Latest about Kirk Hammett
“Every note counts and fits perfectly”: Kirk Hammett names his best Metallica solo
The field is strong but Hammett's personal favourite is from the controversial Load-era
![James Hetfield [left] and Kirk Hammett harmonise solos as they perform live with Metallica in 1988. Hammett plays a Jackson Rhodes, Hetfield has his trusty white Explorer.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mpZgd7e7YSCLwb7LuqPpbi-840-80.jpg.webp)
How Metallica wrote the ultimate metal ballad and took thrash into the mainstream with One
The sound of Metallica in full command, One would prove to be the ultimate thrash metal power ballad
“We might just say, 'Let's go back to the '90s again.' It's not a bad idea”: Kirk Hammett on the next Metallica album
And he has 767 new riffs ready to go!
Kirk Hammett and Gibson team up for epic book documenting Metallica guitarist’s guitar collection
Available in Standard, Deluxe and Custom Editions, this weighty 400-pager is essential for Metallica gear heads and tells the story behind Hammett's most-famous guitars
“It was that fusion of funk and rock”: Brian May on the Queen banger that blew away Michael Jackson - and Kirk Hammett!
“It was designed to be uniquely a dance track"
Watch James Hetfield lead Metallica in a swampy blues version of fuel with a Danelectro Baritone
In 2009, Hetfield told us that the Fuel era was all about loosening up and on Friday night at the Helping Hands charity gig he made good on it as Metallica reimagined Fuel, slower and lower
Kirk Hammett has a second vintage Les Paul once owned by Gary Moore that Moore preferred to Greeny
The Metallica lead guitarist offers Mark Agnesi a tour of his epic guitar collection on GibsonTV, with a coffee table book to follow. But will we ever see his ESP KH-1 with the onboard theremin?
“Greeny is my Excalibur!”: Metallica’s Kirk Hammett says he’s still in love with that famous guitar
He calls it “a magic piece of wood”
