Fortnite Metallica concert: Start time, how to join, and more

The Fortnite x Metallica collaboration plays a huge role in Chapter 5 Season 3, and fans love it. To make things better, the Fortnite Metallica concert is on the way and might be one of the best Fortnite Festival experiences yet. Titled Metallica: Fuel. Fire. Fury., the concert will feature some of the band's most popular songs with interactive gameplay. The event is based on their M72 World Tour.

The band's members—Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich, Robert Trujillo, and James Hetfield—are the face of Fortnite Festival Season 4, and players were eagerly waiting for their concert in-game.

Here's everything to know about the Fortnite Metallica concert.

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Everything you need to know about the Fortnite Metallica Concert

Concert time and date

Fortnite Festival Season 4 (Image via Epic Games)

As mentioned in the X post by the official Fortnite account, the Metallica: Fuel. Fire. Fury. event will start this weekend, on June 22, 2024, at 2 PM Eastern time. The showtime for the Fornite Metallica event is as follows:

Saturday, June 22, 2024

2 PM Eastern Time
5 PM Eastern Time
11 PM Easter Time

Sunday, June 23, 2024

10 AM Eastern Time
2 PM Eastern Time
5 PM Eastern Time

The event will be accessible on the Fortnite Discover screen for 30 minutes after the start time, allowing players who are late to still join. Up to four players in a lobby can join the event together.

How to play

Fortnite Metallica concert (Image via Epic Games)

For those interested in experiencing this event, entering it is quite simple. Launch Fortnite and wait for the Metallica: Fuel. Fire. Fury. game mode to appear by default on the "Play" tab. If the mode doesn't appear, navigate to the mode selection tab and search game modes marked "By Epic." There, the Fortnite Metallica concert should be the first visible option. Click on the event and wait for the game to load.

Note that the queue time will be longer than usual due to the high traffic seen during Fortnite concerts. Launch the game 30 minutes before the event starts to avoid any hassle.

Possible songs and rewards

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According to the official Fortnite blog post, the concert will feature six of Metallica's fan-favorite songs. While the exact list of the songs has not been released, many superhit songs by Metallica are added to the Fortnite Festival Jam Tracks list in Chapter 5 Season 3. Based on the available information, it is highly likely that these are the fan-favorite six songs that will be featured in the Fortnite Metallica concert:

Fuel
Lux Æterna
Master of Puppets
Ride The Lightning
The Unforgiven
Wherever I May Roam

There are no details about potential rewards during this concert. However, players might likely receive free Fortnite Festival XP rewards as well as other in-game cosmetics.

About the author

Harshit Singh is a gaming journalist at Sportskeeda, with Fortnite, Counter-Strike 2, and Marvel Rivals being his areas of specialization. A final-year B.Des (Visual Communication) student at Delhi Technological University, he is always eager to pursue creative endeavors. Harshit aims to deliver news and up-to-date content promptly to players around the globe. To that end, he acquires information from reliable forums and social media pages and religiously tracks the latest coverage of Fortnite — a game he has been playing since 2018. He is often found testing the new meta in-game or spectating competitive tournaments.

Harshit holds a deep love for video games, which stemmed from the hours he spent playing GTA Vice City, NFS Most Wanted 2005, FlatOut 2, and Total Overdose in his school days. Currently, he is veering towards story-driven, single-player games, with Red Dead Redemption 2 being one of his favorites.

Harshit is an ardent fan of esports titles like CS, Rocket League, and Valorant, with Fnatic, EDG, G2, and Astralis being a few of his favorite orgs. Counter-Strike pro Xantares and Benjifishy, an esports athlete who has mastered both Fortnite and Valorant, are inspirational figures for him.

Harshit works as a music producer under the alias Hysaze. He is extremely passionate about EDM and has garnered over 40 million streams across all platforms. He is also a regular contributor to Fandom’s EDM Wiki.

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Edited by Angad Sharma