For the primary time of their 40+ yr profession, Metallica is bringing their world-class stay present to the sandy confines of Saudi Arabia. The efficiency will happen because the headlining act on the opening evening of a three-day music pageant referred to as Soundstorm within the nation’s capital metropolis, Riyadh subsequent month.

Seeing a significant western media equipment make a splash within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is nothing new, because the WWE has now has quite a few profitable pay-per-view occasions within the main Center Japanese metropolis. Equally, different music artists have been taking part in exhibits in KSA lately as the federal government in that nation lightens up barely. The nation is fairly younger so far as its inhabitants is anxious, so it is smart that some extra modern acts are in a position to make it on the market nowadays.

Together with Metallica, the pageant may even function Pharrell Williams, Chris Brown, H.E.R., Black Eyed Peas, J Balvin and Anne-Marie, in addition to DJs Tiesto and David Guetta. Final yr’s pageant noticed greater than 600,000 individuals in attendance, with organizers anticipating no less than the identical, if no more in attendance, on the greater than 5.5 million sq. meter house.

To that finish, Metallica mentioned they had been stoked so as to add Saudi Arabia to their listing of visited nations, which additionally features a efficiency in Antarctica.

“We’re not completed with 2023 simply but, as a tremendous alternative has simply come our solution to carry out at a significant pageant that we’ve got by no means performed in part of the world we not often get to go to.

“We’re excited to announce that on Thursday, December 14 we’ll be the primary laborious rock band to ever play at @MDLBeast’s Soundstorm Pageant in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

“Pageant and single-day tickets can be found now at mdlbeast.com.”

This pageant announcement comes 12 years after Metallica performed their first Center East present, having carried out at Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Park again in 2011. Metallic and that area of the world haven’t essentially meshed properly, so seeing acts like Metallica make the trek out there’s a enormous deal.