Metallica’s Kirk Hammett Reveals Plans to Write More Horror-Inspired Classical Music
At Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum on Tuesday (July 24), Metallica’s Kirk Hammett told the sold-out audience that he’s written his second classical piece with his wife, Lani, and plans to do more.
“She just signed off on it today,” he said to claps.
The conversation was part of a ROM Speaks event for It’s Alive! Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Art From The Kirk Hammett Collection, moderated by Dan Finamore, a curator at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, who conceived the exhibition with Hammett and organized the companion book.
The exhibition runs until Jan. 5 and features more than a hundred pieces from Hammett’s personal collection, mainly consisting of 20th-century graphic posters, but also costumes, toys, props and decorated guitars. He acquired a couple of new pieces last year.
The music the couple wrote is meant to convey the feelings one gets from the posters — among them Dracula, Frankenstein, Barbarella, Bride of Frankenstein, Creature From The Black Lagoon, Invasion of the Saucer-Men, King Kong, Notre Dame De Paris and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.
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