The Rock Radio reports:

METALLICA is in the midst of a North American tour, which stops in Cleveland, Ohio on Thursday, October 15th and winds down December 12th in San Jose, California. Along the way, the band will make a stop in New York City to perform at the Rock and Roll Hall Fame 25th anniversary concerts at the end of this month.

Metallica has been playing various songs from its catalogue while in concert this fall. Three years ago, Metallica thrilled European audiences on a summer tour by playing their entire classic 1986 album Master Of Puppets from front to back. From the sound of it, Metallica would be open to doing something like that again.

We asked frontman James Hetfield if the band would ever like to play another album in its entirety in concert: "It's pretty important that the fan be involved in that, you know. It was more of a fan's asking for that than us wanting to do it. You know, that was a pretty important album in our career, so pretty historic for a lot of people and that made sense. But as far as, you know - I'd love to play any and every one of them, but you know, it does really come down to the fans really holding that dear to their heart or not."

Metallica expects to tour through the end of 2010 before taking a break. The band may start thinking about recording a new album in the second half of 2011. The most recent Metallica set, Death Magnetic, came out last year.

Single-song downloads have recently been added to the LiveMetallica.com website. Instead of buying only entire concerts, fans can pick whatever individual songs they want from any concert they choose from.