Metallica gifted Wolfgang Van Halen a “perfect attendance during a world tour” certificate for not missing a support slot on his M72 tour run: “If that doesn’t show you how much they care…”
Wolfgang Van Halen and his band Mammoth have been involved in some pretty huge gigs across their time together so far, but supporting Metallica on their whopping M72 world tour was monumental.
Often making headlines for their wholesomeness, be it embracing new and younger fans through the Stranger Things fanbase or their charity work with All Within My Hands, it seems Metallica also look after those around them pretty well too. According to Wolfgang, the thrash legends gifted him with a certificate for perfect attendance and even a signed photograph of Mammoth with the band backstage at their final show together in Mexico.
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In a Trunk Nation interview, Wolfgang shares his Mammoth highlights, and begins, “The couple gigs we did opening for Foo Fighters was a really big thing for me. Overall, just being a part of the 72 Seasons world tour with Metallica was probably one of the craziest things we’ve been a part of. That will forever go down as just… Wow.
“Being a part of that and being able to see how it operates, they’re basically a traveling city [with] the amount of people that it takes to build that stage and just to operate in a stadium to begin with. It was such a crazy level of stuff I’d never really been around. To be in that area and see how it works and figuring out how to play on such a crazy stage was a really fun challenge, and really shaped the live band that we are now because of that.”
He goes on to show a certificate to the camera, decorated with guitar picks in the striking yellow colour of Metallica’s 72 Seasons album: “We were the only band out of all the openers to play every single building with them,” he says. “If that doesn’t show you how much they care and how cool they are… They also sent it with [this],” he then shows the photo of them all together.
See it in the video below:
After a lot of speculation, Metallica have confirmed that a residency at the Las Vegas Sphere will take place later this year, with shows kicking off in October. The shows will continue their ‘no-repeat’ weekend tradition, which sees them perform two shows in each city with entirely unique setlists on each night.
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