Like many a teenage metalhead in the late ‘80s, it was Marwan Lockman’s dream to see Metallica in concert, though the place he grew up in rarely saw major rock bands. But while a metalhead from the Midwest or Northern Norway might load a bunch a friends into a beat-up van and road trip to the nearest big city, that wasn’t really an option for Lockman. Until recently, there wasn’t a modern music venue in his home country of Bahrain, period.

Many years later, Metallica played the Kingdom of Bahrain for the first time ever, rocking 10,000 adrenalized fans at the Beyon Al Dana Amphitheatre on Wednesday, Dec. 3, on their M72 World Tour. Lockman, naturally, was front and center at the sold-out venue — not simply because this was his teenage dream come true, but for professional reasons. After a

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