{"id":160925,"date":"2022-12-18T00:36:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T00:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/metallica-returns-to-stage-after-losing-lawsuit-triumphs-at-helping-hands-benefit-show\/"},"modified":"2022-12-18T00:36:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T00:36:11","slug":"metallica-returns-to-stage-after-losing-lawsuit-triumphs-at-helping-hands-benefit-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/metallica-returns-to-stage-after-losing-lawsuit-triumphs-at-helping-hands-benefit-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Metallica returns to stage after losing lawsuit, triumphs at Helping Hands benefit show"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(LR) Robert Trujillo, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Kirk Hammett of Metallica perform onstage as Metallica Presents: The Helping Hands Concert on Dec. 16, 2022. (Photo: Jeff Kravitz\/Getty Images for P+ and MTV)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

Metallica just lost their long-running legal battle against Lloyd’s of London, with a California judge absolving the insurance market company of any financial losses stemming from the band’s forced postponement of six 2020 South American shows due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But just one day after this disappointing ruling was announced, Metallica were in good spirits, back onstage and giving back, at Los Angeles’s intimate Microsoft Theater, for their third Helping Hands Concert & Auction fundraising event.<\/p>\n

Frontman James Hetfield expressed his joy over being able to play again for Metallica’s diehard fans, saying, \u201cWe’ve been together forever, for 200 years. We’re so grateful to be doing what we’re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hetfield and company even treated Friday’s audience to the live debut of a thrashy new track from Metallica’s COVID-delayed 72 Seasons<\/em> album, which is finally coming out in April 2023. \u201cWe thought that this is such a special gig here, that we’d play ‘Lux \u00c6terna,’ which is the first single from [72 Seasons<\/em>]. We’ll play that for the first time here live. How about that?\u201d Hetfield rhetorically asked. A cymbal snafu caused the band to stop and restart the song, but the 7,100 elated concertgoers in attendance \u2014 among them Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello and Guns N’ Roses drummer Matt My question \u2014 hardly seemed to mind or even notice.<\/p>\n

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