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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

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?

“Greeny is my Excalibur!”: Metallica’s Kirk Hammett says he’s still in love with that famous guitar
By Paul Elliott published
He calls it “a magic piece of wood”

Michael Schenker reveals how he hears his influence on Kirk Hammett's playing in Metallica
By Rob Laing published
"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
By Sian Llewellyn published
Via some riff editing from Lars Ulrich

"With effortless playability and the credentials to absolutely nail those iconic Peter Green, Gary Moore and Kirk Hammett tones": Epiphone Kirk Hammett "Greeny" 1959 Les Paul Standard review
By Daryl Robertson published
The world's most famous Les Paul finally gets the Epiphone treatment – but is it worth it?

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
By Jonathan Horsley published
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”
By Jonathan Horsley published
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”
By Jonathan Horsley published
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
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