Metallica’s Set ‘Brought the House Down’ at Final Black Sabbath Show originally appeared on Parade. Metallica made sure to get fans pumped and rocked their opening act at the final Black Sabbath show in Birmingham, England.

So it was surreal to stand on a football pitch with 45,000 strong to witness the end of this grand, institutional group who has touched me personally, professionally, and at times even intimately in stolen moments of work and camaraderie.

The metal luminary, 76, took the stage with his original bandmates at a farewell festival in his Birmingham, England, hometown on Saturday night.