Kirk Hammett has recorded some of the greatest solos in metal guitar. He is Metallica’s lead guitar power-up, and while there are leitmotifs in his work – he is a flamboyant proponent of the wah pedal ...

It may surprise you, but in the year-end edition of Total Guitar magazine, Metallica's Kirk Hammett posits that much of the music-listening public likely forgets most songs' guitar solos. But Hammett ...

Instead, the Metallica man says the average non-guitar-playing music listener isn’t interested in guitar solos, and will most likely forget them once the song ends. Speaking in Total Guitar’s new ...

Kirk Hammett is making some career moves. In an interview with Rolling Stone on Sunday, March 23, the legendary Metallica member — who has been the band's guitarist since 1983 when Dave Mustaine left ...

While watching Metallica reach iconic levels of stardom over the years, Kirk Hammett gained high praise for his talents with a guitar. Rolling Stone even placed him on their list of Greatest ...

Cliff Burton's shredding fingerstyle bass solo (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth, from Metallica's 1983 debut album, Kill 'Em All, stamped his identity firmly on the emerging thrash metal movement. Heavy ...