Metallica - Hardwired...To Self-Destruct

Eight years is a long time to wait. When Metallica finally returned in 2016 with their eleventh studio album, Hardwired...To Self-Destruct, they made it worth every bit of it. The Grammy Award winning Rock and Roll Hall of Famers' first new material since the multi-platinum Death Magnetic, the album was once again helmed by producer Greg Fidelman, who engineered and mixed that record and brings the same powerful, precision-tuned sound to this one.

Spread across two records and clocking in with enough material to justify every minute, Hardwired...To Self-Destruct finds the band doing what they have always done better than almost anyone, delivering crushing riffs, relentless energy, and songwriting with genuine weight behind it. No reinvention, no apology, just Metallica at full force.

That force has always been considerable. Formed in 1981 by Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield, the band has sold 110 million albums worldwide, performed on all seven continents, and built a catalog that includes some of the best-selling and most influential rock records ever made. Chief among them is 1991's The Black Album, which has moved nearly 17 million copies in the US alone, making it the best-selling album in Soundscan history.

Pressed on double 180gm vinyl and including a digital download, this is the definitive way to own one of the decade's most anticipated rock records.