Metallica wrapped up their mammoth ‘M72’ tour in London last night (July 5), playing their second night there as part of their “no repeats” weekend. Check out the setlist and fan footage below.
The thrash metal icons took to the stage in the capital as part of the last UK and Ireland leg of their huge world tour, which kicked off back in April 2023 and celebrated the release of latest album ‘72 Seasons’.
London dates came following shows in Dublin, Glasgow, and Cardiff over the past couple of weeks, and the first of the two shows at London Stadium was played on Friday night (July 3), where James Hetfield and co. broke out hits including ‘Master Of Puppets’, ‘Seek And Destroy’ and ‘Sad But True’.
They took to the stage again last night, and broke out an entirely different set after promising that the two London dates would see “no repeats” on the setlist.
For the second gig, they kicked things off with ‘Whiplash’, followed by earlier classics including ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls’, ‘Ride The Lightning’ and ‘The Memory Remains’. As seen on night one, just two songs from ‘72 Seasons’ made it into the setlist, and this time around it was the title track and ‘Screaming Suicide’.
Other huge hits that were included in the setlist included ‘The Day That Never Comes’, ‘Wherever I May Roam’, ‘The Unforgiven’, and their cover of ‘Whiskey In The Jar’. They also rounded the night off with back-to-back renditions of ‘Blackened’, ‘Moth Into Flame’, ‘One’ and ‘Enter Sandman’.
As is tradition during their shows, bassist Rob Trujillo and guitarist Kirk Hammett broke out a unique “doodle” specifically for the concert, where they cover a couple of tracks that were written in the city that they are performing in.
After playing a medley of Ian Dury‘s ‘Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll’ and The Clash’s ‘Guns of Brixton’ on Friday, Hammett and Trujillo put their own spin on Black Sabbath’s ‘Electric Funeral’ and Sex Pistols‘ ‘Holiday In the Sun’ for the Sunday gig.
Support for Friday came from Knocked Loose and Gojira, and last night it was Avatar and Pantera who opened the show in Stratford.
Metallica… day two… London Stadium. Even better than Friday. Generational entertainment, the best father son day out, sharing the stadium with legends. No synthetic, AI generated slop here, just honest raw heavy metal for a hungry, appreciative crowd #Metallica pic.twitter.com/HjySDKWlNZ
— Jim Munro (@JimMunro) July 6, 2026
Night 2 of the Metallica No Repeat Weekender at West Ham Stadium in London. 🤘🏼 pic.twitter.com/fweLSxWJjN
— Martyn S. Clunes (@martyngnr) July 5, 2026
Metallica night 2, what a show.@Hayden_WycWan23 pic.twitter.com/1aqBQpwUT8
— J.W (@Wilburwyc) July 5, 2026
An incredible 2 nights with Metallica in London, very few do it better, rocking harder than ever. I’d say tonight was marginally the better of the 2, purely as I’d never seen do Blackened before, but I have now!! 🤘 pic.twitter.com/Zv3rQJ0flz
— IanSuffolk (@theisuffolk) July 6, 2026
Night 2 of #Metallica Absolutely brilliant pic.twitter.com/ygcskzshTE
— Mike King (@mikekingsfr) July 5, 2026
Metallica’s night two setlist was:
‘Whiplash’
‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’
‘Ride the Lightning’
‘The Memory Remains’
’72 Seasons’
‘Screaming Suicide’
Kirk and Rob Doodle (Black Sabbath’s ‘Electric Funeral’ and Sex Pistols’ ‘Holiday In the Sun’)
‘The Day That Never Comes’
‘Wherever I May Roam’
‘The Call of Ktulu’
‘The Unforgiven’
‘Whiskey in the Jar’
‘Blackened’
‘Moth Into Flame’
‘One’
‘Enter Sandman’
The second London show is the last of the 2026 UK and European dates Metallica have planned, and later this year the heavy metal legends will be heading back over the pond for a run of residency dates at the Sphere in Las Vegas. Those shows commence on October 1, and will run into 2027.
Their last new music was the ‘72 Seasons’ album which dropped in 2023, although they did recently rerelease their 1997 album ‘Reload’ (Remastered)’, with previously unreleased demos, rough mixes, live performances and more.
As well as covering Black Sabbath, Sex Pistols, The Clash and Ian Dury as part of the “Kirk and Rob Doodle” part of the show, other tracks they have covered across the tour include covered The Pogues, The Proclaimers, a-ha, and ABBA, and even Tom Jones’ ‘Delilah’ in Cardiff’ – despite the song being banned from the Principality Stadium.
Metallica have also drawn attention for Kirk Hammett wearing a “Taylor Swift Is A CIA Psyop” shirt on stage, urged fans to donate blood and plasma by becoming the first-ever metal group to collaborate with UK blood services, and also donated £20,000 to a foodbank in Cardiff.
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