Watch Metallica perform “The Frayed Ends Of Sanity” live for first time ever

Metallica performed their 1988 track “The Frayed Ends Of Sanity” live for the first time ever last night (May 28).

The band played the track from the …And Justice For All album at Sonisphere Festival in Helsinki. The show was part of the Metallica By Request series of gigs, where the setlist for the evening is chosen by fans voting for songs they want to hear from a collection of 130 tracks.

Consequence of Sound reported that “The Frayed Ends Of Sanity” was, until last night, the only song from the band’s nine-album back catalogue that they had never played live in full.

Meanwhile, Metallica’s self-titled 1991 LP (The Black Album), has just become the first album to reach 16 million sales since SoundScan started tracking sales data in 1991. Billboard reported that The Black Album and Shania Twain’s Come On Over are the only two albums to sell over 15 million in the US since 1991. The Black Album hit the 16 million sales mark in the week finishing May 25, with 3,000 sales bringing its total to 16,002,000.

Mick Jagger recently said that he thought Metallica were going to be “great” when they headline this year’s Glastonbury festival.

The Rolling Stones headlined the event last year, and Jagger has backed the decision to book the first metal artists to headline Glastonbury in its 44-year history. “I’ve seen them live and they’re going to be great,” he told The Sun, adding that The Rolling Stones had a “great time” headlining the event.