Tomorrow Friday it's time, after 8 years the wait is over. Metallica release their new studio album Hardwired...To Self-Destruct. The «Four Horsemen» just sound too smooth for me these days. Smooth, you could say, and “Hardwired…To Self-Destruct” also sounds like a smoothie. A retrospective of her career. Two or three songs rip properly, but the album doesn't really have anything to do with Thrash. You're trying to please everyone (once again) and somehow you've heard everything from the guys before - only earlier and better! But it's best to get an idea for yourself, because nobody has to wait until Friday to hear all the songs. The guys from Metallica have produced their own video for each song.
The countdown clock is ticking and with less than 48 hours to go to Hardwired… To Self-Destruct (depending where you live, of course) we thought it might be fun to give you a steady diet of visual teasers before the clock strikes midnight on November 18th! As you may have read here and there, we got just a little ambitious and worked with some incredible imaginative, innovative, directors to create not just the three videos you've already seen, but went all the way with one video for EACH song on the album (including bonus track “Lords of Summer”)!
We can't wait any longer to share the songs and their videos with you, so we're going to roll them out one by one every two hours here on metallica.com simultaneously with some of our online press partners throughout the world starting today at 9:00 AM PST. New songs and their videos will premiere right up to when the clock turns over at midnight in New Zealand, where we're pretty sure the first official copy of the album will be available worldwide! The clips were created in several different locations around the globe as we collaborated with some old friends along with many new rising stars and will give you a chance to hear the album just a tad bit early.
Directors for the videos include: Jonas Åkerlund, who originally worked with us on “Turn The Page,” and “Whiskey In The Jar,” album package photographers Herring and Herring, Colin Hakes, Clark Eddy, Tom Kirk, Claire Marie Vogel, Jessica Cope, Rob Valley, Phil Mucci, and our very own videographer Brett Murray. The forthcoming clips follow in the footsteps of the three previously released videos for "Hardwired," "Moth Into Flame," and "Atlas, Rise!" See below for a complete schedule of when and where each video will be debuted, along with who directed each video.
Disk 1:
Disk 2:
Bonus Disc (deluxe edition:
CD 1 tracklist:
- Hardwired
- Atlas, Rise!
- Now That We're Dead
- Moth Into Flame
- Dream No More
- Halo on Fire
CD 2 tracklist:
- Confusion
- ManUNkind
- Here comes revenge
- Am I Savage?
- Murder One
- Spit out the bone
CD 3 tracklist:
- Lords of Summer
- Ronnie Rising Medley (A Light In The Black / Tarot Woman / Stargazer / Kill The King)
- When A Blind Man Cries
- remember tomorrow
- Helpless (Live)
- Hit The Lights (Live)
- The Four Horsemen (Live)
- Ride The Lightning (Live)
- Fade To Black (Live)
- Jump In The Fire (Live)
- For Whom The Bell Tolls (Live)
- Creeping Death (Live)
- Metal Militia (Live)
- Hardwired (live)