Metallica grew to become the heroes of the day after they swooped in to avoid wasting Tomorrowland, lending their stage to the Belgian digital music competition after a hearth worn out its fundamental stage.
This 12 months’s Tomorrowland — which runs from July 18 to 27 and can draw 400,000 individuals to the city of Increase in Belgium’s Antwerp province — was thrown into jeopardy on Wednesday when the big fundamental stage went up in flames.
Enter Metallica, who provided components of the stage they used on their European tour and had saved in Austria, in line with Antwerp-based newspaper The Newest Information. The rig, which features a huge wall of screens, was airlifted to the competition grounds in a single day, and Tomorrowland opened at 2 p.m. on Friday as deliberate.
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Tomorrowland Headliners and Employees Thank Metallica for Lending Stage
“It’s a miracle and we’re past completely happy to be opening,” Tomorrowland spokesperson Debby Wilmsen advised DJ Magazine. “Two hours in the past we have been nonetheless demolishing the previous stage.”
Dutch DJ Martin Garrix, one of many competition’s headliners, thanked Metallica in an Instagram put up with a photograph of himself and drummer Lars Ulrich.
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“I can’t consider I’m really typing this … however my set at Tomorrowland continues to be occurring!” Garrix wrote. “Huge love and an enormous shoutout to the unimaginable Tomorrowland workforce for pulling off miracles — and to Metallica for coming via with the brand new stage components. Past excited to shut the principle stage tonight. And this can arms down be essentially the most distinctive Tomorrowland ever.”
Metallica’s M72 world tour will resume in November in Australia. The steel giants will return to Europe in Might 2026.
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