Metallica’s Kirk Hammett has stated the band would love the prospect to play the Las Vegas Sphere.
The venue has already seen the likes of U2, Phish and The Eagles carry out because it opened in September 2023.
It was additionally not too long ago confirmed {that a} new Sphere venue shall be constructed in Abu Dhabi.
Talking in a brand new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, when requested if Metallica would think about performing there, Hammett stated: “Oh, heck, yeah! That’s an awesome instance of how venues are altering. That’s utilizing fashionable expertise to the fullest, to essentially up the degrees of manufacturing and leisure, linked to AI and making it a loopy expertise.”
Reviewing U2’s Vegas residency the Sphere, NME hailed the present for “taking the dwell live performance expertise ‘to the following stage’” and delivering “a effective balancing act of doing simply that whereas additionally making certain their music stays very a lot on the forefront”.
Elsewhere, Metallica’s guitarist not too long ago stated he’s engaged on his first solo album.
“I assume one of the simplest ways to explain it’s it’s gonna be a fusion of all types of types,” Hammett stated.
“Swiftly I’m writing classical progressions, and rapidly I’m writing extra heavy stuff and rapidly I’m writing like a funk factor,” he added. “There shall be vocals as a result of the songs that I wrote scream for vocals this time round.”
Hammett additionally not too long ago stated he has already written 767 new riffs for the following Metallica album, though he added that he doesn’t foresee the band engaged on it “for at the very least one other yr”.
In the meantime, the band not too long ago introduced they are going to head to Bahrain for his or her first dwell efficiency within the nation. It will likely be held on December 3 on the Beyon Al Dana Amphitheatre.
Earlier this month, the band additionally launched the primary trailer for his or her new documentary Metallica Saved My Life.
The forthcoming movie is ready to be screened in cities on the North American leg of the band’s ‘M72’ world tour. An official synopsis describes the mission as “not-quite-finished”, and that it “explores the world of Metallica by the lives of their followers”.
