What does everybody think of this ? . Do you think it's odd or could it work ? . I think nothing else matters and a couple of acoustic numbers could go down pretty well but then I am a big fan of theirs.

I might bother to watch some of it this year. 3/4 of the acts have been useless the past few years.

Tickets were sold out before the band was announced so it will be by luck if any of their fans will already be there.

They'll surely tone down their usual set list and play the lightest stuff they can. For example, they usually start the show with Hit The Lights, Battery, Blackened or Creeping Death. I'd be surprised if they did that at a place like Glastonbury.

It is long, long overdue.

Glastonbury prides itself on being one of the most relevant music festivals in the world, and yet they've never had the biggest band of an entire musical genre, and one of the biggest bands in the world, even once. This is a band who has headlined basically every festival in the world at some stage, including other countries versions of Glastonbury (ie. festivals which aren't genre-specific).

I get people saying that they don't want Metallica at Glastonbury, or they don't like them. Personally I think they will win the crowd over - their live show is incredibly intense, professional and well constructed, and you can't really describe to anybody what a stadium metal gig is like without being there - the energy at one really is something else, as the volume is so loud yet so focused.

What I don't get is people who say Metallica aren't a big enough band to headline Glastonbury, which is laughable in the extreme. They're one of the top five best selling acts of the last 25 years, have the best selling album of the last 25 years, and are constantly selling out venues in every corner of the globe. It'd be like me saying One Direction aren't enough a big enough band to headline Glastonbury - there are many other reasons you can say they shouldn't, but to say they're not big enough to would make me look like an idiot.

I don't particularly like Metallica, but I absolutely detest Pulp and the Arctic Monkeys and they went down well enough, so each to their own.

I don't like Metallica myself, not into that genre of music but you have to give Eavis the chops for breaking boundaries and allowing a metal band for the very first time to headline Glastonbury. Metallica will be that band.

It was the same when Jay-Z was the first rap artist to headline Glastonbury a few years ago. Everyone thought it was a bad idea and yes it may not be everyone's cup of tea but you have to move forward and think outside of the box.

Will i be watching however, no.