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pics of Metallica @ Yankee Stadium (The biggest of the Four)

photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin

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The concert, or the tour, or the notion, is called the Big Four, and it needs an asterisk. Long ago one of the four became much bigger than the rest.

In alphabetical order, Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica and Slayer — who all played at Yankee Stadium in a thorough and memorable seven-hour concert on Wednesday night — were the most popular bands of mid-1980s thrash-metal. (Some would prefer a Big Five, and include Testament or Exodus.) Thrash was a powerful mutt: it ran at hardcore-punk speeds and wedged hyper-articulate firebomb guitar solos into small spaces…

[Metallica’s] set list was almost identical to what the band played in Indio. It started with the old (“Creeping Death”), moving to the new (“All Nightmare Long”) and a we’ve-earned-it instrumental section (“Orion”), then the hits and landmarks (“One,” “Master of Puppets”) and back to the old again (“Seek and Destroy”). And it was a proper retrospective, with songs fast and slow and medium, compassionate and merciless.

The last set also included a song involving members of all four bands. Cleverly it was a version of Motorhead’s “Overkill,” a song that keeps stopping and starting up again. Each time it reanimated, a different drummer took over: Lars Ulrich of Metallica, Dave Lombardo of Slayer, Charlie Benante of Anthrax; the guitarists traded off too.
[New York Times]

We previously posted video of Metallica‘s epic rendition of Motorhead’s “Overkill” with members of Anthrax, Megadeth, Exodus and Slayer, and pics of the Rocks Off Cruise to the stadium, and of all the openers. Here are pictures of Metallica including some shots of the collaboration at the end the set. They continue below…

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