Metallica By Request Tour

The Metallica By Request Tour^[2] was a concert tour by American heavy metal band Metallica in support of their single Lords of Summer, which was released on March 19, 2014. An interactive tour, concertgoers could vote, via internet, which songs Metallica would include on each night's setlist and, at the concert, via SMS, to a song in the encore. Metallica debuted a new song, called "Lords of Summer". Metallica's only stop in North America was in Montreal for the Heavy Montreal festival.

Metallica By Request Tour

World tour by Metallica
Location	Europe North America South America
Start date	March 16, 2014 (2014-03-16)
End date	August 9, 2014 (2014-08-09)
Legs	3
No. of shows	17 in Europe 8 in South America 1 in North America 26 total
Box office	$43,800,000+[1]
Metallica concert chronology

Tour dates

List of 2014 concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, and opening act^[3][4]

Date (2014)	City	Country	Venue	Opening act	Attendance	Gross
March 16	Bogotá	Colombia	Simón Bolívar Park	Nepentes Recycled Orchestra of Cateura De La Tierra	30,974 / 34,137	$2,857,030
March 18	Quito	Ecuador	Parque Bicentenario	Mad Brain Recycled Orchestra of Cateura De La Tierra	32,257 / 32,257	$3,877,959
March 20	Lima	Peru	Estadio Nacional de Lima	Recycled Orchestra of Cateura De La Tierra	27,858 / 31,600	$1,925,090
March 22	São Paulo	Brazil	Estádio do Morumbi	Raven	61,742 / 63,347	$5,696,363
March 24	Asunción	Paraguay	Hipódromo de Asunción	Recycled Orchestra of Cateura De La Tierra	28,277 / 32,200	$2,256,140
March 27	Macul	Chile	Estadio Monumental David Arellano	Recycled Orchestra of Cateura	43,296 / 43,296	$3,508,790
March 29	La Plata	Argentina	Estadio Ciudad de La Plata	Cirse Recycled Orchestra of Cateura	76,407 / 78,902	$4,792,140
March 30
May 28	Helsinki	Finland	Hietaniemi beach	Slayer Mastodon Ghost Gojira	—	—
May 30	Stockholm	Sweden	Royal National City Park		49,430 / 54,000	$7,173,380
June 1	Oslo	Norway	Valle Hovin		—	—
June 3	Horsens	Denmark	Horsens Statsfængsel		35,000 / 35,000	$4,442,697
June 4	Hamburg	Germany	Volksparkstadion	Slayer Mastodon Ghost	43,518 / 43,518	$4,272,566
June 6	Nuremberg		Zeppelinfeld	Avenged Sevenfold Alter Bridge In Extremo	—	—
June 8	Nürburg		Nürburgring
June 9	Landgraaf	Netherlands	Megaland	Avenged Sevenfold Biffy Clyro Rob Zombie
June 28	Pilton	England	Worthy Farm	Jack White Robert Plant
July 1	Rome	Italy	Ippodromo delle Capannelle	Alice in Chains Volbeat Kvelertak
July 3	Werchter	Belgium	Werchter Park	Placebo Skrillex Robert Plant
July 4	Basel	Switzerland	St. Jakob-Park	Alice in Chains Airbourne
July 6	Knebworth	England	Knebworth House	Alice in Chains Mastodon Airbourne
July 8	Prague	Czech Republic	Incheba Open Air	Alice in Chains Children of Bodom Kvelertak
July 9	Vienna	Austria	Trabrennbahn Krieau
July 11	Warsaw	Poland	National Stadium	Alice in Chains Anthrax Kvelertak
July 13	Istanbul	Turkey	ITU Stadium	Mezarkabul
August 9	Montreal	Canada	Parc Jean-Drapeau	Anthrax Dropkick Murphys Apocalyptica
Total					460,455+	$43,800,000+

Personnel

• James Hetfield – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
• Lars Ulrich – drums
• Kirk Hammett – lead guitar, backing vocals
• Robert Trujillo – bass, backing vocals