2000s Tours
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| 2000 | Summer Sanitarium Tour | USA: June 23 – August 9, 2000 | 21 | Korn, Kid Rock, Powerman 5000, System of a Down |
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Hetfield missed three shows due to back injury. Newsted sang most of the songs during these concerts, and the vocals and rhythm guitar were also taken by musicians from the other bands. |
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| 2003 | Summer Sanitarium 2003 Tour | Europe: June 4–28, 2003 Europe/North America: July 4 – August 29, 2003 |
36 | Limp Bizkit, Deftones, Mudvayne, Linkin Park, Lostprophets, The Darkness |
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As a tour supporting album St. Anger, it marked the first time the new bassist, Robert Trujillo, played live with the band. |
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| 2003–2004 | Madly in Anger with the World Tour | World Tour: November 6, 2003 – November 28, 2004 | 137 | Godsmack, Lostprophets, Slipknot, In Flames |
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Another tour supporting album St. Anger, in which most shows were made available later for purchase as a digital download. Before the show in Download Festival, Lars Ulrich was hospitalized, and Metallica played in that gig with guest drummers Dave Lombardo and Joey Jordison, and Ulrich's drum technician Flemming Larsen. |
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| 2006 | Escape from the Studio '06 | World Tour: March 13 – August 15, 2006 | 16 | Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet for My Valentine, Trivium, Tool |
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Two untitled new songs were played, and some portions ended up being featured on the next released album. Tour also featured the album Master of Puppets played in its entirety in its proper sequence for the first time. |
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| 2007 | Sick of the Studio '07 | Europe: June 28 – July 18, 2007 | 12 | Mastodon, Him, Joe Satriani, Stone Sour, Incubus, Biok, Faithless, Interpol, The Kooks, My Dying Bride, Dirt Spawn Disease, Heaven and Hell, Oomph!, Machine Head, Turbonegro, Volbeat, Mnemic, Diablo |
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The tour featured shows at festivals and in stadiums, with crowds numbering 60,000 people. |
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| 2008 | 2008 European Vacation Tour | North America/Europe: May 14 – August 24, 2008 | 26 | The Sword, Ozzy Osbourne, Serj Tankian, Hellyeah, Jonathan Davis, Cavalera Conspiracy, Shadows Fall, Apocalyptica, In This Moment |
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Two songs from the upcoming album were debuted. The band played at Ozzfest for the first time in their history, being featured as headliners and playing right after Ozzy Osbourne. |
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| 2008–2010 | World Magnetic Tour | Europe/Israel: September 12, 2008 – June 27, 2010 USA/Canada: October 17, 2008 – December 12, 2009 Latin America: June 4, 2009 – March 14, 2010 Australia/Japan/New Zealand: September 15, 2010 – November 21, 2010 |
187 | Lamb of God, The Sword, Volbeat, Machine Head, Down, Mastodon, Avenged Sevenfold, Resorte, Fear Factory, Gojira, Horcas, Mad, Hibria, Sepultura, High on Fire, Orphaned Land, Criminal |
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Tour supporting the album Death Magnetic. The tour was the 16th highest grossing concert tour ever. The shows on June 4, 6 and 7 at Mexico City and on July 7 of 2009 at Nîmes, France were released on the DVDs Orgullo, Pasión y Gloria: Tres Noches en la Ciudad de México and Français Pour Une Nuit respectively. The tour ended with concerts in Australia and in New Zealand in November 2010. |
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| 2011 | 2011 Vacation Tour | North America/Europe/South America/Asia: April 23 - October 30, 2011 | 17 | Biffy Clyro |
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Tour features the first two Big Four U.S. shows in Indio, California and New York City, respectively, as well as the band's first ever show in India. |
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| 2012 | 2012 European Black Album Tour | Europe: May 7 - June 10, 2012 | 16 | |
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Tour headlining European festivals, such as Sonisphere Festival, Download Festival, Nova Rock Festival, Rock in Rio Lisboa, Rock Werchter, Rock am Ring and Rock im Park. As a late celebration for The Black Album's 20th anniversary, it was played in its enterity in reverse. |
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