Kirk Hammett

Metallica guitarist was doing yoga when his son told him about false threat alert.

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

The dawn of the file-sharing era for mainstream music fans came with a lot of messiness between hardcore consumers and the record industry.

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.

He also played 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game,' while Lars Ulrich threw out the first pitch. Robert Trujillo and Hammett helped out with the groundskeeping.

Watch the two musicians riff a pair of UFO favorites in honor of Schenker while in Hamburg, Germany.

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Michael Schenker and Kirk Hammett trade solos on a track from Schenker's new album, 'Resurrection.'

Metallica's Kirk Hammett recently reduced the price of his San Francisco home by $3 million. Here's a peek inside.

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You better be backing up that phone this time, Kirk!