METALLICA postpone Arizona show as James Hetfield tests positive for COVID

04 September 2023
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METALLICA postponed a scheduled show in Glendale, Arizona, this weekend as frontman James Hetfield tested positive for COVID-19.

 
The band's second performance at State Farm Stadium was due to take place on Sunday, September 3.

METALLICA played the same venue on September 1, but had to play a slightly shortened set as Hetfield battled vocal issues that can now almost certainly be attributed to COVID.
 
The second show will now take place next weekend – Saturday, September 9 – to give Hetfield time to get over the disease which was at the centre of the global pandemic that wreaked endless havoc on live music events from 2020 to 2022.
Source: loudersound.com