Metallica Tour Overview
In 2022 Metallica will be travelling across mainland Europe on The Return Of The European Summer Vacation Tour which will see them play at seven festivals in June and July.
The tour kicks off in Copenhagen and the Copenhell Festival on June 15th before concluding at NOS Alive in Lisbon, Portugal on July 8th.
In a statement about the upcoming tour, Metallica said:
“We have waited far too long to say these words – we’re getting back out there and are finally announcing our return to Europe in 2022! Needless to say, we cannot wait to see all of you once again as our European ’Tallica Family will finally have a chance to reunite in June and July of next year.
“We can’t wait to once again take the stage as part of the time-honoured tradition of summer music festivals and we’re excited to see some of our friends, both new and old, at Copenhell, Pinkpop, Firenze Rocks, Prague Rocks, Rock Werchter, Mad Cool, and NOS Alive.”
About Metallica
Metallica is a world-renowned heavy metal band that formed in America in 1981. The band was started by vocalist and guitarist, James Hetfield and drummer, Lars Ulrich, the pair are also the primary songwriters. Kirk Hammet is the current and long running lead guitarist, and Robert Trujillo is the band’s current bassist. Former members of the band include Dave Mustaine, Ron McGovney, Cliff Burton and Jason Newsted.
The band is known for its aggressive sound, fast tempo and instrumentals and is recognised as one of the founding bands of the Thrash Metal sub genre. Metallica’s first commercially successful album was Master of Puppets which was released in 1986 and became hugely influential to thrash metal. The album which followed this, ...And Justice For All, was also successful and earned the band its first Grammy nomination. The band’s most recent album, Hardwired…to Self-Destruct, was released in 2016.
In total, Metallica has released ten studio albums, four live albums, a cover album, five EPs, 37 singles, 39 music videos and sold more than 125 million albums worldwide. The band have won nine Grammy awards, received 23 Grammy nominations, and its last six studio albums have debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Metallica at number 61 on its 100 Greatest Artist Of All Time list.
Metallica Facts
- Drummer, Lars Ulrich, is the world’s richest metal drummer and is worth around $300 million.
- Metallica first formed due to Lars Ulrich putting an advertisement in a newspaper looking for other metal musicians to create music, lead singer James Hetfield responded to it and the rest is history.
- Metallica set a Guinness World Record for becoming the first musical act to perform on every continent. The band did a show at Carlini Base in Antarctica in 2013.
- Before getting into metal music, Lars Ulrich was set to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a professional tennis player however after attending a Deep Purple concert his attention was turned to the drums.
- After vocalist and guitarist, James Hetfield broke his wrist skateboarding, resulting in an Indiana show having to be cancelled, the band’s management allegedly added a clause to his contract forbidding skateboarding whilst Metallica were on tour.
