The WorldWired Tour was a concert tour by American
heavy metal band
Metallica
Metallica is an American heavy metal band. The band was formed in 1981 in Los Angeles by vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, and has been based in San Francisco for most of its career. The band's fast tempos, instrume ...
in support of their tenth studio album ''
Hardwired... to Self-Destruct'', which was released on November 18, 2016. It is also their first worldwide tour after the
World Magnetic Tour
The World Magnetic Tour was a 2008–2010 concert tour by American heavy metal band Metallica in support of the band's ninth studio album, ''Death Magnetic'', which was released on September 12, 2008.
The tour officially kicked off in October ...
six years earlier.
Background
The tour started on October 26, 2016, in Puerto Rico, followed by four more dates on the Latin American tour.
A performance at the 59th annual Grammy Awards on February 12, 2017, was also a part of the tour.
In 2018, the WorldWired Tour reached another $67.9 million from 37 shows, 24 in Europe and 13 in North America. The tour has grossed $426.9 million, from 139 concerts three years since it began in 2016 and now is the ninth highest-grossing tour of all time.
The tour ended on August 25, 2019 in Mannheim, Germany.
The band had plans to continue the tour in late 2019 and early 2020, but the tour dates in Australia were cancelled because of issues James had with alcohol, while the South American leg was postponed to 2022 due to
COVID-19 pandemic
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.
Setlist
The following setlist was performed at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, and is not intended to represent all of the shows on tour.
# "Hardwired"
# "Atlas, Rise!"
# "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
# "The Memory Remains"
# "The Unforgiven"
# "Now That We're Dead"
# "Moth Into Flame"
# "Wherever I May Roam"
# "Halo on Fire"
# "Hit the Lights"
# "Sad but True"
# "One"
# "Master of Puppets"
# "Fade to Black"
# "Seek & Destroy"
Encore
#
"Blackened"
# "Nothing Else Matters"
# "Enter Sandman"
Kirk/Rob doodle
In 2017, Kirk Hammett and Rob Trujillo began to cover songs written by artists from the region in which the concert was being performed.
Tour dates
Cancelled and postponed shows
Personnel
*James Hetfield
James Alan Hetfield (born August 3, 1963) is an American musician. He is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, co-founder and a main songwriter of heavy metal band Metallica. He is mainly known for his intricate rhythm playing, but occasionall ...
– lead vocals, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar
*Lars Ulrich
Lars Ulrich (; ; born 26 December 1963) is a Danish musician best known as the drummer and co-founder of American heavy metal band Metallica. The son and grandson respectively of tennis players Torben and Einer Ulrich, he played tennis in his ...
– drums
*Kirk Hammett
Kirk Lee Hammett (born November 18, 1962) is an American musician who has been the lead guitarist and a contributing songwriter for heavy metal band Metallica since 1983. Before joining Metallica, he formed and named the band Exodus. In 2003, ...
– lead guitar, backing vocals
*Robert Trujillo
Roberto Agustín Miguel Santiago Samuel Trujillo Veracruz (; born October 23, 1964) is an American musician, best known as the bassist for Heavy metal music, heavy metal band Metallica since 2003. He first rose to prominence as the bassist of cr ...
– bass guitar, backing vocals
Notes
References
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Concert tours postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic