Watch 13-year-old fan play drums with Metallica in Amsterdam

The heavy metal giants were just about the tear into the final track before their encore, ‘Seek & Destroy’, when they invited the young boy called Evan Adamson to join them on stage.

In footage you can watch below, Lars Ulrich vacates his stool and Adamson plays the intro to ‘Seek & Destroy’ with remarkable proficiency.

James Hetfield joked to the capacity Johan Cruyff Arena crowd “Oh god, Lars shrunk. They put Lars in the wash. Told them not to put him in the dryer”, as Ulrich whispered some words of encouragement to Adamson.

Watch the special moment right here:

> Happy 13th Birthday, Evan! 🎉 #MetInAmsterdam pic.twitter.com/P22PwkMlF9 > > — Metallica (@Metallica) June 12, 2019

Adamson later took to Instagram to write: "Well well well no words I mean to play drums in front of 68,000 people with my hero’s my favourite band of all time was just the best thing ever and to top it all off it was my bday."

> > > View this post on Instagram > > Well well well no words I mean to play drums in front of 68,000 people with my hero’s my favourite band of all time was just the best thing ever and to top it all off it was my bday !! 💙🔥🤘🏻🙌🏻🔥🤘🏻 @metallica @larsulrich @papahet @kirkhammett @robtrujillo > > A post shared by Evan Adamson (@evanadaz) on Jun 12, 2019 at 10:41am PDT

Metallica's WorldWired tour continues in Cologne tonight (13th June) hits London Twickenham Stadium and Manchester Etihad Stadium next week. The last tickets are on sale from Planet Rock Tickets now.

Last Saturday in Dublin they dedicated ‘Whiskey in the Jar’ to James Hetfield’s musical hero, the late-great Phil Lynott.

Papa Het also shared a photo of himself on Instagram kissing Lynott’s statue on Dublin’s Harry Street. He wrote: "Much respect and love to my favourite songwriter, Mr. Phil Lynott"

> > > View this post on Instagram > > Much respect and love to my favorite songwriter, Mr. Phil Lynott > > A post shared by Papa Het 👊💀👊 (@papahet) on Jun 10, 2019 at 6:26am PDT