Metallica Headlining Sonic Temple, Announces 2025 North American Dates

Metallica will remain plenty busy in 2025. The band announced that it will extend its “M72 World Tour” into a third year with 21 North American dates, including two nights of headlining the Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival for the first time ever with a “no repeat weekend” that features two unique sets across two nights.

Fans of the popular rock festival at Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, put on by Danny Wimmer Presents will get what they always wanted. Metallica was the most requested act for the four-day destination event, and the promoter delivered with the band playing two unique sets, closing out the second night (May 9) as well as the final night (May 11). Rob Zombie and Alice in Chains will also perform at Sonic Temple, which will feature more than 100 bands and two additional headliners that will be announced daily beginning Sept. 20.

“Every year we ask our fans who they want to see at Sonic Temple, and the answer this year was clear — Metallica! We’ve been trying to get Metallica to Sonic Temple for the last five years and are ready to bring two nights of Metallica to Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio next May,” Danny Wimmer, Founder of Danny Wimmer Presents, said in a press release announcing the headliner. “This is just the start; we’ll have more than 100 bands playing across four stages for four days, including Rob Zombie and Alice In Chains in direct support for Metallica. We’re so excited about this lineup that we’ll be announcing artists daily for the next month, so there’s a lot for fans to look forward to.”

Metallica has not played in Columbus since 2017, and the four-day festival taking place May 8-11 will be the band’s only show in the region next year.

Presale passes go on sale Sept. 23 at noon ET before the general onsale begins on Wednesday, Sept. 25, at 10 a.m. ET. A limited number of two-day Rock Royalty Reserved packages will be available and include reserved seating (a first in the festival’s history) and commemorative gifts. Four-day weekend passes will also be available as Field GA, Stadium GA, VIP and Columbus Owner’s Club pass. Two-day Field and Stadium GA passes will also be available, as well as single-day suites. Fans can secure passes with $1 down and have seven months to pay them off in full.

A limited number of RV camping sites will be available onsite, and fans can book hotel packages via Jampack that offer shuttle service and other exclusives.

For more information about Sonic Temple and to sign up for email alerts, visit the event website, SonicTempleFestival.com.

The performance at Sonic Temple is part of the routing for Metallica’s extended “M72 World Tour,” which begins with another festival performance at Las Vegas’ Sick New World on April 12. The band will bring its “No Repeat Weekends” featuring two different sets and different supporting acts across two nights to Rogers Centre in Toronto, Nashville’s Nissan Stadium, Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium, Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara and Denver’s Empower Field at Mile High.

Pantera, Limp Bizkit, Suicidal Tendencies and Ice Nine Kills will be supporting on select nights.

The Live Nation-promoted tour will also have single-night engagements, and tickets for the shows go on sale Sept. 27 at 10 a.m. local time. Presale passes will be available for fan club members beginning Sept. 23 at 10 a.m. local time. For more information, visit the band’s website.

The band has played for more approximately 3 million fans since April 2023, and the band will conclude its 2024 run with four nights at Mexico City’s Estadio GNP Seguros, a 65,000-capacity stadium, for two “No Repeat Weekends” later this month.

Since opening April 2023 in Amsterdam, M72 has seen Metallica play to some three million fans. Variously hailed as “an altogether life-affirming experience” (Billboard), “impossible to leave unsatisfied” (Austin Chronicle), “a stone-cold stunner of a show” (Detroit News), “the mother of all summer concerts” (Worcester Telegram Gazette) and “as tight and furious as Metallica has sounded in ages” (Los Angeles Times), M72 continues to amaze fans and critics alike. The tour will conclude its triumphant 2024 run with four nights at Mexico City’s Estadio GNP Seguros, where Metallica will play to more than 250,000 fans over the course of two No Repeat Weekends.

Proceeds from every ticket sold will benefit local charities via Metallica’s All Within My Hands foundation, which has raised more than $15 million and has provided $8.2 million in grants to career and technical education programs, more than $3.6 million to combat food insecurity and more than $3.5 million have gone toward disaster relief efforts.

Metallica is managed by Cliff Burnstein and Peter Mensch of Q Prime and booked in North America by Independent Artist Group’s Adam Kornfeld and Dennis Arfa. One of the band’s most successful recent outings was two sold-out nights at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, in 2023. The shows, which took place Aug. 25 and 27, moved 142,738 tickets and grossed $17.5 million, according to Pollstar Boxoffice reports.

METALLICA “M72 WORLD TOUR” North America 2025
April 12 — Las Vegas, NV — Sick New World @ Las Vegas Festival Grounds
April 19 — Syracuse, NY — JMA Wireless Dome *
April 24 — Toronto, ON — Rogers Centre *
April 26 — Toronto, ON — Rogers Centre +
May 1 — Nashville, TN — Nissan Stadium *
May 3 — Nashville, TN — Nissan Stadium +
May 7 — Blacksburg, VA — Lane Stadium *
May 9 — Columbus, OH — Sonic Temple @ Historic Crew Stadium
May 11 — Columbus, OH — Sonic Temple @ Historic Crew Stadium
May 23 — Philadelphia, PA — Lincoln Financial Field +
May 25 — Philadelphia, PA — Lincoln Financial Field *
May 28 — Landover, MD — Northwest Stadium *
May 31 — Charlotte, NC — Bank of America Stadium *
June 3 — Atlanta, GA — Mercedes-Benz Stadium *
June 6 — Tampa, FL — Raymond James Stadium +
June 8 — Tampa, FL — Raymond James Stadium *|
June 14 — Houston, TX — NRG Stadium *
June 20 — Santa Clara, CA — Levi’s Stadium +
June 22 — Santa Clara, CA — Levi’s Stadium *
June 27 — Denver, CO — Empower Field at Mile High +
June 29 — Denver, CO — Empower Field at Mile High *

* Pantera and Suicidal Tendencies support
+ Limp Bizkit and Ice Nine Kills support