When METALLICA cancelled their March 8 show in Stockholm, Sweden due to guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield being hospitalized with a stomach bug and dehydration, it was reported that the frontman suffered from food poisoning after consuming a bad Indian takeout meal. METALLICA squashed those rumors yesterday (Monday, May 4) by ordering exactly the same Indian dish as last time at the Stockholm restaurant Indiska Källaren.

"A guy called Nick picked up their food last time. Tonight he ordered exactly the same food for them again," owner Matab Ahmed tells the Expressen newspaper. "I thought, 'What? Is he coming back here? Even though they said they got sick last time?' Of course I was happy because I knew there was never anything wrong with our food. When he picked the food up today, he said that James felt bad about people saying that it was our food that made him sick. He said that James promised to write a 'big' autograph that we can put [on the wall]."

These are the Indian dishes that METALLICA ordered from their new favourite restaurant in Stockholm:

2 Chicken Tikka Butter Masala
1 Palak Panir
2 Samosas
1 Rogan Josh
1 Onion Bhai
1 Pilaw Ris
2 Mango Lassi
1 Garlic Nan Bread

METALLICA resumed its European tour last night by playing a make-up concert for the cancelled March 8 Stockholm show. Thousands of concertgoers who came out to the gig received a free, speciallly designed METALLICA t-shirt where the band made fun of Hetfield's food poisoning. The title of the song "Seek And Destroy" was changed to "Sick And Destroy" on the t-shirt, which also featured some new lyrics: "Stockholm on our way, oysters he will pay. Dying, one thousand deaths. Stockholm, spoilt your day. Puking, he did pay! Dying, one thousand deaths. Wretching, sick and destroy." Every attendee also got a special code enabling him/her to download the gig for free from METALLICA's official download site, LiveMetallica.com.