The following are some of the METALLICA's recent South American concert attendances/grosses, as reported by Billboard magazine:Artist/Event: METALLICAVenue: Parque Simon Bolivar City/State: Bogota, ColombiaDate: March 16, 2014Gross Sales: $2,857,030Attendance/Capacity: 30,974 / 34,137Ticket Prices: $156.23, $73.23Artist/Event: METALLICAVenue: Parque Bicentenario City/State: Quito, EcuadorDate: March 18, 2014Gross Sales: $3,877,959Attendance/Capacity: 32,257 / 32,257Ticket Prices: $225, $30Artist/Event: METALLICAVenue: Estadio Nacional City/State: Lima, PeruDate: March 20, 2014Gross Sales: $1,925,090Attendance/Capacity: 27,858 / 31,600Ticket Prices: $164.23, $18.95Artist/Event: METALLICAVenue: Estadio do Morumbi City/State: Sao Paulo, BrazilDate: March 22, 2014Gross Sales: $5,701,630Attendance/Capacity: 61,742/ 63,347Ticket Prices: $257.68, $77.30Artist/Event: METALLICAVenue: Jockey Club City/State: Asuncion, ParaguayDate: March 24, 2014Gross Sales: $2,256,140Attendance/Capacity: 28,277 / 32,200Ticket Prices: $223.81, $40.29Artist/Event: METALLICAVenue: Estadio Monumental City/State: Santiago, ChileDate: March 27, 2014Gross Sales: $3,508,790Attendance/Capacity: 43,296 / 43,296Ticket Prices: $170.18, $48.37Artist/Event: METALLICAVenue: Estadio Unico Ciudad de La Plata City/State: Buenos Aires, ArgentinaDate: March 29-30, 2014Gross Sales: $4,719,390Attendance/Capacity: 76,407 / 79,038Ticket Prices: $124.87, $31.22As promised, the band played a nearly all-request set on the above-listed South American shows, with 17 songs chosen online by fans prior to the gig and the last slot filled by the new track "The Lords Of Summer".Drummer Lars Ulrich told Rolling Stone that "The Lords Of Summer" "is fairly representative of where our creative headspace is at right now. It's one of those things that's like, 'Here, we're writing and we're creating.'"Guitarist Kirk Hammett told The Pulse Of Radio that coming up with music is not a problem for the band. "We're a band that never has a shortage of ideas," he said. "You know, you hear about these bands that are like, oh, they're sitting in the studio and they don't have any songs, what are they gonna do? That's not METALLICA. METALLICA's problem is the total opposite: we have too many ideas, which ones are we gonna use. And so that's pretty much how it stands with us."Ulrich cautioned, however, that "The Lords Of Summer" may not even end up on METALLICA's next album at all, or at least not in its current form. He explained, "We did the same thing when we went out and played a bunch of dates in 2006. We were writing and played two different new songs over the course of that summer, and none of them made the record (2008's 'Death Magnetic')."The Metallica By Request tour will hit Europe this summer, with a single North American date confirmed in Montreal, as the band continues working on its 10th studio album. The rest of METALLICA's "by request" show in South America featured such "rarities" as "Master Of Puppets", "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)", "Battery", "Fade To Black", "One" and "Enter Sandman".
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