Download Festival 2004 Metallica

[Evangeline Mellon]

Thisnew festival, to be held Oct. 6-8 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, is meant to deliver a heavier dose of rock with its lineup of Guns N' Roses and Iron Maiden on Friday (Oct. 6), AC/DC and Ozzy Osbourne on Saturday (Oct. 7), and Metallica and Tool on Sunday (Oct. 8).

The festival marks the return of AC/DC with frontman Brian Johnson, who had to leave the band's tour in 2016 because of hearing loss. Guns N' Roses' Axl Rose filled in on the rest of the band's dates.

Johnson rejoined the band for its 2020 album, "Power Up," with the help of some special hearing aid technology. He also performed at the Sept. 3, 2022 tribute concert for Foo Fighters' drummer Taylor Hawkins.

Metallica begins a world tour on April 27 in Amsterdam and has a new album "72 Seasons" due out April 14. Guns N' Roses' summer-long tour begins June 1 and includes a June 30 date at the British Summer Time Festival at Hyde Park in London. Iron Maiden restarts its Future Past Tour in May in Slovenia. Tool has announced appearances at several festivals including the Rockville Festival at Daytona Beach, Florida (May 21).

Metallica has played many shows at major rock festivals such as Woodstock '94, Ozzfest, Monsters of Rock, Lollapalooza, Download Festival, Reading Festival, and Days on the Green. They also held numerous concerts in stadiums, some of which featured crowds of over 100,000 people. One of the highest-attendance music concerts in history was held by AC/DC on September 28, 1991, at Tushino Airfield in Moscow, where unofficially 1.6 million people attended. Some of these performances were later released as videos for special box set or DVD releases. Some performances have been held in theaters, including two April 1999 shows alongside the San Francisco Symphony that were released as the album S&M.[5]

Metallica's first official tour was Kill 'Em All for One, which started in 1983 to promote their debut album. Their longest so far have been the Wherever We May Roam and World Magnetic Tours, which lasted 14 months and 20 months, respectively, with each having over 170 concerts.[6] The band is among the most lucrative live bands, selling out half of their first 187 concerts held during the 2000s, and gaining an attendance of over 3.5 million people and a gross of over US$227 million.[7]

The band went on tour to support their second album, Ride the Lightning, gaining an attendance of 60,000 at a show in Oakland, California, at the Day on the Green festival.[11] During the tour, Metallica played for the first time at the Monsters of Rock festival. The concert was at Donington Park, England, in front of 70,000 people.[11]

The tour supported the band's third album Master of Puppets in which the headliner of the North American spring and summer portion was Ozzy Osbourne.[11] It was plagued with misfortune for the band, as the guitar technician John Marshall had to fill James Hetfield's place at the rhythm guitar twice due to wrist injury.[13][14] Later, during the European portion, a bus accident in Sweden killed bassist Cliff Burton.[13] The World Tour that followed introduced the new bassist, Jason Newsted.[14]

The tour consisted of several European festivals and stadium shows, as well as a private gig at The Marquee under the name The Frayed Ends.[27] It included two shows in Aerosmith's Pump Tour, along with The Black Crowes and Warrant, with crowds of 60,000 and 30,000 spectators respectively.[26][28]

Metallica went on the festival tour a fourth time. The last concert of the tour, held on September 28 at Tushino Airfield in Moscow, was described as "the first free outdoor Western rock concert in Soviet history" and had a crowd estimated between 500,000 and 3,500,000 people,[29][30] with some unofficial estimates as high over 2,000,000.[31]

The tour supported the fifth album, Metallica (also known as "The Black Album") which included a performance at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, with the band performing a short set list and Hetfield performing with Queen and Tony Iommi. The January 13 and 14, 1992, shows in San Diego were later released in the box set Live Shit: Binge & Purge,[24] while the tour and the album were later documented in A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica.[32]

It was an overlap of Metallica's Wherever We May Roam Tour and Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion Tour. James Hetfield suffered serious burns during a show in Montreal; John Marshall filled the guitar for the rest of the tour.[33]

The shows in Mexico City across February and March 1993 were later released as part of the box set Live Shit: Binge & Purge.[38] It is also the first time the band met Robert Trujillo who would join the band almost a decade later.[36]

