{"id":2443504,"date":"2019-04-27T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T16:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=828274"},"modified":"2019-04-27T10:35:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T16:35:08","slug":"watch-metallica-perform-star-spangled-banner-at-san-francisco-giants-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-metallica-perform-star-spangled-banner-at-san-francisco-giants-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Metallica Perform \u2018Star-Spangled Banner\u2019 at San Francisco Giants Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/GettyImages-1145366857.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>In what has become an annual tradition for the San Francisco Giants, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/metallica\/\" id=\"auto-tag_metallica\" data-tag=\"metallica\">Metallica<\/a> performed a rendition of \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d at Oracle Park to mark the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/baseball\/\" id=\"auto-tag_baseball\" data-tag=\"baseball\">baseball<\/a> team\u2019s seventh annual \u201cMetallica Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The entire band was in attendance for the sold-out game Friday versus the New York Yankees, with guitarists James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett delivering the National Anthem and drummer Lars Ulrich throwing the ceremonial first pitch. The band also announced the teams\u2019 starting lineups.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mZVSVfRVjd0?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Oracle Park\u2019s speakers also played the hometown heavy metal legends\u2019 music throughout the game.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants-themed, custom-made guitars used for \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d were autographed by the entire band and will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metallica.com\/news\/2019-04-22-win-a-signature-series-metallica-giants-guitar.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">raffled off for charity<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blabbermouth.net\/news\/watch-metallicas-kirk-hammett-and-james-hetfield-perform-national-anthem-at-seventh-annual-metallica-night\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Blabbermouth reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re blessed to be doing this every year and being a part of the vibe here,\u201d James Hetfield said, adding of the currently-in-last-place Giants, \u201cYou know, when times are good, when times are bad, they need the support.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"3.6\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MetallicaNight?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#MetallicaNight<\/a> MOOD: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bfYWVOPPDW\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bfYWVOPPDW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Francisco Giants (@SFGiants) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFGiants\/status\/1121956079678582784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">April 27, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/metallica-star-spangled-banner-san-francisco-giants-828274\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what has become an annual tradition for the San Francisco Giants, Metallica performed a rendition of \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d at Oracle Park to mark the baseball team\u2019s seventh annual \u201cMetallica Day.\u201d The entire band was in attendance for the sold-out game Friday versus the New York Yankees, with guitarists James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 04:14:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}