METALLICA: Pro-Shot Footage Of 'Fade To Black' Performance From Toronto Concert

Professionally filmed video footage of METALLICA performing the song “Fade To Black” during their special intimate club show on November 29 at the Opera House in Toronto, Ontario, Canada can be seen below. Also available is a Banger TV report on the concert.

The band, which just released its tenth studio album, “Hardwired… To Self-Destruct”, donated the proceeds of the show at the 950-person venue to the Daily Bread Food Bank. The quartet also asked its fans to bring non-perishable food items, which were dropped off at the door.

Tickets, which were $25 for members of the band’s fan club and $100 for the general public, sold out in minutes.

Benita Aalto, a spokesperson for Daily Bread, told CBC Toronto that the charity had no advance notice of METALLICA‘s plans but was thrilled when the news broke.

“This was a delightful surprise,” she said.

According to TheStar.com, the Toronto concert saw METALLICA frontman James Hetfield playing the opening arpeggios to “Fade To Black” again “when the rattle of machine-gun fire on the PA signalled to everyone else in the room that ‘One’ was about to happen, a flub he good-naturedly acknowledged by reprising the intro yet again when the band returned to the stage for its encore.”

“That song’s so good, I just wanted to play it twice, you know?” he quipped.

“Hardwired… To Self-Destruct” debuted as expected at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 album chart on November 27, selling 291,000 copies in its first week of release. Both of the band’s previous outings, 2008’s “Death Magnetic” and 2003’s “St. Anger”, sold more copies in shortened sales weeks. “Death Magnetic” moved 490,000 copies in a three-day window, while “St. Anger” shifted 418,000 copies in a similar frame.

Fonte: Blabbermouth.net