13 Greatest Ever Metallica Live Performances

12. Tushino Airfield, Moscow Russia, 1991

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyfiEq4urpY#t=4483 For sheer size and scale, this Monsters Of Rock appearance by Metallica, on the same stunning bill as AC/DC, Pantera, and The Black Crowes deserves mention as one of the most important live gigs of all time. Staged at Moscow€™s Tushino Airfield, the grand stage allowed the band to put on a blistering, utterly memorably show, opening with €œEnter Sandman€ and crashing right through to €œBattery€ for a braying, politically charged crowd. The footnote of the concert, which came only days after a failed military coup, will forever be the heavy-handed €œsecurity€ of the soldiers brought in as support, and of more than 50 deaths, but it deserves to be remembered for a phenomenal Metallica showing.
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