5 Least Played Metallica Songs During Their Sphere Residency

Even with a extremely deliberate visible manufacturing, Metallica have nonetheless discovered methods to maintain followers guessing throughout their residency at Sphere in Las Vegas with some uncommon tune performances.

The band has inserted one-off songs into their ordinary setlists through the 2026 portion of their residency, which wrapped up on Nov. 7. The 2027 half of the residency begins Jan. 27.

Metallica’s Least Performed Songs at Sphere (So Far)

Many of the 2026 exhibits through the Life Burns Quicker residency noticed Metallica pull from as many as 9 albums every evening.

Here’s a have a look at which songs they performed the least through the Sphere exhibits.

‘Fade to Black’

Occasions performed throughout residency: one

Final time performed earlier than residency: July 3, 2026 (London, England)

‘Harvester of Sorrow’

Occasions performed throughout residency: one

Final time performed earlier than residency: July 3, 2026 (London, England)

‘Of Wolf and Man’

Occasions performed throughout residency: one

Final time performed earlier than residency: July 3, 2026 (London, England)

‘Till it Sleeps’

Occasions performed throughout residency: one

Final time performed earlier than residency: June 21, 2026 (Dublin, Eire)

‘King Nothing’

Occasions performed throughout residency: three

Final time performed earlier than residency: June 25, 2026 (Glasgow, Scotland)

Metallica’s Most Performed Songs at Sphere (So Far)

The record of Metallica’s most performed songs throughout Life Burns Quicker at Sphere is for much longer, doubtless because of the nature of the residency.

Every week of the residency consists of two exhibits with a promise of “no repeats” throughout both evening. An identical tactic was used throughout Metallica’s M72 World Tour after they had two dates in a single metropolis in the identical weekend.

In fact, you additionally must have the visuals able to roll effectively earlier than the band steps onstage and we are able to assume they did not create these for each tune in Metallica’s catalog.

Essentially the most Metallica have performed any tune through the residency is six occasions, or as soon as every weekend of the run. That features the next songs.

• “72 Seasons”
• “…And Justice for All”
• “Battery”
• “Blackened”
• “The Name of Ktulu”
• “Creeping Demise”
• “Satan’s Dance”
• “Enter Sandman”
• “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
• “Gas”
• “Hardwired”
• “Leper Messiah”
• “Lux Æterna”
• “Grasp of Puppets”
• “The Reminiscence Stays”
• “Nothing Else Issues”
• “Now That We’re Lifeless”
• “One”
• “Orion”
• “The Outlaw Torn”
• “Experience the Lightning”
• “Unhappy however True”
• “Search & Destroy “
• “The Shortest Straw”
• “The Unforgiven”
• “Welcome House (Sanitarium)”
• “Wherever I Could Roam”
• “Whiskey within the Jar”

In all, Metallica performed a complete of 34 totally different songs throughout their 12 exhibits at Sphere in 2026. And whereas most of the hits have been anticipated, there have been a couple of songs that popped up that followers hadn’t heard dwell since a minimum of the early 2000s.

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Metallica final performed “Satan’s Dance” from 1997’s Reload album throughout Rock am Ring in Germany in 2008. It made six setlist appearances through the residency exhibits regardless of solely being performed a complete of 43 occasions coming into 2026.

In keeping with the band’s present archives, “…And Justice For All” was one other monitor that made a long-awaited return to their dwell exhibits, having final been performed in 2014.

Wish to dive even deeper into the numbers behind Metallica’s setlists? Preserve studying for a have a look at their least and most performed songs from each album.