{"id":8697,"date":"2025-07-19T18:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T18:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/8697\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T18:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T18:41:08","slug":"metallica-helped-save-tomorrowland-festival-after-stage-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/8697\/","title":{"rendered":"Metallica Helped Save Tomorrowland Festival After Stage Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mighty <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/metallica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Metallica<\/a> came to the rescue after a fire destroyed the main stage of the Tomorrowland festival in Belgium threatened to cancel the EDM gathering just a couple days before it was set to kick off. The legendary metal band lent the fest its stage that was in storage in between European legs on its ongoing \u201cM72 World Tour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, the elaborate main stage for Tomorrowland was <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/07\/tomorrowland-main-stage-fire-burns-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">decimated in a massive fire<\/a> on Wednesday (July 16th), with the fest set to kick off on Friday (July 18th) featuring EDM heavyweights like Swedish House Mafia, David Guetta, Steve Aoki, Deadmau5, and others throughout the three-day weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Metallica\u2019s set, featuring a giant wall of video screens, was being stored in Austria and was airlifted to Belgium overnight, as reported by Belgian news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hln.be\/binnenland\/mede-dankzij-podiumelementen-van-metallica-kan-tomorrowland-opnieuw-de-festivaldeuren-openen~a31c5fd6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">HLN<\/a>, and the festival miraculously kicked off without a hitch on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>Dutch DJ Martin Garrix, who performed on Friday, posted a photo of himself with Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich on Instagram prior to his set, and wrote, \u201cI can not believe I\u2019m actually typing this\u2026 but my set at Tomorrowland is still happening! Massive love and a big shoutout to the incredible @tomorrowland team for pulling off miracles \u2014 and to @Metallica for coming through with the new stage parts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Metallica, who landed three LPs on Consequence\u2018s recent list of the <a href=\"https:\/\/viagogo.prf.hn\/click\/camref:1101lumwA\/pubref:metallica*tomorrowland\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.viagogo.com%2FConcert-Tickets%2FHard-Rock-and-Metal-Music%2FMetallica-Tickets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">75 Best Metal Albums of All Time<\/a>, embarked on a European leg of their \u201cM72 World Tour\u201d back in 2024, and will revisit the continent for <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/05\/metallica-2026-european-m72-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">another leg in 2026<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/viagogo.prf.hn\/click\/camref:1101lumwA\/pubref:metallica*tomorrowland\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.viagogo.com%2FConcert-Tickets%2FHard-Rock-and-Metal-Music%2FMetallica-Tickets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">tickets available here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>A photo of Metallica\u2019s stage in front of the destroyed main stage can be seen in Tomorrowland\u2019s X\/Twitter post below, along with Martin Garrix\u2019s aforementioned Instagram post.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Unite Forever. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n1L4ITpeq0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/n1L4ITpeq0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tomorrowland (@tomorrowland) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomorrowland\/status\/1946234754841424143?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">July 18, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mighty Metallica came to the rescue after a fire destroyed the main stage of the Tomorrowland festival&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-8697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}