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Riff-god and Metallica frontman James Hetfield has revealed that he got a new tattoo done with black ink mixed with Lemmy Kilmister’s ashes.

Kilmister was the frontman for legendary metal band Motörhead and has long been hailed by Metallica as one of their biggest inspirations.

Hetfield, 60, showed off the tattoo — featuring Motörhead famous “Ace of Spades” logo — made with “black ink mixed with a pinch of his cremation ashes that were so graciously given to me.”

Fittingly, it was on the middle finger of his right hand, making it visible while pulling his idol’s favoured pose of flipping the bird.

“So now, he is still able to fly the bird at the world,” wrote Hetfield of his “salute to my friend and inspiration Mr. Lemmy Kilmister.”

 

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“Without him, there would be NO Metallica,” he said of the rock pioneer, who was 70 when he died of cancer in 2016. It was done by prominent tattoo artist Corey Miller, the owner of Six Feet Under in California, who was featured in the reality show LA Ink”, Hetflied said.

Hetfield said he had viewed Kilmister “as a statue of a man that was immortal” and after he died “it scared me… like ‘Where’s our captain now?’”

“It made us really want to live and enjoy everything we have and soak up every scream from a fan, every sweat bead that flies off of us. All the stuff we get to do… it makes us feel super-blessed to still be doing it,” he said at the time.

Metal fans will agree that Lemmy would have loved this.

[source:nypost]