Metallica to release new album Hardwired...To Self-Destruct in November

Metallica say they're releasing their first new studio album in eight years.

The band have announced that the follow-up to 2008's Death Magnetic, Hardwired...To Self-Destruct, will be released on 18 November.

In a statement on their website, the group said their 11th studio album had been "a long time coming".

The album will contain two discs and runs to nearly 80 minutes. The video for the album's first track, Hardwired, has also been released.

Watch Metallica's video for Hardwired.

There's also a deluxe version of the new album available on CD and vinyl only, which contains an extra 14 tracks including Lords of Summer, Sawblade and Frankenstein.

It's been produced by Greg Fidelman.

This is the longest period fans have had to wait for a new Metallica album since the group formed in 1981.

The band's line-up is made up of singer and guitarist James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo.

Metallica's Lars Ulrich said: "Has it really been eight years? Doesn't feel like it. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

"We're obviously beyond psyched to share new tunes with all our friends out there.

"We've been rockin' along in the studio with Greg on and off for the last 18 months firing up the creative engines again.

"Putting new music out there, getting in your faces once again and all that comes with it is what we love to do more than anything else, so strap yourselves in… incoming."

The band headlined Reading and Leeds Festival last year after topping the bill at Glastonbury in 2014.

Metallica have sold more than 100 million albums worldwide and have won eight Grammy Awards.

The tracklisting for the album is as follows:

Disc one

1. Hardwired

2. Atlas, Rise!

3. Now That We're Dead

4. Moth Into Flame

5. Am I Savage?

6. Halo On Fire

Disc two

7. Confusion

8. Dream No More

9. ManUNkind

10. Here Comes Revenge

11. Murder One

12. Spit Out The Bone

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