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Right, so having been played at every sporting event known to man and put out some undeniably incredible thrash bangers back in the day, Metallica are now doing what everything that exists in our world must – pop up in Fortnite<\/a>, via an update that launches today, June 13.<\/p>\n

To be fair, being in a mosh pit filled with folks in Fallout’s T-60 power armour<\/a> as James Hetfield and co belt out Enter Sandman loud enough to shatter your eardrums through your helmet sounds like a pretty good time. Just make sure you don’t accidentally step on anyone’s toes with your metal boots.<\/p>\n

As announced via a blog post<\/a>, Fortnite Festival Season 4 will feature a bunch of Metallica-themed stuff to celebrate the fact they’re performing in the mode on June 22 and 23. “Metallica: Fuel. Fire. Fury” is the name of their set in the mode, with Master of Puppets, Ride the Lightning, and The Unforgiven looking like they’ll be part of the initial tracklist.<\/p>\n

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Right, so having been played at every sporting event known to man and put out some undeniably incredible thrash bangers back in the day, Metallica are now doing what everything that exists in our world must – pop up in Fortnite, via an update that launches today, June 13. To be fair, being in a mosh pit filled with folks in Fallout’s T-60 power armour as James Hetfield and co belt out Enter Sandman loud enough to shatter your eardrums through your helmet sounds like a pretty good time. Just make sure you don’t accidentally step on anyone’s toes with your metal boots. As announced via a blog post, Fortnite Festival Season 4 will feature a bunch of Metallica-themed stuff to celebrate the fact they’re…<\/p>\n

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