METALLICA Overcome Technical Difficulties To Set New Metal Standards At Toronto Gig

July 7, 2003

Ben Rayner of Toronto Star reports that METALLICA seemed desperate to drive fans away at the end of the '90s with several years of BOB SEGER covers, dire symphonic records and anti-Napster crusades.

Perhaps it was a little insurance on the band's part — and a bid for relevance with nu-metal kids who've never heard of "... And Justice For All" — for METALLICA to bring along young turks LIMP BIZKIT, LINKIN PARK, the DEFTONES and MUDVAYNE for its first tour in three years — the Summer Sanitarium mini-festival was a day-long metal odyssey that tested the endurance of 38,000 brave souls at SkyDome on Saturday (July 5).

More likely, though, the move was the band's way of showing fans old, new and converted-on-the-spot that, on stage, it can still bury just about anyone who has come up in its wake.

That much was clear by show's end on Saturday, despite a barrage of technical problems, a lingering dearth of new material on par with its classic catalogue and a potentially scene-stealing turn in the supporting slot by shameless crowd-pleasers LIMP BIZKIT that could have rendered METALLICA's return to Toronto less than triumphant. Read more.

Click here to see pictures of Summer Sanitarium 2003 Tour opener at Detroit's Pontiac Silverdome on Friday, July 4.

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