As of April 23, 2013, the song has been performed 865 times (the most recent being February 7, for the Night Before, pre Super Bowl show.)Īllmusic's Steve Huey called the songs "Battery" and "Damage, Inc.", "two slices of thrash mayhem". The first performance was on Main Wichita, Kansas. When performed with the San Francisco Symphony in 1999, the intro up to the thrash riff was instead played by string players in the symphony, utilizing pizzicato in the beginning (the original acoustic) then with bows for the rest.īattery is tied with “ Welcome Home (Sanitarium)” as being Metallica's 10th most-played song. In the live version of the song played on the Live Shit: Binge & Purge album, intros to the songs " No Remorse", " Ride the Lightning", and " So What?" are played in the song. As seen in the documentary Some Kind of Monster, the auditioning of future bassist Robert Trujillo started, on his request, with "Battery". How does it feel to be alive?" (this can be heard on the live album S&M) and followed by the solo played by Kirk Hammett.
When played, the song may stop before the interlude, and James Hetfield asks the crowd "Are you alive?. Since 2008 the song has usually been dropped from setlists. In some cases, it is also used as a song before the intermission. "Battery" used to be a constant part of the band's live set list, frequently as the opening or closing song. "the family") will fiercely defend it as a show of solidarity against the glam scene that was popular in the Los Angeles area. The lyric "Cannot kill the family, Battery is found in me" is a statement that while society at large doesn't understand the scene, those within it (i.e.
The tone of the song is one of familial ties and the positive release of energy through the common interest of metal. The most prominent club played by Metallica was the Old Waldorf located at 444 Battery Street in downtown San Francsico.
The theme of the song revolves around the San Francisco thrash scene of the 1980s.
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