KIRK HAMMETT Streams First-Ever Solo Single “Excessive Plains Drifter”

Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett is now streaming his first-ever solo single “Excessive Plains Drifter” off his solo instrumental EP known as Portals. It is a far cry from what you’d count on from Metallica, however nonetheless – it is fairly rattling good!

The EP is out on April 23, with two of its 4 songs being co-written by S&M2 conductor Edwin Outwater. Portals additionally options drummers Jon Theodore (Kirk‘s fellow Wedding ceremony Band member) and Abraham Laboriel, Greg Fidelman on bass, Emmy-winning arranger Blake Neely, and Bob Rock.

“Initially, earlier than I even had the concept for a solo EP, I used to be impressed by the necessity to create some type of soundtrack music to accompany The Kirk Hammett Assortment for the primary ‘It is Alive’ exhibition on the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, 2017,” mentioned Hammett. “I needed to conceive music to play on a loop within the background as individuals walked by means of the exhibit. I sat down one night time with a development, and earlier than I knew it, all of the elements had been there for ‘Maiden and the Monster.’

“The preliminary idea for Portals began with that one music. Following that, I noticed I might create completely different soundtrack moments. These songs are what I name ‘Audio Cinematic;’ I am creating sounds and items of music for the films taking part in in my head. Hopefully they will create films in different individuals’s heads in a similar way.”

Stream “Excessive Plains Drifter” right here.