Metallica returns to stage for new concert to be shown at drive-in venues, including San Antonio, New Braunfels

Concert will be shown only on Aug. 29

Metallica. Courtesy: Encore Drive-In Nights (KSAT)

SAN ANTONIO – Metallica is not letting the COVID-19 pandemic keep them from returning to the stage.

The rock-and-roll band will be performing for the first time since September 2019 with a concert that will be shown for only one night at hundreds of drive-in and outdoor theaters across the United States and Canada including at Fiesta Texas San Antonio and at the Stars and Stripes in New Braunfels.

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The show will be shot especially for the Encore Drive-In Nights Series at a location near the band’s Northern California headquarters and will be edited and mixed and shown on Aug. 29.

The concert will feature material from throughout their nearly four-decade career and provide Metallica fans with an intimate, unique and truly memorable concert experience, according to a news release.

Tickets for the event go on sale at noon on Aug. 14.

Click here for more information on the concert.


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