METALLICA’S HARDWIRED…TO
SELF-DESTRUCT OUT TODAY ON BLACKENED RECORDINGS
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - NOVEMBER 18, 2016
– Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees and Grammy® Award winning band
Metallica’s 10th studio album, Hardwired…To Self-Destruct is
available in stores and at all digital retailers today via the band’s own
Blackened Recordings in various configurations including: CD, Vinyl, Digital,
Deluxe, and Deluxe Deluxe Versions available at www.metallica.com. Hardwired…To
Self-Destruct, a 2 CD / 2 Vinyl set, is the first studio album since 2008's
multi-platinum Death Magnetic. Greg Fidelman, who engineered
and mixed Death Magnetic, produced the album.
Praise for Hardwired…To Self-Destruct includes The
New York Times: “Metallica has embraced its adulthood, reclaiming the
attack of its music while jettisoning the image of a hard-rock band as young,
fast and out of control”, Rolling Stone: “Metallica’s ‘Hardwired’ shreds
back to vintage eighties terror”, LA Times: “Metallica keeps evolving”, Decibel:
“Metallica
balances legacy, longevity, and longitude with Hardwired...To Self-Destruct”,
Kerrang!: “This is Metallica galvanized, refreshed, refocused and
rediscovering themselves. Best thing they've done since The Black album? Yep”, The
Guardian: “Metallica have just made their
finest record in 25 years,” NME: “Metallica remain both vital and
innovative”, and much more.
To celebrate the release of Hardwired…To Self-Destruct,
Metallica will perform live tonight at the very intimate House of Vans in
London for Fifth Members and lucky winners. The band performs at 9:00 PM GMT
and fans can take part in the festivities by visiting www.metallica.com or YouTube to
stream the performance live. The show will be available on demand in its
entirety for one week following the show.
In an unprecedented move for Metallica,
this past Wednesday the band released music videos for each song on the new
album via www.metallica.com and simultaneously
with editorial partners around the world for every two hours. New songs
and their corresponding videos premiered right up to when the clock turned over
at midnight in New Zealand, where the first official copy of the new album
became available worldwide. Directors for the videos included: Jonas
Åkerlund, who originally worked with the band on "Turn The Page" and
"Whiskey In The Jar," album package photographers Herring and
Herring, Colin Hakes ("Hardwired"), Clark Eddy ("Atlas
Rise," and countless "Making of . . ." clips), Tom Kirk
("Moth Into Flame"), Claire Marie Vogel, Jessica Cope, Rob Valley,
Phil Mucci, and Metallica's very own videographer Brett Murray. To watch the
music videos, visit www.metallica.com.
Almost 100 independent record stores around
the world opened stayed open through out the night and into the morning selling
Hardwired…To Self-Destruct LPs and CDs as part of Blackened Friday.
Stores are stocked with music, prizes, and exclusive items to be given away
free with purchase. For a complete list of participating stores, click HERE. All items are available while supplies
last.
Metallica recently joined Jimmy Fallon and
The Roots for a rendition of the band's song "Enter Sandman" as part
of the popular segment 'Classroom Instruments' on the Tonight Show Starring
Jimmy Fallon on NBC. Watch the clip now HERE.
TRACKLISTING
Regular Album (on CD, Vinyl and Digital
formats):
Disc One
1. Hardwired
2. Atlas, Rise!
3. Now That We're Dead
4. Moth Into Flame
5. Am I Savage?
6. Halo On Fire
Disc Two
1. Confusion
2. Dream No More
3. ManUNkind
4. Here Comes Revenge
5. Murder One
6. Spit Out The Bone
Deluxe Version (On CD & Vinyl only):
Disc One
1. Hardwired
2. Atlas, Rise!
3. Now That We're Dead
4. Moth Into Flame
5. Am I Savage?
6. Halo On Fire
Disc Two
1. Confusion
2. Dream No More
3. ManUNkind
4. Here Comes Revenge
5. Murder One
6. Spit Out The Bone
Disc Three
1. Lords Of Summer
2. Riff Charge (Riff Origins)
3. N.W.O.B.H.M. A.T.M. (Riff Origins)
4. Tin Shot (Riff Origins)
5. Plow (Riff Origins)
6. Sawblade (Riff Origins)
7. RIP (Riff Origins)
8. Lima (Riff Origins)
9. 91 (Riff Origins)
10. MTO (Riff Origins)
11. RL72 (Riff Origins)
12. Frankenstein (Riff Origins)
13. CHI (Riff Origins)
14. X Dust (Riff Origins)
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ABOUT METALLICA
Metallica
formed in 1981 by drummer Lars Ulrich and guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield
and has become one of the most influential and commercially successful rock
bands in history, having sold 110 million albums worldwide while playing to
millions of fans on literally all seven continents. They have scored several
multi-platinum albums, including 1991's Metallica (commonly referred to
as The Black Album), with sales of nearly 17 million copies in the United
States alone, making it the best-selling album in the history of Soundscan.
Metallica has also garnered numerous awards and accolades, including nine
Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, and multiple MTV Video Music Awards,
and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in 2009.
In December 2013, Metallica made history when they performed a rare concert in
Antarctica, becoming the first act to ever play all seven continents all within
a year, and earning themselves a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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