Metallica tour: dates, cities and how to choose

Start by choosing the city and weekday that fit your life, then compare listings only for that exact date. A Saturday show close to home is the easiest trip to plan. A midweek date in another city can still make sense, but it means booking time off and travel around the show.

The dates below come from Ticketmaster's event listings. The table shows one date per city, so check the Metallica page for every other date before deciding.

The dates by region

Weekday matters more than it looks

The Saturday dates are Vancouver, San Antonio, Kansas City, Indianapolis and Salt Lake City. If you are travelling, a Saturday show lets you arrive Friday or Saturday morning and head home Sunday without losing a workday.

El Paso, Orchard Park and Cleveland fall on Tuesdays, and Fayetteville on a Wednesday. Those suit people who live nearby, or anyone happy to take a day or two off. Las Vegas and San Diego are Thursdays.

If you live between regions, line up the dates. Kansas City on a Saturday and Fayetteville on the Wednesday before it are close together in the calendar. So are Indianapolis and Orchard Park. The table gives you the dates. How far you will drive or fly is yours to work out.

Las Vegas comes first

The Las Vegas date at Sphere comes months before the other cities in this table. Treat it as its own decision, not as a swap for a later date. The Metallica page has every tracked Las Vegas date.

Vancouver is on Ticketmaster's Canadian site

The Vancouver listing is on ticketmaster.ca, while the others are on ticketmaster.com. When you compare a Vancouver listing with one from a US city, check which currency each site shows at checkout before deciding one costs more than the other.

What a checked link means

TourTicketCompare keeps resale links that were matched to the exact event, and the Metallica page shows them for each date. A matched link does not tell you what is listed there right now, what it costs or whether the seats suit you. Open the ticket site to find out.

Before you pay

Every listing shares the same artist name. What tells them apart is the city, venue and date, so check them against each other.

• The date and city. Confirm both on the listing and again on the order summary. A mistake here is easy to make and hard to undo.
• The seat. Section, row, whether the seats are together, and any restriction notes. The guide to reading a ticket listing covers each label.
• Who is selling. The official Ticketmaster page and a resale site are different kinds of seller. The primary versus resale guide explains what changes.
• When it arrives. Resale tickets are often transferred close to the show. The delivery and transfer guide explains the usual timing.
• The total. Compare the final checkout total for the same seats and quantity, not the first figure shown.

Compare your date

Once you have a city in mind, open the Metallica ticket price guide. It shows listed resale prices by date, with each ticket site's name and the time it was checked. These are each site's listed prices at the time they were checked, not face value or final totals. The Metallica page has the ticket buttons for each tracked date, so you can compare the sites for your show and choose the listing that suits you.

Sources

• Ticketmaster: Metallica, Sphere, Las Vegas, 2027-01-28
• Ticketmaster: Metallica, BC Place, Vancouver, 2027-05-08
• Ticketmaster: Metallica, Snapdragon Stadium, San Diego, 2027-05-13
• Ticketmaster: Metallica, Sun Bowl Stadium, El Paso, 2027-05-18
• Ticketmaster: Metallica, Alamodome, San Antonio, 2027-05-22
• Ticketmaster: Metallica, Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium, Fayetteville, 2027-05-26
• Ticketmaster: Metallica, Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, 2027-05-29
• Ticketmaster: Metallica, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, 2027-06-05
• Ticketmaster: Metallica, Highmark Stadium, Orchard Park, 2027-06-08
• Ticketmaster: Metallica, Huntington Bank Field, Cleveland, 2027-06-15
• Ticketmaster: Metallica, Rice-Eccles Stadium, Salt Lake City, 2027-06-19

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• How do ticket delivery and transfer timing affect risk?

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