Kirk Hammett

He shined through in what he was shown.

It happened in Milan.

But how long will we wait before they release anything?

It wasn't an April Fool's joke.

Hammett's dropping clues.

RIP

No, it wasn't Jimi Hendrix or his guitar instructor Joe Satriani.

'So cool! This looks like an import... I mean a bootleg... I mean a bootleg import,' Hammett says.

A quick scan of his surroundings led the Metallica guitarist to determine it was a false alarm before getting official word it indeed was.

His comment in 'Some Kind of Monster' that having no guitar solos would anchor the album to its time period may have been right.

Rob and Kirk did the most European cover ever, taking on Europe's 1986 hit "The Final Countdown" in Sweden.

The Metallica duo took their nightly "doodle" to a new level by covering the '80s hit 'Take On Me' in Oslo, Norway.