This video was posted on the Mission: Metallica site, while I’m not a payed registered member to Mission: Metallica, all the videos in the studio being posted there get leaked to youtube anyways.

Kirk Hammett here is recording riffs to go behind James Hetfield’s vocals in a song Kirk and the producers are recording. While Kirk was recording a few riffs down, the producer hands Kirk a “flanger” pedal. The producer asked him to use that pedal, Kirk looks at it a few minutes, and then he hooks it up to the amp and rocks out.

After the producer played back the recorded riffs Kirk just recorded in the video, the producer asked him to make a cool effect out of that flanger. And the sound is way badass. It sounds fuckin’ metal. The way Metallica is supposed to be, not that alternative rock shit they did in “Load/Reload/St. Anger”.

Check it out!

Kev