If Metalli-clue is true, band will play 14th Indianapolis show

Update: Metallica will perform March 11, 2019, at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. Friday.

A nine-year drought for Metallica appearances in Indianapolis may be history.

Bankers Life Fieldhouse is teasing a concert announcement for Monday, and typography in social-media posts includes the unmistakable "lightning M" of the band's logo.

Metallica is expected to announce a North American tour to promote 2016 album "Hardwired… To Self-Destruct."

In addition to Bankers Life Fieldhouse, venues in Kansas City, Mo., Sacramento, Calif., Buffalo, N.Y., Lincoln, Neb., and Sioux Falls, S.D., have shared similar Metallica-themed videos.

Metallica's performance history in Central Indiana includes 13 shows, including two dates at the now-demolished Hoosier Dome (later the RCA Dome), four at bygone Market Square Arena, four at Deer Creek Music Center (now Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center), two at Bankers Life Fieldhouse (previously known as Conseco Fieldhouse) and one at the long-gone Sherwood Country Club, 6520 S. Emerson Ave.

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Drummer Lars Ulrich talked about the band's first headlining show at Market Square Arena (1988) in a 2004 IndyStar interview:

"I remember that Indianapolis, for some reason, was kind of the measuring stick. 'If we can go and play in Indianapolis and do well there, then we've cracked middle America,' " Ulrich said. "We played an awesome show. People were into it and we were into it. I thought, 'Maybe this thing is going to work after all.' "

Local Metallica dates through the years

Jan. 30, 1985: Sherwood Country Club, co-headlining with WASP.

April 8, 1986: Market Square Arena, opening for Ozzy Osbourne.

July 6, 1988: Hoosier Dome, “Monsters of Rock” tour headlined by Van Halen, with Scorpions, Dokken and Kingdom Come

Nov. 24, 1988: Market Square Arena

June 29, 1989: Deer Creek Music Center

Nov. 22, 1991: Market Square Arena

July 22, 1992: Hoosier Dome with Guns N’ Roses

July 2, 1994: Deer Creek Music Center

July 2, 1996: Deer Creek Music Center, headlining Lollapalooza

Feb. 16, 1997: Market Square Arena

July 25, 1998: Deer Creek Music Center

Aug. 19, 2004: Conseco Fieldhouse

Sept. 17, 2009: Conseco Fieldhouse

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