Star Trek actor and band the *uckers played warm-up gig in Chicago Saturday ahead of official Riot Fest debut<\/p>\n
\n\tWilliam Shatner<\/a> made his heavy metal debut Saturday at a Riot Fest Chicago after hours gig, covering artists like Ozzy Osbourne and Metallica with the actor\u2019s new band the *uckers.<\/p>\n \n\tThe 95-year-old Star Trek star previously revealed that heavy metal would be his latest musical frontier following his expeditions into genres like spoken word<\/a>, the blues<\/a>, country music<\/a>, Christmas songs<\/a> and children\u2019s music.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI have explored space. I have explored time. Now \u2026 I explore distortion,\u201d Shatner previously said of his heavy metal odyssey on social media. That loud journey began Saturday at Chicago\u2019s Park West, where Shatner and his band of heavy metal vets played a warmup gig ahead of their first official show Sunday at Riot Fest.<\/p>\n \n\tThe six-song set featured three songs from Shatner and the *uckers\u2019 upcoming album What the F Is Heavy Metal? as well as covers of metal classics like Osbourne\u2019s \u201cCrazy Train,\u201d Metallica\u2019s \u201cEnter Sandman,\u201d and Motorhead\u2019s \u201cAce of Spades.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tIn addition to the *uckers, What the F Is Heavy Metal? features appearances by rock royalty like Black Sabbath\u2019s Tony Iommi, Queen\u2019s Brian May, Judas Priest\u2019s Rob Halford, Slayer\u2019s Dave Lombardo, and more.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI\u2019m so enlivened. I\u2019m so filled with passion. I\u2019ve come to understand what heavy metal is,\u201d Shatner told Billboard recently of his latest musical endeavor. \u201cIt\u2019s an energy that permeates your body and lifts you up. Heavy metal is the rhythm of life. It\u2019s overwhelming, especially if you\u2019ve got earphones in. This afternoon, I\u2019m going to have earbuds that have been made for me and the rest of the group. I\u2019m so excited about what I\u2019m performing. It\u2019s a real-life fervor happening for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star Trek actor and band the *uckers played warm-up gig in Chicago Saturday ahead of official Riot Fest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278,91894],"class_list":["post-630631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-william-shatner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630631","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=630631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}