Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has picked out the album from his career on which he thinks he nailed his playing the most. Speaking to Metal Hammer in their latest issue, Hammett is asked what he thinks his finest moment as a player is - and he may surprise some fans by not exactly picking Metallica's most technically complex material as his answer.
“It’s weird, because my opinion of that changes all the time," he explains. "I don’t sit around listening to Metallica, so sometimes something comes on and I’m like,
‘I haven’t heard this in fucking five years! I forgot about that sound.’ I don’t look in the rear-view mirror too often. The whole band is like that – we just move on. What’s the next cool thing we can do? It’s just how we are. But I will say, there was a period where I thought my playing was fucking spot on, and that was The Black Album. Those solos wrote themselves! Almost all of them worked out instantly.
