Metallica – Live at Woodstock ’99, Rome (New York), 1999

Metallica – Live at Woodstock ’99 captures the band headlining the festival’s second night on July 24, 1999, at the former Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, New York. In 1999 Metallica sat at a turning point: after the covers compilation Garage Inc. (1998) and before the symphonic live album S&M (1999), the quartet toured as part of the Garage Remains the Same Tour, with the classic Hetfield-Ulrich-Hammett-Newsted line-up. Woodstock ’99, meant to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the 1969 festival, is remembered less for its music than for its heat, pricing, and the disorder of its final night, a far cry from the original’s peace-and-love image. Running close to two hours, the set works through the core catalogue: “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” “Master of Puppets,” “One,” “Sad but True” and “Enter Sandman,” through encores such as “Creeping Death” and “Battery.” Filmed before a massive crowd, this full concert is a precise record of Metallica’s set list and sound at the close of the 1990s. Keywords: Metallica, Woodstock 1999, live, full concert, filmed live concert, metal.