{"id":2449729,"date":"2019-10-10T13:31:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T19:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=897395"},"modified":"2019-10-10T13:31:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T19:31:01","slug":"metallica-announce-headlining-gigs-at-five-2020-u-s-music-fests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/metallica-announce-headlining-gigs-at-five-2020-u-s-music-fests\/","title":{"rendered":"Metallica Announce Headlining Gigs at Five 2020 U.S. Music Fests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/metallica-announcement.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/metallica\/\" id=\"auto-tag_metallica\" data-tag=\"metallica\">Metallica<\/a> launched <a href=\"https:\/\/metallicaxx.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a mysterious website<\/a> accompanied by a clock counting down to Thursday afternoon, the metal legends have revealed the secret of \u201cMetallica XX\u201d: Two-night headlining slots at five music festivals in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>At each of the five music festivals \u2014 Charlotte, North Carolina\u2019s Epicenter, Daytona Beach, Florida\u2019s Welcome to Rockville, Columbus, Ohio\u2019s Sonic Temple, Louisville, Kentucky\u2019s Louder Than Life and Sacramento, California\u2019s Aftershock \u2014 Metallica will perform sets on both Friday night and Sunday night, with the band promising different sets on each night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd on Saturday, each member of Metallica will do a stand-up set at the comedy tent,\u201d Lars Ulrich joked during a live-stream announcing the Metallica\u2019s five headlining gigs. \u201cAs we like to hear ourselves say in Metallica, all our best years are still ahead of us. We\u2019re just getting started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gxbesvigj3U?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Producer Danny Wimmer Presents runs all five festivals. \u201cMetallica isn\u2019t just another headliner. When Metallica takes the stage, it\u2019s an event. It\u2019s an experience. That\u2019s the same standard we\u2019ve set for every DWP festival \u2014 from the first band to the last band, and everything that happens in between. I can\u2019t wait to bring the biggest band in the world to the biggest rock festivals in America\u201d Wimmer said in a statement. \u201cMetallica paved this road that we travel. How many artists on the bill at these five festivals first picked up an instrument, or first started a band, because of Metallica?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for all five festivals will go on sale October 14th. Each festival\u2019s lineups will be announced on a future date.<\/p>\n<p>The festival announcement comes just weeks after Metallica <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/metallica-cancel-tour-james-hetfield-rehab-892158\/\">canceled an upcoming tour<\/a> of Australia and New Zealand after James Hetfield returned to an addiction treatment center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs most of you probably know, our brother James has been struggling with addiction on and off for many years. He has now, unfortunately, had to re-enter a treatment program to work on his recovery again,\u201d Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, and Robert Trujillo said in a statement&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metallica.com\/news\/2019-09-27-a-note-from-lars-kirk-and-rob.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on the Metallica site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe fully intend to make our way to your part of the world as soon as health and schedule permit. We\u2019ll let you know as soon as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Metallica 2020 Festival Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Epicenter, May 1 &amp; 3 \u2013 Charlotte, NC @ Charlotte Motor Speedway<br \/>Welcome To Rockville, May 8 &amp; 10 \u2013 Daytona Beach, FL @ Daytona International Speedway<br \/>Sonic Temple, May 15 &amp; 17 \u2013 Columbus, OH @&nbsp;MAPFRE Stadium<br \/>Louder Than Life, September 18 &amp; 20 \u2013 Louisville, KY @ Highland Festival Grounds<br \/>Aftershock, October 9 &amp; 11&nbsp;\u2013 Sacramento, CA @ Discovery Park<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/metallica-2020-music-festivals-897395\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days after Metallica launched a mysterious website accompanied by a clock counting down to Thursday afternoon, the metal legends have revealed the secret of \u201cMetallica XX\u201d: Two-night headlining slots at five music festivals in 2020. At each of the five music festivals \u2014 Charlotte, North Carolina\u2019s Epicenter, Daytona Beach, Florida\u2019s Welcome to Rockville, Columbus, Ohio\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2449729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 07:32:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}