
Kirk Hammett's guitar solo on One is the defining moment of 1980s thrash metal guitar. The song builds from a clean, haunting intro into a machine-gun triplet section that mirrors the lyrics about a soldier trapped and unable to communicate — and Hammett's solo erupts from the silence with ferocious precision. The accompanying music video, Metallica's first, made the song and the solo inescapable on MTV.
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