Metallica Comes to the Rose Bowl This Summer

 

Heavy-metal rock band Metallica will be at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on July 29 as part of their WorldWired 2017 North American tour in support of their “Hardwired … To Self Destruct” album.

Produced by Live Nation, the tour kicks off on May 10 at the M and T Bank Stadium in Baltimore and will be crisscrossing the U.S. and Canada into the summer.

This will be Metallica’s first proper North American tour since 2009. The band had hinted at a Rose Bowl date for the summer during a concert in Los Angeles last December.

The band says Avenged Sevenfold, Volbeat and Gojira will be the main support acts for the tour run.

On Sunday, Metallica performed with Lady Gaga at the Grammy’s in a fire-filled performance, followed by a gig at the Hollywood Palladium.

Metallica has sold more than 62 million records in the U.S. as one of the “big four” heavy metal rock bands in the early ’80s. The band boosted its fan base with such albums as “Ride the Lightning” and “Master of Puppets,” but its big mainstream breakthrough came in 1991 with the self-titled album containing “Enter Sandman,” “The Unforgiven,” “Sad But True” and “Nothing Else Matters.”

Released last November, “Hardwired…To Self-Destruct” is the band’s first album of new material since 2008’s “Death Magnetic.”

Tickets for the Pasadena concert go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. Friday, February 17 for $55.50 to $155.50. Legacy Fan Club members can get tickets February 14 starting at 9 a.m., followed by Met Club members at 11 a.m.

The band said every ticket purchase also comes with a physical CD or a digital download of the new album.

For complete ticket info, visit www.metallica.com.