{"id":18706,"date":"2011-03-03T16:39:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T21:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=18706"},"modified":"2011-03-03T16:40:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T21:40:45","slug":"the-big-four-announce-sweden-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=18706","title":{"rendered":"THE BIG FOUR &#8211; Announce Sweden Show!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i189.photobucket.com\/albums\/z89\/themetalden2007\/190096_10150097759706744_91043496743_6908075_6849543_n.jpg\" alt=\"tmd\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/tmdcom.jpg\" alt=\"tmd\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nDen Headz, this just in: U.S. thrash metal\u2019s celebrated Big Four have announced that they\u2019ve just added to their scheduled list of historic concert appearances with a July 3, 2011, performance in Gothenburg, Sweden.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nScandinavia is an especially vital metal stronghold, and so shred fans throughout the icy vastness of Northern Europe will undoubtedly be delighted to welcome the Big Four\u2014Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax\u2014to Swedish soil. The July 3 Gothenburg appearance comes several weeks after the Big Four\u2019s sole North American appearance on April 23 in Southern California.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOn July 3, the Big Four will play Gothenburg\u2019s Ullevi, which is the largest stadium in Scandinavia with a concert capacity of 60,000.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe Big Four first shook metaldom in summer 2010 with a series of European Sonisphere festival shows that saw all four bands performing together on one stage for the first time ever.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nStill no word on whether or not they plan to add any more dates to the US tour schedule.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metallica.com\/\">http:\/\/www.metallica.com\/<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Den Headz, this just in: U.S. thrash metal\u2019s celebrated Big Four have announced that they\u2019ve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}