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Metallica‘s Kirk Hammett has announced details of his debut solo EP, ‘Portals’.The guitarist will release the four-song instrumental EP on April 23 via Blackened Recordings across digital platforms, CD and as a Record Store Day Exclusive Ocean Blue Vinyl EP.‘Portals’ was produced by Hammett and includes songs that were co-written with California conductor Edwin Outwater, who also contributed keyboards and led the orchestral players from the LA Philharmonic on ‘Portals’. Hammett previously collaborated with Outwater on Metallica’s ‘S&M2’ shows in 2019.Drummers Jon Theodore and Abraham Laboriel, bassist Greg Fidelman, arranger Blake Neely and Bob Rock have also contributed to ‘Portals’ – the artwork and tracklist for which you can see below.1. ‘Maiden And The Monster’2. ‘The Jinn’3. ‘High Plains Drifter’4. ‘The Incantation’‘Portals’ was recorded in multiple locations ranging from Los Angeles to Paris to Oahu, and is described as being “both the result of musical and metaphysical journeys; an invitation to inner worlds accessible only by music and the psyche it fuels”.“This music was created with what I describe as an audio-cinematic approach,” Hammett said in a statement about his record.

Metallica guitarist has been collaborating with Edwin Outwater, the composer who has worked on the band’s ‘S&M2’ live performance show/album, for new material separate from the band.Hammett told Metallica’s fan club magazine So What! that he feels his new instrumentals have got the potential to be his career-best, adding that they play out “like movies”.Two of the four total tracks have been written with Outwater, and Hammett believes they’re “the best fucking things I’ve ever done”.“I recorded those tracks with Edwin, a small chamber orchestra and some other musicians,” Hammett said.He continued: “One of them is called ‘High Plains Drifter’ and the other one’s called ‘The Incantation’. They’re not done yet.