Metallica have revealed that they have limited themselves to performing roughly 50 concerts per year.
During an interview on The Nerdist podcast, frontman James Hetfield and guitarist Kirk Hammett said the group has been actively touring for over 35 years and have been decreasing their performances over the last few years.
"My body has told me to tell these guys that 50 shows a year is kind of what we can do, so make the best of those,” said Hetfield. “And I think we all kind of agree in that. But 50 shows a year, that's pretty good. My body can handle that.
“Body, mind and spirit all need to kind of revitalize themselves at home, and days off for voices — things like that — so 50 shows a year, it goes pretty quick, I'm sure.”
Hammett added: ”Yeah, I mean, we would tour for 10 out of 12 months in the past. We had crazy tours where we would tour, like, 12, 15, 16 weeks in a row, doing five shows a week…"
"And we came home,” Hetfield recalled, “and we were divorced, girlfriends were gone, and we were addicted to a few substances, and we were fighting."
Said Hammett: "It's all a learning experience. We learned so much through all that.”
Original article by Sam Valorose at iHeartRadio