While Metallica is currently busy working on their new untitled album, band member Kirk Hammett has taken out some time to pen down a tribute to the late legendary artist David Bowie in his blog.
In his blog, Hammett acknowledged the huge influence Bowie music and films had on him.
"David Bowie dying is such a bummer, and I want to acknowledge what a huge influence he was on me," the guitarist noted in his blog, reported NME.
Hammett talked about Bowie's 1976 album "Changesonebowie" as well as the 1975 single "Fame."
"I bought a handful of albums growing up which I can say heavily influenced me, and one of those was Changesonebowie, which came out in 1976," he added. "When I first heard the song 'Fame' on the radio, it sounded like nothing else out there. 'Golden Years' and 'Fame' were two very distinctly different songs."
Hammett also mentioned meeting Bowie backstage at one of his shows.
"I had no expectation of meeting David because I'd heard he was very private and liked to lie low after the show, I don't blame him, that's what we do," he said, reported Loudwire. "We were just leaving and Ian [tour manager Ian Jeffrey] said, 'no no wait, David wants to say hi.' He'd only been offstage for 15 minutes, we usually take at least 45 minutes before we can get our girdles off and take our vitamins! He came out, wearing sweats and a t-shirt, and said 'hi how ya doing Kirk, hi Rob!' I couldn't believe it!
"And then all the fanboy stuff came out, how he'd been an inspiration, blah blah blah. He said he'd known about us for a long time, liked our music and told us to carry on!"
The guitarist concluded by stating, "Thank God David Bowie walked the earth and thank God we were able to experience what he had to give."
You can read the full post here.
Recently, it was reported that Metallica has almost finished recording the majority of the instrumental parts of their highly anticipated new album.
Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett revealed in an interview in December that their new album has a good chance of being released in 2016 or early 2017.
