{"id":364286,"date":"2026-03-25T11:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/364286\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:57:09","slug":"metallica-gifted-wolfgang-van-halen-a-perfect-attendance-certificate-for-not-missing-a-support-slot-on-the-m72-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/364286\/","title":{"rendered":"Metallica gifted Wolfgang Van Halen a \u201cperfect attendance\u201d certificate for not missing a support slot on the M72 tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wolfgang Van Halen<\/a> and his band Mammoth<\/a> have been involved in some pretty huge gigs across their time together so far, but supporting Metallica<\/a> on their whopping M72 world tour was monumental.<\/p>\n

Often making headlines for their wholesomeness, be it embracing new and younger fans through the Stranger Things fanbase<\/a> or their charity work with All Within My Hands<\/a>, it seems Metallica also look after those around them pretty well too. According to Wolfgang, the thrash legends gifted him with a certificate for perfect attendance and even a signed photograph of Mammoth with the band backstage at their final show together in Mexico.<\/p>\n

In a Trunk Nation\u00a0interview, Wolfgang shares his Mammoth highlights, and begins, \u201cThe couple gigs we did opening for Foo Fighters<\/a> was a really big thing for me. Overall, just being a part of the 72 Seasons world tour with Metallica was probably one of the craziest things we\u2019ve been a part of. That will forever go down as just\u2026 Wow.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing a part of that and being able to see how it operates, they\u2019re basically a traveling city [with] the amount of people that it takes to build that stage and just to operate in a stadium to begin with. It was such a crazy level of stuff I\u2019d never really been around. To be in that area and see how it works and figuring out how to play on such a crazy stage was a really fun challenge, and really shaped the live band that we are now because of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

He goes on to show a certificate to the camera, decorated with guitar picks in the striking yellow colour of Metallica\u2019s 72 Seasons album: \u201cWe were the only band out of all the openers to play every single building with them,\u201d he says. \u201cIf that doesn\u2019t show you how much they care and how cool they are\u2026 They also sent it with [this],\u201d he then shows the photo of them all together.<\/p>\n

See it in the video below:<\/p>\n

After a lot of speculation<\/a>, Metallica have confirmed that a residency at the Las Vegas Sphere<\/a> will take place later this year, with shows kicking off in October. The shows will continue their \u2018no-repeat\u2019 weekend tradition, which sees them perform two shows in each city with entirely unique setlists on each night.<\/p>\n

\"Rachel<\/p>\n

Rachel began writing for Guitar.com in 2021 while finishing up her degree. A proud DIY guitarist, she has been playing for over 10 years and has written for the likes of Kerrang!, The Forty-Five, and MusicTech. An enjoyer of all things heavy, you\u2019ll find her at a festival or downtuning her guitars when away from her desk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wolfgang Van Halen and his band Mammoth have been involved in some pretty huge gigs across their time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1484,93,61,60,278,640],"class_list":["post-364286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-artist","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}