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Kirk Hammett to write autobiography

Renowned Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has revealed his intentions to pen an autobiography during the next year.

Renowned Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has revealed his intentions to pen an autobiography during the next year.


The musician told Ultimate-Guitar, during an interview at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena recently that a book was in the works.


“I am going to put a book (out) though. I am working on it and that in itself feels like I am making a solo album because it is so much God damn fuckin’ work! It is all my self. I don’t have a band I can rely on or seek support,” Hammett said.


The Metallica axeman also mused about the possibility of a solo album occurring in the near future.


“So I think once I do this book thing, maybe I may start considering doing a solo album, but I don’t know,” he told Ultimate-Guitar.


Metallica only recently finished a string of sold-out shows in Melbourne and Sydney and return in a few weeks for the second part of their national tour of Australia.


You can read the full interview here.