By Harley Rivers – May 22, 2025
Metallica are done pretending this tour has an endpoint. The M72 World Tour, already a metal marathonis now stretching into 2026 with a new slate of UK and European stadium dates, and the lineup is still stacked enough to rupture tectonic plates.
The band just dropped details for the next leg of their “No Repeat Weekends”, rolling through Athens, Frankfurt, Zurich, Berlin, and beyond in May, then hitting the UK and Ireland in June and July, including long-overdue returns to Dublin and Glasgow, plus a double hit at London Stadium on July 3 and 5.
Pantera. Knocked Loose. Gojira. Avatar.
Let that soak in. Metallica’s keeping the support rotation lethal. This is legacy-era dominance with no signs of mercy. Knocked Loose in football stadiums? Pantera continuing their polarising but powerful return? Gojira bringing the apocalypse? It’s a lineup that reads like a fight card.
If you’ve already caught the M72 show, you know the drill in-the-round stage, rotating setlists, full-circle pyros, and a career-spanning assault that lets ‘72 Seasons’ tracks go toe-to-toe with ‘Ride the Lightning’ and ‘Master of Puppets’. If you haven’t? Consider this your final warning.
Ticket Info
General on-sale hits next Friday, May 30 at 10am BST. Fanclub presales launch Tuesday, May 27 at 11am. And as always, a cut of the ticket sales will benefit All Within My Hands, Metallica’s charity foundation that’s raised millions for workforce education and disaster relief, because even when they’re burning it all down, they’re still giving back.
Bonus Chaos: A VR Concert Film Is Coming
For those stuck stateside (or just tour-watching from a distance), Metallica’s also got a 360° VR concert film in the pipeline, shot in Mexico City. Want Hetfield’s roar in your living room and Lars’ snare in your face? This one’s for you.
Whether you’re chasing the nostalgia, hungry for full-blown production mayhem, or just want to see Knocked Loose smash stadium crowds wide open, this leg of the M72 run isn’t slowing down, it’s stomping harder.
Europe, start stretching.
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