Metallica concerts in Czech Republic 1993-2014

Today will be about Metallica concerts in the Czech Republic. To date, Metallica has played eight concerts in this country. A few days ago after many years of searching I managed to get ticket from the band’s first concert in the Czech Republic, so now I have the whole set and it became possible to write this text.

The first concert in the Czech Republic took place in Brno in 1993 during the Nowehere Else to Roam Tour and as a support before Metallica played The Cult and Suicidal Tendencies instead of Alice in Chains (who was on the bill). It was also Metallica's only concert in this city. As a curiosity I will add that together with the ticket to the concert I managed to get a bus ticket on the route Liberec-Brno-Liberec with cool graphics. Can You imagine something like this nowadays …. the wonderful 90’s.

Concert and bus tickets

For the next concert of The Four Horsemen, the Czechs had to wait three years until Metallica visit Europe indoor arenas promoting Load album. In September 1996 the concert was held in Prague at Sportovni Hall (Sports Hall). Sadly, poster You see below the tickets is not mine (photo stolen from Carol from Metallica Rulez).

After another three years during Garage Inc. Tour Metallica again visited Prague at Atleticky Stadion Slavia Praha. Below You can see a nice big ticket, along a little flyer from this concert.

In 2004, during another European tour promoting St. Anger album Metallica performed in Prague     T-mobile Park. Below ticket, is photo of a big poster from the Prague concert from my collection.

In 2008 Metallica again visit the Atleticky Stadion Slavia Praha and performed with Machine Head and Gojira. Along with the ticket photo of the info flyer.

The BIG4 Tour that took place in 2010 did not miss the Czech Republic. Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax performed at the Milovice airport near Prague. Below ticket and flyer from this concert.

Another visit also in Prague took place two years later in 2012 when the band celebrating the 20th anniversary of the release of the Black Album. Along with the ticket You can see photo of the flyer from the concert.

The last concert in the Czech Republic to date was a concert on the By Request Tour, where one of the supports was mighty Kvelertak, one of my favorite bands. Poster glued to the pole on the street of the Prague (no chance to bring it with me ….argghhhhh).

25 years anniversary of The Black Album

This year we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the album Metallica aka The Black Album. The album hit the stores on August 12, 1991 but a few days before the release of the album we had free listening party at Madison Square Garden, NY (August 3, 1991). Few days later in the UK were another two events in Manchester (August 6, 1991) and one day later in London (August 7, 1991). Below tickets from these events.

A few days ago, my collection grew by ticket, that without a doubt I can call one of the prettiest tickets from the The Black Album era. A ticket from the concert, which took place in Bangkok Metropolitan Youth Welfare Center on April 15, 1993. It's a pretty huge, full picture ticket with whole band. What is more fuckin cool is that on the back are Nothing Else Matters lyrics.... on the fuckin ticket !!!!. Can You imagine things like this nowadays ?. General impression does not spoil even the fact that above the lyrics is a band picture from the Ride the Lightning era.

New shit in my collection #11

The first ticket is from the Metallica tour with Ozzy Osbourne, from show which took place in 1986 in San Diego. The ticket is not in perfect or even good condition, and far away from full ticket but each ticket from Cliff era which I don’t have in my collection is valuable for me. 

Another ticket is one of my best …looking for that one for a long time. It comes from the concert that took place in Athens (Greece) during the summer tour Nowhere Else To Roam ‘93. It is a large, printed on hard paper and has a very interesting graphic design with two skulls. That same design can be seen on most concert posters from that Tour and on stage.  

Next interesting item is flyer from Turkish concert from Garage Inc. Tour 1999.

The last two items today are two tickets from 2014 South-American Metallica By Request.  Tour. Both from fairly exotic locations: Ecuador and Brasil. Exotic means for me: rare and hard to find. Since these two are in my collection, I’m looking for only one ticket from that tour – ticket from Chile. By the way, thanks a lot for these gems to my Chilean connection - Rodrigo. Thank You my Friend.

Ticket from Ecuador

and Brasil

Aussie Tour 1993

In the spring of 1993 Metallica was in the last phase of the Black Album promotion. After it drove almost the whole World, band appeared in Australia. Nine concerts as a part of Nothing Else To Roam Australia-Asia Tour on the Australia continent were the first concerts in kangaroo land since 1989 when Metallica played there during World Justice Tour.

So, during this visit Metallica played in the following cities:

March 27th – Melbourne
March 29th – Brisbane
March 31st – Sydney
April 1st – Sydney
April 3rd – Melbourne
April 4th – Melbourne
April 5th – Adelaide
April 7th – Perth
April 8th – Perth

As a support band on all gigs played Kyuss. The direct inspiration for this topic was enlarged my collection of two tickets from that Tour. Currently from nine shows I have four tickets (You can see them below). If anyone has other five and would like to found my collection – I welcome with open arms.

March 27th –Melbourne

March 31st – Sydney

April 3rd – Melbourne

Stars in the background

April 7th – Perth

First blood

My first Metallica ticket is from my first concert of The Four Horsemen. It was hot summer 1993 and I, along with three of my friends drove by car to a distance of 700 km of Bratislava. It was June 8, and Slovakia for eight days was an independent country (previously it was Czechoslovakia) but we are only interested in whether the concert which will be going for sure. We were driving without 100% certainty after hearing one of information on MTV Headbangers Ball (if anyone still remembers this program .... rock on Vanessa) ... in an era when the Internet yet no one heard it had to suffice. Morning in Bratislava we saw the first concert posters and we knew it was worth the drive 700 km. Crowd under Slovnaft stadium looked a little different than the type of metalheads. Sandals and terry socks, leather jackets and shorts and ofcourse mullets everywhere.

 

 Young Metal Attack

 On the ticket, The Cult, Alice in Chains and Metallica – nice line-up. I admit that the concert of The Cult do not remember much, but instead of Alice in Chains Megadeth came on the scene arousing universal applause. View Mustaine in white jeans (hi Spirti hehe), an orange sweater and white wristbands I have in mind for today. The concert was dope but the crowd was waiting only for Metallica. I'll just say it was hell on earth from the first bars of "Creeping Death". For the first four songs fought for it to stand up and not be overturned. Then I withdrew a little back and be able to soak up all over each other music and atmosphere of this concert. After the concert ticket hid the "magic box" and may God bless me for not having decided to laminate the ticket as they did my buddies. The ticket is really big in shades of green with a gold inscription Metallica.

 

 Bratislava ticket (green)

 

Nice gold Metallica logo .....glowing in the dark 

Next day there was a concert in Budapest, where they were confusingly similar tickets - standing green and blue on the seats. I do not know if at concert in Bratislava was also a blue version of the ticket - not seen as such. The ticket is quite difficult to obtain, for last 5 years I saw him only once on eBay. A similar situation is with a ticket from the concert which was held in Brno held on 24 May 1993 - the only one that appeared in the sale was bought in January 2010 for $ 109. Good luck

 

Budapest ticket (green)