{"id":360433,"date":"2025-12-20T18:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T18:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/360433\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T18:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T18:43:09","slug":"hear-metallicas-james-hetfield-reading-twas-the-night-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/360433\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Metallica\u2019s James Hetfield reading \u2019Twas The Night Before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"f96de11d-0159-45c4-9084-b8f462b7c3d0\"><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/metallicas-albums-ranked-worst-to-best\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/metallicas-albums-ranked-worst-to-best\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Metallica<\/a>\u2019s <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/bands-artists\/i-am-so-blessed-i-have-the-best-job-in-the-world-james-hetfield-on-how-metallica-fans-make-it-easy-for-him-to-do-his-job\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/bands-artists\/i-am-so-blessed-i-have-the-best-job-in-the-world-james-hetfield-on-how-metallica-fans-make-it-easy-for-him-to-do-his-job\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Hetfield<\/a> has unveiled a spoken-word version of classic Yuletide story A Visit From St Nicholas \u2013 aka, \u2019Twas The Night Before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"f96de11d-0159-45c4-9084-b8f462b7c3d0-2\">Papa Het\u2019s version of the 1823 poem dropped on Metallica\u2019s own SiriusXM channel Maximum Metallica, with the message: \u201cGrab your cocoa and settle in by the fire before your long winter\u2019s nap for a reading of \u2018Twas the Night Before Christmas by Papa Het.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An animated video subsequently appeared on YouTube, with Papa Het narrating the poem over a suitably festival image of a crackling fire and Christmas stockings.<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<p>As unlikely as it seems, the new version of this Yuletide chestnut is surprisingly faithful, though hearing the man who once sang Damage Inc. intoning the line \u2018While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads\u2019 wasn\u2019t something we saw in the tea leaves at the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full video below.<\/p>\n<p>James Hetfield: \u2019Twas the Night Before Christmas &#8211; 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