Metallica Australia Tour 2027

Metallica have not announced any concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026, the band's confirmed 2027 schedule is entirely in North America: a residency at Sphere in Las Vegas from January to March, then a run of M72 World Tour stadium shows in the United States and Canada in May and June. A list of Australian 2027 dates that has circulated online is not genuine, and no promoter, venue or ticket outlet has published one.

The band were here very recently. The M72 World Tour played six stadiums across Australia and New Zealand in November 2025, from Optus Stadium in Perth on Saturday 1 November to Eden Park in Auckland on Wednesday 19 November 2025. After a visit of that size, a return within two years would be unusual for them, and nothing in the current calendar points to one.

This page explains what is and is not confirmed for 2027 and then goes through Metallica's documented concerts in Australia and New Zealand since 1989: theatre shows on the Damaged Justice tour, the arena tours of 1993, 1998 and 2010, the Big Day Out of 2004, Soundwave in 2013 and the stadium nights of 2025.

Metallica Australia Tour 2027: what is announced so far

The 2027 dates announced so far start with the Life Burns Faster residency at Sphere in Las Vegas, twelve shows between Thursday 28 January and 13 March 2027. Tickets for those nights have been on sale since March 2026. The M72 World Tour then resumes in North America with stadium dates from BC Place in Vancouver on Saturday 8 May 2027 to Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City on Saturday 19 June 2027, taking in San Diego, El Paso, San Antonio, Fayetteville, Kansas City, Raleigh, Indianapolis, Buffalo, Madison and Cleveland. The general sale for that leg opened on Friday 25 September 2026.

There is no Australian, New Zealand or Asian leg in that schedule. Claims of a 2027 Australian stadium tour, sometimes with specific cities attached, have been checked and are false: no official source lists any such date. Metallica's Australian promoters and venues have published nothing for 2027.

The M72 World Tour has run since 2023 and usually plays each city for two different nights with no repeated songs, although the Australian and New Zealand dates of 2025 were single nights in each city. Each new leg has been announced months ahead, with a fan club presale first. If an Oceania leg is ever added for 2027 or later, it will follow that pattern and appear on this page.

For now, the most realistic options for Australian fans who want to see the band in 2027 are the Las Vegas residency or the North American stadium dates. Sign up for the alert on this page to be told if anything changes for Australia or New Zealand.

Before the Metallica Australia Tour 2027: Australia/NZ concert history

The setlist archive's first Metallica concerts in this part of the world come on the Damaged Justice tour of 1989, after ...And Justice for All. The band played the Logan Campbell Centre in Auckland on Monday 1 May 1989, then the Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide on 3 May, Festival Hall in Melbourne on 4 May and the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on 6 May 1989, with sets of about 18 songs in rooms far smaller than they would ever play here again.

The Black Album took them into arenas. The Wherever We May Roam tour opened its Oceania leg at The Supertop in Auckland on Friday 26 March 1993, then played three nights at the Sydney Entertainment Centre (27 and 31 March and 1 April), the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 29 March, two nights at the National Tennis Centre at Flinders Park in Melbourne on 3 and 4 April, the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on 5 April and two at the Perth Entertainment Centre on 7 and 8 April 1993.

The Poor Re-Touring Me tour of 1998, for Load and Reload, was the most thorough regional run they have made. It opened at the Newcastle Entertainment Centre on Thursday 2 April 1998, followed by two nights at the Sydney Entertainment Centre, two at Centre Court in Melbourne, Adelaide, two in Perth, the Queens Wharf Event Centre in Wellington on 17 April, The Supertop in Auckland on 18 April and the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 20 April 1998. It remains the only documented time Metallica have played Newcastle or Wellington.

Twelve years later the World Magnetic tour, for Death Magnetic, spent two months in the region in September, October and November 2010. It played Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne five times (15 and 16 September, 18, 20 and 21 November), Acer Arena in Sydney four times, the CBS Canterbury Arena in Christchurch twice, Vector Arena in Auckland twice, the Brisbane Entertainment Centre three times, the Burswood Dome in Perth twice and the Adelaide Entertainment Centre twice: 20 arena shows in all, the longest Oceania visit in their history.

The most recent visit was the M72 World Tour in November 2025: Optus Stadium in Perth on 1 November, Adelaide Oval on 5 November, Marvel Stadium in Melbourne on 8 November, Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on 12 November, Accor Stadium in Sydney on 15 November and Eden Park in Auckland on 19 November 2025. Those were Metallica's first stand-alone stadium headline shows in Australia, after decades of arenas and festival fields. The table below lists the documented concerts; an older claim of Melbourne and Sydney shows in 1986 is not supported by the setlist records and has been left out.

