{"id":82714,"date":"2020-08-31T16:53:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T21:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=82714"},"modified":"2020-08-31T16:56:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T21:56:56","slug":"metallica-kirk-hammett-has-600-song-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=82714","title":{"rendered":"METALLICA &#8211; Kirk Hammett Has 600 Song Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  data-gnlv=\"hey\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kirk-hammett-metallica.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82718\" width=\"443\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kirk-hammett-metallica.jpg 638w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kirk-hammett-metallica-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kirk-hammett-metallica-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><figcaption>Kirk Can Be Forgetful At Times: &#8220;Has anyone seen my iPhone?&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">This is not a joke. <strong>METALLICA<\/strong>&#8216;s guitarist <strong>Kirk Hammett<\/strong> has revealed he has some 600 song ideas for the band\u2019s forthcoming new album. <strong>Hammett<\/strong> of course wasn\u2019t as involved as he wanted to be in the group\u2019s latest studio album \u201c<strong>Hardwired\u2026To Self-Destruct<\/strong>\u201c after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprp.com\/2016\/12\/08\/news\/metallicas-kirk-hammett-says-recall-four-riffs-lost-iphone\/\">infamously losing his <strong>iPhone<\/strong> which had over 250 song ideas on it<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Kirk recently told <a href=\"https:\/\/uproxx.com\/indie\/metallica-kirk-hammett-interview-sm2\/\">Uproxx<\/a>&nbsp;of his progress with new songs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201cWe [<strong>Metallica<\/strong>] have weekly check-ins, and the dialogue has been steered towards what we\u2019re going to be doing in the immediate future. And I\u2019ve been using this time to go through all my musical ideas that I\u2019ve come up with. In the last three or four years, it\u2019s over 600 ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">It\u2019s taken me a couple of months to go through it all. But they\u2019ve been sent into the big musical idea bank, and we\u2019re starting to talk about going through all that stuff, and exchanging ideas, and just starting to get the ball rolling towards creating some new material.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Last week the band\u2019s frontman\/guitarist <strong>James Hetfield<\/strong> revealed he has written \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprp.com\/2020\/08\/28\/news\/metallicas-james-hetfield-says-he-has-written-tons-of-new-material-during-the-covid-19-quarantine\/\">tons of material<\/a>\u201d during the COVID-19 downtime. <strong>Metallica<\/strong> released their new orchestral live album \u201c<strong>S&amp;M2<\/strong>\u201d last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprp.com\/2020\/08\/31\/news\/metallicas-kirk-hammett-says-he-has-over-600-ideas-for-the-bands-next-album\/\">ThePRP<\/a>\/Blabbermouth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not a joke. 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