Metallica’s Kirk Hammett shares new solo song ‘High Plains Drifter’
nme.comMetallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has shared a new solo single this week – listen to ‘High Plains Drifter’ below.The track is taken from his upcoming solo EP, ‘Portals’, which is released on April 23.In a press release, Hammett said the song shares inspiration with a 1973 film that has the same name as the track.“[The song] was not meant to be specifically music for that film, but…once it was written, I immediately thought it conveyed the same sentiment as the film, so the piece was christened accordingly.“The music for ‘High Plains Drifter’ initially came from a Flamenco piece I had written.
It was a two-and-a-half-minute piece, and I really liked it, but it was one of those riffs that would be hard to integrate into Metallica.”He continued:, “I knew I wanted to do something with it, even though it came out spontaneously.
I had been sitting outside messing around with a Flamenco acoustic guitar I’d just bought, and it flowed out in the moment. I was determined it would have a life.
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