Metallica’s Kirk Hammett has mentioned the band would love the possibility 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 can 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 a terrific instance of how venues are altering. That’s utilizing fashionable expertise to the fullest, to actually up the degrees of manufacturing and leisure, related 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 stage’” and delivering “a high quality 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 mentioned he’s engaged on his first solo album.
“I suppose one of the best ways to explain it’s it’s gonna be a fusion of all types of kinds,” Hammett mentioned.
“Swiftly 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 can be vocals as a result of the songs that I wrote scream for vocals this time round.”
Hammett additionally not too long ago 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 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 reside 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 venture as “not-quite-finished”, and that it “explores the world of Metallica by way of the lives of their followers”.
