Metallica was booed off on Dynamo Open Air 1996 when they failed to show up and thought it a good idea to do a live-via-satellite-over-the-PA interview instead where they jokingly talked about about-to-be-released Load and played two-minute snippets of 2x4 and The House Jack Built. 90.000 metalheads waiting in front of the stage almost went on a rampage when it dawned on them that this was not a joke or an intro for the billed headline act. Things could've gotten really ugly if Venom hadn't taken over and completely killed it. That moment there they lost their remaining Dutch, German and Belgian fans.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 3 August 2008 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link