This was the first tour played as a band, and it supported their first album, Kill 'Em All.

Metallica played as supporting act for Venom, performing in front of 7,000 people at the Aardschok Festival in Zwolle, Netherlands.

The band had its first major European tour, with an average crowd of 1,300.

The band went on tour to support their second album, Ride the Lightning, gaining an attendance of 60,000 at a show in Oakland, California, at the Day on the Green festival. During the tour, Metallica played for the first time at the Monsters of Rock festival. The concert was at Donington Park, England, in front of 70,000 people.

The tour supported the band's third album Master of Puppets in which the headliner of the North American spring and summer portion was Ozzy Osbourne. It was plagued with misfortune for the band, as the guitar technician John Marshall had to fill James Hetfield's place at the rhythm guitar twice due to wrist injury. Later, during the European portion, a bus accident in Sweden killed bassist Cliff Burton. The World Tour that followed introduced the new bassist, Jason Newsted.

The group went on the festival tour for the second time, with concerts in England and West Germany.

Metallica went on the same festival tour, the second year in a row, and played in front of crowds numbering 40,000 to 53,000 people.

The tour supported the band's fourth album, ...And Justice for All. The August 29 and 30, 1989, shows in Seattle were later released in the box set Live Shit: Binge & Purge.

The tour consisted of several European festivals and stadium shows, as well as a private gig at The Marquee under the name The Frayed Ends. It included two shows in Aerosmith's Pump Tour, along with The Black Crowes and Warrant, with crowds of 60,000 and 30,000 spectators respectively.

Metallica went on the festival tour a fourth time. The last concert of the tour, held on September 28 at Tushino Airfield in Moscow, was described as "the first free outdoor Western rock concert in Soviet history" and had a crowd estimated between 500,000 and 3,500,000 people, with some unofficial estimates as high over 2,000,000.

The tour supported the fifth album, Metallica (also known as "The Black Album") which included a performance at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, with the band performing a short set list and Hetfield performing with Queen and Tony Iommi. The January 13 and 14, 1992, shows in San Diego were later released in the box set Live Shit: Binge & Purge, while the tour and the album were later documented in A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica.

It was an overlap of Metallica's Wherever We May Roam Tour and Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion Tour. James Hetfield suffered serious burns during a show in Montreal; John Marshall filled the guitar for the rest of the tour.

The shows in Mexico City across February and March 1993 were later released as part of the box set Live Shit: Binge & Purge. It is also the first time the band met Robert Trujillo who would join the band almost a decade later.

The tour included a performance at Woodstock '94 on August 13 in front of a crowd of 350,000.

During the tour, a song from each of the next two albums were played ("2 × 4" and "Devil's Dance"). At the Donington Park concert, Metallica joined the Monsters of Rock for a fifth time. It was the first tour with most of songs in Eb Tuning still used today

Metallica headlined the festival tour, in front of crowds of about 20,000, with many shows being sold out.

The tour supported the recently released album Load. The May 9 and 10, 1997, shows in Fort Worth, Texas, were later released in the video Cunning Stunts.

Metallica plays at European festivals to fulfill earlier contractual obligations. They play three back-to-back shows at the Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium, Blind Man's Ball in Germany, and Reading Festival in England.

The tour promoted the just-released album ReLoad. Over 120,000 fans called to request a location for the free concert held in November, later named Million Decibel March.

Jerry Cantrell, Days of the New

The shows on April 21 and 22, 1999, at Berkeley Community Theatre, alongside the San Francisco Symphony, were released as the album S&M.

The tour supported the album Garage Inc. which saw the band perform only cover songs, while the opening acts were Metallica cover bands.

The tour supported the album Garage Inc. During the tour, Metallica played two live concerts similar to the one released in S&M; one in Germany with Babelsberger Filmorchester on November 19; and one at the Madison Square Garden, New York City, with the Orchestra of St. Luke's on November 23.

The New Year's Eve show in Pontiac, Michigan, was in front of 50,000 people.

Hetfield missed three shows due to a back injury. Newsted sang most of the songs during these concerts, and the vocals and rhythm guitar were also taken by musicians from the other bands.

As a tour supporting album St. Anger, it marked the first time the new bassist, Robert Trujillo, played live with the band.

Another tour supporting album St. Anger, in which most shows were made available later for purchase as a digital download. Before the show in Download Festival, Lars Ulrich was rushed to the hospital after having an anxiety seizure and was unable to perform, and Metallica played in that gig with guest drummers Dave Lombardo and Joey Jordison, and Ulrich's drum technician Flemming Larsen.

Two untitled new songs were played, and some portions ended up being featured on the next released album. Tour also featured the album Master of Puppets played in its entirety in its proper sequence for the first time.

The tour featured shows at festivals and in stadiums, with crowds numbering 60,000 people.

Two songs from the upcoming album were debuted. The band played at Ozzfest for the first time in their history, being featured as headliners and playing right after Ozzy Osbourne.

Tour supporting the album Death Magnetic. The tour was the 16th highest-grossing concert tour ever. The shows on June 4, 6 and 7 at Mexico City, on July 7, 2009, at Nîmes, France and on October 31 and November 1 at Quebec City were released on the DVDs Orgullo, Pasión y Gloria: Tres Noches en la Ciudad de México, Français Pour Une Nuit and Quebec Magnetic respectively. The tour ended with concerts in Australia and in New Zealand in November 2010.

Tour features the first two Big Four U.S. shows in Indio, California, and New York City, respectively, as well as the band's first ever show in India.

Tour headlining European festivals, such as Sonisphere Festival, Download Festival, Nova Rock Festival, Rock in Rio Lisboa, Werchter Boutique, Rock am Ring and Rock im Park. As a late celebration for The Black Album's 20th anniversary, it was played in its entirety in reverse.

Few of the shows were recorded for the band's movie Metallica: Through the Never, was the first tour that the band had two songs for the encore rather than three, and included stage antics like the stage falling apart, the Death Magnetic Coffins, and much more.

At the second Orion Music + More festival held in Detroit, the band played under the fake-name "Dehaan" - "Dehaan" being a reference to actor Dane DeHaan, who starred in Metallica: Through the Never - and played Kill 'Em All in its entirety, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the release. Following the tour, Metallica played a show called "Freeze 'Em All" in Antarctica's Carlini Base, becoming the first band to play on all seven continents.

An interactive tour, concertgoers could vote, via internet, which songs Metallica would include on each night's setlist and, at the concert, via SMS, to a song in the encore. Metallica debuted a new song, called "Lords of Summer". Metallica's only stop in North America was in Montreal for the Heavy Montreal festival.

A concert tour in support of their tenth studio album, Hardwired... to Self-Destruct.

An ongoing concert tour in support of the band's eleventh studio album, 72 Seasons.

First gig was at Radio City, Anaheim on March 14, 1982, other gigs during 1982 and early 1983 as a band were not played as a tour, as the new band released several demos and went through a couple of line-up changes, as Ron McGovney was replaced by Cliff Burton as bassist and several months later Dave Mustaine lead guitarist and backing vocalist was replaced by Kirk Hammett.

Without a bass player, the band played few shows as they auditioned for a bassist. The year 2001 was the first since the band's formation when Metallica played no shows at all. During their only performance of 2002, the band introduced themselves as Bob's Band (after Bob Rock who helped on bass).

The band interrupted its vacation after being invited to open two shows for The Rolling Stones' A Bigger Bang Tour in San Francisco, California.