If you needed an excuse to redecorate your living room with Metallica decor, but your partner won’t let you pop up your tour posters or install your Metallica light switch, you can probably get away with including these coffee tables that are handmade by frontman James Hetfield, himself.
Isolation left many of us to brush up on skills, or even start new hobbies in the name of pure boredom, and with musicians left without concerts during social distancing, some of them have scrubbed up on their non-musical talents, too.
Metallica’s James Hetfield is just one of many musicians who used their lockdown time to revisit hobbies. Although Hetfield claims his fame as frontman to an absolutely iconic metal band, he enjoys his spare time as an enthusiast of vintage cars, restoring many classic vehicles across the years while perfecting his welding skills.
Quarantine saw him take his skills to an entire new outlet: furniture making. The famed frontman seems to have also brought his collaborative song ‘The View’ with Lou Reed to life with the classic lyric of “I am the table.”
Hetfield has whipped up a par of unique coffee tables dubbed “The Covid Collection by JH” which will be raffled off in the name of charity.
Metallica’s own not-for-profit foundation All Within My Hands, which is “dedicated to creating sustainable communities by supporting workforce education, the fight against hunger, and other critical local services,” will be raffling off the pair of coffee tables, with one winner destined to receive the signed and personalised set.
Keen to get in on the action and have an iconic piece of musical memorabilia in your living room? Entries for the raffle start at $10 for a donation, with all proceeds set to benefit All Within My Hands support of welding programs through Metallica Scholars.
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The raffle wraps up on Tuesday, June 30th, where one lucky winner will get to redecorate their living room with this unique piece of Metallica history.
Check out James Hetfield singing “I am the table” in Metallica and Lou Reed’s ‘The View’:
