‘Enter Sandymount’: Metallica Confirm 2-Night Stand at Aviva Stadium

The mighty Metallica are Dublin-bound once again – with the metal behemoths set to bring their now two years-in planet straddling M72 World Tour to the Aviva Stadium for two nights next June.

The band will play the Aviva on June 19 and June 21, 2026.

It marks the first time Metallica have played here since 2019’s Slane Castle headline set.

Tickets will be priced from €121.25 to €261.25 and will go on sale on Friday, May 30 at 10am.

Next year’s European leg of the M72 tour will take in 16 shows in total and run across May, June and July.

Support bands for the Dublin shows will be the reconstituted Pantera (who, themselves, played their first Irish shows in 20 years just last February) and Avatar on June 19; and Gojira and Knocked Loose on June 21.

The ticket prices may be a far cry from the kind of money being asked back in the 80s when Metallica first came here and played the likes of Dublin’s SFX Centre and Dún Laoghaire’s Top Hat, but, then, so is the show.

The M72 Tour – which is in support of Metallica’s 2023 album 72 Seasons – is the band’s biggest and most ambitious to date: an outdoor in-the-round tech-fest with multiple screens, pyro bombs and band angles no matter where you’re positioned in the crowd.

The typical setlist, for the tour, has been a veritable greatest hits drive-thru – touching on all points of the band’s career to date (from 1983’s Kill ‘Em All to the aforementioned 72 Seasons; via their multiple classics in between).

An added incentive for repeat ticket buyers is that next summer’s shows will be part of Metallica’s No Repeat Weekend series, where the band plays a different set list on each night of a multiple run in a particular city.