Metallica, Ugly Kid Joe, and Danzig members form wedding band, play covers

Metallica members Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo, Ugly Kid Joe singer Whitfield Crane and former Queens of the Stone Age/Danzig drummer Joey Castillo are forming a one-off group called the Wedding Band. They will be playing classic rock covers of songs by Black Sabbath, Billy Idol... The group will be hosting a special event at Richmond Hill's Cosmopolitan Music Hall at Cosmo Music on July 26 in support of the ROM's exhibition "It's Alive: Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection" which opens July 13. Tickets go at $300, Loudwire reports.