What tour was Metallica’s first tour specifically intended to support The Black Album?

The Wherever We May Roam Tour was Metallica’s first tour specifically intended to support The Black Album.

The tour followed the album’s release and was named after “Wherever I May Roam,” one of the record’s five commercial singles. Its routing helped Metallica present the new material to a huge international audience while continuing to perform songs from the earlier catalog.

The tour included a notable 1992 appearance at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. Metallica performed “Enter Sandman,” “Sad but True,” and “Nothing Else Matters,” and James Hetfield also joined members of Queen and Black Sabbath for “Stone Cold Crazy.”

The title is sometimes mixed up with other Metallica tours. Monsters of Rock was a festival tour that included the band in 1991, while Nowhere Else to Roam was a later continuation of touring activity. The Wherever We May Roam Tour is the specific answer for the first direct album-support tour.