{"id":643419,"date":"2026-10-28T03:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/643419\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T03:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:40:14","slug":"metallicas-kirk-hammett-reads-edgar-allen-poes-the-raven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/643419\/","title":{"rendered":"Metallica’s Kirk Hammett Reads Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘The Raven’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\tJust in time for Halloween, Metallica<\/a> guitarist and horror<\/a> aficionado Kirk Hammett<\/a> has made a video showing him reading the final seven stanzas of Edgar Allen Poe\u2019s classic poem, \u201cThe Raven.\u201d<\/a> In the video, the guitarist reads the excerpt dressed in a raven-black jacket with both the titular corvid and a grim reaper on it, sitting on a couch with a charred-black skeleton looking over his shoulder. Uplighting makes the scene all the more menacing, as he reads the pages and images of ravens flit by.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe background music for the clip is \u201cInamorata,\u201d the final song off Metallica\u2019s latest album, 72 Seasons. It\u2019s pretty clear from the video, though, which season is Hammett\u2019s favorite.<\/p>\n

\n\tOutside of Metallica, Hammett has made a name for himself in the horror world, collecting rare movie posters<\/a> and having once produced his own convention, the Fear FestEvil<\/a>. He also plays guitars that sport classic horror movie posters.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn 2022, Hammett released an instrumental solo album, Portals, that drew inspiration from horror movies. He told Rolling Stone that year that the idea stemmed from working with composer and conductor Edwin Outwater, who\u2019d conducted the symphony at Metallica\u2019s S&M2 concerts a few years earlier. \u201cWhen I met him, we hit it off right off the bat because he\u2019s a horror fan,\u201d Hammett said. \u201cI just said to him, \u2018Man, you got to check out these two pieces of music that I wrote that are kind of horror themed. You and I should do something together.\u2019 And he said, \u2018I\u2019d love to do it.’\u201d The album had song titles like \u201cMaiden and the Monster,\u201d \u201cThe Jinn,\u201d and \u201cThe Incantation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHammett and the rest of Metallica are currently in the middle of a residency called Life Burns Faster at the Sphere<\/a> in Las Vegas. The globular venue has shown imagery that could have come from horror movies during some of the songs, including placing headbangers in the seat of an electric chair for \u201cRide the Lightning\u201d<\/a> and taking on a giant, Lovecraftian monster for \u201cThe Call of Ktulu.\u201d They have two gigs scheduled there this week, including one on Halloween.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just in time for Halloween, Metallica guitarist and horror aficionado Kirk Hammett has made a video showing him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,410,17486,4938,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-643419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-horror","tag-kirk-hammett","tag-metallica","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}