Metallica Add Dates to Las Vegas Sphere Residency

Mar 6, 2026 7:13am PT Metallica Add 16 Dates to Las Vegas Sphere Residency By Jem Aswad Plus Icon Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music jemaswad Latest Music Industry Moves: Create Music Group Completes $450 Million Fundraise, Company Valued at $2.2 Billion 2 days ago Harry Styles Defies Expectations With the Slow-Burning but Satisfying ‘Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.’: Album Review 2 days ago Harry Styles Gets Honest About His Struggles With Fame, and Making Electronic Music for New Album: ‘I Wanted It to Feel Like We’re in This Music Together’ 3 days ago See All Courtesy of BBGun Metallica have added 16 dates to their “Life Burns Faster” residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas, tripling the number of shows for the engagement, which begins this fall and now extends into 2027. The general on-sale for all dates for Metallica’s residency at Sphere in Las Vegas begins today (Friday, March 6) at 10 a.m. PT. As with the previously announced eight-show run, the new additions to “Life Burns Faster” will continue the “No Repeat Weekend” tradition that began with the 2023 kick-off of the band’s M72 World Tour, with no songs repeated on each Thursday and Saturday. See below for a full list of dates. Related Stories Jodie Sweetin Says Candace Cameron Bure 'Does Her Thing and We Sit on Very Opposite Sides' After Claim 'Full House' Co-Star 'Has Gone a Bit Dave Chappelle-y' According to the announcement, the residency “will see live staples and surprises spanning the Metallica catalog enhanced by the venue’s immersive technologies that will allow fans to experience the sound and fury of the band’s live performance in new experiential dimensions.” Sphere’s technology includes “the world’s highest resolution LED display” that wraps up, over and around the audience; Sphere Immersive Sound; and “multi-sensory” 4D technology. Popular on Variety Metallica co-founder/drummer Lars Ulrich commented, “About 12 seconds into the opening night of Sphere with U2 back in ‘23, I thought ‘We have to do this, it’s completely uncharted territory!’ This residency gives us another chance to reinvent how we interact with our fans in a live setting. We are beyond excited to share this with the world in six months time, and way fuckin’ psyched to go next level!” Metallica Life Burns Faster at Sphere is produced by Live Nation and presented by inKind. METALLICA LIFE BURNS FASTER LIVE AT SPHERE October 1 & 3 October 8 & 10 October 15 & 17 October 22 & 24 October 29 & 31 November 5 & 7 January 28 & 30 February 4 & 6 February 18 & 20 February 25 & 27 March 4 & 6 March 11 & 13 Jump to Comments ‘The Boys’ Final Season Trailer: Homelander Seeks Immortality and Sits in The White House in Blood-Soaked New Footage Blackpink and Disney Go Punk in New Streetwear Collection — And Each Purchase Comes With a Collectible Photo Card of the Kpop Group How ‘Love Story’ Recreated Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s Iconic Wedding Dress: ‘It Had to Be as Exact as Possible’ Patrick Stewart Reads All 156 of Shakespeare’s Sonnets in New Audiobook Jacki Weaver Joins ‘The Rockford Files’ Reboot Cast at NBC ‘The White Lotus’ Season 4 Casts Vincent Cassel, Corentin Fila and Nadia Tereszkiewicz JavaScript is required to load the comments. Loading comments...