In addition to headlining the UK Download festival this summer, Metallica have also been confirmed as one of the headline acts to appear at the Finnish Sonisphere Festival.

As with their UK Download appearance, Finnish Metallica fans can expect to hear Metallica performing their self-titled ‘black album’ in it’s entirety.

Also confirmed to appear in Finland are Machine Head, Ghost and French metallers Gojira. More acts will be announced at a later date.

So far, no acts have been confirmed for the UK leg of Sonisphere.

Read a review of the Lou Reed/Metallica release ‘Lulu’ here.

Watch Metallica live at Sonisphere 2011 (Sweden) here.