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Metallica’s ‘Cozy Stadium’ Paradox

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Metallica M72 tour photo by Ralph Larmann

Dan Braun, Creative Director/Production Designer for Metallica, spoke to PLSN about the deceptively spare look to the band’s 66-truck M72 World Tour. “All of that is the paradox that is Metallica,” he said, achieved by pushing back on naysayer pushback and getting the proportions of everything just right. “One of the things that I pride myself on is trying to make the room feel intimate; to make it feel small. The first review I read of this show called it cozy, that somehow we’d made a stadium cozy. We have changed the experience of a show in an 80,000 seat stadium.”

From the Metallica M72 World Tour Production Spotlight article in the August 2023 issue by Michael S. Eddy, page 28