What’s occurring? Metallica have just dropped one of the wildest fan treats of 2025 — a free concert experience, captured in jaw-dropping Apple Immersive Video. The catch? You’ll need to strap a £3,499 Apple Vision Pro headset to your noggin. That’s right mun, it’s free if you’ve already bought the most expensive gig ticket in the galaxy.

When and where? 🎥

The show launches Friday 14th March 2025 on Apple Vision Pro. If you don’t own the headset, you can still blag a taste via Apple Store demos, so no need to flog your Nan’s caravan just yet.

What do you get? 🎶

This isn’t some shaky phone footage — it’s full 180-degree Apple Immersive magic with spatial audio. Apple shoved 14 special cameras all around the stage at the M72 Tour finale in Mexico City, so you’ll feel like you’re onstage with the lads without risking a boot up the backside from security.

The setlist is short but savage:

  • Whiplash (classic thrash whiplash for your neck muscles)
  • One (proper goosebump territory)
  • Enter Sandman (because of course — it’s basically law)

Why it’s tidy (and why it’s tamping) ⚡

✅ Free Metallica content — lush move for fans.
✅ Setlist designed to make your living room rattle.
❌ The barrier to entry: a £3.5k headset. That’s a lot of pints, kebabs and festival tickets.

The verdict 🍻

This is Metallica embracing the future while giving fans something exclusive, intense and, let’s be honest, a bit ridiculous. If you’re tech-curious, it could be the closest you’ll get to standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Hetfield and Hammett without security hurling you out the pit.

For the rest of us? Looks like we’ll be booking a cheeky Apple Store demo day out. Just remember, no bin jousting in the Genius Bar, alright?

🔥 The Riff Report says: Proper job if you’re a metalhead with deep pockets. For everyone else, bring your mates, try the demo, and yell YESS MUN! when Hetfield growls “YEAH-YEAH-YEAH-YEAH.”