In connection with the new Mick Wall-penned Metallica biography Enter Night, St. Martin’s Press is offering the chance to win a ESP LTD KH-202 Kirk Hammett Signature Series Electric Guitar, valued at $713.00. The book’s out today (5/10). Here’s some information on it (and on Metallica’s place in heavy metal history, Slayer fans):
Metallica became the band that defined the look and sound of 1980s heavy metal. Inventors of thrash metal — Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth followed — it was always Metallica who led the way, who pushed to another level, who became the last of the superstar rockers. Until now there hasn’t been a critical, authoritative, in-depth portrait of the band. Mick Wall’s thoroughly researched, insightful work is enriched by his interviews with band members, record company execs, roadies, and fellow musicians. He tells the story of how a tennis-playing, music-loving Danish immigrant named Lars Ulrich created a band with singer James Hetfield and made his dreams a reality. Enter Night follows the band through tragedy and triumph, from the bus crash that killed bassist Cliff Burton in 1986 to the 2004 documentary Some Kind of Monster, and on to their current status as the leaders of the Big Four festival that played to a million fans in Britain and Europe and continues in the U.S. in 2011.
Enter Night is the definitive word on the biggest metal band on the planet-featuring searing profiles of Ulrich and Hetfield, and exclusive interviews with key band members (past and present), record execs, roadies, and musicians. It’s the first and only in-depth book of its kind.
For more information on the book, head over to St. Martin’s Press. (Enter Night‘s available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, IndieBound, and Powell’s.
So you can noodle while you read, here are the specs for the Kirk Hammett Signature Series guitar:
• Bolt On Neck
• 25.5″ scale
• Basswood Body
• 3 Pc. Maple neck
• Rosewood finger board
• Extra Thin U Neck shape (same as Kirks)
• Skull & Bones Inlays
• 24 XJ frets
• Black Hardware
• ESP Tuners
• Floyd Rose
• EMG ESP LH-301 (B&N) p.u
• Vol / Vol / Tone / 3-way Switch
You’ll get additional info on the KH-202 at ESP.
To be eligible to win, all you have to do is be a fan of Stereogum on Facebook, and comment on this post with your favorite Metallica song after logging-in via Facebook Connect (do not use your ‘Gum user account on this post — we’ll have to be able to check if you are a fan of Stereogum on FB when the sweepstakes ends). We’ll pick a winner from the comments posted here, at random. Deadline to enter is 5/24 at 5:30PM EST. Have your comment logged by then, and you’re in.
Update: We have a winner, “Broken, Beat & Scarred” fan Andy Adelewitz. Congrats, Andy.
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“Master of Puppets”
A close second is “Creeping Death”
Enter Sandman, cause obviously.
“Enter Sandman”
Master of Puppets.
Damage, Inc.
Master of Puppets.
until it sleeps
Enter Sandman
“Master of Puppets”…!
“And Justice for All”
Wherever I May Roam…..
Master of Puppets
Disposable Heroes
Of Wolf and Man
Seek and Destroy
To Live is to Die
What can I say?
“Enter Sandman”
Enter Sandman
“One”
S&M version of For Whom the Bell Tolls
Whiplash.
‘Orion’
Blackened
“To Live is to Die”
hands down, it’s ‘Master of Puppets’!
“One”
Nothing else matters
st. anger!!!!!!
Orion!
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ronnie.
Someone will make fun of me for saying that, it’s probably the most unique song in their catalog, and it’s just really great, even though it’s a total departure from what they normally do.
“Fuel” from S&M
King Nothing.
If there can be only “One” winner, please pick me!
nice
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
“Fade To Black”
“Battery”
“until it sleeps” brought me to their music
Enter Sandman
Whiplash!
Frayed Ends of Sanity
“Trapped Under Ice” off of Ride the Lightning
One
Master Of Puppets!
Creeping Death
Frantic
MASTER OF PUPPETS!!!
Orion
hah, pretty easy to see who here arent actually metallica fans and just want a free guitar
my favorite song: “disposable heroes”, perfect start to the unfuckwithable side 2 of master of puppets, with cliff burton (R.I.P.) wailing away as if he was the lead guitarist (honestly took me a good 20 years to realize the part in question was a bass guitar!)
Nothing Else Matters!
Master of Puppets
No Leaf Clover
Hit The Lights
Disposable Heroes
Blackened!
Orion
Definitely “The Call of Ktulu”
haha, how funny – same time and everything!
Call Of Ktulu
Disposable Heroes
All Nightmare Long
So many to choose from, but I’ll pick Dyer’s Eve
Of Wolf and Man!
Hero Of The Day
Warning about this guitar: The Kirk Hammett Signature ESP guitar can not make any sound without the constant use of a Wah pedal (I have to assume).
Hit the Lights
Blackened
“My Apocalypse”
Disposable Heroes!!!
Jump in the Fire
Enter Sandman
Enter Sandman
“Welcome Home (Sanitarium)”
Orion.
One
The Four Horsemen
Fade to Black!
It may not be their song, but I love their recording of “So What.”
one!
Seek and Destroy!
Orion
Best is hands down Harvester of Sorrow ya knuckleheads.
“Broken, Beat & Scarred” — this week, anyway.
Ride the Lightning
Ride the Lightning
Ride The Lightning! |m| >_< |m|
Orion!
Enter Sandman
ENTER SANDMAN
Trapped Under Ice.
Enter Sandman
Creeping Death
Fight Fire With Fire
enter sandman
Fade to Black
phantom lord
Master of Puppets, obviously.
Enter Sandman!
Fade To Black
“one “
master of puppets