The table below lists 66 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Metallica between 1989 and 2025, with the most shows in Sydney (15), Melbourne (14), Perth (9), Brisbane (8), Adelaide (8), Auckland (7). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

Metallica Australia Tour 2027 setlist: the songs played most often in Australia and New Zealand

Across the 15 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (16 November 2010 to 19 November 2025), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. Enter Sandman — played at 15 of 15 shows
2. Master of Puppets — played at 15 of 15 shows
3. Nothing Else Matters — played at 15 of 15 shows
4. One — played at 15 of 15 shows
5. Sad but True — played at 15 of 15 shows
6. Seek & Destroy — played at 15 of 15 shows
7. Creeping Death — played at 12 of 15 shows
8. For Whom the Bell Tolls — played at 11 of 15 shows
9. Fuel — played at 8 of 15 shows
10. Harvester of Sorrow — played at 8 of 15 shows
11. Fade to Black — played at 7 of 15 shows
12. The Day That Never Comes — played at 7 of 15 shows
13. Welcome Home (Sanitarium) — played at 7 of 15 shows
14. Kirk and Rob Doodle — played at 6 of 15 shows

Before the Metallica Australia Tour 2027: past Australia/NZ tours at a glance

• M72 World Tour (2025): 6 Australia/NZ shows — Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Auckland.
• World Magnetic (2010): 20 Australia/NZ shows — Melbourne, Sydney, Christchurch, Auckland, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide.
• Madly in Anger with the World (2004): 10 Australia/NZ shows — Auckland, Gold Coast, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth.
• Poor Re-Touring Me (1998): 11 Australia/NZ shows — Newcastle, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Wellington, Auckland, Brisbane.
• Wherever We May Roam (1993): 10 Australia/NZ shows — Auckland, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth.
• Damaged Justice (1989): 4 Australia/NZ shows — Auckland, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney.

Metallica Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

Metallica headlined the Big Day Out in January 2004 on the Madly in Anger with the World tour. The setlist archive lists Auckland's Ericsson Stadium on Friday 16 January, the Gold Coast on 18 January, Sydney on 23 and 24 January, Melbourne on 26 January, Adelaide on 30 January and the Claremont Showground in Perth on 1 February 2004, with headline sideshows at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, the Sydney Entertainment Centre and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on 28 January.

They returned as headliners of Soundwave in February and March 2013: Brisbane on Saturday 23 February, Sydney (listed at ANZ Stadium) on Sunday 24 February, Melbourne on 1 March, Adelaide on 2 March and Perth on 4 March 2013. The festival sets ran to 18 songs and dug into the early albums, with 'Hit the Lights', 'Orion' and 'Fight Fire With Fire' alongside the usual closers.

Metallica Australia Tour 2027: career and records

Metallica were formed in Los Angeles in 1981 by vocalist and guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, and have been based in San Francisco for most of their career. With Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer they are counted among the 'big four' of thrash metal. The current line-up is Hetfield, Ulrich, lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo; former members include Cliff Burton, who died in 1986, Jason Newsted and Dave Mustaine.

Master of Puppets (1986) brought their first commercial success and is often cited as one of the best metal albums ever made. ...And Justice for All (1988) earned their first Grammy nomination, and Metallica (1991), known as the Black Album, took them into the mainstream, selling more than 16 million copies in the United States. In Australia it was their first No. 1 album, and every studio album since except Reload has also reached the top.

After Load (1996), Reload (1997) and St. Anger (2003), the subject of the documentary Some Kind of Monster, the band returned to thrash with Death Magnetic (2008), the album behind the long 2010 Australian arena tour. Hardwired... to Self-Destruct followed in 2016 and 72 Seasons in 2023, launching the M72 World Tour that reached Australia and New Zealand in 2025.

Metallica were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2009 and are one of the most commercially successful bands of all time, with sales of more than 163 million records. They also led the 2000 legal case against Napster and made the 2013 concert film Through the Never.

Metallica Australia Tour 2027: the 2027 rumour

A claim that Metallica will tour Australian stadiums in 2027 has appeared online, in some versions with cities and dates. It is false. No date has been published by the band, by an Australian promoter or by any of the venues named, and the band's actual 2027 calendar, Las Vegas from January to March and North American stadiums in May and June, leaves no Australian window that has been announced.

Such lists often appear after a successful tour, and the M72 dates of November 2025 drew big crowds in every city. The safest rule is simple: if a date is not on an official announcement, it does not exist. Do not pay deposits, 'presale code' fees or resale prices for a show that has not been announced.

