Metallica gave its first live performance in Mexico City in seven years on Friday (Sept. 20), and the band’s bassist, Robert Trujillo, took the chance to pay tribute to his Mexican roots by performing a peculiar tune: “La Chona,” by well-known corrido group Los Tucanes de Tijuana.

“This is a great party,” Trujillo mentioned in Spanish to the 65,000 individuals who packed the GNP Seguros Stadium, in keeping with figures from promoter Ocesa. “It is an honor to be here with all of you, with the spirit of 72 Seasons. Kirk [Hammett] and I are going to play something for all of you. We are very nervous, so if you know this song, please help us by singing it.”

Immediately, they began enjoying the primary chords of the basic by Los Tucanes de Tijuana, included of their 1995 album, Me Robaste El Corazón, which has transcended a number of generations in Mexico and the U.S.

The lengthy hair of Metallica’s followers swung to the northern rhythm, whereas Trujillo and Hammett, Metallica’s guitarist, swayed to the shock and applause of a lot of the viewers. The bassist, who on a number of events in the course of the evening wore a conventional mariachi hat, took cost of the vocals.

The second was rapidly trending on social media, the place customers celebrated the rock band’s gesture to its Mexican followers. “La Chona is national heritage and Metallica knows it,” wrote person @virian_avaa on her X account. “The most surreal thing, Metallica playing La Chona,” added person @Amackdiel. Both posted movies of the second.

Metallica is giving 4 performances in Mexico City as a part of its M72 World Tour, in assist of their 2023 album 72 Seasons. The subsequent exhibits at the GNP Seguros Stadium are scheduled for Sunday (Sept. 22), and Sept. 27 and 29.

Metallica’s historical past with Mexico started three many years in the past with the tour of their Black Album (1991), which included 5 dates at the Palacio de los Deportes in 1993. Since then, the band has maintained a really shut relationship with the nation, the place they recorded their dwell DVD Orgullo, Pasión y Gloria (2009), which portrays three spectacular nights at the Foro Sol (as we speak GNP Seguros Stadium) in June 2009.

Metallica’s manufacturing staff filmed your complete present on Friday and, in keeping with the Mexican newspaper Reforma, subsequent week it should make particular photographs at vacationer spots resembling Teotihuacán, the Historic Center, Chapultepec, Coyoacán, and San Ángel.

Watch Trujillo and Hammett play “La Chona” beneath.