The Band Metallica’s Kirk Hammett Says Are the Real ‘Architects’ of Metal
Who are the real “architects” of heavy metal? It’s a question that has routinely come up over decades and Metallica‘s Kirk Hammett has his answer — not Black Sabbath. Although Black Sabbath are largely credited with pioneering heavy metal for having driven it further away from the hard rock standard of the time and into new territory. However, that notion has been challenged a bit in recent years as more have come to look back at metal’s origins in terms of the style that was later popularized. Hammett and Robert Trujillo took part in a recent Q&A session in Germany at a book signing event for...