During the tour, a song from each of the next two albums were played ("2 4" and "Devil's Dance").[41] At the Donington Park concert, Metallica joined the Monsters of Rock for a fifth time.[12] It was the first tour with most of songs in Eb Tuning still used today

Metallica plays at European festivals to fulfill earlier contractual obligations. They play three back-to-back shows at the Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium,[52] Blind Man's Ball in Germany,[53] and Reading Festival in England.[54]

The tour supported the album Garage Inc.[60] During the tour, Metallica played two live concerts similar to the one released in S&M; one in Germany with Babelsberger Filmorchester on November 19; and one at the Madison Square Garden, New York City, with the Orchestra of St. Luke's on November 23.[5]

Another tour supporting album St. Anger, in which most shows were made available later for purchase as a digital download.[71] Before the show in Download Festival, Lars Ulrich was rushed to the hospital after having an anxiety seizure and was unable to perform, and Metallica played in that gig with guest drummers Dave Lombardo and Joey Jordison, and Ulrich's drum technician Flemming Larsen.[72]

Two untitled new songs were played, and some portions ended up being featured on the next released album.[74] Tour also featured the album Master of Puppets played in its entirety in its proper sequence for the first time.[75]

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, on July 7, 2009, at Nmes, France and on October 31 and November 1 at Quebec City were released on the DVDs Orgullo, Pasin y Gloria: Tres Noches en la Ciudad de Mxico, Franais Pour Une Nuit and Quebec Magnetic respectively.[82][83] The tour ended with concerts in Australia and in New Zealand in November 2010.[84]

Tour headlining European festivals, such as Sonisphere Festival, Download Festival, Nova Rock Festival, Rock in Rio Lisboa, Werchter Boutique, Rock am Ring and Rock im Park. As a late celebration for The Black Album's 20th anniversary, it was played in its entirety in reverse.[90]

Few of the shows were recorded for the band's movie Metallica: Through the Never, was the first tour that the band had two songs for the encore rather than three, and included stage antics like the stage falling apart, the Death Magnetic Coffins, and much more.

At the second Orion Music + More festival held in Detroit, the band played under the fake-name "Dehaan" - "Dehaan" being a reference to actor Dane DeHaan, who starred in Metallica: Through the Never - and played Kill 'Em All in its entirety, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the release.[91] Following the tour, Metallica played a show called "Freeze 'Em All" in Antarctica's Carlini Base, becoming the first band to play on all seven continents.[92]

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.

First gig was at Radio City, Anaheim on March 14, 1982, other gigs during 1982 and early 1983 as a band were not played as a tour, as the new band released several demos and went through a couple of line-up changes, as Ron McGovney was replaced by Cliff Burton as bassist and several months later Dave Mustaine lead guitarist and backing vocalist was replaced by Kirk Hammett.[1][2]

Without a bass player, the band played few shows as they auditioned for a bassist.[95] The year 2001 was the first since the band's formation when Metallica played no shows at all.[96] During their only performance of 2002, the band introduced themselves as Bob's Band (after Bob Rock who helped on bass).[95]

It began in 2006 and has transformed into a global sensation, ranking as one of the largest metal festivals in Europe, alongside Germany's Wacken Open Air and Spain's Resurrection Fest.

Also on the Main Stage were bands that had been gradually growing in stature, with their billing being the perfect indication. Both alt-J and Bastille put in rapturously received later slots, while Panic! At The Disco and All Time Low both returned like all-conquering heroes and played next to each other in the late afternoon.

Babymetal may well have had the biggest crowd ever for a Main Stage opener. Su-metal, Yuimetal and Moametal took their brand of J-Pop and heavy metal to the crowds, with hundreds of fans at the front wearing their exclusive Babymetal t-shirts. PVRIS also showed the shape of great things to come and Atreyu returned after a lengthy hiatus.

Marmozets and Royal Blood were incredibly popular with both their transfers from the NME/BBC Radio 1 Stage last year to the Main Stage made exceedingly easy by the crowd hanging on every note and word from each band.

Two bands that had masses of people discussing their future headliner credentials, Twin Atlantic were favourites in the NME/Radio 1 Stage while Bring Me The Horizon played a crowd destroying set before the headliners.

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