Metallica donate $100,000 to Venezuela earthquake relief through All Within My Hands Foundation

Metallica have donated a grant of $100,000 to help those affected by the earthquake in Venezuela.

The band’s charitable organisation, the All Within My Hands Foundation, made this possible alongside their longtime partner Direct Relief, which is “coordinating with agencies at the regional and local levels” to mobilise “emergency medical aid and supporting search-and-rescue operations,” according to Metallica’s official website.

Two earthquakes hit Venezuela within less than a minute of each other on June 24 and have killed at least 2,595 people while injuring a further 12,400. Over 60,000 people are still reported missing.

The All Within My Hands Foundation has a long history of offering donations to help with disaster relief, including wildfires in Los Angeles and Hawaii and hurricanes in the Gulf Coast and eastern United States.

Metallica perform at London Stadium tonight (July 3) with Knocked Loose and Gojira and Sunday (July 5) with Avatar and Pantera. In our review of their show at Glasgow's Hampden Park, we said: "Metallica remain the gold standard, though, and they don’t take long cranking it up. From the moment AC/DC banger It's A Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll) blares over the PA the crowd is in an electric frenzy. Ennio Morricone’s The Ecstasy Of Gold edges them further. Then an outrageous opening salvo of Creeping Death, For Whom The Bell Tolls and Hit The Lights sees them explode.

"Halfway through the band’s fifth decade, it hardly needs to be said that when Metallica floor it, there is no-one who can compete. But the energy and violence in the Scottish crowd, a blur of pumped fists, hurtling pits and Glasgow kisses, elevates them further here."

From there, they'll be playing their Life Burns Faster residency at Las Vegas Sphere on select weekends between October 2026 and January 2027.

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