Surprise!

“We thought we’d come crash your party,” Metallica frontman James Hetfield said two songs into their not-so-surprising surprise gig last night at 1,800-capacity Stubb’s Bar-B-Q in Austin. Consider the party crashed: The metal titans conquered with a 90-minute set steeped in classics, including “Master of Puppets,” “One,” “Seek and Destroy,” and “Blackened.”