Céline Dion Plays Air Bass, Then Headbangs With Jack Black, at Metallica’s Sphere Residency

The “My Heart Will Go On” singer would like you to know she is also a metalhead. Céline Dion was filmed on Thursday (Nov. 5) playing enthusiastic air bass from a suite at Metallica’s Life Burns Faster residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas, Billboard reports, mimicking bassist Robert Trujillo during the “Kirk and Rob Doodle,” the instrumental jam between Trujillo and guitarist Kirk Hammett. Slash and members of No Doubt were reportedly in the suite too.

She came back for more. On Saturday (Nov. 7), at Metallica’s last Sphere show of the year, Dion headbanged and played air guitar to “Enter Sandman” next to Jack Black, who clapped over his head through a guitar solo, per Billboard and Complex. Afterward she went backstage to meet James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Hammett and Trujillo, and shared photos on Instagram, including with her sons Eddy and Nelson Angélil.

Thank you James, Lars, Kirk and Rob and everyone from the @Metallica organization for the warm welcome!

Céline Dion, on Instagram, Billboard

Her caption continued: “We had such a wonderful time seeing you at the Sphere. We absolutely loved the show.” On her Instagram Stories she wrote, “Metallica night 2 was rocked,” Rolling Stone notes, over a photo of herself, her sons and Black throwing devil horns.

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It is not a stunt. Earlier this year Dion shared a personal playlist that included Metallica’s 1996 single “Until It Sleeps.” “Eddy, one of my twins, his favorite band is Metallica,” she said in the video that went with it. Watch the band at the Sphere below.

Dion is in the middle of a comeback of her own. She returned to full-length concerts on Sept. 12, her first in more than six years, with a Paris run at the Plenitude Arena, after revealing in December 2022 that she has stiff-person syndrome, Billboard says. Her two Colosseum residencies at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, which ran from 2011 to 2019, grossed a combined $681.3 million, according to Billboard Boxscore, and Complex notes she has not played a stage in the city since June 2019.

Metallica’s residency opened Oct. 1 with a “no repeat” format, so each Thursday show and Saturday show has a different set list. It is a 24-show run that resumes at the Sphere in January and goes through March 13, 2027, with two Connecticut arena shows at Mohegan Sun first. Rush announced its own Sphere residency days earlier, and U2 opened the building in 2023. Dion has more of her own shows ahead: Rolling Stone says she returns to the Plenitude Arena in Paris in May.