The 19 Songs Metallica Have Never Played Live

These are the 19 songs Metallica have never played live.

The thrash legends played their very first show on March 14 in 1982. Since then, they’ve released 11 studio albums (13 if you count Garage Inc. and Lulu), and performed in all seven continents. That’s a lot of material, and a lot of concerts.

Given Metallica have been playing shows for over four decades now, we were curious as to which songs they’ve never performed live before, so we went to Setlist.fm and plugged in all of their tracks to see which didn’t show up on the list.

In the early stages of a band’s career, they usually only have a handful of tracks to choose from, so it makes sense that all of the songs from Kill ‘Em All and Ride the Lightning have been played. But they’ve actually played a lot of their songs from most of their albums.

“I would love to have played every song besides playing it in the studio. Yeah, I hope there’s a point and a place for every song before we’re done,” James Hetfield said during a June 2024 episode of The Metallica Report podcast.

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For the sake of this list, we didn’t count songs from Garage Inc. or Lulu because we wanted it to consist solely of Metallica’s own material. Instrumentals weren’t counted either, though they have played a lot of their instrumental tracks live before.

See the 19 songs Metallica have never played live according to Setlist.fm below.