{"id":92544,"date":"2022-04-16T07:03:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T12:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=92544"},"modified":"2022-04-16T07:03:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T12:03:19","slug":"kirk-hammett-first-ever-solo-single-high-plains-drifter-unleashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=92544","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Hammett &#8211; First-Ever Solo Single &#8220;High Plains Drifter&#8221; Unleashed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>METALLICA<\/strong>\u00a0guitarist\u00a0<strong>Kirk Hammett<\/strong>\u00a0is now streaming his first-ever solo single &#8220;High Plains Drifter&#8221; off his solo instrumental EP called\u00a0<em>Portals<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The EP is due out on April 23, with two of its four songs being co-written by\u00a0<em>S&amp;M2<\/em>\u00a0conductor\u00a0<strong>Edwin Outwater<\/strong>.\u00a0<em>Portals<\/em>\u00a0also features drummers\u00a0<strong>Jon Theodore<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong>Kirk<\/strong>&#8216;s fellow\u00a0<strong>Wedding Band<\/strong>\u00a0member) and\u00a0<strong>Abraham Laboriel<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Greg Fidelman<\/strong>\u00a0on bass, Emmy-winning arranger\u00a0<strong>Blake Neely<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Bob Rock<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8220;Initially, before I even had the idea for a solo EP, I was inspired by the need to create some sort of soundtrack music to accompany The Kirk Hammett Collection for the first &#8216;It&#8217;s Alive&#8217; exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, 2017,&#8221; said&nbsp;<strong>Hammett<\/strong>. &#8220;I wanted to conceive music to play on a loop in the background as people walked through the exhibit. I sat down one night with a progression, and before I knew it, all the parts were there for &#8216;Maiden and the Monster.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8220;The initial concept for&nbsp;<em>Portals<\/em>&nbsp;started with that one song. Following that, I realized I could create different soundtrack moments. These songs are what I call &#8216;Audio Cinematic;&#8217; I&#8217;m creating sounds and pieces of music for the movies playing in my head. Hopefully they&#8217;ll create movies in other people&#8217;s heads in a similar fashion.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Stream &#8220;High Plains Drifter&#8221;: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"High Plains Drifter\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HBdCdd5Hiqk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>METALLICA\u00a0guitarist\u00a0Kirk Hammett\u00a0is now streaming his first-ever solo single &#8220;High Plains Drifter&#8221; off his solo instrumental&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92546,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92544\/revisions\/92546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}