Last Saturday night, at Orion Music + More festival in Atlantic City, METALLICA headlined the first day of the event by performing their classic sophomore album, Ride The Lightning, in its entirety for the first time ever.

While METALLICA had been on tour across Europe playing their self-titled Black Album in reverse tracklist order, the band’s first gig on American territory this year included the (arguably better) Ride The Lightning, also in reverse order.

For those unaware, this meant that the group performed the live debut of album track Escape, preceded by a bit of joking on how they dislike the song.

Watch the full performance below (Ride The Lightning starts around the 38:00-mark):


 

The setlist is as follows:

01. Hit the Lights
02. Master of Puppets
03. The Four Horsemen
04. Sad But True
05. Hell and Back
06. The Call of Ktulu
07. Creeping Death
08. Escape
09. Trapped Under Ice
10. Fade to Black
11. For Whom the Bell Tolls
12. Ride the Lightning
13. Fight Fire with Fire
14. Nothing Else Matters
15. Enter Sandman

Encore

16. Battery
17. One
18. Seek & Destroy