{"id":616541,"date":"2026-02-26T02:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/616541\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T02:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:56:13","slug":"metallica-announces-residency-at-sphere-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/616541\/","title":{"rendered":"Metallica Announces Residency at Sphere in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMetallica<\/a> are the latest group coming to the Sphere<\/a> in Las Vegas, the band confirmed on Wednesday, marking the first heavy metal act tapped to play the high-tech venue since its opening in 2023. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe rock icons will play eight shows at the venue on October 1 and October 3, October 15 and October 17, October 22 and October 24. Tickets will go on sale<\/a> on March 6 at 10 a.m. PST. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAbout 12 seconds into the opening night of\u00a0 Sphere with U2 back in \u201823, I thought \u2018We have to do this, it\u2019s completely uncharted territory,’\u201d Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich said in a statement. \u201cThis residency gives us another chance to reinvent how we interact with our fans in a live setting. We are beyond excited to share this with the world in six months time, and way fuckin\u2019 psyched to go next level!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe residency will continue the band\u2019s \u201cNo Repeat Weekends\u201d tradition Metallica had adopted in recent years, where they won\u2019t repeat songs between their Thursday and Saturday dates, ensuring unique shows depending on which concert you attend. <\/p>\n

\n\tMetallica\u2019s proven willing to take to new live platforms in the past, having done an immersive concert experience through Apple Vision Pro <\/a>last year as well. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat\u2019s so good about this is that you can really feel the live\u00a0music, and you can feel the interaction between the fans and the band,\u201d Trujillo told the\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter last year of the Vision Pro show. \u201cYou can look in the fans\u2019 eyes, it\u2019s like you can almost touch it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAside from Metallica, other acts slated to play the Sphere this year include No Doubt, Eagles, Kenny Chesney, Backstreet Boys, Illenium, Phish and Car\u00edn Le\u00f3n. The Sphere\u2019s other main attraction is its Wizard of Oz experience,<\/a> which has become a significant moneymaker for the venue, surprassing $260 million in ticket sales <\/a>back in January. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Metallica are the latest group coming to the Sphere in Las Vegas, the band confirmed on Wednesday, marking…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":616542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,29034,975,83429,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-616541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-metallica","tag-music","tag-sphere","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116134686779048892","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}