Metallica confirm Sphere residency rumors with Life Burns Faster concerts

Metallica finally confirmed the long-gestating rumor they will, in fact, storm the Sphere in Las Vegas.

Their residency, dubbed Life Burns Faster, will play an initial 14 dates: Oct. 1 and 3, 8 and 10, 15 and 17, 22 and 24 and 29 and 31; Nov. 5 and 7; and Jan. 28 and 30. With their arrival, Metallica becomes the first hard rock band to play the technologically superior venue.

The band will also continue its No Repeat Weekend tradition that began with the kickoff of their M72 World Tour, with no songs repeated on each Thursday and Saturday throughout the course of the run.

Ticket registration is open now at metallica.lnk.to/MetallicaSphere. Tickets for two-night No Repeat Weekends as well as single-night tickets will go on sale at 1 p.m. ET March 6.

The band – James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo – plans to include their live staples as well as surprises from their catalog throughout the residency.

Metallica has been on the road consistently since 2023 with their M72 World Tour, which carried its own impressive staging. But the quartet has hinted at a Sphere residency for months in interviews and, says Ulrich in a release accompanying the announcement, their plans have been brewing for years.  

“About 12 seconds into the opening night of Sphere with U2 back in ‘23, I thought ‘We have to do this, it’s completely uncharted territory!’ This residency gives us another chance to reinvent how we interact with our fans in a live setting. We are beyond excited to share this with the world in six months time, and way (expletive) psyched to go next level!”