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METALLICA’S KIRK HAMMETT PICKS DENGUE FEVER SONG FOR DECADE’S BEST LIST Though slightly bizarre at first glance (but we think it’s absolutely fantastic!), Metallica’s Kirk Hammett has chosen the song “One Thousand Tears of A Tarantula” from Cambodian-American band Dengue Fever for his Rolling Stone magazine Best Music Of The Decade Ballot. Selected the #2 song of the decade in order of importance, “Tears” sits between Radiohead’s “Everything In Its Right Place” and Mastodon’s “Oblivion” Dengue Fever’s music is a combination of classic Cambodian pop, Ethiopian jazz and Bollywood blitz, with lyrics mostly sung in lead singer Chhom Nimol’s native language of Khmer. “One ... Read Full Story

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Nobody puts Kirk Hammet’s guitar in the corner. Funny enough, while listening to Kirk Hammett regain his guitar hero status on “Death Magnetic,” I sat almost in the exact same spot Hammett sat in the “Some Kind Of Monster” documentary, which chronicled the chaos of Metallica making their last record “St. Anger.” It was in that spot that Hammett argued with drummer Lars Ulrich and producer Bob Rock that their then-new practice of writing songs without guitar solos was, um, not to Hammett’s liking. Arguing against the notion that guitar solos were “dated” Hammett ended up being dead-on when he said not having guitar ... Read Full Story

You are browsing images from the article: Hammett Offers Heartfelt Thoughts About Burton In New Metallica Book "> You are browsing images from the article: Hammett Offers Heartfelt Thoughts About Burton In New Metallica Book " target="_blank"> Metallica star Kirk Hammett has written the foreword for a new biography about the band's late bass player Cliff Burton. Joel McIver's new tome, To Live Is To Die: The Life And Death Of Metallica's Cliff Burton, is the first dedicated to Burton, who lost his life in a coach crash in Sweden on 27 September, 1986, Read Full Story

Audio CD (August 12, 1991) Original Release Date: August 12, 1991 Label: Elektra / Wea Called "the Black Album" by many (due to its monochrome cover), Metallica marks the group's entrance into the mainstream, with shorter songs, simpler song structures, and slower tempos overall. That said, this is an excellent album, featuring some of the best songwriting Metallica has ever done. "Enter Sandman," "Wherever I May Roam," and "God That Failed," despite being slower and more groove-oriented than the band's earlier work, feature the same heavy riffs and heavier rhythms that have always been a feature of Metallica's music. The band goes introspective with ... Read Full Story