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Good news! Kirk Hammett has precisely 767 riff ideas for the next Metallica album. Not 766, and not 768 – exactly 767, as Hammett recently said in an interview with Rolling Stone. All I can say ...

“I’m just actively getting ideas together for my [first] solo album,” he told Rolling Stone in a new interview. “I guess the best way to describe it is it’s gonna be a fusion of all sorts of styles….

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