• facebook
  • twitter
  • rss

METALLICA: Pictures From New KIRK HAMMETT Photo Shoot Posted Online

August 21, 2005

Former METALLICA photographer Ross Halfin recently did a photo shoot with METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett, according to a posting at Halfin's web site.

"Nice and hot," Halfin writes in an August 5 diary entry at RossHalfin.co.uk. "Studio session today with Kirk Hammett of METALLICA. It's been so long since I photographed them, it's actually quite strange. Anyway, have a good time. Spend most of it talking. End up in 'the hood,' as they say in America. Shooting in Rosedale Cemetery. Kirk had both of the guitars he used on 'Master of Puppets'.

"So, shoot him with crosses etc...

"There is some strange stuff, crypts in the shape of pyramids — well, we are in Hollywood. He goes off to see THE MARS VOLTA and the very average SYSTEM OF A DOWN — I go shopping..."

Check out photos from the Kirk Hammett photo shoot: Photo#1, Photo#2, Photo#3, Photo#4. Kirk also contributed an introductory note for Halfin's new METALLICA book, due out in November. Read the note here. Halfin also met up with METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich a few days earlier. The following is Ross' August 1 diary entry:

"Ugh — rain and it's August. Ran into the Prince of Denmark over the weekend — Lars Ulrich. He was charming, which rather threw me. It was the first time I'd had a semi-normal conversation with him since 1996. Lars made a jokey reference to my METALLICA page so he must have read it (or had his servant Stephen 'Cheeseburger' Chratzi show him it over a large lunch)... He was wearing a BUDGIE t-shirt, an original not a designer one. I told him I'd found my CULT 'We Don't Fit, And We Don't Care' tour shirt . THE CULT had it made for the crew when they toured with METALLICA. 'I don't remember that,' said Lars. 'Well, you wouldn't — they didn't give you one...' He said hello to my [girlfriend] in Danish and headed off with his chums Sean Penn and Bono. I must admit it was nice to run into him... Ouch, that's hard for me to say."

(Thanks: The 4 Horsemen Website)

Find more on
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • reddit
  • email

Comments Disclaimer And Information

BLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. To comment on a BLABBERMOUTH.NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. User comments or postings do not reflect the viewpoint of BLABBERMOUTH.NET and BLABBERMOUTH.NET does not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment. To report spam or any abusive, obscene, defamatory, racist, homophobic or threatening comments, or anything that may violate any applicable laws, use the "Report to Facebook" and "Mark as spam" links that appear next to the comments themselves. To do so, click the downward arrow on the top-right corner of the Facebook comment (the arrow is invisible until you roll over it) and select the appropriate action. You can also send an e-mail to blabbermouthinbox(@)gmail.com with pertinent details. BLABBERMOUTH.NET reserves the right to "hide" comments that may be considered offensive, illegal or inappropriate and to "ban" users that violate the site's Terms Of Service. Hidden comments will still appear to the user and to the user's Facebook friends. If a new comment is published from a "banned" user or contains a blacklisted word, this comment will automatically have limited visibility (the "banned" user's comments will only be visible to the user and the user's Facebook friends).