Metallica to headline Glastonbury as full line-up revealed

The US metal veterans will join Arcade Fire and Kasabian at the event in Somerset on June 25-29.

17:21 09 May 2014

It has been confirmed that Metallica will headline the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury on Saturday night. The US metal veterans will join Arcade Fire and Kasabian on June 25-29 at the event in Somerset. This is the first time for Metallica, or indeed a heavy metal band, has headlined the event. 

 

The tickets sold out in just one hour and 27 minutes in October. 

 

Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis told BBC 6 Music's Matt Everitt: "[Metallica] wanted to play for a long, long time and they're one of the most amazing rock bands in the world, everywhere I go people say 'When are Metallica going to play?' I said, 'They will be here one day' and this is their time now. 

 

"We've done it before (with Rage Against the Machine in 1994). People think that we're prone to have Radiohead and Coldplay and Oasis but when we had Jay Z a few years ago, people said he wasn't a Glastonbury act but we have all kinds of music."

 

Meanwhile, Metallica's Lars Ulrich told Radio 1's Zane Lowe that they are equally excited. He added: "I feel ecstatic. We've been waiting for this phone call for years."

 

Check out the latest line-up poster below: