Metallica are the most popular of the loudest bands on the planet. The band from San Francisco, where December 16th is officially celebrated as “Metallica Day” every year, has created its own sound hell since 1981: epic, brutal, yet virtuosic and astonishingly radiant. In this music industry, it also counts how many records a band has sold: if you believe Wikipedia, it’s 128 million for James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo.
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 guys are already over 60 and don’t want to travel to a different city every day.”
What connects Metallica with Munich?
In their 43-year history, the Californian rock band has repeatedly returned to Bavaria. They played their very first concert in Germany in the tranquil Hemmerlein Hall in Neunkirchen in Upper Franconia. Their first concert in Munich, however, was ill-fated. It was supposed to take place in October 1986 in the Circus Krone. On the way 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 Munich date 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. In 1992 they made their debut in the Olympiahalle, and in 2004 in the Olympiastadion.
Metallica love to welcome their venues with a song with local flavor (such as “Viva Colonia” in Cologne). In 2018 at the Munich Olympiahalle, they played well-advised, very cheerful and, in German, “Skandal im Sperrbezirk”:
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In 2019 also from the Spider Murphy Gang “Schickeria”. For the SZ reporter, the whole recent Munich performance could have been a little wilder: “At times, the performance seemed more like a kind of peaceful family reunion rather than a hard, wild and dark metal show, as one would expect from a thrash metal band.
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.
:Munich in a “Metallica” frenzy
The heavy metal giants are calling for a “Munich Takeover”. But the fans have already fallen for them and are organizing a weekend of rock madness with tribute shows, beerathons and headbanger yoga.
Setlist: What songs will the band play?
That’s the big surprise. Because during the “No Repeat Weekends” Metallica happily change the setlists of the respective days. A year ago on May 26th in Hamburg’s Volksparkstadion they played 16 songs in this order (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 (son of Eddie Van Halen), followed by the metalcore band Architects from Brighton in England. On Sunday, the Boston metalcore band 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.
When Metallica will be on stage has not yet been announced. Experience suggests that it could be between 8:30 and 9 p.m. They will probably traditionally sing “It’s A Long Way To The Top” by AC/DC and Ennio Morricone’s “The Ecstasy Of Gold”. Due to city regulations for open-air events, the amplifiers must be turned off at 11 p.m.
:Standing in line for the devil on the t-shirt
This weekend the band Metallica is playing two concerts in Munich – they are the only ones in Germany this year. Beforehand, followers can stock up on limited-edition devotional items in their own pop-up shop.
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 in a person’s life. In other words, the first 18 years that shape everyone and whose beliefs one must overcome in order to achieve freedom. The album is influenced by James Hetfield’s drug withdrawal, for whom the Australia and New Zealand tour had to be canceled in 2019. Since then, the frontman has lived a quiet and secluded life in the mountains of Colorado: “I like being alone.”
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 Hetfield 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. Starting Wednesday, May 22, fans can stock up on exclusive, limited edition T-shirts, screen prints, collector’s mugs and more in a Metallica pop-up store in Studio Balan (Moosacher Straße 86, until Sunday, daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.).
To warm up and get drunk, there will be a “beerathon” through the Hirschgarten Park to the backstage on Friday, May 24th. The subculture center will become a fan center with a “Metallica Weekend Bash”. Especially on the day off between the concerts, Saturday, there will be a lot of programs for everyone who doesn’t know what to do with their love of metal: from BBQs to a photo shoot in the original “72 Seasons” cover backdrop and talks (for example from the record holder with the most Metallica tattoos) to the big tribute concert by My’Tallica in the evening. There is also a lot to do on Sunday after a Weißwurst warm-up; at the “Headbanger Workshop” concertgoers can yogically prepare their shoulders, neck and throat for the evening concert.
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.
A nice walk could also lead fans to a place of pilgrimage in the Olympic Park: in 2004, their favorite band immortalized themselves in a concrete slab in the “Walk of Stars” at the Olympic Lake.
How do you get to the concerts?
The best way to get there is by bike or public transport: concert tickets with the MVV (Munich Transport and Tariff Association) logo printed on them allow free use.
- Arriving 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.
- Arriving 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.
- Arriving by tram: with tram lines 20 or 21. These run until just before 1 a.m. at 10-minute intervals from and to the Olympiapark West stop on Dachauer Straße.
- 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.