METALLICA – Needs More $$$, Teams Up With URBAN OUTFITTERS

METALLICA — which, according to Pollstar, grossed around $200 million on tour behind its 2008 album “Death Magnetic” — will kick off the North American leg of its “WorldWired” 2017 tour on May 10 in Baltimore, Maryland. Support on the quartet’s first North American trek since 2009 — which will hit stadiums in 25 cities before winding down in mid-August — will come mainly from AVENGED SEVENFOLD and VOLBEAT, with GOJIRA taking over for the latter group for the last six shows.



According to Billboard, METALLICA‘s latest album, “Hardwired… To Self-Destruct”, is distributed by Alternative Distribution Alliance, the indie distribution arm of Warner Music Group. METALLICA had previously released its music through Warner Music‘s Elektra Records (beginning in 1984) and then later through Warner Bros. Records. The band renegotiated its contract with Warner Music in 1994, and that contract expired in November 2012. As part of that deal, the heavy metal legends walked away from Warner Music with their master recordings, which the group has since reissued on its own independent label called Blackened Recordings.



Blackened was described in a 2012 press release as “a home for all of [METALLICA‘s] recordings, both audio and visual, and anything else that suits them.”



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