Thrash icons Metallica are working on a new tour which will rival the grandeur of Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’.
It’s easy to knock the enormous tours undertaken by grandiose rock groups. Spinal Tap’s famous Stonehenge joke put paid to those props ever being taken seriously, with the English rockers gazing at a midget monument.
However Metallica are apparently planning to undertake their most lavish tour to date. The band’s manager Peter Mensch recently gave an interview in which he claimed the group’s forthcoming jaunt would rival Pink Floyd’s epic project ‘The Wall’.
Based on the concept album of the same name, the lengthy 1980-81 tour saw the band build and demolish a wall each night. Performing against custom made animations, Pink Floyd’s tour is remembered as one of the most expensive tours ever undertaken.
Now Metallica aim to beat the prog stars at their own game. “Let’s just say that next year you will see a Metallica tour that will blow your mind,” he told Classic Rock.
“They will only play in 10 cities but it will be a huge undertaking. It will be Metallica’s equivalent of ‘The Wall’.”
Mensch was asked to define his role as the manager of Metallica, replying: “Saying something like, ‘I have this idea for us to play an equivalent of ‘The Wall’. So here’s some ideas so we can get the professionals in so they can tell me if I’m crazy or not.'”
Of course, the new tour depends on Metallica surviving their current jaunt unscathed. The band have caused two riots in South America, with their ‘Death Magnetic’ show in Columbia recently causing 160 arrests.
