{"id":116516,"date":"2025-07-08T19:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T00:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=116516"},"modified":"2025-07-08T19:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T00:03:14","slug":"70000tons-of-metal-2026-edition-announces-destination-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=116516","title":{"rendered":"70000TONS OF METAL &#8211; 2026 Edition Announces Destination Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">70000TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World\u2019s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise, has announced a change in the destination for its 2026 voyage. The upcoming edition of the festival at sea, taking place from&nbsp;<strong>January 29 to February 2, 2026,<\/strong>&nbsp;will now sail from Miami, Florida to Nassau, the Bahamas aboard Royal Caribbean\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Freedom of the Seas.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Originally planned to return to Labadee, Haiti, the decision to reroute the journey was made out of an abundance of caution and with the well-being of all Sailors, artists, and crew as the top priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8220;While Labadee has been a great port of call on past sailings, we are closely monitoring the evolving situation in Haiti and its surrounding regions,&#8221; said&nbsp;<strong>Andy Piller, Skipper of 70000TONS OF METAL.<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;Ensuring the safety and comfort of our Survivors is non-negotiable. With that in mind, we\u2019ve made the proactive decision to change course for 2026. Nassau provides a welcoming alternative that allows us to maintain the world-class experience our Sailors expect \u2014 both on board and ashore.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New Destination for 2026: Nassau, the Bahamas\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7a63waqWsCY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>70000TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World\u2019s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise, has announced a change&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116517,"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-116516","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\/116516","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=116516"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116522,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116516\/revisions\/116522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}