Metallica’s WorldWired Tour 2019!

Metallica
January 18, 2019
BOK Center
Tulsa, OK

Metallica’s WorldWired Tour Delivers High Energy Show And A Record Attendance!

Review by Vernon L. Gowdy III
Photos by Vernon L. Gowdy III

American stand-up comedian Jim Breuer opened the show with a set of heavy metal jokes and crowd interaction – singling out the youngest and the oldest Metallica members in the audience.

Metallica played to a record attending crowd of 19,228 fans of all ages, playing for well over two hours through an 18 song setlist. Metallica opened with two of the newer songs, “Hardwired” and “Atlas, Rise!,” from their latest album, Hardwired…to Self-Destruct.

Metallica’s stage design consisted of a square mainstage equipped with several prop lifts located in the center of the arena and overhead 52 LED video cubes would ascend and descend while displaying vivid, colorful and flashing images. And of course no Metallica show would be complete without the use of pyrotechnics, which were skillfully used in the later part of the show. Read more »

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