Metallica Australia Tour 2027: the M72 stadium leg of 2025

The 2025 visit marked a change of scale. Earlier tours relied on arenas such as Rod Laver Arena, the Sydney Entertainment Centre and Acer Arena, or on festival fields; in 2025 the band took the M72 in-the-round production, with its central 'Snake Pit' standing area, into Optus Stadium, Adelaide Oval, Marvel Stadium, Suncorp Stadium, Accor Stadium and Eden Park.

The six shows were spaced three or four days apart, with weekend nights in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney and midweek nights in Adelaide, Brisbane and Auckland. The documented sets ran to 16 songs, opening with 'Creeping Death' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' and closing with 'Master of Puppets', 'One' and 'Enter Sandman'.

Metallica Australia Tour 2027: New Zealand and the Supertop

New Zealand has seen Metallica on most of their Oceania tours. Auckland hosted the Logan Campbell Centre in 1989, The Supertop in 1993 and 1998, the Big Day Out at Ericsson Stadium in 2004, two nights at Vector Arena in 2010 and Eden Park in 2025. Wellington's Queens Wharf Event Centre had a show in 1998, and Christchurch's CBS Canterbury Arena two nights in September 2010.

Eden Park on 19 November 2025 was the last show of the Oceania leg. No New Zealand date is part of any announced 2027 schedule.

Metallica Australia Tour 2027: the long arena tour of 2010

The World Magnetic tour treated Australia as a destination in its own right. Rather than a quick swing through the capitals, the band played 20 arena shows across September, October and November 2010, returning to Melbourne and Sydney twice: Rod Laver Arena hosted five nights and Acer Arena, now Qudos Bank Arena, four.

Brisbane had three nights, Perth's Burswood Dome two and Adelaide two, with sets of 18 songs each. It is still the most concerts Metallica have played in the region on a single tour.

Metallica Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

Metallica's Australian sets have kept a core of songs across four decades: 'Master of Puppets', 'One', 'Enter Sandman', 'Sad but True', 'Nothing Else Matters', 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', 'Creeping Death' and 'Seek & Destroy' recur on almost every tour in the setlist archive. Older tours ran to 20 or more songs; the 2025 stadium sets were 16.

On the M72 leg of November 2025, the documented running order opened with 'Creeping Death', 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' and 'Fuel', included 'The Unforgiven', 'Wherever I May Roam', 'The Day That Never Comes' and 'Moth Into Flame', plus 'Lux Æterna' from 72 Seasons, and ended with 'Master of Puppets', 'One' and 'Enter Sandman'. Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo also had their usual instrumental 'doodle' spot.

The band are known for changing parts of the set from show to show, and the M72 production uses a circular stage in the middle of the stadium with the 'Snake Pit' inside it, so the view varies a lot by seat. The list of most-played songs on this page is based on documented past concerts only.

Metallica Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

There are no tickets for Metallica concerts in Australia or New Zealand in 2027, because no such concerts have been announced. Any site selling 2027 Australian seats, or a 'presale code' for an Australian date, is not official.

When Metallica do announce a leg, the band's fan club usually gets the first presale, followed by other presales and a general sale through the official ticket outlet. Stadium tickets are generally mobile and name-linked, so buy only from official outlets or their authorised resale service, and be wary of screenshots, PDFs and social-media sellers.

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Metallica Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

Is Metallica touring Australia in 2027?

No. As of 9 October 2026 there is no Australian or New Zealand date. The 2027 dates announced are in Las Vegas and North America.

Is the list of Metallica 2027 Australian dates online real?

No. No official source has announced any Metallica concert in Australia for 2027.

When did Metallica last play Australia?

On the M72 World Tour in November 2025, ending in Australia at Accor Stadium in Sydney on 15 November 2025.

When did Metallica last play New Zealand?

At Eden Park in Auckland on 19 November 2025, the last night of the M72 Oceania leg.

What are Metallica's 2027 dates?

The Sphere residency in Las Vegas from 28 January to 13 March 2027, then M72 stadium dates from Vancouver on 8 May to Salt Lake City on 19 June 2027.

When did Metallica first play Australia?

The documented record starts with the Damaged Justice tour in May 1989: Adelaide's Thebarton Theatre, Festival Hall in Melbourne and the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, after Auckland.

Have Metallica played the Big Day Out or Soundwave?

Yes. They headlined the Big Day Out in January 2004 and Soundwave in February and March 2013.

Which Australian city has hosted the most Metallica concerts?

Sydney and Melbourne, each with more than a dozen documented shows, ahead of Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.