“A good heavy metal song is like a good horror movie, and vice versa. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil!“: Inside Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett’s lifelong love of horror

Metallica’s Kirk Hammett posing for a photograph in 2011.

Kirk Hammett is best known as the guitarist in Metallica, but he’s also a not-so-secret horror fanatic, with a huge collection of movies and memorabilia. In 2011, the guitarist published his first book, Too Much Horror Business, to shine a light on his love of the genre, and Metal Hammer caught up with Kirk to chat about all things blood-splattered.