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Review: Metallica, a stadium warhorse, freshens its onslaught at SoFi

From left, Robert Trujillo, Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett of Metallica perform onstage at SoFi Stadium on Friday, Aug. 25, 2023, in Inglewood, Calif..

LOS ANGELES — As the lush and foreboding sound of Ennio Morricone's "The Ecstasy of Gold" filled the air inside SoFi Stadium on Sunday night, the four members of Metallica strode onstage with the practiced swagger of gladiators, took their positions around Lars Ulrich's drum kit and promptly tore into "Whiplash," a frenzied invitation to bang one's head from Metallica's 1983 debut, "Kill 'Em All."

Well, one of Ulrich's drum kits, that is: Half an hour or so after the band began Sunday's concert, the drummer's set disappeared

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