Her “Nothing Else Matter” is even often played in yoga classes. However, some loyalists look down on the so-called “Nothing Else Matter Fans” at concerts. Now Metallica are coming to Munich for a double act.
Why are Metallica playing two concerts in Munich?
With the most popular heavy metal band on the planet, which is also likely to attract many pop culture fans with global hits like “Nothing Else Matters” or their contributions to the soundtrack of the hit Netflix series “Stranger Things”, you can visit the Munich Olympic Stadium twice The organizer Live Nation probably calculated that they would be filled with 70,000 guests each. The idea of ”No Repeat Weekends” also helps with the current “M72 World Stadium Tour”, on which, like a year ago in Hamburg, they are showing two different shows in selected cities: with two programs and two other popular supporting bands Some hardcore fans also go to the concert twice. There is even one “I Disappear” ticketwhich applies to all concerts on the tour (one year 1981 dollars, two years 3498 dollars).
Kathi Berg from the official St. Germany fan club suspects another reason for the weekend trips with a rest day: “The boys are already over 60 and don’t want to travel to a different city every day.”
What connects Metallica with Munich?
In its 43-year history, the Californian rock band has repeatedly returned to Bavaria. She played her very first concert in Germany in the tranquil Hemmerlein Hall in Neunkirchen, Upper Franconia. But their first concert in Munich was a bad star. It was supposed to take place in October 1986 at Circus Krone. On the trip from Stockholm to Copenhagen in September, the tour bus veered off the road and bassist Cliff Burton was thrown out of the window and died. The appointment in Munich was canceled after the tragic accident.
Years later, James Hetfield, Lard Ulrich and their band actually came to Munich and rocked the Congress Hall of the Deutsches Museum. They made their debut in the Olympic Hall in 1992 and in the Olympic Stadium in 2004. It was quite a coup by the organizers of the second “Rockavaria” festival to let the world metal stars play in front of 20,000 fans on the relatively small Königsplatz in 2015.
Metallica love to greet their venues with a song with local color (such as “Viva Colonia” in Cologne). In 2018 in the Munich Olympic Hall they played well-advised, very cheerful and in German “Scandal in the restricted area”:
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In 2019 also from the Spider Murphy Gang “Schickeria”. For the SZ reporter, the entire recent Munich performance could have been a little wilder: “The performance at times seemed more like a kind of peaceful family reunion instead of a hard, wild and dark metal show like you would expect from thrash metal band would expect.
Are there still tickets?
That’s not easy to answer for concerts of this magnitude. Because even if they are sold out on some portals, there may still be some on the secondary market, often at overpriced prices. Then it’s better to only buy through officially secured reseller portals. In the case of Metallica, it’s even available on the official pre-sale website muenchenticket.de Tickets for each of the two concerts start at the regular price of 134.50 or 207 euros for these categories (plus fee). For the money you sit in the stands, the view is generally equally good because the band plays on a round stage in the middle of the arena.
If you want to stand in the arena (but not in the expensive “snake pit” in the middle of a round hole inside the stage), you can get standing room tickets from the secondary market directly via the official portal; the 150 euros add up to reseller and other fees to 162 euros.
What songs will the band play?
That’s the big surprise. Because during the “No Repeat Weekends” Metallica happily changes the setlists of the respective days. A year ago on May 26th they played 16 songs in this order in Hamburg’s Volksparkstadion (source: setlist.fm): “Creeping Death”, “Harvester of Sorrow”, “Leper Messiah”, “Until It Sleeps”, “72 Seasons”, “If Darkness Had a Son”, “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)”, “You Must Burn! “, “The Call of Ktulu”, “The Unforgiven”, “Wherever I May Roam”, “Moth Into Flame”, “Battery”, “Whiskey in the Jar”, “One” and “Enter Sandman”. They didn’t repeat a single number on May 28th: ”For Whom the Bell Tolls”, “Ride the Lightning”, “Through the Never”, “King Nothing”, “Lux Æterna”, “Screaming Suicide”, “Fade to Black” , “Sleepwalk My Life Away”, “Orion”, “Nothing Else Matters”, “Sad but True”, “The Day That Never Comes”, “Blackened”, “Fuel”, “Seek & Destroy”, “Master of Puppets “.
How do the concerts work?
The Olympic Stadium opens its gates on Friday, May 24th and Sunday, May 26th at 4 p.m. The supporting bands then go on stage at 6 p.m. On Friday they are first Mammoth WVHthe solo project of US rocker Wolfgang Van Halen (the son of Eddie Van Halen), after which the metalcore band plays Architects from Brighton in England. The Boston metalcore band opens on Sunday Ice Nine Kills. Then play Five Five Finger Death Punch from Las Vegas their groove metal, they filled the Olympic Hall in 2017 and 2020.
