Kirk Hammett Interview About Metallica’s New Album
Kirk Hammett shares the latest details about Metallica‘s new album. Metallica fans curious and asking about when is the new Metallica album. Metallica‘s latest album, ‘72 Seasons,’ was released on April 14th, 2023. Look at what Kirk Hammett talked about with multi-instrumentalist, producer, and teacher Rick Beato for the upcoming new Metallica album.
The latest Metallica album is the follow-up to 2016’s “Hardwired… To Self-Destruct,” paired with a song and music video by Lux Æterna. Also included are plans for a two-year international tour. The band has only released two singles, Screaming Suicide and If Darkness Had a Son, and music videos for all songs.
As Metallica fans, we have been looking forward to the release of their new album. Here’s all we know about this highly anticipated album thus far. We’ll review everything from the album title, tracklist, recording procedure, and release date. So, let’s dig in and discover the universe of Metallica’s new album, 72 Seasons, and Metallica‘s tour dates for 2023 and 2024.
Greg Fidelman is the band’s San Rafael recording facility producer for this album alongside James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. Metallica has a lot of news about the band and everything for the record with this album.
A short summary of Kirk Hammett:
In 1983, Kirk Hammett replaced Dave Mustaine as Metallica’s primary guitarist. Metallica’s live concerts include his precise and rapid guitar solos. Kirk Hammett is also a songwriter for Metallica, having written many of the band’s songs.
First, Kirk Hammett starts with his and James Hetfield’s approach to the guitar:
“he fortunate thing when James and I first started playing together is we basically come from the same musical places – Black Sabbath, UFO, Aerosmith, KISS, Van Halen and then Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Motorhead…
We like the same stuff. We like the same guitar sounds. Even though he grew up in southern California and I come from northern California, we’re very, very similar players. The only difference is I play more leads. It’s the only difference. His right hand is so precise… A lot of my precision is in my left hand, a lot of his precision is in his right hand and we’ve learned so much from each other.”
Their thoughts on brotherhood in the Metallica:
“James [Hetfield], I love him. I love him as a musician, I love him as a brother. But it’s hard being in a band with him because sometimes he shows up and he’ll play something and I’m like, ‘Where did that come from? I’ve never heard anyone play something like that.'”
Kirk Hammett’s thoughts on old and new Metallica albums:
“And it’s still coming. ‘Moth Into Flame,’ there’s a rhythm thing where I never heard this on an album – it’s like a gallop with a pull-off. No one’s ever done that before! He doesn’t really even have to work at it. He can fall out of bed, pick up a guitar and, man, there’s 16th notes coming out effortlessly and I love that.”
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