Watch Metallica Perform “Frantic” for the First Time in Eight Years

Metallica kicked off the newest leg of their ongoing WorldWired tour in Lisbon, Portugal on May 1. The opening night setlist for the newest trek saw the band add several less-played songs to the lineup, including the St. Anger opening track “Frantic,” which was last performed eight years ago at the Fillmore in San Francisco.

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Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.

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