Goodnight, Texas join forces with Metallica’s Kirk Hammett for new single ‘Runaways’

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Metallica’s lead guitarist Kirk Hammett for a gritty new single, ‘Runaways’. Check out the track below.Set to arrive on digital platforms next week, the track is a perfect halfway mark for fans of both Metallica and Goodnight, Texas, as it sees the American band team up with the guitarist and combine their respective folk and thrash metal sound.Taking a step away from their usual thought-provoking style of folk, the two singer-songwriters Patrick Dyer Wolf and Avi Vinocur instead take more of a classic hard rock approach to the single, before the thrash guitarist contributes one of his signature wah-heavy solos around three-quarters in.“This is the hardest we’ve ever rocked on a recording,” Dyer Wolf said of the new single (via Metal Injection). “That’s thanks in no small part to an actual and absolute vintage Kirk Hammett wah solo on his legendary Greeny guitar, about which I am self-pinching daily.“The main riff of the song had been lurking in my drafts like a caged animal since our last album, and at some point in the past year we decided it was time to set it free.”The ‘Greeny’ guitar he mentions is in reference to the metal musician recently acquiring a world-famous green 1959 Les Paul, which has belonged to members of some of the world’s biggest bands.

Originally, the axe was owned by Fleetwood Mac‘s Peter Green and was passed down to Thin Lizzy’s guitarist Gary Moore, who played it for decades before handing it over to Hammett.“We’re not abandoning our banjos and mandolins, and in fact, there’s banjo in there; if you squint you can hear it,” Dyer Wolf continued, referencing the heavier sound the track opts for.