Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons

https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/william-shatner-announces-all-star-metal-album

75•mhb•1h ago

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WalterBright•1h ago

Shatner ... knows ... how to ... have fun ... in his 90s!

johngossman•52m ago

As I age, I look on these happy, productive seniors, people like Dick Van Dyke (100), David Attenborough (99), and Mel Brooks (99) and keep my fingers crossed.

phasetransition•9m ago

Brooks was a combat engineer at the Battle of the Bulge! That always blows me away. What a life's journey.

ThrowawayR2•40m ago

And more power to him; he's enjoying himself and that's all that matters. We should all be so fortunate.

this-is-why•1h ago

If you’ve never heard it, his duet of the song Common People is pretty awesome:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cMXhWf0vE7c

magicalhippo•1h ago

He did an interesting cover[1] of Elton John's Rocket Man[2] back in 78.

That cover was later remixed into this[3] piece of internet gold (IMHO).

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wI4jMxveyI

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_QZe8Z66x8

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IffZh3V8oQ

sho_hn•32m ago

And Shatner's cover was covered by Family Guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZL4pNtI9nM

crtasm•53m ago

and only improved by adding the Star Trek cartoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXWEM4gZhg4

davidw•52m ago

Mr Tambourine Man is pretty epic too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmCi_-9Shhg&list=RDXmCi_-9Sh...

linsomniac•52m ago

Agreed, it fits well within his range and it's IMHO a really great cover of Common People.

I also really enjoy _That's Me Trying_: https://youtu.be/vjGaqFrF5Fw?si=eq_VSQXnxqXQ_Kyg

and _Real_: https://youtu.be/hsKfZ3wvLkE?si=l7FdbGCX_u8ep0Ie

amiga386•1h ago

I'm amazed the guy is still ticking at all. He's 94! Seems he's also still driving... and eating his breakfast at traffic lights: https://www.tmz.com/2026/01/20/william-shatner-eating-cereal...

LeoPanthera•1h ago

The breakfast cereal thing was a commercial. A successful one, apparently.

2muchcoffeeman•1h ago

Only in earth’s frame of reference. He spent a long time at warp. So he’s really only 65

saas_startup•1h ago

Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU2ftCitvyQ

afavour•1h ago

Sometimes I’m absolutely mystified by the items that appear at the top of HN.

Razengan•59m ago

Mystified by the fact that people on HN have interests outside of computers and shit?

Krutonium•26m ago

...Yes. We're all fucking nerds.

afavour•17m ago

A lot of those non-tech get flagged from the homepage. It’s interesting to see what is allowed to stay and what is not.

johngossman•58m ago

That's not a bug, that's a feature

Avicebron•1h ago

It's Shatner, he can score anything.

DoneWithAllThat•1h ago

His 2004 album “Has Been” is surprisingly good.

pdpi•36m ago

I would never have expected that "Shatner and Henry Rollins ranting while Adrian Belew and Matt Chamberlain go absolutely wild on guitar and drums respectively" would be anywhere close to as good as it is.

Incidentally, Rollins talking about the recording[0] of it is freaking hilarious.

[0]: https://youtu.be/8zL3wtNrq00?t=4616

jsheard•1h ago

If I had a nickel for each actor who recorded a heavy metal album after their 90th birthday then I'd have two nickels, which isn't much but it's weird that it's happened twice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne:_The_Omens_of_Deat...

defrost•41m ago

Impressive.

The great Orsen Welles spring chickened out by only recording heavy metal tracks when he was 70. His excuse for not repeating that at 90 was dying not long after.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AMi-vCfAWw

protocolture•1h ago

Still waiting for his spoken word, rnb, julius caesar.

jrootabega•55m ago

Guess the Beastie Boys were never in the running.

jimberlage•49m ago

William Shatner has the most experimental, wild Spotify I've ever seen. If you haven't ever seen it, look at his discography. He does a lot of almost spoken-word poetry over soft rock, punk, etc. You get the sense that he views acting as his side hustle and is waiting for his musical career to take off.

vunderba•24m ago

He's also (to my knowledge) one of the only major Hollywood actors to ever star in a movie filmed entirely in esperanto. I've heard that the pronunciation is rather rough around the edges though I have no way of corroborating that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubus_(1966_film)

webprofusion•48m ago

It's Rad. It doesn't even have to be good, it just has to exist.

webprofusion•44m ago

I'm guessing the music will be much like this one (more about fun than having the best actual songs) but didn't know there was a track with both Chris Poland and Marty Friedman: https://open.spotify.com/track/7yDb6NVzvuUVuvLyTSfDhz?si=0c5...

block_dagger•47m ago

The album he made with Ben Folds was worth a couple of listens. Only a couple.

SilentM68•44m ago

Don't know if true or not but I saw somewhere on the web that he is also in talks to return to Star Trek.

ThrowawayR2•35m ago

I recall that he consulted for an unofficial (semi-official?) concept video by the Roddenberry Archive that was a finale/sendoff for Captain Kirk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgOZFny7F50 . If you're a fan of TOS, it's worth a watch.

excalibur•25m ago

If you haven't heard his Bohemian Rhapsody cover, it's something else. He flat out admitted that he had never heard the song before recording it. Which... Number one, how? And number two, who let him do that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul6S84qF_TU

ryandrake•13m ago

No mention of Shatner's music career is complete without listing Spaced Out: The Best of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner[1]. And, yes, it's exactly as -unique- as you'd imagine it might be.

1: https://www.amazon.com/Spaced-Out-Leonard-William-Shatner/dp...

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