Black Album Tour: Still Roaming

Recently I got this attractive black album anniversary limited poster in the mail.  These were sold at the shows in Europe where Metallica played the entire black album and are apparently limited to 200 copies.  Mine is numbered 84 of 200.  Can't really go wrong with Pushead artwork and the attractive silver on black design.  This one is from the show in Warsaw, Poland.  Personally, I find it hard to believe that these are that limited, but until I see more evidence i'm unsure.

 

Still Roaming!

A few old ones in my collection:

A lot of the original black album tour posters and flyers were pretty boring, especially the USA ones as they were for the most part just a variation of the one below.  The first one is for the kickoff of the Black Album world tour, which I suppose the band had no idea was going to last so long!  The special tapers section was a pretty cool idea at the time and not too surprising for a band that was always pretty forgiving to sneaky recorders that lurked in the audience.  Unfortunately, this show was the premiere of the Justice medley... oh the horror, the horror of the dreaded medley.

An Evening With Metallica

This next one a pretty rare one from their stop in Istanbul, Turkey at the Inonu Stadium.  The Pushead art featured on this poster is a welcome addition and makes for an attractive souvenir.   I forget the name of the guy that traded me this poster from Turkey, but I would like to thank him again as it made a nice addition to the collection.  If by any chance you see this, cheers mate!  I hope to get you that beer in Vancouver one day that we also talked about.

Are We Still On the Road?

From the Attic: Aardschokdag 1987

With February coming to a close, it would be a shame if I did not find an excuse to post what is one of my favourite posters. The date of the show was February 8th, 1987, 25 years ago and the poster featured a pretty amazing lineup, made extra special by the appearance of the mighty and great Celtic Frost (I believe the only time they opened for Metallica, but I could be wrong). It is a beautiful poster adorned by one of the best Pushead designs (the Damage Inc. artwork), and also features one of the best designed logos in metal (Celtic Frost). In addition, it also features a great lineup with Crimson Glory being the only weak act on the bill.  With Metallica, Metal Church, Celtic Frost, Anthrax and Laaz Rockit all together on one bill, I am still jealous of the very lucky dutch folk that went to this show in 1987.

From the Attic: 1985 Metallica Promo Logo and 1989 Damaged Justice Japan Tour Promo posters

Here is a strange item, it is a promo logo from 1985 that was hanging in some record stores in between the signing of Metallica to Elektra Records and the release of Master of Puppets. Simple, but very effective, I guess when you have the coolest logo in Metal, you might as well use it. This was part of the advertising campaign that followed Metallica's signing to Elektra records and the rerelease of Ride the Lightning.  Too bad they never followed through with one of the rumoured plans at the time which was to make a video for Escape!  This lovely logo promotional item was given to me by a nice guy I had the pleasure to deal with about 7 years ago. Soon it will go to the framers for the proper treatment. Enjoy.

Even if they would not play the records in the shop, it was pretty clear that when you were confronted by the crushing power of this logo upon visiting the record store, that this band was probably not going to sound like Wham!

Next up are these two beautiful Japanese promo posters which are very nice and feature art from the one and only Pushead. These are easily the nicest Metallica posters out there in my opinion and are quite rare. They are promo posters, but also serve to announce and advertise the Japanese dates of the Damaged Justice tour. I want to thank my friend Terry from Japan who sold and traded me these posters. It is much appreciated. Enjoy.

Mt Fuji!

Spider!