Saturday, October 29, 2011

Metallica Cancels Two Concerts, Indian Fans Trash Stage (VIDEOS)

Denied the opportunity to see the kings of heavy metal, fans in India made some of their own.

Set to play their first ever concert in India on Friday in the city of Guragon, Metallica and show promoter DNA Networks announced just prior to the gig's planned opening that they'd have to postpone it until Saturday due to "failure of a security barricade in front of the stage that could not be adequately repaired," the band wrote on their blog.

NDTV and IBN report that, following a rush into the venue upon one gate opening, the fans that managed to get in spent the next several hours pushing toward the stage as venue officials made multiple announcements asking them to stand back. When the concert was finally postponed, it did not sit well with the some 25,000 fans who had traveled from throughout the country to see this seminal moment in their country's cultural history.


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