Kirk Hammett - Portals

Boromedic

Released today, and pretty good on first listen. Very cinematic/moody as he suggested it would be, pretty impressed Kirky Poo.

Philly_Q

There's no singing on it is there?

Boromedic

Philly_Q said:

There's no singing on it is there?

No Cookie monster mate

RocknRollDave

Only heard one song, and I thought there was a very heavy influence of their Morricone intro music (The Good, The Bad and the Ugly?)

Not my bag but good on him for branching out, and good on Hetfield and Ulrich for not stopping him (see also: Jason Newsted)

Boromedic

Lars never had any problems with Jason's Echobrain project, it was a pre rehab James. Now he's sorted his shit out he probably would've been alright with it. There's a whole lot of time and learning between the two things, one day people might move on from the poor woe Jason bollox. Who, it should be said, left the band of his own volition at the end of the day. He was the right guy at the time and the wrong guy in the end, he was also my guy as he was in the slot when I became a fan. Metallica live are a sightly different proposition now, Jason was such a connection, the fan who made it.

Now can we talk about Kirk and the EP please.

Yeah there's a load of influence from soundtracks and he's used the S and M guy to help and it shows. It's pretty cool tbh, if you take it for what it's meant to be, it's Kirks best guitar work for a while.

Philly_Q

Just having my first listen.  It is very cinematic!  Especially High Plains Drifter, with that title giving a direct Clint Eastwood link (...although the film itself wasn't a spaghetti western and didn't have an Ennio Morricone soundtrack).

In a rock music sense, I can't think of anything else that really resembles it.  Good on him for doing something like this and not a shred guitar album (although he'd have been ripped to, errrr, shreds if he had done that).

Not sure it's something I'd have listened to if it had been made by someone else, but I quite like it.

duotone

Look forward to listening to this, especially after posting a link which basically criticised his guitar playing/work ethic a few months ago.

Heres the Spotify link if anyone fancies listening: https://open.spotify.com/album/0Fd2QUbcP7l1u9a4axlrLE?si=09u1ABghRwqTwZ7mzAWuWw

@Boromedic
What did the S+M guy contribute?

Boromedic

@duotone, I believe Edwin Outwater was co-writer/arranger on most of it, not sure who the other musicians are as yet. Trying to find out!