Hardwired… to Self‐Destruct (2016)
Hardwired… to Self‐Destruct is a 2016 hard rock album by Metallica.
Metallica's tenth studio album arrived in 2016 as a sprawling double record, the band's first in the eight years since Death Magnetic. Across two discs it swings between the thrash-forward charge of tracks like the title cut and slower, heavier grooves, with James Hetfield's bark, Lars Ulrich's drums, Kirk Hammett's solos and Robert Trujillo's low end locked into the classic four-piece attack. Producer Greg Fidelman, who engineered Death Magnetic, gives it a rawer, garage-loud sound. It marked the first release on the band's own Blackened Recordings label.
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What is Hardwired… to Self‐Destruct about?
Metallica's tenth studio album arrived in 2016 as a sprawling double record, the band's first in the eight years since Death Magnetic. Across two discs it swings between the thrash-forward charge of tracks like the title cut and slower, heavier grooves, with James Hetfield's bark, Lars Ulrich's drums, Kirk Hammett's solos and Robert Trujillo's low end locked into the classic four-piece attack. Producer Greg Fidelman, who engineered Death Magnetic, gives it a rawer, garage-loud sound. It marked the first release on the band's own Blackened Recordings label.
When was Hardwired… to Self‐Destruct released?
Hardwired… to Self‐Destruct was released in 2016.
Who made Hardwired… to Self‐Destruct?
Hardwired… to Self‐Destruct is by Metallica.
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A few thoughts on Hardwired… to Self‐Destruct
If the record's fury sends you elsewhere, the doom-fantasy carnage of the Berserk manga matches its heaviness, and Mad Max: Fury Road runs on the same octane across the desert. For interactive aggression, Brutal Legend builds a whole world out of heavy-metal iconography, and the id shooter Doom trades riffs for demon-slaying at the same tempo.
Metallica's studio run around Hardwired
Hardwired to Self-Destruct sits inside a long, uneven Metallica catalog. These albums map the stretch around it, from the raw fury of their comeback to the experiments and bruised detours that split fans, tracing how the band kept chasing their sound across decades.
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Hardwired to Self-Destruct is a late entry in a lineage Metallica helped define. These cornerstones show where that heaviness came from, the doom-forging riffs, the arena swagger, and the towering hard rock that generations of metal bands, Metallica included, grew up trying to match.