Metallica frontman James Hetfield gets tattoo made with late Motorhead star Lemmy’s ashes

The memory continues to be.

Metallica frontman James Hetfield has disclosed a new tattoo in memory of late rocker Lemmy — working with some of the Motörhead star’s ashes.

Hetfield, 60, showed off the tattoo — that includes Motörhead well known “Ace of Spades” symbol — created with “black ink combined with a pinch of his cremation ashes that ended up so graciously supplied to me.”

Fittingly, it was on the center finger of his correct hand, producing it obvious though pulling his idol’s favored pose of flipping the chook.

“So now, he is nevertheless capable to fly the bird at the entire world,” wrote the Metallica star of his “salute to my mate and inspiration Mr. Lemmy Kilmister.”

“Without him, there would be NO Metallica,” he reported of the rock pioneer, who was 70 when he died of cancer in 2016.

It was carried out by distinguished tattoo artist Corey Miller, the proprietor of 6 Feet Below in Upland, Calif. Who was highlighted in the actuality show “LA Ink,” Hetflied reported.

Motörhead turned pioneers of large metallic in the United kingdom, releasing 22 albums, including “Ace of Spades” in 1980.

“There’s no doubt that without having him, there wouldn’t be a Metallica,” Hetfield previously explained to Kerrang, The Instances of London reports.

He claimed he experienced considered Kilmister “as a statue of a person that was immortal” and following he died “it fearful me… like ‘Where’s our captain now?’”

Hetfield went on to explain Kilmister as a “godfather” to Metallica.

“When he was all around, it just felt like issues have been heading to be Alright,” he stated.

“It manufactured us really want to reside and get pleasure from anything we have and soak up every single scream from a supporter, every sweat bead that flies off of us.

“All the things we get to do… it makes us come to feel super-blessed to still be doing it,” he explained at the time.