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After being "blown away" by U2, Lars Ulrich suggests that Metallica will be playing the Sphere in 2026

By Will Simpson Published

And they’d love to play next year’s Super Bowl, too

Gigs & Festivals
Kirk Hammett of Metallica wears a studded denim jacket as he plays live with his Mummy ESP signature guitar
“Guitars should be played”: Kirk Hammett has been anonymously selling his guitars online

By Jonathan Horsley Published

One owner, gigged in stadiums, used on the recording of a Grammy-nominated metal album. Serious offers only...

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This composite image features Charlie Starr playing a TV Yellow Les Paul Junior on the left, while Metallica's Kirk Hammett plays his Greeny Les Paul Standard, and James Hetfield plays his his ESP Snakebyte.
Blackberry Smoke’s Charlie Starr on that time he took Duane Allman’s '57 Goldtop to a Metallica show

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Starr's first Metallica show was in 1989. His second was in 2019, and involved two of the most iconic Les Pauls of all time, and it was the day he learned Hetfield sounds the same through a Princeton

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Kirk Hammett in 1996, playing Lollapalooza with Metallica lit from behind with his ESP single-cut.
“Every note counts and fits perfectly”: Kirk Hammett names his best Metallica solo

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The field is strong but Hammett's personal favourite is from the controversial Load-era

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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.
How Metallica wrote the ultimate metal ballad and took thrash into the mainstream with One

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The sound of Metallica in full command, One would prove to be the ultimate thrash metal power ballad

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James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett
“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

By Paul Elliott Last updated

And he has 767 new riffs ready to go!

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The Collection: Kirk Hammett is a 400-page coffee table book documenting the Metallica lead guitarist's epic gear arsenal, telling the stories behind them.
Kirk Hammett and Gibson team up for epic book documenting Metallica guitarist’s guitar collection

By Jonathan Horsley Published

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

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Brian May and Freddie Mercury in 1980
“It was that fusion of funk and rock”: Brian May on the Queen banger that blew away Michael Jackson - and Kirk Hammett!

By Paul Elliott Published

“It was designed to be uniquely a dance track"

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James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett rock the crowd at their All Within My Hands fundraiser show in Inglewood, CA. Hetfield plays his legendary white Flying V copy, while Hammett plays his ESP "Mummy" KH Series signature model.
Watch James Hetfield lead Metallica in a swampy blues version of fuel with a Danelectro Baritone

By Jonathan Horsley Published

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

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Kirk Hammett shows Gibson's Mark Agnesi some choice Les Pauls from his epic guitar collection, including Greeny, a triple-humbucker Les Paul Custom, a '52 Gold Top with a trapeze tailpiece, and a stunning 1958 Les Paul Standard finished in red.
Kirk Hammett has a second vintage Les Paul once owned by Gary Moore that Moore preferred to Greeny

By Jonathan Horsley Published

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?

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