Did Metallica ever have "poor ticket sales" at any point in their career?

It seems Metallica can't fail. Whereas a divisive album like Load or St Anger may tank a band's career for a few years and they start playing smaller venues, Metallica always stayed on top and every album went to #1 and they were still playing massive arena and stadium tours.

But my question to anyone there back in the day, did Metallica ever take a dip in ticket sales around that time? Like, did the Load/ReLoad tours have any half empty arenas because people didn't want to go see them with short hair and "play that new shit"?

Did the Madly In Anger With The World tour sell very well? They were doing super line-up Summer Sanitarium shows with all the hottest bands of the time to sell more tickets perhaps?

Obviously they've been at the top of the world and a huuuuge ticket seller for a looong time now, I'm just wondering if that was ever in doubt in the more divisive times of their career or if they ALWAYS sold extremely well/sold out most shows.