Metallica has been offering digital downloads of their live performances for the last 10 years, and they still get “requests for the ‘old school’ compact disc.” To celebrate this decade-long milestone, the band is now making nearly every show they performed in 2014 available for purchase in CD format.
“All shows with the exception of the MAP Benefit concert and Glastonbury are from the By Request tour with songs that you voted on… each night on the tour presented a different set list.”
The CDs will be priced at $19.81, along with an option to pre-order their 27 show collection in a box-set for $417, which will ship mid-December. In addition, four shows will be pressed to 180-gram vinyl, based on fan voting which, at the time of writing this post, has already garnered 23,337 votes. Those records will become available sometime, “early next year.”
Box set CD line-up:
March 16, 2014 Parque Simon Bolivar, Bogota, Colombia
March 18, 2014 Parque Bicentenario, Quito, Ecuador
March 20, 2014 Estadio Nacional, Lima, Peru
March 22, 2014 Estadio do Morumbi, Sao Paulo, Brazil
March 24, 2014 Jockey Club, Asuncion, Paraguay
March 27, 2014 Estadio Monumental, Santiago, Chile
March 29, 2014 Estadio Ciudad de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
March 30, 2014 Estadio Ciudad de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
May 12, 2014 MusiCares MAP Fund Benefit Concert at Club Nokia, Los Angeles, CA
May 28, 2014 Sonisphere at Hietaniemi Beach, Helsinki, Finland
May 30, 2014 Gardet Royal Park, Stockholm, Sweden
June 01, 2014 Sonisphere at Valle Hovin, Oslo, Norway
June 03, 2014 State Prison Open Air, Horsens, Denmark
June 04, 2014 Sonisphere at Imtech Arena, Hamburg, Germany
June 06, 2014 Rock Im Park at Zeppelinfeld, Nurnberg, Germany
June 08, 2014 Rock Am Ring, Nurburgring, Germany
June 09, 2014 Pinkpop Festival at Megaland, Landgraaf, Netherlands
June 28, 2014 Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Great Britain
July 01, 2014 Rock in Rome Sonisphere at Ippodromo Cappannelle, Rome, Italy
July 03, 2014 Rock Werchter at Werchterpark, Werchter, Belgium
July 04, 2014 Sonisphere at St. Jakob-Park, Basel, Switzerland
July 06, 2014 Sonisphere at Knebworth House, Stevenage, Great Britain
July 08, 2014 Aerodrome Festival at Incheba Open Air, Prague, Czech Republic
July 09, 2014 Krieau Rocks at Krieau Open Air, Vienna, Austria
July 11, 2014 Sonisphere at National Stadium, Warsaw, Poland
July 13, 2014 ITU Stadium, Istanbul, Turkey
August 09, 2014 HEAVY MONTREAL at Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal, Quebec