It’s unhappy however true: Metallica is coming to Fortnite. Epic simply introduced that the group might be featured within the sport’s subsequent live performance. The information is a component of a bigger musical collaboration between Fortnite and the heavy steel band.
First up, the live performance itself. It’s referred to as “Metallica: Gasoline Hearth Fury,” and gamers can test it out throughout a couple of home windows later this month: June twenty second at 2PM, 5PM, and 11PM ET and June twenty third at 10AM, 2PM, and 5PM ET. There aren’t many particulars on what the digital present will entail, but it surely’ll be the most recent in a line of in-game concert events from the likes of Eminem, Ariana Grande, Travis Scott, and Marshmello.
Now that Fortnite is greater than a battle royale (although that is still the preferred mode), Epic is spreading the Metallica expertise throughout the ecosystem. The band would be the featured act within the music sport Fortnite Pageant beginning on June thirteenth, taking up for Billie Eilish, and there might be a brand new “Thrash Mountain” observe in Rocket Racing. Not solely are all 4 members of Metallica going to be featured within the sport however there will even be Lego variations of them as properly.