The mighty Metallica got here to the rescue after a hearth destroyed the primary stage of the Tomorrowland competition in Belgium threatened to cancel the EDM gathering only a couple days earlier than it was set to kick off. The legendary steel band lent the fest its stage that was in storage in between European legs on its ongoing “M72 World Tour.”
As beforehand reported, the frilly principal stage for Tomorrowland was decimated in an enormous hearth on Wednesday (July sixteenth), with the fest set to kick off on Friday (July 18th) that includes EDM heavyweights like Swedish Home Mafia, David Guetta, Steve Aoki, Deadmau5, and others all through the three-day weekend.
Metallica’s set, that includes a large wall of video screens, was being saved in Austria and was airlifted to Belgium in a single day, as reported by Belgian information outlet HLN, and the competition miraculously kicked off with no hitch on Friday.
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Dutch DJ Martin Garrix, who carried out on Friday, posted a photograph of himself with Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich on Instagram previous to his set, and wrote, “I can’t consider I’m truly typing this… however my set at Tomorrowland continues to be occurring! Large love and a giant shoutout to the unimaginable @tomorrowland workforce for pulling off miracles — and to @Metallica for coming by means of with the brand new stage components.”
Metallica, who landed three LPs on Consequence‘s current checklist of the 75 Greatest Metallic Albums of All Time, launched into a European leg of their “M72 World Tour” again in 2024, and can revisit the continent for an additional leg in 2026 (tickets accessible right here).
A photograph of Metallica’s stage in entrance of the destroyed principal stage will be seen in Tomorrowland’s Instagram publish under, together with Martin Garrix’s aforementioned publish.