Metallica frontman James Hetfield says he would not consider his love of cigars is having an influence on the standard of his singing voice.
The singer and guitarist is thought for sparking up backstage earlier than exhibits and he’s even a part of a “cigar fellowship” the place he gathers with mates each week to smoke.
He even launched his personal cigar in 2022 , the Blackened M81, and later adopted that up with a second cigar – the S84 Shade to Black.
On a current episode of The Metallica Report podcast, Hetfield is requested if cigars are inflicting any issues for his voice,
He says: “There’s lots of people round me which might be involved about that and the well being and what not. It has not affected it that I do know of.
“I really feel that I’m sort of singing the most effective that I’ve in a very long time and I’m doing my finest, and I get to take pleasure in that as properly, so we’ll see.
“I see the enjoyment that it brings me and the fellowship. We’ve a cigar fellowship again dwelling and we get collectively each Thursday and have a puff and simply get actual with one another , examine in with one another.
“There are just a few guys within the space that aren’t actual social and we get collectively as soon as every week and that is it. They’re wanting ahead to that day of the week, which I take pleasure in.
“It is an unwind, it is sort of a meditation. It is a man factor.”
Metallica have a string of tour dates nonetheless to come back on their world tour in help of newest album, 72 Seasons
Might 24: Munich Olympiastadion, Germany
