Metallica announce rescheduled South American tour dates: “Third time is the charm”

“For those of you who have hung in there with us over the last 18 months since the original shows were supposed to happen, thank you for your tremendous patience! We truly cannot wait to finally visit South America for the first time in almost five years in April/May of 2022 as we head back for the originally planned six headlining shows, including two Brazilian cities we have never played in: Belo Horizonte and Curitiba. Still on board for the ride to open the show are our friends in Greta Van Fleet.”

The band continued: “Hang on to your tickets from those originally scheduled shows way back in April of 2020, as they will be honoured for the new dates. Where applicable, refund information is below; we encourage you to visit the website or location where you purchased your tickets for additional details should you be unable to join us in the spring of 2022. Please note that the Buenos Aires show is back to the original location of Campo Argentino de Polo, and tickets are still available for most shows.”

SOUTH AMERICA! The re-rescheduled tour dates you’ve been waiting for are finally set. We’ll be playing six shows with stops in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil in April and May of 2022.

Get more info at https://t.co/0hn6e2TKn9. pic.twitter.com/DRGGd28lEN

— Metallica (@Metallica) October 25, 2021

“We wish you, your families, and your loved ones good health as we turn the page to the next chapter of this difficult time,” the band concluded. “We cannot wait to spend time in person with our extended Metallica family next year!”

You can see the rescheduled South American dates below:

APRIL 2022

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27 – Estadio Nacional, Santiago, Chile
30 – Campo Argentino de Polo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

MAY 2022

5 – Estacionamento da Fiergs, Porto Alegre, Brazil
7 – Estádio Couto Pereira, Curitiba, Brazil
10 – Estádio do Morumbi, Sao Paulo, Brazil
12 – Estádio do Mineirão, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Back in June, Metallica filed an insurance lawsuit against Lloyd’s Of London over losses suffered as a result of postponing the original South American tour dates.

Filed on June 7 in the Los Angeles Superior Court, the lawsuit alleged breach of contract, with the band seeking unspecified compensatory damages, according to CBS Los Angeles.

The lawsuit further detailed that Metallica bought a standard “cancellation, abandonment and non-appearance insurance” policy in order to cover their losses if any portion of the tour was postponed or cancelled, and that the band “timely turned to [Lloyd’s] for the promised and reasonably expected coverage for their losses”.

It also alleged that Lloyd’s Of London cited the policy’s communicable disease exclusion and “denied any coverage obligation whatsoever based on an unreasonably restrictive interpretation of the policy”.

Meanwhile, Metallica fans now have the opportunity to own a figurine of the statue that appears on the band’s ‘…And Justice For All’ album cover.

Only 1,988 copies of Lady Justice will be created, tying in with the album’s release date of 1988.

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Watch Sam Fender join Declan McKenna for performance of ‘Brazil’ at Leeds Festival

NME caught up with McKenna again backstage at Reading yesterday and asked if there had been any new developments with the collaboration. “No… we’ve both been doing all sorts of shit!” he said. “Today marks the first time I’ll have seen him in two years.”

The 22-year-old added: “We’ll still get in that studio at some point, though.”

You can watch footage of Fender and McKenna’s performance of ‘Brazil’, which is taken from McKenna’s 2017 debut album, ‘What Do You Think About the Car?’, below:

SAM FENDER PERFORMING WITH DECLAN MCKENNA!! pic.twitter.com/aTzJ9kNpIi

— Sam Fender Updates (@FenderUpdates) August 28, 2021

more of sam and declan performing brazil together!! via declan mckenna's instagram stories pic.twitter.com/1CWE25NNi6

— Sam Fender Updates (@FenderUpdates) August 28, 2021

Footage has also emerged of the pair joking around backstage at Leeds, including a video of Fender driving McKenna and his band around the back paths of the festival. You can see the clips below.

sam driving declan mckenna and his band backstage at Leeds festival today😂 pic.twitter.com/WGkoZgByGr

— Sam Fender Updates (@FenderUpdates) August 28, 2021

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sam with declan mckenna via instagram stories!! 😂 pic.twitter.com/il0G6lUxmD

— Sam Fender Updates (@FenderUpdates) August 28, 2021

Elsewhere in his latest chat with NME, McKenna talked about what Reading Festival means to him, saying that it has “always been so important to [him].”

After waiting a year to give the tracks from his 2020 album ‘Zeros’ their live airing, he also explained how this year’s edition feels monumental: “‘Zeros’ is fucking intense. But finally seeing it come to life has been like, ‘Wow, this is really what it’s all about!’”

See McKenna’s setlist for Reading & Leeds Festival below:

‘Beautiful Faces’
‘Isombard’
‘The Key to Life on Earth’
‘Why Do You Feel So Down’
‘You Better Believe!!!’
‘Be an Astronaut’
‘Brazil’
‘British Bombs’

Meanwhile, last week, Fender shared ‘Aye’, the second preview of his upcoming album ‘Seventeen Going Under’, which is set for release on October 8.

Check back at NME all weekend for more reviews, news, interviews, photos and more from Reading & Leeds 2021. 

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Declan McKenna – Brazil

I heard you sold the Amazon
To show the country that you’re from
Is where the world should want to be
For find something all people need
I’m faithless now though we win
Every time and I don’t know how
‘Cause I haven’t bought you
And I haven’t sold me
But the people are dying to get on TV
I heard he lives down a river somewhere
With six cars and a grizzly bear
He’s got eyes, but he can’t see
Well, he talks like an angel but he looks like me
Oh Lord, what have I become
I’m the face of God I’m my fathers’ son
I’m not, what you think you see
I know you can’t eat leather, but you can’t stop me
Why would you lie, why would you lie about how you feel
I’ve got a mission and my mission is real
Because you’ve had your chances, yeh you’ve had enough
I’m gonna burn your house down to spread peace and love
And it gets me down
Oh Lord how it gets me down
I heard he lives down a river somewhere
With six cars and a grizzly bear
He’s got eyes, but he can’t see
Well, he talks like an angel but he looks like me
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Everybody plays a beautiful game out in Brazil
‘Cause it’s all you ever wanted and it’s all that you want still
Don’t you wanna play the beautiful game out in Brazil
I wanna play the beautiful game while I’m in Brazil
‘Cause everybody plays the beautiful game out in Brazil
And it’s all you’ve ever wanted, and it’s all that you want still
Don’t you wanna play the beautiful game out in Brazil
Oh yeah
I heard he lives down a river somewhere
With six cars and a grizzly bear
He’s got eyes, but he can’t see
Well, he talks like an angel but he looks like me
I heard he lives down a river somewhere
With six cars and a grizzly bear
He’s got eyes, but he can’t see
Well, he talks like an angel but he looks like me

Michael Franks – Down In Brazil lyrics

Down in Brazil
It takes a day to walk a mile
Time just stand still
And when the people you meet look at you they smile
They still believe in style
They serve you with their sambas ’til
You really know you’re down in ol’ Brazil
You can tell you’re down in ol’ Brazil

Down in Brazil
They’ve never heard of win or lose
If you can’t feel
Then all those cafe ole girls in high heel shoes
Will really cure your blues
It seems they all just aim to please
Those women sway like wind in my banana trees
Then you know you’re down in ol’ Brazil

Down in Brazil
They know a million ways to play
You start to feel
And when you’re happy
It’s the same as when you pray
You’d think you get away
Then you know you never will
Now when you’ve been down in ol’ Brazil
Now when you are down in ol’ Brazil

Down in ol’ Brazil
Down in ol’ Brazil
Down in ol’ Brazil
Down in ol’ Brazil