Kirk Hammett

Person · Open Library

Works

6

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Film & TV

Acting · San Francisco, California, USA

Kirk Lee Hammett is an American musician who has been the lead guitarist and a contributing songwriter for heavy metal band Metallica since 1983. Before joining Metallica he formed and named the band Exodus. In 2003, Hammett was ranked 11th on Rolling Stone's list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

Known for

• Metallica Saved My Life — Self2025
• Metallica: Studio Shit + U.K. Shenanigans — Self2025
• Metallica: Polar Beach Party — Self2025
• Metallica: Poor Swedish Me '96 — Self2025
• Metallica: On the Air (Music Videos + TV Appearances) — Self2025
• Back to the Beginning: Ozzy's Final Bow — Self2025
• Metallica: Helping Hands Concert & Auction — Self2024
• Runt — Runt2024
• Metallica: 72 Seasons - Global Premiere — Self2023
• Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar — Fan (voice)2023

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1962

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

26,900

Total plays

172,288

Kirk Lee Hammett (born November 18, 1962 in El Sobrante, California, USA) is the lead guitarist in heavy metal group Metallica. Kirk is one of the most well-known guitar students of legendary guitarist/instructor Joe Satriani. Hammett was born in El Sobrante, California to a Filipino mother and an Irish Merchant Marine father. As a child and teenager, he showed great interest in his older brother Rick's extensive collection of hard rock records, including material by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,787x

2. Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging

   · 2015 · cited 11,858x

3. The benefits of being present: Mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being.

   · 2003 · cited 10,037x

4. A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 9,264x

5. Recommendations for Chamber Quantification: A Report from the American Society of Echocardiography’s Guidelines and Standards Committee and the Chamber Quantification Writing Group, Developed in Conjunction with the European Association of Echocardiography, a Branch of the European Society of Cardiology

   · 2005 · cited 8,853x

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Music

Quotes

• “Basically I just had to say, "Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me and our music." So I gave the big finger to all the current trends in technical wizardry, and just went off and did what I felt was best for the songs.”
• “I think heavy metal is therapeutic - it's music that blows the tension away. I think that's why people who have had really bad childhoods are attracted to heavy metal. It allows people to release aggression and tension in a nonviolent way. Also, heavy metal seems to attract all sorts of scruffy, lost animals, strays no one wants.”
• “Cliff was a very smart guy, a reader, very eloquent. I just don't understand why he went, and not one of us.”
• “[about Nothing Else Matters] James always wanted to be perceived as this guy who is very confident and strong. And for him to write lyrics like that - showing a sensitive side - took a lot of balls.”

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