Enter Metal

Forget the swine flu… Mexico has come down with metal fever.

This weekend Metallica is playing in Mexico City for the first time in ten years, and metaleros are stoked.  So stoked that the original two concerts were sold out within an hour or so, and a third date was added, which also sold out promptly.  As far as I can tell, that makes DF second to only Copenhagen in the number of concerts planned on the current tour.  Copenhagen, btw, gets 5 nights.

Now, I haven’t thought much about Metallica myself since they were big in my middle school days.  But metal in general seems to have kept the fire burning here in Mexico– it’s certainly more popular here than anywhere I’ve ever lived.  Of course, I’ve never lived in Copenhagen.  But two of my coworkers are going to the shows this weekend, and one of them even went when they played here 10 years ago.  He’s also had the latest Metallica album cover as the desktop image on his computer for the past 3 months.   I’m telling you, the metaleros of Mexico are stoked!

And now… the metal has landed.  Lars and company arrived in DF yesterday.  So, 10 years of pent-up metal energy is releasing at the Foro Sol tonight, Saturday, and Sunday.  Ready, Set,  ¡Qué heavy!