Metallica grew to become the heroes of the day after they swooped in to avoid wasting Tomorrowland, lending their stage to the Belgian digital music pageant after a fireplace worn out its principal stage.

This yr’s Tomorrowland — which runs from July 18 to 27 and can draw 400,000 individuals to the city of Increase in Belgium’s Antwerp province — was thrown into jeopardy on Wednesday when the large principal stage went up in flames.

Enter Metallica, who supplied components of the stage they used on their European tour and had saved in Austria, in accordance with Antwerp-based newspaper The Newest Information. The rig, which features a huge wall of screens, was airlifted to the pageant grounds in a single day, and Tomorrowland opened at 2 p.m. on Friday as deliberate.

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Tomorrowland Headliners and Workers Thank Metallica for Lending Stage

“It’s a miracle and we’re past pleased to be opening,” Tomorrowland spokesperson Debby Wilmsen instructed DJ Magazine. “Two hours in the past we had been nonetheless demolishing the previous stage.”

Dutch DJ Martin Garrix, one of many pageant’s headliners, thanked Metallica in an Instagram submit with a photograph of himself and drummer Lars Ulrich.

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“I can’t consider I’m truly typing this … however my set at Tomorrowland continues to be occurring!” Garrix wrote. “Large love and an enormous shoutout to the unbelievable Tomorrowland workforce for pulling off miracles — and to Metallica for coming by with the brand new stage components. Past excited to shut the principle stage tonight. And it will palms down be probably the most distinctive Tomorrowland ever.”

Metallica’s M72 world tour will resume in November in Australia. The steel giants will return to Europe in Could 2026.