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Metallica reschedule show after James Hetfield tests positive for COVID
Get well soon, Papa Het! Metallica have pushed back their M72 date at the State Farm Stadium as “unfortunately COVID has caught up with James”.
Actually, it sounds pretty enormous…
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Well known, errr, polarising Canadian rock band Nickelback - brains behind such softcore alt-rock classics as 'How You Remind Me' and the abundantly-memed 'Photograph' - are known to have covered songs from iconic metal bands during their live shows. Search ‘Nickelback covers’ on YouTube and you’ll see they’ve covered a ton of bands, including Pantera (link) and AC/DC (link), in the past. Just recently however, a (since deleted) Facebook video of them covering Sad But True by Metallica went viral and Metallica fans became the confused kind of mad, but mainly because they actually do a pretty great take of the song:
A lot of backhanded tweets like this came through: