Break out that “Ride the Lightning” T-shirt, Metallica has announced two Southern California tour dates for the summer.
The Bay Area metal band will play the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on July 29 and Petco Park in San Diego on Aug. 6 in support of the group’s late 2016 release, “Hardwired…To Self-Destruct.” The openers for the two dates are Orange County’s Avenged Sevenfold and France’s Gojira.
The announcement came on the heels of Metallica’s fire-filled performance with Lady Gaga at the Grammys on Sunday night, which was followed up by a gig at the Hollywood Palladium. Metallica had hinted at a Rose Bowl date for the summer during an intimate show at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles in December.
Tickets for Pasadena and San Diego go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 17 for $55.50-$155.50.
Fan club members can get tickets on Tuesday, Feb. 14. Legacy Fan Club members have access at 9 a.m., with Met Club members following at 11 a.m.
Every ticket purchase also comes with a physical CD or a digital download of “Hardwired…To Self-Destruct.”
Metallica has sold more than 62 million records in the U.S., first cultivating a fan base as one of the “big four” of thrash metal in the early ’80s. As the band’s popularity grew with albums such as “Ride the Lightning” and “Master of Puppets,” Metallica’s big mainstream breakthrough came in 1991 with a self-titled album that spawned hits such as “Enter Sandman,” “The Unforgiven,” “Sad But True” and big ballad “Nothing Else Matters.”
“Hardwired…To Self-Destruct,” which was released in November, is the band’s first album of new material since 2008’s “Death Magnetic.”
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