “Seek & Destroy”
11. “Creeping Death”

Encore:
12. “The Four Horsemen”
13. Guitar Solo
14. “Am I Evil?” (Diamond Head cowl) (half)
15. “Damage, Inc.”

Encore 2:
16. “Blitzkrieg” (Blitzkrieg cowl)
17. “Fight Fire With Fire”

through setlist.fm