Hardwired...To Self-Destruct

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ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2016 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved December 3, 2017.

Decade-End Charts: Billboard 200". Billboard. Archived from the original on September 30, 2020 . Retrieved January 31, 2022.Anuario Sgae De Las Artes Escénicas, Musicales Y Audiovisuales 2017 – Música Grabada" (PDF) (in Spanish). p.28. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 24, 2017 . Retrieved February 28, 2021. Metallica to Hit the Studio in 2014: 'We'll Run Out of Excuses for Not Doing It by Then' ". Ultimate Guitar. Archived from the original on April 3, 2019 . Retrieved April 25, 2016. Austrian album certifications – Metallica – Hardwired... to Self-Destruct" (in German). IFPI Austria . Retrieved December 5, 2017. Here's the list of Revolver Music Awards winners". Metalinsider.net. December 14, 2016. Archived from the original on January 24, 2018 . Retrieved January 24, 2018. Metallica (September 15, 2016). "Hardwired...To Self-Destruct is Finished!". Metallica.com. Archived from the original on October 27, 2016 . Retrieved September 16, 2016.

Jaaroverzichten – Album 2016" (in Dutch). dutchcharts.nl. Archived from the original on December 23, 2016 . Retrieved December 26, 2016. Everything sounds really great on this pressing. The clarity is actually better than I expected it to be. That said I have some issues with it. I question the overall decision that was made to make this album sound tightly pressed together. The sound stage while powerful is not large at all, in fact it’s one of the smallest I’ve heard on a vinyl pressing. The stereo field is just not used to any sort of effect worthy of note either. Now, I fully believe this was done on purpose to give it a tight, clean thrash sound. The gates on even the drums are turned way up, to make all of the sounds concise and only immediate. There’s no kind of resonance on this release at all. Again, I believe this to be an intentional choice by the band themselves. I just think far more could have been done with the use of space that would have really made it sound like an unstoppable force, rather than a razor slicing through the air. That room has a very high, curved ceiling, starting at around 15 feet heigh at the walls and in places reaching as high as 30 feet. The drum area is soft-carpeted, and the other half of the room has concrete walls and floors, and is usually draped off. Mike, Sarah, their drum tech and I spent a lot of time figuring out how to get the best drum room sound. We opened the drapes to get more reflections and came up with some cool room microphone configurations in that faraway part of the room, which gave a nice length on the snare and other instruments. We also put plywood behind the drums and over the carpet around the drums to make them sound even livelier. The guitar and bass cabinets were all placed in the other room, as well as a vocal booth, and the two rooms are connected with a glass sliding door, which we sometimes opened to use the room mics that we had placed in the main room.” Off The Floor Metal Storm". www.metalstorm.net. Archived from the original on April 11, 2018 . Retrieved April 10, 2018.Lescharts.ch – Metallica – Hardwired... to Self-Destruct" (in French). Hung Medien. Archived from the original on December 5, 2021 . Retrieved December 5, 2021. Oficjalna lista sprzedaży:: OLiS - Official Retail Sales Chart". OLiS. Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. Retrieved December 1, 2016.

Italiancharts.com – Metallica – Hardwired... to Self-Destruct". Hung Medien. Retrieved November 26, 2016.

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Horsley, Jonathan (December 19, 2019). "The 20 best guitar albums of the decade". Guitar World. Archived from the original on March 2, 2022 . Retrieved March 1, 2022.