Kirk Hammett released an instrumental track, “High Plains Drifter”, the first sample of work from his solo EP, “Portals”, which will be released on April 23rd on all digital platforms, CD and limited ocean blue vinyl.
The song “was not meant to be specifically music for that film, but it was once it was written, I immediately thought it conveyed the same sentiment as the film, so the piece was christened accordingly.
“The music for ‘High Plains Drifter’ initially came from a flamenco piece I had written,” he continues. “It was a two-and-a-half-minute piece, and I really liked it, but it was one of those riffs that would be hard to integrate into Metallica. I knew I wanted to do something with it, even though it came out spontaneously. I had been sitting outside messing around with a flamenco acoustic guitar I’d just bought, and it flowed out in the moment. I was determined it would have a life. It would have its moment.”
