NEW YORK, Feb 21 \u2014 Star Trek legend William Shatner is boldly going where few 94-year-olds have gone before, as the Canadian actor announced plans to release a heavy metal album.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have explored space. I have explored time. Now… I explore distortion,\u201d Shatner wrote on social media late Thursday alongside a picture of himself cradling an electric guitar in front of a red, smoky backdrop.<\/p>\n
\u201cThirty-five metal virtuosos. Thunderous guitars. Chaos with purpose,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The cult star promised covers of metal staples like Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, as well as \u201ca few originals forged in the same cosmic fire.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shatner played the daring Captain James T. Kirk in 1960s sci-fi adventure franchise Star Trek, which follows the crew of a spaceship as it spreads liberal humanitarian ideals through the galaxy.<\/p>\n
He also portrayed the titular character in cop show \u201cTJ Hooker,\u201d and won both a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy for his role on Boston Legal.<\/p>\n
In 2021, he became the then oldest person ever to go to space when he traveled aboard a Blue Origin craft at age 90.<\/p>\n
Revealing his new album, Shatner showed no intentions of taking it easy.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonest intensity. Unapologetic exploration. At 94, one does not slow down. One turns the volume up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo prepare yourselves. We are about to boldly headbang where no one has headbanged before. Stay tuned. The metal voyage begins this year.\u201d \u2014 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK, Feb 21 \u2014 Star Trek legend William Shatner is boldly going where few 94-year-olds have gone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5873,458,146,152325,85,19035,46,18305,12119,30980],"class_list":{"0":"post-302390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-black-sabbath","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-heavy-metal-album","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-iron-maiden","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-judas-priest","16":"tag-star-trek","17":"tag-william-shatner"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}