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Watch Metallica pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne at their smallest concert in over a decade

By Poppy Burton Aug 30, 2025 | 5:30 AM

Metallica recently paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne at their most intimate concert in over a decade – check out footage below.

On Thursday (August 28), the band played their smallest gig since 2013’s ‘Freeze Em All’ concert in Antarctica, performing in front of 500 fans at an invite-only gig in New York.

The 14-song set took place in a tent outside the Stephen Talkhouse venue in Amagansett, marking the launch of the SiriusXM channel Maximum Metallica, with a host of big names – including Howard Stern, Sylvester Stallone and Sir Paul McCartney – in attendance.

Their set leaned heavily on 1991’s ‘The Black Album’, with the band performing ‘Sad But True’, ‘Wherever I May Roam’, ‘Nothing Else Matters’ and ‘The Unforgiven’. During their time-honoured “doodle” segment, guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo paid homage to Ozzy with a rendition of ‘Crazy Train’, drawing huge cheers from the small crowd.

Metallica played:

‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’
Wherever I May Roam’
‘Crazy Train’ (Ozzy Osbourne tribute during Kirk and Rob’s “Doodle” segment)
‘Fuel’
‘Fade to Black’
‘Sad but True’
‘The Unforgiven’
‘Whiskey in the Jar’
‘Nothing Else Matters’
‘Seek & Destroy’
‘One’
‘Master of Puppets’
‘Enter Sandman’

Heavy metal pioneer Ozzy died last month at age 76, which came shortly after he took to the stage for his final-ever live show at Black Sabbath’s huge ‘Back To The Beginning’ event in Birmingham on July 5, where Metallica played just before Ozzy performed.

Drummer Lars Ulrich recently sat down with Stern ahead of Maximum Metallica‘s launch, and touched on the “generational element of respect and love” he and his bandmates had for their metal predecessors, saying they defined the era “that helped shape, and ultimately dictate, what we became.”

The band will return to this side of the pond once again next year for a string of stadium shows in the UK and Europe – including dates in Dublin, Glasgow, Cardiff and London. Opening sets will come from Gojira, Pantera, Knocked Loose and Avatar. You can check out the full list of dates here and find any remaining tickets here.

There is also speculation the metal icons are set to get a residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas, with Ulrich fanning the flames sharing that they were in talks about heading to the venue in 2026.

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