World Magnetic Tour
| Concert by Metallica | |
Promotional poster of one of the three shows in Mexico City
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| Location | Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America |
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| Associated album | Death Magnetic |
| Start date | September 12, 2008 |
| End date | November 21, 2010 |
| Legs | 18 |
| No. of shows | 187 81 in North America 73 in Europe 20 in Oceania 10 in South America 03 in Asia |
| Box office | $217,245,629 |
| Metallica concert chronology | |
World Magnetic Tour was a 2008–2010 concert tour by American thrash metal band Metallica in support of the band's ninth studio album, Death Magnetic, which was released on September 12, 2008.
The tour officially kicked off in October 2008 in Glendale, Arizona, United States, following three European promotional dates in September and two U.S. rehearsal shows. By September 2009, the tour had reached North America, Europe, South America, Asia and Oceania.
The tour culminated with three dates in Melbourne, Australia in late November 2010. The tour ended up being the most successful by Metallica, grossing roughly $217.2 million (the 18th highest grossing tour of all time), with the top grossing location, Acer Arena in Sydney, Australia, taking more than $14 million over 4 shows.
A North American leg, their first since the Madly in Anger with the World Tour in 2004, began in Glendale, Arizona and wrapped up in late December in Oakland, California. The leg continued in early January 2009, starting in Milwaukee and finishing up in Newark, New Jersey in early February.
In February 2009, the band commenced a European tour. The group played three rounds of batches of dates, resuming in late March and then returning again in May. In between the first and second legs, the band performed a small promotional show in Austin, Texas, U.S. to support the video game release Guitar Hero: Metallica. The European legs began in Nottingham, UK and eventually culminated in Cologne, Germany.
In June 2009, the group played three dates in Mexico City. The shows reached a total capacity of 158,349 and were the band's first shows in Mexico in ten years. Later in the month, the group returned to Europe, performing a mixture of indoor and outdoor shows, and festival appearances. The leg featured headline slots at the first iterations of the Sonisphere Festival, a new festival event which took place in Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the UK. The leg began in Helsinki and finished in early August in Knebworth, UK.
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