Overview
- Guitarist Kirk Hammett slipped on a stage cover and fell into the crowd while performing “Seek & Destroy” during Metallica’s Dublin concert, which occurred Friday.
- Fan videos from multiple angles circulated within hours and showed the cover giving way beneath his foot as he neared the stage edge.
- Hammett was helped back onstage, missed only a few notes, finished the song and later posted the footage to his Instagram Story with the caption “Slip & Destroy.”
- The incident did not produce any reported injuries and did not cancel the second Aviva Stadium show or the remaining European dates on Metallica’s M72 tour.
- The fall drew extra attention because it followed days after Hammett wore a satirical “Taylor Swift Is A CIA Psyop” T-shirt in Budapest, and the band moves next to U.K. stadium dates and a large Las Vegas Sphere residency.