Metallica will play Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Ark., on May 26, 2027, adding a new stop to its 2027 North American stadium run. For Fans in Fayetteville, the date now sits inside a routing that stretches from Vancouver to Salt Lake City and pushes M72 deeper into 2027.
The May 26 booking lands inside a run that resumes on May 8, 2027 at BC Place in Vancouver and closes on June 19, 2027 at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City. The lineup around the newly added dates keeps Limp Bizkit and Avatar on the bill, while a portion of every ticket sold will go to local charities through AWMH, the group established in 2017.
Razorback Stadium joins M72
The new date adds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville to a route that the band says now reaches a dozen new cities for the first time on this run. Metallica has already played 99 shows in 26 countries since the tour kicked off in April 2023, and nearly five million members of the Metallica family have attended the M72 World Tour through its most recent two-night engagement on July 3 and 5, 2025 at London Stadium. For a stadium tour, that scale usually tells you the booking power is still strong enough to keep expanding rather than winding down.
May 26 also sits between the band's planned return to the road and a separate Life Burns Faster residency at Sphere in Las Vegas from October 1, 2026 through March 13, 2027. That split schedule is the wrinkle here: Metallica is not simply filling one continuous stadium block, but moving between a residency format and a wider North American stadium sweep before the run resumes.
September 2026 ticket dates
September 21 at 10 am local time starts Fan Club presales for the newly added shows, giving the most engaged buyers first access before the wider market opens. Citi cardmembers can join a presale beginning September 22 at 10 am and running until September 24 at 10 pm, while Verizon will offer customers an exclusive presale for the newly added M72 shows in the U.S. over the same window.
September 24 at 10 am brings the local presales, and the general on-sale follows on September 25 at 10 am local time. That sequence leaves little gap between early access and public sale, so the practical move for anyone targeting Fayetteville is simple: line up the presale path that fits your account before the September windows open. Metallica Live At London Stadium
Metallica’s Fayetteville stop is the kind of addition that rewards fast planning rather than speculation. The date is set, the support act is set, and the ticket windows are set; the only thing left for buyers is deciding whether Razorback Stadium is the night they want on the calendar. Metallica London grant update Metallica Cardiff donation report
