
Having once more resurrected their fan-filled “Snakepit” from 1991’s Black Album tour, a good half the set was spent with the four of them, including Ulrich and his kit, smashing away at the near-nine minute Master Of Puppets from 25 metres out atop the semi-circular catwalk. It also gives new songs from their new 72 Seasons album – the speedy Lux Æterna, the muscular Screaming Suicide – a chance to breathe properly. Their biggest song, Enter Sandman, doesn’t make an entrance, freeing-up space for lesser-spotted tunes such as the technically taut Blackened and the instrumental brilliance of Orion. Shaking things up, for this tour, the two gigs they’re doing at each stop promise no repeats from one night to the next, and thus a massive change from what has become the norm. Occasionally a band guilty of derailing momentum through drawn-out showboating, from the opening stabs of the classic, speeding Creeping Death, they were a band reconnecting with the raw, kick-in-the-teeth intensity of much younger versions of themselves. It’s poetic, then, that as Download celebrates its 20th birthday, and this year Metallica mark 40 since their Kill ’Em All debut, it is they who are leading the festivities.įor all this occasion, the most striking thing here was how formidably direct Metallica’s attack was. As the San Francisco thrash metal legends closed the first night of Download Festival – the first of two headline sets they’ll perform over this weekend – their drummer and biggest cheerleader took to the mic to recall that Metallica first appeared here in 1986, at what was then Monsters of Rock, and have returned no fewer than nine times. “This right here may be Metallica’s home field.” The JADES footprint.“You guys here in England have a thing called ‘home field advantage’, right?” enquired Lars Ulrich to some 80,000 people standing in front of him at Donington Park on Thursday night. The photometric overdensities around two $z>7$ strong Ly$\alpha$ emitters in Highlighting the need for deep spectroscopic follow-up.

This alternative explanation has dramatically different implications for theĬontribution of galaxies along the luminosity function to cosmic reionization, Hundreds of very UV-faint objects ($M_\mathrm$ and Lyman continuum escape fraction. Star-forming and ionizing properties of 756 $z\sim6-9$ galaxies, including

Here we utilize deep nine-band NIRCam imaging from JADES to study the Download a PDF of the paper titled The Star-forming and Ionizing Properties of Dwarf z~6-9 Galaxies in JADES: Insights on Bursty Star Formation and Ionized Bubble Growth, by Ryan Endsley and 38 other authors Download PDF Abstract: Reionization is thought to be driven by faint star-forming galaxies, butĬharacterizing this population in detail has long remained very challenging.
