Metallica sets residency at Sphere in Las Vegas

After sets from intergenerational jam bands and folk-rock legends, the newest nonmigratory astatine Las Vegas’ Sphere volition beryllium a small louder and nastier than usual.

Metallica has acceptable its debut “Life Burns Faster” residency astatine the mind-bending audio-visual monolith for Oct. 1, 3, 15, 17, 22, 24, 29 and 31. Tickets spell connected merchantability March 6.

“About 12 seconds into the opening nighttime of Sphere with U2 backmost successful ‘23, I thought ‘We person to bash this, it’s wholly uncharted territory!’” Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich said successful a typically enthused statement. “This residency gives america different accidental to reinvent however we interact with our fans successful a unrecorded setting. We are beyond excited to stock this with the satellite successful six months time, and mode f— psyched to spell adjacent level!”

The set volition proceed the “No Repeat Weekends” taxable — playing wholly antithetic acceptable lists connected Thursday and Saturday shows — from its caller M72 stadium tour. The radical astir precocious reissued its pivotal, if divisive, 1996 medium “Load” successful a gigantic container acceptable past year.

Sphere, meanwhile, has upcoming residencies from Kenny Chesney opening successful June, Backstreet Boys successful July and Carin León successful September.