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Metallica Make History In Peru

Metal band play to 50,000 in Lima

Metallica played what was reportedly the biggest ever musical event in Peruvian history yesterday when more than 50,000 fans saw them perform in the capital.

LivingInPeru.com reports that fans had been camping out at the University of San Marcos stadium since Sunday to make sure that they got into the gig which opened the band’s South American tour.

The band are due to play shows in Panama, Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile and Brazil before they head back to Europe for a series of shows on the Sonisphere Festival tour (although not the UK leg).

Here’s the Peru setlist:

  1. Creeping Death
  2. For Whom The Bell Tolls
  3. Fuel
  4. Harvester Of Sorrow
  5. Fade To Black
  6. That Was Just Your Life
  7. The End Of The Line
  8. Sad But True
  9. Broken, Beat and Scarred
  10. Cyanide
  11. One
  12. Master Of Puppets
  13. Battery
  14. Nothing Else Matters
  15. Enter Sandman
  16. Am I Evil?
  17. Blackened

  18. Seek and Destroy

If you happen to speak Spanish then you can watch a news report about the Peru show below: