Lars Ulrich announces Metallica tour for fall
Ring performed Wed at L.A. benefit
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich revealed Th night during an suggest Los Angeles benefit concert that the band will travel along the September button of its new, as-yet-untitled album with a tour in October.
"That was the first-class honours degree present of the spell," said Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, wHO, along with his bandmates, shredded through a almost two-hour set with such hits as "For Whom the Bell Tolls," "Fire," "Master of Puppets," "... And Jurist for Altogether," "Enter Sandman," and "Look for and Destroy," at Los Angeles' 2,300-capacity Wiltern LG.
The group didn't reveal any freshly textile during its lengthy set. Withal, "it feels commodity to play hold out again," singer-guitarist James River Hetfield told a packed audience. "We haven't played here in a long time."
Last's night concert was pulled together on short notice to help resurrect pecuniary resource for the nonprofit Silverlake Conservatory of Music. The organisation was co-founded by Red Hot Chile Peppers bassist Flea, wHO joined Metallica onstage for "Fight Fire With Flame," from the band's 1984 album "Ride the Lightning."
Money raised from the concert will go toward the Silverlake Conservatory of Music's programs and trading operations, along with scholarships for low-income students world Health Organization can't give instruments and music lessons.
Bill White, director of development at the Silverlake Conservatoire of Euphony, said the theme for the benefit concert came together during a board merging when Flea offered to ask Metallica's Ulrich if the band would be interested in doing a benefit register on the school's behalf. As a solvent, "We'll believably raise over $300,000 net on this," Edward Douglas White Jr. says. "It's a gift from Metallica to the school."
Tickets for the concert went on sale Sunday for $200 each, along with a express amount of money of High muckamuck tickets that ran $500. Along with its annual Turmoil fundraiser, which cobbler's last yr featured Eddie Vedder and Redness Hot Chili Peppers, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music has plans to do more one-off benefit concerts, according to Ovalbumin.
In the meantime, Metallica will stay on on the Due west Coast this weekend to play Tucson, Ariz.'s KFMA Sidereal day (Thursday), KROQ-Los Angeles' Hot dog Knock (Whitethorn 17), followed by Manchester, Tenn.'s Bonnaroo Music Festival (June 13). No other North American dates were announced at deadline, only the rock behave besides has a handful of concert and festival appearances in European Community slated for August.
Along with Metallica, last night's benefit concert featured tilt act Scars On Broadway, the new dance orchestra from System of a Down guitarist/vocalist Daron Malakian and drummer Bathroom Dolmayan. As antecedently reported, Scars on Broadway's as-yet-untitled debut album is slated for a lately summer release.
