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Metallica 'Hoping' To Get Album Out in 2014

Crash — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:47:21 +0000

Metallica tends to stay busy with multiple projects (3D movie and Orion Music Festival among them) but guitarist Kirk Hammett says the band hopes to release a new album next year too.

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Rock Report: Metallica Still Making Music In 2032?

Crash — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:29:40 +0000

Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett never seems to stop working, and luckily for fans, it sounds like he plans to keep working for at least another 20 years!

He says Metallica has no plans to retire

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Rock Report: Metallica's Kirk Hammett Has No Intention of Retiring

Dave Lifton — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 19:20:40 +0000

Despite being in the music business for more than 30 years, Metallica's Kirk Hammett has no intention of slowing down. In a new interview, he says that he can envision himself still rocking 20 years from now, as the Rolling Stones are doing.

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Rock Report: Metallica's Kirk Hammett on Horror Films – 'They're Just Fun'

Crash — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:25:24 +0000

Metallica lead guitarist Kirk Hammett has just published his first book, an oversized photo book called Too Much Horror Business - The Kirk Hammett Collection, that features hundreds of pictures of his massive horror memorabilia collection.

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Metallica Guitarist 'Bored' Recording Landmark Album

Crash — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:23:42 +0000

Metallica's third album, 1986's Master Of Puppets, is regularly cited as the band's finest hour and was recently voted "Greatest Heavy Metal Album of All Time" by the readers of Rolling Stone magazine. But lead guitarist Kirk Hammett told the magazine that he was mostly "bored" during the making of this hard rock landmark. Hammett explained, "At the time, we were just making another album. We had no idea it would have such a range of influence that it went on to have. It was the first time that we could spend time in the studio and work on guitar sounds for a couple of days, really experiment with different sounds and overdubs . . . and I played a lot of poker with (late bassist) Cliff Burton in the studio. We'd just play poker, wait for Lars (Ulrich, drummer) to finish a track -- which would sometimes be days -- and we'd be bored."

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Tony Iommi: Greatest Metal Guitarist [VIDEO]

Crash — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:32:50 +0000

Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has been named the greatest heavy metal guitarist of all time in a new survey posted by Gibson Guitars. According to Classic Rock, the list of the top 10 metal axemen also includes Metallica's James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett, late Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Randy Rhoads and others.

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