Lords of Summer Tour

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Lords of Summer Tour
World tour by Metallica
Location
  • Europe
  • North America
  • South America
Associated album Lords of Summer
Start dateMay 9, 2015 (2015-05-09)
End dateSeptember 19, 2015 (2015-09-19)
Legs1
No. of shows
  • 10 in Europe
  • 5 in North America
  • 1 in South America
  • 16 total
Metallica concert chronology

The Lords of Summer Tour was a concert tour by American heavy metal band Metallica in support of their single "Lords of Summer", which was released on March 19, 2014.

Contents

Set list

Set list from Quebec City, Canada (September 16, 2015) [1]

  1. "Creeping Death"
  2. "Master of Puppets"
  3. "Battery"
  4. "Harvester of Sorrow"
  5. "Ride the Lightning"
  6. "The Unforgiven II"
  7. "St. Anger"
  8. "Wherever I May Roam"
  9. "Sad But True"
  10. "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)"
  11. "The Frayed Ends of Sanity"
  12. "One"
  13. "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
  14. "Fade to Black"
  15. "Seek and Destroy"
    Encore
  16. "Turn the Page"
  17. "Nothing Else Matters"
  18. "Enter Sandman"

Tour dates

List of 2015 concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, and opening act
Date (2015)CityCountryVenueOpening act
May 9 Las Vegas United States Las Vegas Festival Grounds Linkin Park
May 29 Gelsenkirchen Germany Veltins-Arena Faith No More
May 31 Munich Olympiastadion
June 2 Milan ItalyAssago Summer Arena
June 4 Vienna Austria Donauinsel
June 6 Austin United States Circuit of the Americas
August 1 Chicago Grant Park Tame Impala
August 20 Bergen Norway Bergenhus Fortress Meshuggah
August 22 Gothenburg Sweden Ullevi
August 25 Saint Petersburg Russia SKK Arena Fourtones
August 27 Moscow Olympic Stadium Jack Action
August 29 Reading EnglandRichfield Avenue Bring Me the Horizon
August 30 Leeds Bramham Park
September 14 Quebec City Canada Colisée Pepsi Gojira
September 16 Centre Vidéotron Baroness
September 19 Rio de Janeiro Brazil City of Rock Mötley Crüe

The tour's Quebec City stops served as the final event held at Colisée Pepsi before its closure, and the first-ever concert event held at its replacement, Videotron Centre. [2] [3]

Personnel

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References

  1. "2015-09-16 Quebec City, Canada - Metallica". metallica.com. Retrieved 2017-02-19.
  2. "Metallica To Play Historic September Shows in Quebec City". Loudwire. 20 April 2015. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
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