{"id":628852,"date":"2026-09-27T06:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T06:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/628852\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T06:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T06:26:13","slug":"william-shatner-rocks-metallicas-enter-sandman-at-riot-fest-at-95-years-old-geektyrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/628852\/","title":{"rendered":"William Shatner Rocks Metallica\u2019s \u201cEnter Sandman\u201d at Riot Fest at 95 Years Old \u2014 GeekTyrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">At 95 years old, <a href=\"https:\/\/geektyrant.com\/news\/william-shatner-responds-to-viral-plea-for-him-to-take-over-star-trek-after-starfleet-academy-criticism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">William Shatner<\/a> is apparently done exploring the final frontier and has moved on to heavy metal. The Star Trek icon hit the stage at Riot Fest 2026 in Chicago with his new band, The *uckers, a crew of veteran rock musicians who gave Shatner the perfect soundtrack for his wonderfully strange trip into metal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The group tore into Metallica\u2019s \u201cEnter Sandman\u201d, along with Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s \u201cCrazy Train\u201d and Mot\u00f6rhead\u2019s \u201cAce of Spades,\u201d with Shatner bringing his unmistakable spoken-word style to some of rock\u2019s biggest songs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The 95-year-old actor taking on Metallica at Riot Fest on September 20 is exactly the kind of wonderfully bizarre live music moment you want to see, and whoever thought Captain Kirk fronting a heavy metal band was a good idea deserves some credit. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">As the performance was billed: \u201cWilliam Shatner and The *uckers- Crazy Train \u2013 Riot Fest 2026 \u2013 Chicago, IL \u2013 09-20-2026.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At 95 years old, William Shatner is apparently done exploring the final frontier and has moved on to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-628852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628852","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=628852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}