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\nKicking off what\u2019s guaranteed to be the best season of \u201cThat Metal Show\u201d yet, Rush\u2019s Geddy Lee has been confirmed for the debut episode of VH1 Classic\u2019s centerpiece in original programming. He will be making his second appearance on the acclaimed hard rock\/heavy metal talk show, hosted by Eddie Trunk, Don Jamieson, and Jim Florentine. Geddy Lee returns to the show to promote the highly anticipated Rush R40 Live 40th Anniversary Tour that will kick off this summer. The tour will visit 34 cities throughout North America and tickets are currently on-sale for select markets. The episode will premiere on Saturday, February 21st at a new broadcast time of 9:00PM ET\/PT, repeating at 11:00PM ET\/PT the same evening.<\/p>\n
\u201cBack when \u2018TMS\u2019was first born Geddy & Alex were nice enough to fly to New York and be a guest in our very first season. I\u2019ve always had a great relationship with the Rush guys and it meant so much to me they were willing to support something I was doing that at that point hardly anyone had seen or heard of,\u201d states host\/co-producer Eddie Trunk. \u201cAmazingly almost seven years have passed and we\u2019re now about to debut our 14th season of \u2018That Metal Show\u2019 and I couldn\u2019t be more honored to welcome back Geddy to the set to celebrate 40 plus years of Rush and the return of TMS!\u201d<\/p>\n
Known for having the best musicians in music perform each week on \u201cThat Metal Show,\u201d the Season 14 premiere will continue the trend with John Petrucci of Dream Theater making his first-ever appearance on the debut episode. The 7-string guitar virtuoso has been someone the show has hoped to have on for some time now. Dream Theater is currently working on their new album, which they hope will be out later this year.<\/p>\n
Season 14 of \u201cThat Metal Show\u201d will consist of 12 all-new episodes and will be shot at Metropolis Studios in New York City on Tuesday nights for broadcast that Saturday. Audience tickets for upcoming tapings are now available via Gotham Casting at http:\/\/gothamcasting.com\/gothamrsvp\/<\/a>. Upcoming guests will be announced in the near future.<\/p>\n Season 14 will also mark the return of some notable segments including \u201cMetal Modem,\u201d \u201cTMS Top 5\u201d \u201cRank\u201d, and \u201cTake It Or Leave It.\u201d The popular \u201cStump The Trunk\u201d segment will also be returning as audience members go out of their way to test Eddie Trunk\u2019s vast knowledge for a chance to win a prize and see everyone\u2019s favorite Ms. Box Of Junk, Jennifer, who is also returning for the new season. Fans can watch previous episodes and other exclusive bonus clips at ThatMetalShow.VH1.com and on the new VH1 app.<\/p>\n \u201cThat Metal Show\u201d first premiered on VH1 Classic in November 2008 and since has become the only place for all things hard rock and heavy metal on cable television. The show has been visited by some of the biggest names in the genres including members of Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Metallica, Aerosmith, Pantera, Kiss, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Pearl Jam, Guns N\u2019 Roses, Queensr\u00ffche, Heart, and many more.<\/p>\n \u201cThat Metal Show\u201d is a production of VH1 Classic. Lee Rolontz, Jeff Baumgardner, and Keshia Williams serve as executive producers for VH1.<\/p>\n VH1 Classic brings you the best metal, rock, soul and pop from the \u201970s, \u201980s and \u201990s. The channel features the gods of rock \u2013 from Black Sabbath, Metallica, and Iron Maiden to Stone Temple Pilots,Pearl Jam, and Dire Straits \u2013 in marquee concerts and music specials, and of course, tons of classic music videos. Recent big events include \u201cNational Metal Day\u201d (11.11) and \u201cMetal Evolution\u201d, an 11-part documentary series on the history of metal. When it comes down to it \u2013 all music should go to 11. Kicking off what\u2019s guaranteed to be the best season of \u201cThat Metal Show\u201d yet, Rush\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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-42541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42541","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=42541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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