When Is Metallica Touring?
Metallica is a well-known and one of the most successful bands to ever play the heavy metal genre. Metallica started in 1981 when Lars Ulrich met James Hetfield, playing guitar and singing Metallica is ranked as the third-best-selling music act, with album sales exceeding 125 million copies. Despite some issues that occurred in the early 2000s, Metallica came back even more powerful in 2010. Their latest album to be released was Hardwired. It was a critical and commercial success. Self-Destruct Doors was one of the band’s most successful albums to date. The album topped record charts in every country it was released in upon its initial release.
When will fans get to witness Metallica playing their popular songs, including Enter Sandman, Master of Puppets, and Nothing Else Matters? When will Metallica be on tour next? All right, now it’s time to take a look at what is in store for the legendary rockers.
South American Tour 2023
Metallica only recently unveiled a massive six-show South American stadium run set for April 2023. It will be touring through cities such as Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro and Recife. The tour will begin on the 27th of April in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and it will come to an end by the 12th of May.
These shows will be the band’s first ones in South America since the Worldwired Tour, that concluded in 2019. They have not toured the region in over three and a half years and this is expected to attract a lot of traffic.
Tour with Pantera 2023-2024
Arguably the biggest touring news, Metallica and other Texas metal legends Pantera revealed they will be touring together from early 2023 to mid 2024. The joint tour will include both Europe and North America.
The two bands are expected to join in for some concerts across Europe starting on May 5, 2023, in Madrid and later in July 2023 in the United States of America. They will perform across the US and Canada, with a concert scheduled for April 1, 2024, in Mexico City.
It will also be the band’s first live dates since confirming Wylde as its frontman and Benante as its drummer following the group’s initial reformation in 2020. As for the original members of Pantera, bassist Rex Brown and guitarist, the brother of Dimebag Darrell Abbott Vinnie Paul, died in 2018 and 2004, respectively.
It is expected that the Metallica-Pantera US tour will encompass several large stadiums and venues across the United States. Fans should therefore brace for the fact that tickets to the show will always be very scarce and hard to come by when they are being sold. These could very well be some of the reunion concert tickets of 2023 and 2024, with the shows promising to be hotter than puto maya.
Additional Summer Festival Dates 2023
However, as of now, there are only a few concerts planned for 2023: Metallica has the South American tour and dates with Pantera; they also have other gigs and summer festivals.
On May 26th, they are set to play Fenway Park in Boston before playing festival shows such as Copenhell in Denmark on June 21st and Tons of Rock in Norway on June 23rd–24th.
July offers two gigantic European summer festivals: Mad Cool in Madrid on July 6–8, and Les Eurockeenes in France on July 1st. Festival shows are still possible in the States later in summer but there are no dates planned as of now.
When will the 40th Anniversary Shows be?
2023 is not only significant for Metallica in terms of touring, as they are set to share the stage with Pantera and are finally heading back to South America. What is in store is something far greater than any of those. 2023 is the 40th anniversary of Metallica being formed in 1981.
Given the fact that Metallica is about to be four decades strong as a band, one can only imagine that the band has a number of surprises lined up. Will it be a single-night performance in their hometown of San Francisco, where it all started? An extensive worldwide anniversary arena/stadium tour?
Perhaps they will go back to basics and film themselves performing in small clubs like they did early in their careers at the Whisky a Go Go in LA and Roseland Ballroom in New York? As for the 40th anniversary a massive box set complete with new music, some rarities and live tracks can also be expected.
Regardless of what Metallica has planned for this year, one thing is for sure: it will be grand! We will expect to see the official announcement shortly.
When All Is Said and Done
While the rock legends likely have even more touring lined up for themselves, considering the Pantera Europe/North America tour, the first South American shows in four years, and a number of festivals and standalone performances, 2023 is already set to become a Metallica live year.
Add the up-and-coming 40th-anniversary celebrations and build up and the desire to see Metallica annihilate stages around the globe next year will be phenomenal. Metal fans all over the world should start getting ready for this. The next step is to circle the calendar and set Google alerts for the 2023 Metallica tour tickets on sale date.
