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The organizers of the  Sonic Temple  and  Louder Than Life  festivals have offered more information about the cancelation of  METALLICA ‘s appearances at this year’s events. 

Earlier today,  Ultimate Guitar  posted a new interview with  Gary Spivack , executive vice president and talent buyer for  Danny Wimmer Presents , in which he explained in a greater detail the circumstances that led to  METALLICA pulling out of the two festivals.

He said:

“Well, we got the call from  METALLICA ‘s management team,  Q Prime , who are, the best managers in the business, hands down, and said that James has Sobriety Weekends that are requirement weekend that are throughout the calendar year, and unfortunately, a couple of those weekends fell on our festivals. Although  METALLICA  will still be at  Welcome To Rockville, Epicenter  and  Aftershock  in 2020 with us, we did lose them for  Sonic Temple  and  Louder Than Life . 

He added:

“So, then it was, how do you even contemplate filling the shoes of the biggest band in our world? Well, you do it by finding two of the biggest bands in our world. So, we got RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS , with  John Frusciante , which will be one of only four shows they’ll be doing in 2020, and of course,  Grammy Award-winning artist  TOOL .”

Via MetalWani