Metallica Announces Release Date For Its Next Album; Unveils New Video

Courtesy: Blackened Records

Raise your horns, metal nation!  Metallica has made it official.  It will release its new album this fall.

Hardwired…To Self Destruct will be released Friday, November 18^th via the band’s own label, Blackened Records.  The album will be available in separate 2CD and 2 vinyl platform.  Pre-orders for the album are available now here.  It can be pre-ordered on CD, vinyl, digital platforms and two separate deluxe packages.  The album, the band’s eleventh full-length studio offering, was produced by Greg Fidelman, who also helmed the band’s most recent album 2013’s Death Magnetic.  The complete track listing for Hardwired…To Self Destruct is noted below.

 

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)

In anticipation of the album’s upcoming release the band unveiled the video for the album’s lead single and title track. Audiences can see the video online now here.  Listener discretion is advised as there is some explicit language used in the song.  The band also has a performance planned for this Sunday at U.S. Bank Stadium, the new home of the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings.  The performance will be the stadium’s first rock concert.  Tickets for the concert sold out in only ten minutes.  Those not lucky enough to get tickets for the show will still get to see it live online via Pandora beginning at 10pm EST here.  Fans outside the United States can livestream the concert online here.

More information on Hardwired…To Self Destruct is available online with all of Metallica’s latest news and more online now at:

 

 

 

Website: http://www.metallica.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Metallica

Twitter: http://twitter.com/metallica

 

 

 

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Giants Host Vikings October 21st On MNF

Courtesy: ESPN

Week seven of the 2013 NFL regular season has officially kicked off.  The Arizona Cardinals will host the Seattle Seahawks tonight at University of Phoenix Stadium.  While the week kicks off tonight, all eyes will be on the week’s closing match Monday night.  This week on ESPN’s Monday Night Football features a matchup of two NFC teams. The currently winless New York Giants (0 – 6) will host the equally struggling Minnesota Vikings (1 – 4).  Both teams currently sit at the bottom of their divisions.

Mike Tirico will have the call Monday night.  He will be joined by analyst Jon Gruden.  Lisa Salters will have all of the game’s latest news from the sidelines.  Monday’s 8:25pm ET kickoff will be preceded by ESPN’s weekly pre-game show, Monday Night Countdown.  Suzy Kolber will host the pre-game broadcast.  She will be joined by analysts and NFL veterans Trent Dilfer, Ray Lewis, and Steve Young.  The Monday Night Football crew will also be on hand along with contributor Rick Reilly.  Chris Berman will join the broadcast live from ESPN’s studios in Bristol, Connecticut along with analysts Cris Carter, Mike Ditka, Tom Jackson and Keyshawn Johnson and NFL insiders Chris Mortensen and Adam Schefter.

More information on Monday’s broadcasts and all things Monday Night Football is available online at http://www.facebook.com/MNF and http://espn.go.com/mnf.  To keep up with the latest sports and entertainment news and reviews, go online to http://www.facebook.com/philspicks and “Like” it.  Fans can always keep up with the latest sports and entertainment news and reviews in the Phil’s Picks blog at https://philspicks.wordpress.com.