METALLICA – Kirk’s Lost “Hardwired” Riffs Found (AUDIO)

***UPDATE: This story is fake. The audio posted is actually a 16 year old teen boy playing guitar who was smart enough to use a handheld recorder (that cost maybe $200) to record and post to the internet. Amazing, isn’t it how technology works?

TMD has obtained the actual audio of METALLICA’s Kirk Hammett jamming riffs he was planning to submit to the band. During the writing process for “Hardwired…To Self-Destruct”, Hammett said he had written and recorded tons of ass kicking riffs for the album… but then somehow the cell phone got lost.

As the ‘story’ goes, Hammett claims he ‘misplaced his cell phone while in Denmark in 2015’. Lost with the phone were some 250 to 300 riffs that he’d recorded with his phone. Somehow it was all timed just as Metallica were soon to begin work on what would become their latest album, Hardwired…to Self-Destruct, which was released on November 18, 2016.

“I’m like the poster boy for losing his iPhone, Hammett admitted to Martin Popoff in an interview. “I am the poster boy for that. Let’s just say it’s like, the reverberations for me, the consequences of losing my cell phone have been immense. I mean, it doesn’t matter who you are or what type of person you are, I think losing your cell phone is traumatic for anyone. And I mean, okay, I lost my phone, I lost a lot of music, but I mean, people lose cell phones, they lose all their personal information, you know? I’m kind of a technological sloth. It took me losing my iPhone to figure out that I can back it up to the iCloud. And the ironic thing about that is, the guy who invented the cloud is my next-door neighbor [laughs].”

Whatever you say, Kirk. Anything else you want to add?

“And, you know, I’m always writing music. Every time I pick up my guitar…”

That’s great. But the idea is to record those ideas. How difficult can that really be when you
are worth over a hundred millions dollars?

Listen to the audio below!

https://metallica.com/