Watch METALLICA's Entire Performance At GLOBAL CITIZEN Festival

METALLICA played an abbreviated set Saturday (September 24) at the Global Citizen festival in New York City. The free event on the Great Lawn in Central Park aired live on MSNBC.

The band’s setlist was as follows:

01. For Whom The Bell Tolls
02. Master Of Puppets
03. One
04. Nothing Else Matters
05. Enter Sandman

Check out video footage below.

The multi-hour concert, in its fifth year, encourages people to get involved and tackle global issues pertaining to health, education, hunger and the environment.

“I love my sons. I want them to ‘inherit the Earth,'” METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich said of the band’s participation in the event. “We keep waiting for future generations to solve the problems… I want lawmakers and laws to impose change. Nothing else will keep this world safe for my sons.”

Regarding METALLICA‘s philanthropic work, Ulrich said: “We do as much as we can… The hardest thing about these types of things is just finding the right balances between how vocal you are about it, because sometimes when you’re really vocal about it, there could be a fear of … just tooting our own horn.”

Asked why METALLICA wanted to perform at Global Citizen, Ulrich told the New York Post: “The festival has been on our radar for a few years. I was watching [Stephen] Colbert last year and Hugh Evans [co-founder of Global Poverty Project] came out. I was super-impressed at how passionate and personable he is. Not to rank do-gooders, but sometimes you wonder if there’s an ulterior motive. But he has an earnestness that is very infectious. And there’s a politically neutral tone to what he does.”

METALLICA‘s tenth studio album, “Hardwired…To Self-Destruct”, is scheduled for a November 18 release via Blackened Recordings. The long-awaited follow-up to 2008’s “Death Magnetic” consists of two discs, containing a dozen songs and nearly 80 minutes of music.

“Hardwired…To Self-Destruct” was produced by Greg Fidelman with frontman James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich. The band recorded the disc at its own studio.

METALLICA will next appear at Neil Young‘s Bridge School Benefit in Mountain View, California on October 22 and October 23.