James Hetfield and Rob Halford were recently seen watching Turnstile at Norway’s Tons Of Rock Festival.
Both Halford and Hetfield are big supporters of young metal bands. The two musicians showed their support for Turnstile. A video from the Tons Of Rock Festival in Oslo, held June 26-29, shows them watching Turnstile’s performance from the side of the stage.
Halford Likes Sleep Token
There are also other young bands Halford and Hetfield praised before. Earlier this year, the Judas Priest vocalist spoke with radio station 93X and praised Sleep Token as one of his current favorite rock bands, saying:
“There’s a lot of importance being put in the direction of this band called Sleep Token. And they’re a really curious band in what they’re putting out in terms of all of these different textures. They’re very difficult to pin down. That’s what I find intriguing as a musician listening to their music. It’s going to a lot of different places, and I think that there isn’t any other band out there right now that’s able to do that. Because most bands have a specific sound and direction and idea that they project.”
Halford also talked about Sleep Token’s singer Vessel and shared his thoughts on their future:
“They have a [singer] called Vessel. One day The Metal God and Vessel will take a selfie together; I predict that. So, there’s something cool.”
Hetfield’s New Music Discoveries
Hetfield, as well, recently mentioned a new band he likes, which includes some members he already knows well. In a June episode of The Metallica Report, the frontman talked about if he’s been enjoying any new music:
“But listening to the radio, I guess the newest thing that I was surprised by and really made me smile was Category 7, a band that’s kind of a collaboration of few people. I was listening to it, I’m going, ‘That voice is awesome. And it sounds very familiar.’ It was fricking John Bush [of Armored Saint], our singer that we never got.”
James also supported Apocalyptica in their Metallica cover, ‘One.’ The song featured the singer and another Metallica member, Rob Trujillo. The cover is part of Apocalyptica’s ‘Plays Metallica, Vol. 2,’ which arrived on June 7.
You can watch Halford and Hetfield rocking out below.
Just Two Old Dudes Rocking Out to Turnstile
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