Metallica managed to achieve a long-held dream of their 30-plus-year career this week, they can now say that they’ve played a concert in all seven continents of the world.
The metal masters became the second band ever to perform in Antarctica, thanks to a competition hosted by Coke Zero, performing at the Carlini Station, an Argentine based located among the frozen tundras.
Hosted inside a sci-fi looking, solar-powered dome on a heliport, the set – dubbed ‘Freeze ‘Em All’ was performed to an audience of contest winners – shipped in by a cruise liner from Tierra del Fuego – and research station scientists from Russia, South Korea, China, Poland, Chile, Brazil and Germany.
Metallica – who rebranded themselves as Antarctica for the unique concert – performed without amplification, their live playing instead transmitted to headphones worn by the smitten audience.
James Hetfield and co. performed a 10-song set that was a veritable greatest hits, including ‘Enter Sandman’, ‘Nothing Else Matters’, ‘Creeping Death’, and ‘Sad But True’ (but glaringly, omitted ‘‘Trapped Under Ice’ or even a pun-tastic take on ‘No Just Ice For All’).
“It’s crazy, because I don’t deal with cold very well,” guitarist Kirk Hammett told San Francisco radio station, 107.7 The Bone FM, ahead of the sub-zero gig last month (as Blabbermouth points out).
“But it should be pretty cool, because we’ve played the North Pole before — we’ve played Tuktoyaktuk [in 1995]— so we have to play the South Pole… it should be an interesting experience.”
Though the Freeze ‘Em All concert didn’t quit reach Spinal Tap proportions (we couldn’t hep but recall the Arctic Circle coffee performance from Dethklok of cartoon metal parody show Metalocalypse), it still remains “the most unique show Metallica has ever done,” according to the band, posting on the Metallica Facebook page.
“The energy in the little dome was amazing! Words can not describe how happy everyone was… No word on if there were any penguins were attendance.”
Check out the setlist, photos, video, and those adorable fuzzy hats, below.
Antaractica – Freeze ‘Em All Setlist
Creeping Death
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Sad But True
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Master of Puppets
One
Blackened
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman
Seek & Destroy
(Images: Metallica. Source: Facebook)
