{"id":2210737,"date":"2025-12-24T06:55:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2210737"},"modified":"2025-12-24T06:55:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:55:26","slug":"the-best-australian-and-new-zealand-tours-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-best-australian-and-new-zealand-tours-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Australian and New Zealand Tours of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>They\u2019ve come a long way, Metallica. Over forty years ago, four spotty teens co-invented neck-aching thrash metal, then against all odds became chart-topping titans, struggled through a difficult experimental \u201990s fuelled by pills and booze, then a dysfunctional life coach period before evolving into venerated elder statesmen.<\/p>\n<p>So, for their first Australian tour since 2013\u2019s Soundwave jaunt (their 2019 tour was canned when singer\/guitarist James Hetfield took himself off to rehab), Metallica served up a career-spanning smorgasbord that played to many of their strengths and delighted those of a certain age whose jaw hit the floor listening to their 1983 debut<em>\u00a0Kill \u2018Em All<\/em>, right through to younger fans, of which there were many present.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMetallica could have played another two hours featuring many of the great songs they skipped tonight, but the chosen songs, the show, and the entire spectacle of Metallica live in 2025 was undeniably triumphant,\u201d we wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-live-reviews\/metallica-australia-tour-live-review-86543\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read our 4-star review here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\t\t! function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n\t\t\t\tif (f.fbq) return;\n\t\t\t\tn = f.fbq = function () {\n\t\t\t\t\tn.callMethod ?\n\t\t\t\t\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n\t\t\t\t};\n\t\t\t\tif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n\t\t\t\tn.push = n;\n\t\t\t\tn.loaded = !0;\n\t\t\t\tn.version = '2.0';\n\t\t\t\tn.queue = [];\n\t\t\t\tt = b.createElement(e);\n\t\t\t\tt.async = !0;\n\t\t\t\tt.src = v;\n\t\t\t\ts = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\t\t\t\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n\t\t\t}(window, document, 'script',\n\t\t\t\t'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\t\t\tfbq('init', '243859349395737');\n\t\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t\t\tfbq.disablePushState = true;\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source au.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They\u2019ve come a long way, Metallica. 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