Metallica dug deep into their catalogue for night two of their Las Vegas Sphere residency, bringing back “Devil’s Dance” for the first time since 2008.
Metallica have resurrected “Devil’s Dance” after 18 years, pulling the Reload deep cut out during the second night of their Life Burns Faster residency at Sphere in Las Vegas.
The metal giants returned to the venue on Saturday, October 3 with no songs repeated from their opening show two nights earlier, making good on the No Repeat Weekend format that has become a fixture of their M72 era.
Four songs into the night, Metallica launched into “Devil’s Dance”, marking the track’s first live performance since June 7, 2008.
Originally released on the band’s 1997 album Reload, “Devil’s Dance” has remained one of the deeper cuts in Metallica’s catalogue and a rarity in their live sets.
It wasn’t the only song dusted off for night two. Metallica also performed “The Outlaw Torn” for the first time since September 2019, while the 16-song set stretched from “Blackened” and “Leper Messiah” through to “One” and closing track “Enter Sandman”.
The show followed the October 1 opening night of Metallica’s Life Burns Faster residency, which brings the band’s No Repeat Weekend concept to Sphere’s immersive production setup.
Under the format, fans attending both shows in a Thursday-Saturday pairing hear completely different setlists across the two nights. BLUNT previously reported on Metallica’s plans for the residency when the band announced the Las Vegas run earlier this year.
The October 3 setlist was:
- “Blackened”
- “Fuel”
- “Leper Messiah”
- “Devil’s Dance”
- “72 Seasons”
- “King Nothing”
- “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)”
- “The Outlaw Torn”
- Kirk and Rob Doodle
- “The Unforgiven”
- “Orion”
- “Hardwired”
- “Whiskey in the Jar”
- “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
- “One”
- “Enter Sandman”
Metallica return to Sphere on October 8 and 10, with the 24-show Life Burns Faster residency residency continuing through March 13, 2027.
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