Metallica Will Release a Live Acoustic Album

The charity concert Metallica held for their All Within My Hands foundation, an acoustic show held at San Francisco’s Masonic earlier this month, raised more than $1.3 million to be donated to Feeding America and The American Association of Community Colleges. Now Metallica plan to continue the giving with a special limited edition vinyl release of that concert, the proceeds of which will also go to help those in need.

Helping Hands…Live & Acoustic at The Masonic features acoustic renditions of Metallica classics, deep cuts and a handful of covers, including songs by Deep Purple, Nazareth, Bob Seger and Blue Öyster Cult. The double album was mixed by Greg Fidelman, was mastered for vinyl by Reuben Cohen is at Lurssen Mastering and will be issued on 140g colored vinyl.

Helping Hands…Live & Acoustic at The Masonic comes out February 1st; pre-order here (U.S.) and here (Europe), and rest easy knowing that your money will be going to all the right places. You can watch pro-shot footage of the concert to get a taste of what you’re in for. Here’s the tracklist of the vinyl set:

Disc One / Side A
1. Disposable Heroes
2. When A Blind Man Cries
3. The Unforgiven

Disc One / Side B
1. Please Don’t Judas Me
2. Turn the Page

Disc Two / Side C
1. Bleeding Me
2. Veteran of the Psychic Wars
3. Nothing Else Matters

Disc Two / Side D
1. All Within My Hands
2. Enter Sandman
3. The Four Horsemen
4. Hardwired