Metallica touring?
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:01 pm

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i have recently heard a rhumour that Metallica are going to be coming to new zealand sometime, probably next year...

does anyone out there know anything about this???

i would imagine they would possibly headline big day out again..
how sweet would it be if they come here for a full on concert!!!!!!!

RE: Metallica touring?
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:08 pm

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Yeah I'm hearing rumbles of NZ gigs next year.

BETTER BE CHCH THIS TIME

I missed out in 1993 on account of the fact I was only 15 at the time and had no money, so had to wait until 1998 on the Pour Re-Touring me tour when they did Welly.

RE: Metallica touring?
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:18 pm

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check out their tour scedule

BDO will be a no go for Tallica

RE: Metallica touring?
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:54 pm

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Chch would be a phat place to host the Tallica boys!
not sure if the stadium would be big enough to hold all the fans though,
it was only just big enough for Disturbed on Friday night ( F*#ken sweet gig by the way!!!!!!).

there would be a real good atmosphere if the gig was to be held in chch, not to mention a psychotic mosh pit .

haha i was only 4 in '93 ! But there is no way that i am going to miss this one!

lets hope that they come for their own concert and not big day out, cause that would rob us of the spectical that is a live Metallica gig!!!!!!!

RE: Metallica touring?
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:55 pm

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They're a shadow of their former selves on stage now I reckon, but still it'd be great to see them again.

Poor old Hetfield sings with NO grunt now in order to preserve his voice. I haven't heard a good live recording come from those guys since 1997 (B-sides to Mama Said - James is real drunk and is having a great time!)

Still, my favourite band ever, I'm allowed to pick them to bits!

RE: Metallica touring?
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:06 am

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yea you're right they arn't the metallica they used to be, yet they still manage to rock out some good music.
their new album 'Death Magnetic' reminisins of the tallica of old with heavy rifs and spine tingling solos! plus lars finally starts to play the drums again, they way he used to.

its obvious that they are being a bit causious with the way that they play these days. it would be bordering on murder if they attempt to play some of their old stuff such as some work from the justice album. hopfully they sort it out and get back to the tallica of old before they arrive here, because i've been waiting to see them live for as long as i can remember!

if they put out anything like they did on the cunning stunts world tour then we will be in for some insane gigs

RE: Metallica touring?
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:12 am

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I actually think he's gotten worse. His double-kick work is sloppy. The fast stuff you can hear his kick-drum getting messy and ahead of himself, and the rest of it is just un-inventive to me. James and Kirk are so tight on this album that it shows up Lars (like I've said before, Lars has openly admitted he's got no interest in drums anymore, he doesn't even play at home for fun). He's an "arranger" and businessman now. And really starting to look like Phil Collins



That setup was AWESEOME. That was the stage they used the same year they came to NZ, but in Welly/Aucks it was just a reload backdrop curtain and some pyro's... only about 4,000 punters came to the Wellington show, and 80% of the people I talked to over that day/evening were from either ChCh or Dunedin.

When I saw them (front row, of course!) they played:
So What
Master of Puppets
King Nothing (Includes an excerpt of 'The Outlaw Torn')
Ain't My Bitch
Sad But True
Fuel
The Memory Remains
Bass/Guitar Doodle
Nothing Else Matters
Until It Sleeps
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Wherever I May Roam
One
Kill/Ride Medley
Low Man's Lyric (Acoustic)
The Four Horsemen (Acoustic)
Motorbreath (Acoustic)
Creeping Death
Enter Sandman
Battery

Best night of my life. Ever.

RE: Metallica touring?
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:54 am

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gee king that setlist aint so hot, latley most of their set (bar death magnetic) has been black album or earlier, although i LOVE low mans lyrics. i must say death magnetic has grown on me so much. still think the best track is my apocalypse and worst one is cyanide.
if they come i will travel anywere in NZ to see them. i still recon it will be at this rock2??? event but we will see.

RE: Metallica touring?
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:05 pm

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Nah I liked the Setlist... and since I like the Load albums, double bonus. (good solid hard rock songs... at least within their current technical boundaries too!). Stuff like King Nohting was just STOMPING live. Really pounding.

I'm putting my $$$ on the rock2???? gig. *crosses fingers for ChCh*

RE: Metallica touring?
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:19 am

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i really like load (actually better than black album) but reload, while having sevral good tracks just doesn't do it for me but i spose they were touring on that album so it's to be expected. also looking at their current setlists there is quite a lot from death magnetic. take this one for example from two nights ago:

01. That Was Just Your Life
02. The End Of The Line
03. The Thing That Should Not Be
04. Of Wolf And Man
05. One
06. Broken, Beat And Scarred
07. Cyanide
08. Frantic
09. Until It Sleeps
10. Wherever I May Roam
11. For Whom The Bell Tolls
12. The Day That Never Comes
13. Master Of Puppets
14. Blackened
- - - - - - - -
15. Stone Cold Crazy
16. Jump In The Fire
17. Seek and Destroy

most surprising is NO ENTER SANDMAN!! LOL. they need to remove cyanide and broken, beatn, scared and replace them with judas kiss and my apocalypse. i've always dislike until it sleeps a lot. i think they need one more off master and ride and add hero of the day and that setlist will be all good!

RE: Metallica touring?
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:11 am

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well if this isn't evidence of metallica touring then what is??
http://www.3news.co.nz/Video/Entertainment/tabid/312/articleID/71788/cat/55/Default.aspx#video

why else would 3 news be puting up metallica posts??

RE: Metallica touring?
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:15 am

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Cuz they're, like, a big deal

RE: Metallica touring?
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:24 am

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yeah i came up from dunedin. did you que outside the venue from 12 midday for that? Was cool how they started the gig with all the house lights on then went into it on the second song. I rememebr head like a hole getting told to F*k off after every song they played before metallica came on.

RE: Metallica touring?
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:55 am

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Yeah mate I was there @ 12 on the dot! My mates and I probably had a chat with you dude! Crazy it was 10 years ago now.



Aye that was spine-tingly-dingly! BANG. MASTER OF PUPPEEEEEETZAAAAAH!



Yeah, poor guys. They looked like they knew they were gonna get lynched when they came out but soldiered on regardless. Good band, but a bad choice of opener.

RE: Metallica touring?
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:27 pm

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yeah but i think this is a some pre advertisment advertisment. the interview with rob was conducted by 3 news. seems a lil odd that they would take an interview to a country that they arn't gonna tour. say fiji for arguments sake, i couldnt imagine them doin an interview with fijian news if they weren't planning on heading there. i remember that tool did the same thing before coming to bdo.



oh maaaannnnnnnnnnnnn!!! i wana see them sooooo friggin bad!! sounds like the intro on the cunning stunts dvd. i will be the happiest dude in the world if i got to see my childhood icons live!!

RE: Metallica touring?
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:10 am

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Perhaps. I think it's more because it's selling by the truckload more than anything else.

Apparently little Lars has been crapping out during songs, and apologising to auciences That little twerp needs lessons, urgently.

RE: Metallica touring?
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:32 am

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the answer is more simple thatn drum lessons. just replace him with dave lombardo!!!!!!!!!

RE: Metallica touring?
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 4:10 pm

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i think they lost ther gonads wen they cut there hair...

RE: Metallica touring?
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:58 am

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About the terrible production (apparently the guitar hero version sounds better)

http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/09/does-metallicas.html

From the guy who mastered the album (in response to an email about the so very terrible "loud" mastering.

RE: Metallica touring?
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:23 am

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yeah i've already read that 1. i still think despite the quality and awful drumming that it's an awsome album.