I have 767 new ones for the next album,” the guitarist said about the amount of riffs he's written for the new project. “It is such a nightmare going through this stuff, to

Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, the guitar hero who had me hacking away at tablature books in my basement for hours as a middle schooler trying to replicate every finger tap, string bend, and hammer-on, has a bunch of new projects in the queue.

Metallica's lead guitarist also spoke about how grunge influenced the Black Album and much more in our in-depth new interview