All Kirk Hammett Articles
Video: Kirk Hammett Performs “Trapped Under Ice” with Death Angel
Kirk Hammett evidently knows how to throw a book party. The Metallica guitarist invited Bay Area thrashers Death Angel to perform at the release party for his new book, Too Much Horror Business. (Hah! Take that, Jonathan Franzen!) During the performance, Hammett joined the band for a handful of songs, including renditions of Metallica’s “Trapped [...]
“Rock! Shock! and Horror” Collector’s Issue on Newsstands Now!
On newsstands now and available online right here just in time for Halloween, Revolver celebrates the crossover between heavy music and all things blood-curdling with a host of fear-mongering, gore-soaked rockers including Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, Slipknot and Stone Sour’s Corey Taylor, Pantera and Down’s Phil Anselmo, plus members of Avenged Sevenfold, [...]
Metallica’s Kirk Hammett to Release ‘Too Much Horror Business’ Book in October
In a recent interview with Guitar World, Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett mentioned he would be unveiling a brand new book at his Kirk’s Crypt tent at this weekend’s Orion Music + More festival. “It’s a book about vintage tour and movie posters, vintage monster toys and artwork,” Kirk told Guitar World. “It’s basically all the [...]
Metallica’s Kirk Hammett Picks His Top Five Zombie Movies
Metallica’s lead guitarist picks his five favorite zombie movies of all time.
Kirk Hammett: Metallica to Focus on New Album This Fall
With a busy European festival season nearly behind them, their own Orion Music festival looming, a 3D movie in the works and a new album on the horizon, Metallica are looking to accomplish more this summer than most bands do in a career. In a new interview with Guitar World, Metallica’s Kirk Hammett revealed that [...]
Metallica’s Kirk Hammett: “The Next Album Will Be a Heavier ‘Black Album’”
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Metallica recently discussed the details of their next album, which according to drummer Lars Ulrich, the band are “About seven, eight songs into.” Ulrich went onto say about the follow-up to 2008′s Death Magnetic: “We do it in rounds. We come up with something, we leave it, go to [...]
The Year in Live Photos
From the Big Four to Avenged Sevenfold at the Golden Gods, 2011 has been one hell of a year
Video Preview Available for ‘Murder in the Front Row’ Bay Area Thrash Photo Book
A video preview has been made available for the upcoming photo book, Murder in the Front Row: Shots From the Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter (Bazillion Points). The book, by Harald Oimoen and Brian Lew, will be released on December 13. Featured photos include Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett performing with Exodus, as well as Megadeth’s [...]
Kirk Hammett Talks About Metallica and Lou Reed’s ‘Lulu,’ Cliff Burton, and Not Playing Lead Guitar
Metallica and Lou Reed are releasing their collaborative album, Lulu, today. The album tells the tale of a girl, Lulu, who falls from her place in high society into prostitution and other questionable activities—she even has a run-in with Jack the Ripper. Reed took the concept from a pair of plays by 20th Century German [...]
Photos: Anthrax, Live in San Francisco, With Members of Metallica & Death Angel
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