The general on-sale for all dates for Metallica’s Life Burns Faster residency at Sphere in Las Vegas begins today at 10am PT.
16shows were added this week due to overwhelming demand, extending Metallica’s Sphere residency into 2027. As with the previously announced eight-show run, the new additions to Life Burns Faster will continue the No Repeat Weekend tradition that began with the 2023 kick-off of the band’s M72 World Tour, with no songs repeated on each Thursday and Saturday. See below for a full list of dates.
Silver Lining Music to release No Life ‘Til Leather – A Tribute to Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All on November 14th. The third single from the all-star compilation is from thrash metal icons Testament, the full-throttle cover of Metallica’s anthem ‘Seek & Destroy’.
You can divide the history of heavy metal into two distinct chapters: ‘before Metallica’ and ‘after Metallica’. When the Four Horsemen galloped to the top of dozens of countries’ charts with their self-titled album in 1991, they became the new measuring stick for their genre, and their standard is one that no hard rockers since have matched, let alone outdone. Yet – for all the sellout tours, broken records and reinventive efforts over the last 45 years – they started the same way almost every other noisy band do: ferocious kids driven to shove metal up your ass.
Metallica is as surprised as anyone to learn that two of their landmark albums have attained new RIAA certifications:
Metallica’s self-titled fifth album a/k/a The Black Album has been certified 20x platinum for sales in excess of 20 million copies, while the band’s third full length, Master of Puppets, has been certified 8x platinum having crossed the eight million mark.
Metallica has confirmed that its record-breaking M72 World Tour will be extended into its fourth year with the announcement of 16 shows in Europe and the UK spanning May, June and July 2026.
Two-night tickets for the newly announced No Repeat Weekends and tickets for the single-night engagements will be on sale May 30 at 10 AM local time via LiveNation.co.uk Fan club pre-sales begin May 27 at 11 AM local time. For further information, enhanced experiences, travel packages and more, go to http://metallica.lnk.to/M72WorldTour2026 Access to Preferred Tickets is available to Mastercard cardholders in the UK on Friday 30th May at 10am. Visit www.priceless.com/music to find out more.
Metallica has announced the definitive re-release of the band’s 5x platinum sixth studio album Load, out June 13 via the band’s own Blackened Recordings.
Remastered by Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering with Greg Fidelman overseeing, the Load Remastered Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set is available now for pre-order at https://www.metallica.com/store/load-remastered/ where full package details and track listings can be viewed. Pre-orders of the Deluxe Box will receive instant grat tracks “Until It Sleeps (Remastered),” “Until It Sleeps (Herman Melville Mix),” “F.O.B.D. (“Until It Sleeps” Rough Chorus Vocal Idea Mix),” and “Until It Sleeps (Live at Slim’s, San Francisco, CA – June 10th, 1996).”
The countdown is on for the theatrical and official soundtrack release of ‘Queen Of The Ring‘, arriving in theatres and streaming platforms this Friday 7th March 2025. In anticipation for the big day, Sumerian Records is pleased to release an emotionally gripping cover of Metallica‘s ‘The Unforgiven‘ by KITTIE, THE PRETTY WILD, and DIAMANTE from the soundtrack for the hotly-anticipated biopic. ‘Queen Of The Ring’ chronicles the trailblazing journey of wrestling icon Mildred Burke, written and directed by Ash Avildsen and starring Emily Bett Rickards.
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