The guitarist for this legendary American band recently admitted that he almost retired to pursue a solo career.
hammet he was going to leave the group after the release of his album St anger of the 2003, due to the enormous tension that existed during the recording sessions of the same.
"The truth is that I was ready to work on a new album on my own. I had a lot of material that I was finishing in those days and I was thinking of asking Lars to play drums on some of the songs."He said Kirk.
Fortunately this did not happen and we can currently have them back with the imposing Death magnetic, which is having great sales success.
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