Metallica have concluded their 2024 live schedule, capping it all off with their regular Helping Hands concert in California.
As a musical component of the heavy metal band All Within My Hands Foundation, the “Helping Hands” concert series has been held every two years since 2018. Fans and Friends Participate,” previous events have been hugely successful, with events in 2018 and 2020 raising more than $1.3 million, and 2022 raising more than $3 million in donations.
The latest Helping Hands concert took place on Friday (December 13) at the 6,000-seat YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. The event also featured some special guests, including Sammy Hagar and special guests Michael Anthony, Joe Satriani and Kenny Aronoff, as well as classically trained siblings SistaStrings.
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As per tradition, the event featured some deep cuts from the band’s back catalogue, and this latest performance was no exception. San Francisco singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Avi Vincouur and pianist Henry Salvia were also on hand to assist, opening the show with a five-song acoustic set.
The band kicked off their acoustic set with “Low Man’s Lyric”, which has not been played live since September 1998, before performing Diamond Head’s “Helpless” for the first time since 2018 and their first ever Performing “Away From Home” by Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Welcoming SistaStrings to the stage, the acoustic portion of the event concluded with a 2023 version of “If Darkness Had a Son” and the timeless “Nothing Else Matters.”
This career-long electronic album is slightly more traditional, featuring tracks from the band’s wider catalog. In addition to last year’s “Screaming Suicide”, Metallica also experimented with tracks such as the famous 1980s albums “Kill ‘Em All”, “Master of Puppets” and 1989’s “…And Justice for All”. While reintroducing “The Unforgiven II” to live performances for the first time since 2015, the band also invited Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament on stage to perform “Hit the Lights.”
Metallica’s Helping Hands concert will also be uploaded to YouTube for streaming on Thursday (December 19), with full details on how much money the event raised usually shared in the New Year.