It has not yet been announced when Metallica will be on stage. From experience, this could be between 8:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Pretty sure they should traditionally go to “It’s A Long Way To The Top” by AC/DC and Ennio Morricone’s “The Ecstasy Of Gold” intervene. Due to city regulations for open air events, the amplifiers must be silent at 11 p.m.
Is there new music from the band?
The album “72 Seasons” from April 2023, which reached number 1 in Germany and number 2 in the USA, is still current. The title refers to the first 72 seasons of a person’s life. So the first 18 years that shape everyone and whose beliefs you have to overcome in order to achieve freedom. The album is under the impression of James Hetfield’s drug withdrawal, for which the Australia and New Zealand tour had to be canceled in 2019. Since then, the frontman has lived quietly and withdrawn in the mountains of Colorado: “I like to be alone.”
For SZ critic Andrian Kreye, the single “Lux Æterna” was like a modern requiem. Metallica’s musical power is architectural, and that culminates in this song. “If – as is the case with the majority of humanity after they reach adulthood – their listening habits are not geared towards heavy metal, that is initially an imposition. Which is also a judgment of quality that music can still be irritating after such a long time.”
The band usually forbids side projects. However, a surprise has just been announced: The Finnish Classic Berserkers Apocalyptica, who caused a sensation in 1996 with the crossover album “Plays Metallica by Four Cellos” and became world stars in their own right, are now upping their game a second time. On “Plays Metallica Vol. 2”, they have just announced a promotional campaign, there will be a small sensation: a feature from James Herfield himself.
What else can fans experience in Munich?
It’s not just two concerts, it’s a whole “Munich Takeover”, a monster festival of Metallica madness. From Wednesday, May 22nd, fans can stock up on exclusive, limited-edition T-shirts, screen prints, collectible mugs and more at a Metallica pop-up store in Studio Balan (Moosacher Straße 86, until Sunday, daily 10 a.m. to 7 p.m Clock).
:Munich in the “Metallica” frenzy
The heavy metal giants are calling for the “Munich Takeover”. But the fans have fallen for them anyway and are organizing a weekend of rock madness with tribute shows, beer athlons and headbanger yoga.
To warm up and drink, there will be a “beer athlon” through Hirschgarten Park to the backstage on Friday, May 24th. The subculture center becomes fan headquarters with a “Metallica Weekend Bash”. Especially on the rest day between the concerts, Saturday, there is a lot of program for everyone who doesn’t know what to do with their metal love: from a BBQ to a photo shoot in the original “72 Seasons” cover backdrop and lectures (e.g. from… Record holder with the most Metallica tattoos) to the big tribute concert by My’Tallica in the evening. There’s also a lot on offer here on Sunday after a white sausage warm-up; at the “Headbanger Workshop”, concert-goers can yogically prepare their shoulders, neck and neck for the concert in the evening.
The tour organizer Live-Nation has also developed an official fan program. Metallica photographer Ross Halfin will read from his book about the “Black Album” on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. in the Old Congress Hall. Afterwards, at 4:30 p.m., three Metallica films from three eras will be shown here.
Fans could also take a nice walk to a pilgrimage site Olympic Park tour: In 2009, their favorite band was immortalized in a concrete slab in the “Walk of Stars” at the Olympic Lake.
How do you get to the concerts?
Best by bike or by public transport: concert tickets with the MVV (Munich Transport and Tariff Association) logo printed on them allow free use.
- Arrival by subway: Take the U3 to the Olympiazentrum stop. Additional trains will also be used on this line at the end of the event. The Olympic Stadium can also be reached from the Gern subway station, which is served by the U1; The walk here takes about 30 minutes.
- Arrival by bus: with bus lines 144, 173, 177 or 178. Stops within walking distance of the stadium are Spiridon-Louis-Ring, Olympiasee, Olympiaberg, Olympiazentrum, Olympia-Eissportzentrum, Petuelring.
- Arrival by tram: with tram lines 20 or 21. These run every 10 minutes to and from the Olympiapark West stop on Dachauer Straße until shortly before 1 a.m.
- Arriving by car: If you arrive by car, you can enter the Parkharfe directly from the Mittlerer Ring (Landshuter Allee) via the Sapporobogen. With the new reservation system you can register at www.rkb-parken.de Book a place in advance on the desired day, including the time and planned length of stay.