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Listen to Metallica’s “Hardwired” Played in Their Classic Tones
A month ago, thrash metal titans Metallica stunned everyone when they not only released a new song “Hardwired” but also announced that it was the first single to a brand new album that would be coming out November 18th via Blackened Records. Dubbed Hardwired…to Self Destruct, it will feature 12 new tracks spread across a double album.
Now that everyone has had a chance to digest “Hardwired”, a cool video has come out that takes the new single and acts as though it appeared on previous albums, from Kill ’em All through The Black Album. It’s interesting to hear the different tones and how the song would’ve genuinely fit on pretty much all of them. I even mentioned before that I felt like “Hardwired” was, “…a throwback to the almost punk thrash influences from their early releases“, so it’s cool to actually hear that in action!
Check out the video below as well as the new single so you can make your own comparisons!
AMC has announced that The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE, the standing-room-only performance celebrating AMC’s premiere of its newly-released The Vampire Lestat at New York City’s iconic Beacon Theatre last month, will debut on streaming.
The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE begins streaming on AMC+ on August 23.
Ahead of its streaming premiere, fans can preview the concert event, featuring original songs from series composer Daniel Hart and performed by Sam Reid, in Hall H at Comic Con International on July 24.
Our own Daniel Kurland attended the special event, highlighting how electric the Immortal Vampire is on stage: “It’s clear in this season of television that Reid was born to be a rock star, but it’s surreal to see him effortlessly command the stage — and the audience — at every step of the concert. He recites Shakespeare monologues and bitches out Armand between songs, all while the audience screams in support. For the duration of this concert, Reid is Lestat, and he’s given thousands of fans a memory that’s as immortal as any vampire.”
Based on Anne Rice‘s The Vampire Chronicles book series, The Vampire Lestat is the rock and roll-centric third season of AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire” created by showrunner Rolin Jones.
The Vampire Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rises, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population.
Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle star with Reid. Executive producers include Jones, Mark Johnson, Hannah Moscovitch, the late Anne Rice, and her son Christopher Rice.
The series finale airs this Sunday, July 19, on AMC and AMC+.