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Metallica's Kirk Hammett Youtube/Metallica Just in time for Halloween, Metallica guitarist and horror aficionado Kirk Hammett has made a video showing him reading the final seven stanzas of Edgar Allen Poe’s classic poem, “The Raven.” In the video, the guitarist reads the excerpt dressed in a raven-black jacket with both the titular corvid and a grim reaper on it, sitting on a couch with a charred-black skeleton looking over his shoulder. Uplighting makes the scene all the more menacing, as he reads the pages and images of ravens flit by.
The background music for the clip is “Inamorata,” the final song off Metallica’s latest album, 72 Seasons. It’s pretty clear from the video, though, which season is Hammett’s favorite.
Outside of Metallica, Hammett has made a name for himself in the horror world, collecting rare movie posters and having once produced his own convention, the Fear FestEvil. He also plays guitars that sport classic horror movie posters.
