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METALLICA's KIRK HAMMETT Says Playing Antarctica 'Should Be An Interesting Experience'

November 7, 2013

METALLICA will play a concert in Antarctica next month. The one-of-a-kind show is being sponsored by Coca-Cola Zero and fans from several Latin and South American countries have a chance to enter a contest and win the opportunity to join the band on the expedition.

Speaking to Nikki Blakk of the San Francisco, California radio station 107.7 The Bone, METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett said: "We are playing Antarctica; it's pretty wacky. It's crazy, because I don't deal with cold very well, so I have my reservations. But it should be pretty cool, because we've played the North Pole before — we've played Tuktoyaktuk [in 1995]— so we have to play the South Pole. Tuktoyaktuk was fine; it wasn't as cold as it sounded. But I have a feeling that the Antarctica is a lot colder than the North Pole. And it should be an interesting experience."

Fans from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico are able to enter the contest, which started on October 28 and will end on November 22.

METALLICA said in a statement: "After over 30 years as a band, we have been unbelievably fortunate to visit just about every corner of the earth . . . except for one. That is all about to change as we are set travel to Antarctica, the only continent that METALLICA has never played on until now!! We are partnering with Coca-Cola Zero for one of the most unique and special concert events in our career as we'll be performing near the heliport of the Argentine Antarctic Base Carlini on Sunday, December 8, 2013."

The winners will leave on December 3 in a cruise from the port of Ushuaia, in Tierra del Fuego, on a 10-day journey to Antarctica.

While on their trip, the winners will get to view the landscapes of the continent, participate in lectures to be provided by specialists, see audio-visual material on the work of the scientists and receive environmental information.

The concert will take place under a dome at the Carlini Argentine Base will be heard by the fans through headphones, with no other amplifiers or sound system. The gig will also be live-streamed in the participating countries.

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