Take a tour around Kirk Hammett’s horror exhibition

By Scott Munro
( Metal Hammer )
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Kirk Hammett’s It’s Alive! Classic Horror And Sci-Fi Art Exhibition opens its doors in Toronto - take a peek at what the Metallica guitarist has in store

Kirk Hammett’s horror exhibition has opened its doors at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum.

It’s Alive! Classic Horror And Sci-Fi Art will run in the city through January 5, 2020, and features a wealth of vintage posters, memorabilia and customised instruments that the Metallica guitarist has collected over the past 30 years. 

The Toronto Sun (opens in new tab) have shared a video showing some of the items on display, which also includes an excerpt from Maiden And The Monster – an instrumental piece Hammett recorded with Lani Hammett especially for the exhibition.

And, for those who can’t get to the the city, the Royal Ontario Museum (opens in new tab) have also released the audio files from the tour, which can be listened to below.

Tomorrow (July 26) Hammett will appear at Cosmo Music in Richmond Hill with his Metallica bandmate Robert Trujillo, along with Ugly Kid Joe frontman Whitfield Cane and drummer Joey Castillo in their cover group The Wedding Band.

Metallica will return to the road across Europe next month (opens in new tab) on the latest leg of their WorldWired tour. They’ll head back to the US in September for two shows with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their landmark S&M live album.

Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.