Watch: METALLICA’s KIRK HAMMETT And ROBERT TRUJILLO Signal Bottles Of ‘Blackened’ In Livermore

On December 2, METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo made a particular look at Costco in Livermore, California to autograph bottles of the band’s whiskey model, Blackened. Video and images of their look may be discovered beneath (video uploaded to YouTube by Ed Collects).

Blackened Whiskey is born from METALLICA‘s spirit of innovation, steeped in science, and honed by seasoned consultants. This award-winning whiskey is a mix of the best straight bourbon and rye whiskeys and uniquely completed and sonically enhanced in brandy casks, utilizing the Black Noise course of to extract extra taste from the wooden. The unique recipe was envisioned by Blackened’s founding grasp distiller Dave Pickerell. Blackened is now crafted and propelled onward by class disruptor and grasp distiller and blender Rob Dietrich. The result’s a magnificently balanced whiskey perfect for sipping neat, on the rocks, or loved in a traditional signature cocktail.

Pickerell died out of the blue in November 2018 in San Francisco the place he was scheduled to participate within the annual WhiskyFest occasion.

Fashioned in 1981 by vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, METALLICA has change into one of the influential and profitable rock bands in historical past, promoting practically 120 million albums worldwide and producing greater than 15 billion streams whereas taking part in to thousands and thousands of followers on all seven continents. METALLICA‘s catalog of multi-platinum studio albums contains “Kill ‘Em All”, “Journey The Lightning”, “Grasp Of Puppets”, “… And Justice For All”, “Metallica” (generally known as The Black Album),“Load”, “Reload”, “St. Anger”, “Demise Magnetic”, “Hardwired… To Self-Destruct” and the brand new “72 Seasons”, launched April 14, 2023, on the band’s personal Blackened Recordings label. METALLICA‘s awards and accolades embrace 9 Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, a number of MTV Video Music Awards, a 2009 induction into the Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame, and Sweden’s Polar Music Prize. In 2017, METALLICA established its charitable basis, All Inside My Palms, to offer again to communities which have supported the band. Thus far, All Inside My Palms and METALLICA have supplied practically $16 million in grants to profession and technical education schemes, organizations combating meals insecurity, and important native companies and catastrophe reduction efforts.