Metallica takes over the Sphere with a residency built specifically for that massive wraparound screen, reimagining the band's thrash-metal catalog with visuals that engulf the entire room. Expect the double-kick drums, downpicked riffs, and James Hetfield's gravel-edged howl pushed through a sound system designed to make every note hit from every angle, while the LED canvas overhead turns songs like "Master of Puppets" and "Enter Sandman" into something closer to a sensory flood than a standard arena show. This isn't a scaled-down tribute or a greatest-hits run-through on a normal stage - it's one of metal's defining bands using the strangest venue in Las Vegas to do something they've never had the tools to do before.

For longtime fans, it's a chance to hear decades of thrash anthems in a room engineered around sound and light rather than just a stage and some amps. For newcomers, it's as much a visual event as a concert, with the band's riffs and the Sphere's technology feeding off each other in ways that are hard to predict from outside the venue.