METALLICA: Swedish Concert Ticket Fraud Suspected

October 21, 2008

A scandal has erupted in Sweden over an alleged ticket fraud in connection with METALLICA's upcoming March 7-8, 2009 concerts at Globen in Stockholm. According to reports in the Swedish media, it is suspected that a significant percentage of the 30,000 tickets never even reached the general public before they were made available on the black market at prices that were substantially higher than their face value.

Expressen.se reports that Ticnet, Sweden's largest live-event ticket agency, has received word that a Swedish ATG sales representative distributed as many as 200 tickets to one of the companies specializing in selling second-hand tickets — this despite the fact that there was a limit of six tickets per transaction.

Tickets to METALLICA's two shows in Stockholm were sold out within 30 minutes after they went on sale yesterday morning (Monday, October 20). Before the day was over, many of the tickets — whose face value was between between 450 and 750 kronor (between $60 and $100)— were being resold on the black market for up to 4,000 kronor apiece (approximately $532).

METALLICA performed the first single from "Death Magnetic", "The Day That Never Comes", at last Thursday night's (October 16) annual "Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica 2008" in Guadalajara, Mexico. Watch footage of the performance below.

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