Which album has the re-recorded version of Lords of Summer and holds the record for having longest gap between its previous album?
Hardwired... to Self-Destruct Hardwired... to Self-Destruct is the tenth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released as a double album on November 18, 2016 by their vanity label Blackened Recordings. It is their first studio album in eight years following "Death Magnetic" (2008), marking the longest gap between two studio albums in the band's career. It is also their first studio album not to feature songwriting credits from lead guitarist Kirk Hammett since he joined the band in 1983, and their first studio album released through Blackened. "Hardwired... to Self-Destruct" was produced by Greg Fidelman, who engineered and mixed "Death Magnetic". The album was Metallica's sixth consecutive studio album to debut at number one on the US "Billboard" 200, selling 291,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, and topping the charts in 57 countries. Having this album number one marked the second time in history that any band of any genre, along with Dave Matthews Band, would have six consecutive albums debut at number one. The album has sold over three million copies worldwide, and critical reception of the album was mostly positive.
First of the Big Bands First of the Big Bands is a studio album by Tony Ashton of Ashton, Gardner and Dyke and Jon Lord of Deep Purple, released in April 1974 by Purple Records in the UK and Europe and Warner Bros. Records in the US. The project was Ashton's and Lord's brainchild and continuation of their working relationship after Ashton Gardner & Dyke helped out on Jon Lord's soundtrack album "The Last Rebel" from 1971. Stylistically, "First of the Big Bands" was the precursor to Paice Ashton Lord's "Malice in Wonderland" album from 1977. Most of the album was recorded at Air and Apple Studios, London, with additional work being completed at De Lane Lea and Island.