Last fall, Metallica and music-instrument company Ernie Ball held a contest giving three lucky fans the chance to tour the Big Four thrashers' San Francisco headquarters. Now, Ernie Ball has shared footage of the behind-the-scenes tour, led by frontman James Hatfield and axeman Kirk Hammett. From guitars and pinball machines to the Ride the Lightning banner and the head of Lady Justice (a.k.a. Doris) herself, there's no shortage of eye candy (or t-shirts) to be found at Metallica HQ.
Speaking of tours, we spent a day with Kirk Hammett in Salem, Massachusetts, during which he took us on a tour of Salem Witch Museum to learn about the true-life horrors that went down in that town hundreds of years ago. Watch below:
