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Hardwired… to Self-Destruct

2016 studio album by Metallica
Music Album Album Q24034571

Facts

14 properties
Instance of
album
Performer
Metallica[4]
Genre
heavy metal music[2]
Language of work or name
English[8]
Publication date
November 18, 2016[13]
Official website
www.metallica.com[14]
Producer
Greg Fidelman[3]
Part of
Metallica's albums in chronological order, Metallica studio albums discography[6][7]
Duration
+4646[16]
Charted in
Top Albums France[17]
Distribution format
compact disc, LP record, music download, music streaming[9][10][11][12]
Form of creative work
studio album[18]
Record label
Blackened Recordings[5]
Title
Hardwired… to Self-Destruct[15]
🏷️ Also known as
en Hardwired… to Self-Destruct en Hardwired…to Self-Destruct de Hardwired… to Self-Destruct fa متصل... به خودتخریبی he Hardwired...to Self-Destruct id Hardwired... to Self-Destruct ja ハードワイアード…トゥ・セルフディストラクト nl Hardwired... to Self-Destruct pt Hardwired…to Self-Destruct zh 鐵血硬漢
🔖 Identifiers · 21
Acclaimed Music album ID
5773
Album of the Year album ID
60102
AllMusic album ID
mw0002977037
AnyDecentMusic album ID
8387
Apple Music album ID
1145497823
Deezer album ID
14581288
Discogs master ID
1083868
Encyclopaedia Metallum release ID
599351
Genius album ID
Metallica/Hardwired-to-self-destruct
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/11c1n6n4j5
Last.fm ID
Metallica/Hardwired…To+Self-Destruct
Metacritic ID
music/hardwiredto-self-destruct/metallica
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MusicBrainz release group ID
55d8ab42-990b-4c94-93c8-9ca7927b5fc0
Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID
312160
Qobuz album ID
nom6vr1e4avpb
Rate Your Music release ID
album/metallica/hardwired_to-self-destruct
Spotify album ID
4kizef5du9TgAGfNhWbKmt
Stats.fm album ID
114950
TV Tropes ID
Music/HardwiredToSelfDestruct
Tidal album ID
166787393
YouTube playlist ID
OLAK5uy_kSExSWD7EMYCgDWtx5l1FUhsyQGNHMG2M

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🔗 Connections
Has these parts 5
Hardwired, Moth into Flame, Atlas, Rise!, Spit Out the Bone, Now That We're Dead
Distribution format 4
compact disc, LP record, music download, music streaming
Form of creative work 1
studio album
Genre 1
heavy metal music
Instance of 1
album
Language of work or name 1
English
Performer 1
Metallica
Preceded by (successor) 1
Quebec Magnetic
Record label 1
Blackened Recordings
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Metallica
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Summary

Hardwired… to Self-Destruct is an album[1].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Album[19]

  • First release date: 2016-11-08[20]

  • Genre(s): hard rock, heavy metal, metal, rock, thrash metal[21]

  • Community tags: 10s, energetic, hard rock, heavy, heavy metal, metal, rock, thrash metal[22]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 55d8ab42-990b-4c94-93c8-9ca7927b5fc0[23]

Related Entities

Blackened Recordings compact disc Metallica

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [22] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [23] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9w ago · Trivialist · 2026-09-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    TV Tropes ID → Music/HardwiredToSelfDestruct
    "Created claim: TV Tropes ID: Music/HardwiredToSelfDestruct"
  2. 17w ago · Duffseb · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Charted in → Top Albums France
    Instance of → album
    Language of work or name → English
    Duration → 4,646
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim: Part of: Metallica studio albums discography"
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