Metallica have announced new UK and European dates for their ongoing M72 tour.
And they will be in London next year.
The metal icons will play gigs in Dublin, Glasgow and Cardiff, before playing two nights at the London Stadium on July 3 and 5.
The London gigs will be a No Repeat Weekend, where each concert will feature a different setlist and support line-up.
Gojira and Knocked Loose will support on July 3, and Pantera and Avatar will support on July 5.
They began the record-breaking run of shows, in support of their 11th studio album 72 Seasons, in 2023.
The band will also play stadium gigs in Bologna, Budapest, Athens, Bucharest, Chorzów, Zurich, Berlin and Frankfurt.
Two-day tickets for the London gigs will go on general sale at 10am May 30, here, and the fanclub pre-sale will begin at 11am on May 27, find out more here.
In April last year, frontman James Hetfield paid tribute to his late friend Lemmy by using some of the Motorhead star’s ashes in a tattoo.
In a post to Instagram, Hetfield showed off the new design of an ace of spades inside what appears to be a iron cross inked on to his middle finger.
The singer of the US heavy metal band revealed he had the ink mixed with a “pinch” of Lemmy’s remains which he was given after the veteran rocker died in 2015 aged 70.
“A salute to my friend and inspiration Mr. Lemmy Kilmister,” he wrote alongside the post.
“Without him, there would be NO Metallica.
“Black ink mixed with a pinch of his cremation ashes that were so graciously given to me.
“So now, he is still able to fly the bird at the world.”
He said his friend, tattoo artist Corey Miller, helped create the artwork with his “steady hand”.
The design appears to be a nod to Motorhead’s hit track Ace Of Spades, the title track of their fourth album.
Singer and bassist Lemmy – whose real name was Ian Kilmister – was best known as the only continuous member of British rock band Motorhead, who he co-founded in 1975.
