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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Some Kind Of Monster.
Just kidding…
Creeping Death!!!
“The Four Horsemen”
Seek and Destroy!
Enter Sandman
Struggle Within
Damage Inc.
Orion! Could give a list of about 10 close seconds most coming from Master of Puppets, And Justice For All, Ride the Lightening (Creeping Death is the best Passover song ever), and Kill ‘em All
Fade To Black
King Nothing
Blackened
If I’m at a Jukebox that’s been playing pop crap all night, my go-to room-destroyer is Master of Puppets.
So Master of Puppets it is for favorite song.
Battery
Motorbreath
Orion! now gimme the guitar!
Orion !
Dyers Eve
One
Master Of Puppets
Master of Puppets. Mhmm.
“Orion” Best bass and guitar solo that I had heard ever.
Master of Puppets
Fade To Black
“The Four Horsemen” \m/ true Thrash !!! !!! !!!
Trapped Under Ice
Harvester of Sorrow
“To Live Is To Die”
Enter Sandman
Enter Sandman
enter sandman (?) though the presidents of the united states’ cover is sweeeeet
Jump In The Fire, hands down.
Whiskey In the Jar
Nothing Else Matters
Seek and Destroy
The Four Horsemen
Fuel
“The God That Failed”… slow and hard song
facebook connection error… why ?
Fixxxer
One
Blackened
ONLY ONE FAVORIT SONG ???!!!! It’s fuckin’ Impossible , beacuse of “creeping death” “ONE” “master of puppets” “welcome home (sanitarium)” “pulling teeth (anasteiżia)” “phantom lord” “no remorse” “hit the lights” ” for whom the bell tool” ..oh god !… its alooooooot of.masterpieces in metallica dicography.
ok . soo HUMAN from S&M
Nothing Else Matters
For Whom The Bell Tolls !!
Welcome home (sanitarium)
Suicide & Redemption.
One
Enter Sandman!
No Remorse
MetallicA – Of Wolf And Man (S&M)
,,Battery” !!
orion
“The Unforgiven” – the best solo!
The Unforgiven
Orion !;D
All Nightmare Long
“Fade To Black”
The God That Failed
All Nightmare Long!
My favorite song is the Epic “Fade to Black”
ORION, of course!
I’m no more immune to corporate behemoths than the next guy, but requiring people to be on retarded FB is well, fuckin retarded. At last count, thats 487 retards to be exact. Way to single out the dummies Stereogum.
As far as the Metallica book, I’d rather take off my underwear and chew on them hahahahhahahah
Fade To Black
Orion
Master Of Puppets!
ride the lightning.
For Whom the Bell Tolls.
“Hero of the Day”
Seek & Destroy rules!
Creeping Death
Fade To Black
Fade to black!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve always liked Welcome Home
So what
So What
Disposable Heroes
Ride The Lightning
Ride the Lighting!
“The Four Horsemen”
HARVESTER OF SORROW!
seek and destroy
The Unforgiven
One
Harvester of Sorrow.
BLACKENED
Frayed Ends of Sanity…Epic Hetfield riffage.
Motorbreath
Me…pick me
The Unforgiven
Master Master Master of Puppets
I would say Orion but if “song” includes singing then it’s Master of Puppets
Motorbreath
One
Fade to Black
Through The Never
So What!
Creeping Death
Bleeding Me
Blackened
The Call of Ktulu
enter sandman
Fade to black