{"id":647757,"date":"2026-11-01T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647757\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T11:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:00:22","slug":"james-hetfield-says-turnstile-turned-down-touring-with-metallica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647757\/","title":{"rendered":"James Hetfield Says Turnstile Turned Down Touring with Metallica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/metallica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Metallica<\/a> reached out to <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/turnstile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Turnstile<\/a> about touring together, but were turned down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to get them on tour, and they said no. They\u2019re doing good on their own already,\u201d Metallica\u2019s James Hetfield said during a recent episode of his SiriusXM radio show Riff Life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a vibe they bring. Go see them play if you can. They sound great on their records and recordings, but if you see them live you totally get it. We\u2019ve hung out with them a bit. Super cool guys, super fun. They\u2019ve got a gal in the band now, which is fun,\u201d Hetfield added.<\/p>\n<p>Hetfield didn\u2019t elaborate on when the overture to Turnstile was made. Metallica are slated to embark on a <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/09\/metallica-2027-north-american-tour-dates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">North American stadium tour in 2027<\/a> with support from Limp Bizkit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Metallica reached out to Turnstile about touring together, but were turned down. \u201cWe wanted to get them on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-647757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}