{"id":820696,"date":"2026-11-01T11:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820696\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T11:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:42:09","slug":"james-hetfield-says-turnstile-turned-down-the-chance-to-tour-with-metallica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820696\/","title":{"rendered":"James Hetfield says Turnstile turned down the chance to tour with Metallica"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Hetfield<\/a> has revealed that Metallica<\/a> asked Turnstile<\/a> to open for them on tour \u2013 but the punk rock band turned them down.<\/p>\n

Speaking on his James Hetfield\u2019s Riff Life radio show, the Metallica frontman says he and his bandmates are fans of the Baltimore band, leading them to approach Turnstile about appearing on their M72 tour.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have seen them live, we wanted to get them on tour, and they said no. They\u2019re doing good on their own already.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut man, what a vibe they bring. They are so fun. Go see them play if you can. Just like many, many bands, they sound great on their records and recordings, but man, when you see them live, you totally get it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve hung out with them a bit. Super cool guys, super fun. They\u2019ve got a gal in the band now playing, which is fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Not opening for the world\u2019s biggest metal band doesn\u2019t seem to have affected Turnstile\u2019s rise. The band\u2019s most recent album, 2025\u2019s Never Enough, reached No.9 in the US Billboard charts.<\/p>\n

In the past few years, Turnstile have collaborated with everyone from Elton John to Paramore\u2019s Hayley Williams. They recent tapped death metal veterans Obituary to open for them at a US show.<\/p>\n

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Metallica are currently in the middle of a much-talked about run of shows at the Las Vegas Sphere. They resume their M72 tour in 2027, presumably without Turnstile on the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter James Hetfield has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-820696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}