Metallica’s Kirk Hammett has mentioned 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 lately 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 take into account performing there, Hammett mentioned: “Oh, heck, yeah! That’s an excellent instance of how venues are altering. That’s utilizing trendy 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 reside live performance expertise ‘to the subsequent degree’” and delivering “a tremendous balancing act of doing simply that whereas additionally guaranteeing their music stays very a lot on the forefront”.
Elsewhere, Metallica’s guitarist lately mentioned he’s engaged on his first solo album.
“I assume the easiest way to explain it’s it’s gonna be a fusion of all kinds of kinds,” Hammett mentioned.
“Impulsively I’m writing classical progressions, and swiftly I’m writing extra heavy stuff and swiftly 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 lately mentioned he has already written 767 new riffs for the subsequent Metallica album, though he added that he doesn’t foresee the band engaged on it “for at the least one other 12 months”.
In the meantime, the band lately introduced they may head to Bahrain for his or her first reside efficiency within the nation. It is going to 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 venture as “not-quite-finished”, and that it “explores the world of Metallica by means of the lives of their followers”.
