WHAT SONGS WILL METALLICA AND MAIDEN PLAY?
With Metallica taking Europe, and Maiden smashing the US, we asked two of their celebrity fans to choose their ideal setlists
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INTRO: Doctor Doctor
1. CAUGHT SOMEWHERE IN TIME
“One of my all-time favourite opening tracks. It’d be amazing to have it kick off the show again.”
2. INVADERS
“I’m not sure if they have ever played this live or ever will, but in my setlist it showcases the Air Raid Siren right out of the box.”
3. INFINITE DREAMS “It’s my favourite song from my second fave album. The middle section is classic Maiden and perfect for the live setting.”
4. DIE WITH YOUR BOOTS ON “It’s such an underrated Smith/ Dickinson classic. It cooks live.”
BLACKOUT – INTRO
5. SIGN OF THE CROSS
“The first of the ‘prog’ Maiden intros will give the crowd a breather before exploding into this amazing epic.”
6. KILLERS
“After a 10-minute ‘new song’ I think the crowd would go nuts for this intro and subsequent rocker.”
7. THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST “It might be cool to shy away from the ‘hits’, but Maiden have too many to ignore. This is the best.”
8. THESE COLOURS DON’T RUN “A super-underrated live song. It’s perfect for my set!”
9. PROWLER
“After another new one, we bust out Maiden’s first ever song and a total blast from the metal past.”
10. THE BOOK OF SOULS
“My fave song from their newest record, and one of their heaviest!” 11. POWERSLAVE
“This might be my favourite Maiden song of all time and it still crushes live. Plus, the Egyptian theme of the backdrop and lights adds an expected Maiden historical element to the set.”
12. FEAR OF THE DARK
“One of the best crowd singalongs ever, it will always be in my set.”
13. FATES WARNING “This obscure rocker from No Prayer For The Dying makes the cut because it’s my set and I love it! Plus, diehards would go nuts for it and it’s fast enough and short enough that casual fans won’t be bothered by it.” 14. THE TROOPER
“The best-written Maiden song, complete with Trooper Eddie.”
ENCORE
15. ACES HIGH
“The perfect start to the encore: Maiden’s best ‘thrash’ song.”
16. BRAVE NEW WORLD
“Another amazing singalong; the perfect penultimate concert tune.”
17. HALLOWED BE THY NAME “Maiden’s best live song of all time, hands down!”
OUTRO: Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
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INTRO: The Ecstasy Of Gold 1. BATTERY
“It is such a great opener. They’d play it as they did on the Master Of Puppets tour; the intro is recorded and they arrive and launch into that riff.” 2. CREEPING DEATH
“They used to open with this a lot, and I’m sticking it in the set early. They’ve not played it as much recently, so I’m bringing it back.”
3. OF WOLF AND MAN
“I’m not sure they play this very often. But I love it, especially that howling midsection. That’s a great crowd-participation part.”
4. WELCOME HOME (SANITARIUM)
“They’ve put this early in the set for years. It works brilliantly after Of Wolf And Man as a cleanser, as we’re about to go into a Ride The Lightning extravaganza…”
5. FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE
“This is a very special part of the set. Playing side-A of Ride The Lightning in full. Culminating in Fade To Black, which brings the pace down a little, but it’s a really important song in Metallica’s career. It showed even that early, they were willing to go to places that their peers were not.”
6. RIDE THE LIGHTNING
7. FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS 8. FADE TO BLACK
9. BLACKENED
“I’m not the biggest fan of …And Justice For All, but I wanted to have this in there. And this would just lift the place up again.”
10. UNTIL IT SLEEPS
“I really didn’t like the more rock’n’roll and blues-based material that Metallica went on to do, so I’ve kept quite far away from that period. But even
I have to admit that this is a brilliant song, even though it’s from an album that I am really not a fan of.”
11. ONE
“I’ve created a very specific setlist that leans heavily on the period of Metallica I have most fondness for, namely the first five albums.”
12. MASTER OF PUPPETS
“This would end the first part of the set on a high. We’re going out with two true heavy metal classics here.”
ENCORE
13. AM I EVIL?
“At this point, Am I Evil? is basically a Metallica song. It’s also very important to show Diamond Head’s influence on Metallica.”
14. LAST CARESS
“This has been a very dark and doomy Metallica set, so I wanted to have a brighter and more fun song, which this is… obviously despite the lyrical content!”
15. ENTER SANDMAN
“The all-time greatest banger you can have. You can say whatever you like, but you can’t argue with this song.”