Metallica will be part of the final Black Sabbath show which will happen next July in Birmingham, England. All the members of the American Thrash Metal band are huge fans of them and the band’s guitarist Kirk Hammett explained in an interview with Consequence how the Metal group changed his life.
Kirk Hammett talks about how Black Sabbath changed his life
“It’s a real opportunity to say thank you to Ozzy and Tony (Iommi) and Geezer (Butler) and Bill (Ward), ’cause they fricking wrote the book on the genre. They developed it, they fleshed it out so that we can use what they did as a stepping stone to other ways to do this. If it wasn’t for those four guys, man, we might still be just kind of like wandering around in the dark. But the fact that they created a genre — not only created it, but then developed it.”
“Then turned it into like a few different things over the course of their career — is completely awe inspiring to me and my peers musically. I mean, how do you thank someone like that? I feel lucky and blessed that I’m in a situation where I can actually say thank you to the progenitors of a fricking genre. I love those guys. I have love for them for what they did. And I just want them to know that I’m just extremely thankful, ’cause my life would be extremely different if they didn’t do what they did,” Kirk Hammett said.
As the musician explained, Black Sabbath created Heavy Metal music with the release of their groundbreaking studio album “Black Sabbath” (1970). Metallica had the chance to pay tribute to the group when they recorded a version for “Sabbra Cadabra” and also when James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich inducted Sabbath into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame back in 2006.
