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Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has entered the world of horror fiction, posting the first chapter of a story he’s writing called ‘I Have To Get Rid Of This Guitar I Found’ onto Reddit, along with some music to soundtrack it on TikTok.The story opens with a message from fictional character Abigail Forte, who explains: “I recently found a lead that might help in the search for my brother, William ‘Wills’ Forte”.That lead is “a journal he had written, along with a cassette that was filled with what can only be described as very unusual field recordings. Seeing as the nature of these recordings seemed to push towards an evil energy, I sent the tape to a friend to help me understand the music, who in turn sent it to guitarist Kirk Hammett”.“We have decided that while we cannot allow the actual sounds from the cassette to be released, we can share renditions of the music”, it goes on.

Metallica guitarist and passionate horror enthusiast Kirk Hammett has launched a new project, in which he soundtracks an eerie story he has penned comprised of fictional journal entries.On September 11, Hammett shared a link on social media to a TikTok video that pairs footage of a winding road with moody, fingerpicked acoustic guitar. Alongside that, he linked to his Kirk Hammett Horrors Reddit page, in 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 while reading the story.