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'''''Hardwired... to Self-Destruct''''' is the tenth studio album by American [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]] band [[Metallica]], released as a [[double album]] on November 18, 2016, by itsthe band's record label Blackened Recordings. It was Metallica's first studio album in eight years following ''[[Death Magnetic]]'' (2008), marking the longest gap between studio albums in the band's career, and its first studio album released through Blackened. The album was produced by [[Greg Fidelman]], who engineered and mixed ''Death Magnetic''.

''Hardwired... to Self-Destruct'' was Metallica's sixth consecutive studio album to debut at number one on the U.S. [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]], selling 291,000 [[album-equivalent unit]]s in its first week, and topping the charts in 57 countries. The number one ranking marked only the second time in the chart's history that any band had six consecutive albums debut at number one, following [[Dave Matthews Band]]. ''Hardwired... to Self-Destruct'' received generally positive reviews from critics, and in 2020, Metallica drummer [[Lars Ulrich]] ranked the album as the band's best.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Elliott |first1=Paul |title=The Soundtrack Of My Life: Lars Ulrich |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-soundtrack-of-my-life-lars-ulrich |website=Louder Sound |date=November 10, 2020 |access-date=12 November 2020 |archive-date=February 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224205606/https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-soundtrack-of-my-life-lars-ulrich |url-status=live }}</ref>