NME: Metallica’s Kirk Hammett shares new solo song ‘High Plains Drifter’

Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has shared a new solo single this week – listen to ‘High Plains Drifter’ below. The track is taken from his upcoming solo EP, ‘Portals’, which is released on April 23. In a press release, Hammett said the song shares inspiration with a 1973 film that has the same name as the track. “[The song] was not meant to be specifically music for that film, but…once it was written, I immediately thought it conveyed the same sentiment as the film, so the piece was christened accordingly.

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