The strange marriage of this tenuous time for reproductive rights and Mother's Day has managed to produce a delightful grain of sand in the form of a very timely — and extremely metal — incident that took place at a Metallica show in Curitiba, Brazil, this weekend.
On Saturday (May 7), tattoo artist Joice M. Figueiró attended the band's performance at the Estádio Couto Pereira amid their South American tour at 39 weeks pregnant. The sheer force that is Metallica induced her labour and she gave birth to baby Luan at 11:15 p.m. BT — reportedly during historic closing song "Enter Sandman."
"At every show I go to, something has to happen, but this time I think I've outdone myself," Figueiró wrote on Instagram, adding: "I bought this ticket three years ago and I never imagined something like this would happen."
Seated in the arena's accessible seating area, she reportedly felt fine during the performances by opening acts Greta Van Fleet and Ego Kill Talent, but started having contractions once Metallica took the stage. Figueiró's partner Jaime called the firemen by the time the band had about three songs left in the set.
She said that everything happened very fast and her water broke on the way to the event's outpatient clinic, leaving no time for her to be rushed to a maternity hospital by ambulance. Instead, she birthed her child there, the baby entering night and "shaking all the metal structures" as the Metallica played the ubiquitous Black Album cut as their final song of the evening.
Both mother and child appear to be doing well, though Figueiró admitted that she's still trying to process how this happened.
Welcome to the never-never land, baby Luan! See Figueiró's Instagram post (and story, reposted by Metallica and screenshotted by Blabbermouth) below.
The band's guitarist Kirk Hammett recently released his first solo single. Slipknot's Corey Taylor also likened "Enter Sandman" to the "Stairway to Heaven" of his generation, so being born to it definitely seems like a grandiose christening.
On Saturday (May 7), tattoo artist Joice M. Figueiró attended the band's performance at the Estádio Couto Pereira amid their South American tour at 39 weeks pregnant. The sheer force that is Metallica induced her labour and she gave birth to baby Luan at 11:15 p.m. BT — reportedly during historic closing song "Enter Sandman."
"At every show I go to, something has to happen, but this time I think I've outdone myself," Figueiró wrote on Instagram, adding: "I bought this ticket three years ago and I never imagined something like this would happen."
Seated in the arena's accessible seating area, she reportedly felt fine during the performances by opening acts Greta Van Fleet and Ego Kill Talent, but started having contractions once Metallica took the stage. Figueiró's partner Jaime called the firemen by the time the band had about three songs left in the set.
She said that everything happened very fast and her water broke on the way to the event's outpatient clinic, leaving no time for her to be rushed to a maternity hospital by ambulance. Instead, she birthed her child there, the baby entering night and "shaking all the metal structures" as the Metallica played the ubiquitous Black Album cut as their final song of the evening.
Both mother and child appear to be doing well, though Figueiró admitted that she's still trying to process how this happened.
Welcome to the never-never land, baby Luan! See Figueiró's Instagram post (and story, reposted by Metallica and screenshotted by Blabbermouth) below.
The band's guitarist Kirk Hammett recently released his first solo single. Slipknot's Corey Taylor also likened "Enter Sandman" to the "Stairway to Heaven" of his generation, so being born to it definitely seems like a grandiose christening.
