Latest about Kirk Hammett
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?
Michael Schenker reveals how he hears his influence on Kirk Hammett's playing in Metallica
"People who copy that particular style will sound a little undeveloped because my vibrato wasn’t right"
How Metallica changed tack and gambled with Enter The Sandman via some riff editing from Lars Ulrich
Via some riff editing from Lars Ulrich
NAMM 2024: “A fitting tribute to a metal guitar master and one of his favourite instruments”: Gibson unveils meticulous Murphy Lab replica of Kirk Hammett’s 1989 Les Paul Custom
Heavily modded, equipped with black hardware, uncovered T-type humbuckers and a piezo, Hammett's “blacked-out” Custom is one of the coolest guitars in Metallica history
Do guitar solos matter? Kirk Hammett says non-musicians won’t remember your solos – but “they are gonna helluva remember a great melody and they’re really gonna remember a great song”
As Metallica's lead guitarist, Hammett has written and performed some of metal's most iconic guitar solos but maintains that the majority of people will forget them
Epiphone unveils Kirk Hammett ‘Greeny’ 1959 Les Paul Standard – a top-tier collab with the Gibson Custom Shop and “amazing opportunity for more players to experience the spirit of Greeny”
The Metallica guitarist’s new model replicates one of the most famous Les Pauls ever and features the first Gibson open-book headstock on an Epiphone production build since the '80s
