Metallica will headline KROQ's 2008 Weenie Roast. The thrash metal pioneers -- who will release a new, Rick Rubin-produced studio album this September -- will support L.A.'s premiere modern rock outlet on May 17, performing alongside the Offspring, the Raconteurs, Rise Against, Bad Religion, Pennywise, the Bravery and Flogging Molly.

The day before this month's Weenie Roast Y Fiesta 2008 -- which also includes Scars On Broadway, Seether, MGMT and Atreyu, among others -- Metallica will also headline KFMA Day, a day-long festival gig in Tuscon at the Pima County Fairgrounds. The band's only other confirmed appearance at the moment comes on June 13, when they touch down at Bonnaroo in Machester, TN.

In advance of their ninth album and first in memory without the production guidance of Bob Rock, Metallica will spend much of June, July and August on the European Festival circuit. The KROQ headlining stint is ironic, because the station shunned the band for years in favor of alternative bands like Depeche Mode, U2 and the Cure.