Episode 211 - Icons: Kirk Hammett Interview

METAL UP YOUR PODCAST - All Things Metallica

Clint Wells

Clint Wells, Ethan Luck, Heavy Metal, Arts, Nashville, Metal Up Your Podcast, Metal, Music, Society & Culture, Thrash Metal, Metallica

4.9 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 153 minutes

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Summary

Happy New Year! In this episode we break down the wonderful Gibson Icons interview with Kirk Hammett which details his musical journey with Metallica from the beginning days of Bay Area thrash through the world dominance of the Black Album. We also discuss the news that Metallica is working on their "heaviest" album to date, Metallica's record breaking streaming numbers and the revenge of a Tik Tok True. A sincere and heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who continues to support Metal Up Your Podcast through listening, sharing, engagement on social media and Patreon. We're excited to put 2020 behind us and look forward to joining you every week in 2021 to talk about the greatest heavy metal band of all time, the mighty Metallica. Cheers!

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0:00.0	Metallica, here they come, the kings of metal!
0:04.0	Oh, nah, Bird!
0:07.0	Yo, Merylhead, this is Jimmy Clack. Oh, on I burn!
0:23.5	Yo, metalheads, this is Jimmy Clark, Lars Oliver's drum tech, Metallica, here at Metal Up Your Podcast.
0:30.1	The number one podcast, All Things Metallica.
0:32.9	Yeah. I'm Ethan Luck.
1:11.0	And I'm Clint Wells.
1:11.9	This is episode 2.11, and this is a fun, a fun shirt to have, bonus episode.
1:17.4	And happy New Year, Clint.
1:19.0	Happy New Year's Eve.
1:21.1	Eve.
1:21.3	But I guess as of the dropping of this episode, it is finally 2021.
1:27.0	There were dark days this year where I didn't think it
1:30.4	would be possible. I didn't see you know it came to be that the soothing light at the end of the
1:36.1	tunnel was just a freight train coming my way as they say. But here we are and you know days and
1:43.1	years and time. We made all of that up right just to measure how we
1:46.8	move through the world so it's in a sense it's arbitrary a lot of the things that are a problem
1:51.8	today aren't going to magically go away but as a symbol i think that uh turning the page on 2020
1:57.7	is very important and i'm as far as I'm concerned good fucking riddance
2:02.8	good riddance I feel uh exactly like you do and you're right a lot of the things that
2:07.6	happened this year aren't going away magically uh now that it is 2021 however you're right uh just the
2:13.9	this the symbolism behind it just ending this hellish year with all the things that happened
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