Extortionate ticket prices to a Metallica gig in Israel have been lowered following a Facebook campaign to boycott the gig.

Organisers were charging a whopping £210 for a standing ticket and £105 for seating at the show at the Ramat Gan stadium in Tel Aviv on May 22nd.

Angry metal fan Tomer Mussman duly formed a Facebook group called 'Boycott Metallica's Israel show!' in protest at the ridiculously expensive tickets and it attracted almost 8,000 fans.

However, with the intervention of Metallica themselves, the boycott has been stopped and ticket prices have been slashed.

Mussman wrote on Facebook yesterday:

“Friends, I’m shaking with excitement as I’m writing this. After a 4 day campaign, tens of news items about us worldwide, over 6000 supporters and numerous media interviews we can say that we did it! We won!

This afternoon, Or & Tomer Mussman met with Mr. Gad Oron, the promoter’s representative and reached an agreement about a significant drop in ticket prices.

We would like to personally thank Metallica and their management for directly helping us with reaching our goal and reducing the prices.

We are officially asking each and every one of you to stop the boycott, and come and enjoy Metallica’s concert with us on May 22.

We want to thank each and every one of you who made their contribution to our successful campaign by joining, signing the petition, or sending links from and to the media everywhere and helping our voice to be heard and echo all around the world.

We want to thank the producers, Metallica members and management who were willing to talk to us”.

(by Scott Colothan)