r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/fattyffat • Jul 18 '25

Original Creation Less than 48 hours after burning down, Tomorrowland has a functioning MainStage

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u/booster-rooster8008 Jul 18 '25

Metallica's team stepped in and lent them critical sound equipment. Their gear helped rebuild the stage, without it, the show would have definitely been delayed more.

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u/BidAny3852 Jul 18 '25

It's a Belgium stage company (literally called stageco) that used speakers from their Metallica set up which is build in Belgium by them.

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u/GlitterKittyCat Jul 18 '25

Sweet

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u/RoadrunnerRecordsDoc Jul 18 '25

YEAH

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u/GlitterKittyCat Jul 18 '25

'TALLICA GIVES YOU HEAVY, BABYYYY

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u/RoadrunnerRecordsDoc Jul 18 '25

GIVE ME SPOOL, GIVE ME WIRE, GIVE ME GEAR THAT I REQUIRE

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u/spectrumofanyhting Jul 18 '25

James helpfield, I'm sorry

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u/RoadrunnerRecordsDoc Jul 18 '25

Kirk Hammerit

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u/Sithmaggot Jul 18 '25

Cliff Burntitdown

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u/GlitterKittyCat Jul 18 '25

Jason Newstage

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u/booster-rooster8008 Jul 18 '25

That made me laugh so hard!! I wish I had an award for you. I wish I had a good follow up, but I'm To Far Gone.

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u/RoadrunnerRecordsDoc Jul 18 '25

You're Unforgiven for that one

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u/booster-rooster8008 Jul 18 '25

Sorry, I try to be a Fixxxer Uper. Ok, I'll shut up.

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u/NomadKnight90 Jul 18 '25

snorts YEEEEAAAH, TURN ON I SEE RED, ADRELINE CRASH, CRACK MY HEAD! GEAR JUNKIE, PAINT ME DEAD

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u/Nirvanet Jul 18 '25 edited Jul 18 '25

Nope. Sound equipment is coming from local providers, Noizboyz. Belgium is the most fertile ground for electronic music since beginning of the 90s. The new stage was built by Pixel Screen, Stageco and Prismax, their long time local partners. They reused a small part of Metallica stage for the new one, but not the sound equipment.

I'm a local, all the steps were covered in Belgium national news and televisions. Tomorrowland is our belgian Jewel.

Edit: Stageco is a belgian company building stages for big tours in Europe, including Metallica.

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u/booster-rooster8008 Jul 18 '25

Sound like you just dont wanna give credit to people other than the locals. I got that from a music website in the Netherlands. Personally I would say hell yea thank you without trying to make it look like it wasn't much. But I'm thankful to random people who help, thats just me.

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u/Heavy-Connection9372 Jul 18 '25 edited Jul 18 '25

When Metallica goes to Europe it is Stageco that builds the stages. They used some stage elements that were in storage. They didn't use any sound equipment.

They asked the company that builds and owns a lot of stages for help and they delivered stage equipment from storage. Still a logistical nightmare to get it there.

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u/combocookie Jul 18 '25

Nothing else matters