A couple of months back, we reported that Metallica was going to play Antarctica. Well, it officially happened, and they can now say they have played on all every continent. The band played to lucky fans that won a contest through Coca-Cola Zero, and without amps. As Gear Gods explains, since the band was using solar power, they would not be able to power all of the amps that they typically use, and it would have, more than likely, blown up the dome they were playing in.
This was the most unique show Metallica has ever done. The band, contest winners, research station scientists (from Russia, South Korea, China, Poland, Chile, Brazil and Germany), and the ship crew, all crammed in this little dome out on the helipad of Carlini Station in ANTARCTICA! The energy in the little dome was amazing! Words can not describe how happy everyone was.
The band cranked out 10 songs for the small crowd including Creeping Death, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Sad But True, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), Master of Puppets, One, Blackened, Nothing Else Matters, Enter Sandman, and Seek & Destroy.
No word on if there were any penguins were attendance. #FreezeEmAll
You can check out some pictures below, but here is the full video of the show, which starts around the 33-minute mark, after an introduction:
Check out more pictures, via Metallica’s Facebook page.
[via MetalInjection.com]