If you attended Monday night's Metallica show at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, you helped to make history.

The concert set an attendance record at the 20-year-old arena, with the crowd of 18,274 being the largest for a single-event concert.

Metallica's performance displaces a Billy Joel show on Nov. 3, 2017.

Regarding multi-event concerts, Garth Brooks sold more than 70,000 tickets when he played five shows at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in 2017.

Metallica has performed three times at the venue, in 2004, 2009 and 2019.

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Monday's show included songs from 2016 album "Hardwired... to Self-Destruct" and signature oldies “Master of Puppets,” “Creeping Death,” “One” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls.”

Guitarist Kirk Hammett and bass player Robert Trujillo covered songs by Indiana's John Mellencamp and the Zero Boys during a mid-show interlude.

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