{"id":104273,"date":"2023-09-03T10:50:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T15:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=104273"},"modified":"2023-09-03T10:55:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T15:55:30","slug":"metallica-postpones-second-phoenix-gig-after-james-hetfield-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=104273","title":{"rendered":"METALLICA &#8211; Postpones Glendale, Arizona Gig After James Hetfield Tests Positive For COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>METALLICA<\/strong>&nbsp;postponed its previously announced September 3 concert in Glendale, Arizona to September 9 after frontman&nbsp;<strong>James Hetfield<\/strong>&nbsp;tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The band was scheduled to perform at State Farm Stadium as part of its two-night shows for the&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;M72&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;world tour.&nbsp;<strong>Hetfield<\/strong>&nbsp;and his bandmates had just played for tens of thousands of fans in Glendale on Friday night (September 1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>METALLICA<\/strong>&nbsp;posted a photo of&nbsp;<strong>James<\/strong>&#8216;s positive COVID-19 test and released the following statement: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8220;We&#8217;re very sorry to report that tomorrow&#8217;s scheduled&nbsp;<strong>&#8216;M72&#8217;<\/strong>&nbsp;date at State Farm Stadium has been postponed to Saturday, September 9, 2023, as unfortunately Covid has caught up with&nbsp;<strong>James<\/strong>. We&#8217;re extremely disappointed and regret any inconvenience this has caused for you; we look forward to returning to complete the&nbsp;<strong>&#8216;M72&#8217;<\/strong>&nbsp;No Repeat Weekend in Glendale next Saturday.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8220;All tickets for September 3 will be honored at the September 9 show. For more information, including refund details if you cannot join next weekend, please visit SeatGeek.com. Keep your eyes on Metallica.com and our socials for additional details and updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8220;PS: All&nbsp;<strong>M72<\/strong>&nbsp;Weekend Takeover events scheduled for today and tomorrow (9\/2 and 9\/3) are still happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>METALLICA<\/strong>&nbsp;played an abbreviated set on Friday in Glendale, apparently due to&nbsp;<strong>Hetfield<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;vocal issues&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FMetallica%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02ypdPmNw47Rno6ZsXy7rfYRVawk16AYVQFNwKpx6uzizK7csJvHXAbTSns5KtKDtcl&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"757\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<p><\/p><\/center>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>METALLICA&nbsp;postponed its previously announced September 3 concert in Glendale, Arizona to September 9 after frontman&nbsp;James&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104273"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104282,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104273\/revisions\/104282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}