Metallica - AT&T Park, San Francisco, California (2016)

For most bands, playing the entirety of "The Boys Are Back in Town" by Thin Lizzy as your intro music would be something akin to overkill. Of course, Metallica is not most bands. The sheer euphoria that erupts across AT&T Park when James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Robert Trujillo, and Kirk Hammett do take the stage is deafening. These are performers who live for their fans, a point Hammett reiterates to me when I speak to him ahead of the show. "I don't see our fans as being average at all," he says. "Our fans stand up for the creed that Metallica is all about, and that's highly un-average."