Jason Gaston

9/17/2026

William Shatner has Started a Metal Band! Seriously!

WILLIAM SHATNER HAS A HEAVY METAL BAND.

That is a real sentence.

At 95 years old, William Shatner apparently looked at a career that already included Captain Kirk, acting, writing, spoken-word albums, going to ACTUAL SPACE, and approximately 4,000 other things and decided:

“You know what? I haven't fronted a heavy metal band yet.”

So now he has.

The band is called The F*****rs — yes, really — and Shatner is scheduled to make his live heavy-metal debut at Riot Fest in Chicago on September 20.

And this isn't just Captain Kirk wandering onto a stage while somebody plays a distorted guitar behind him. Shatner is working on an actual metal album featuring an absolutely ridiculous collection of musicians, with names including Brian May, Rob Halford and Dave Lombardo reportedly involved in the project.

But if you know William Shatner's wonderfully bizarre history with music, this isn't QUITE as unexpected as it sounds.

In this video, we're talking about Shatner's decades-long musical career, his legendary spoken-word performances, the surprisingly great "Has Been," the time he went to space at NINETY YEARS OLD, and why there is something genuinely wonderful about a 95-year-old man deciding:

Screw it.

I'm starting a heavy metal band.

Because you're never too old to try something new.

You're never too old to make yourself look ridiculous.

And apparently you're never too old to throw up the devil horns and boldly rock where no nonagenarian has rocked before.

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