Metallica’s Kirk Hammett launches new venture writing and soundtracking his personal horror story
Metallica guitarist and passionate horror fanatic Kirk Hammett has launched a brand new venture, through which he soundtracks an eerie story he has penned comprised of fictional journal entries.
On September 11, Hammett shared a hyperlink on social media to a TikTok video that pairs footage of a winding street with moody, fingerpicked acoustic guitar. Alongside that, he linked to his Kirk Hammett Horrors Reddit web page, through which he shares the first chapter of a story he’s called I Have to Get Rid of This Guitar I Found.
The recording, Hammett explains, is designed to be looped whereas studying the story. You’ll be able to take heed to that under:
@kirkhammett READ half one now ! #whereiswills #nosleep #nosleepreddit #rnosleep #ihavetogetridofthisguitarifound https://www.reddit.com/consumer/Kirk-Hammett-Horrors/
The introduction for the primary chapter – which is titled Crossroad Magic Blues – begins with a message from a personality known as Abigail Forte, who says she just lately discovered a journal and a cassette of “very uncommon subject recordings” left by her brother, William “Wills” Forte, who has gone lacking.
“Seeing as the character of those recordings appeared to push in the direction of an evil power, I despatched the tape to a good friend to assist me perceive the music, who in flip despatched it to guitarist Kirk Hammett,” Forte says. “Now we have determined that whereas we can’t enable the precise sounds from the cassette to be launched, we will share renditions of the music.”
She continues: “Kirk Hammett has agreed to rapidly transpose the much less complicated parts of the cassette whereas conserving the integrity of the unique subject recordings intact. These you’ll be able to play or loop alongside the studying of every half, to create the suitable temper for these journal entries.
“We nonetheless advise you are taking precautions earlier than listening to the recordings (corresponding to burning sage, reciting prayers, drawing protecting sigils). What you’ll hear are some phrases and motifs impressed by the cursed melodies recorded on to this mysterious cassette.”
Hammett has lengthy been vocal about his ardour for horror. In 2012, Hammett’s first ebook was revealed, Too A lot Horror Enterprise, which featured his massive assortment of horror memorabilia and contained conversations with the guitarist about his love for the style and the way it overlaps along with his work in Metallica.
Earlier this yr, he was a part of a panel for the Midsummer Scream horror conference, moderating a chat that featured relations of Bela Lugosi, Vincent Value, Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney Jr. Hammett has additionally hosted two editions of his personal horror competition, Kirk Von Hammett’s Worry FestEvil, which came about in California in 2014 and 2015.
In April, Hammett launched his debut solo EP, ‘Portals’, which he described as being partially influenced by horror films and The Factor rating composer Ennio Morricone.