The final Metallica studio album, and the final episode of our Metallica discography block. Episode 23 covers the 2016 album "Hardwired… to Self‐Destruct" by the Bay Area trash/heavy metal band Metallica. Mark, Kevin, Alex, and Chris take you on a historical journey surrounding the album as well as share our favorites and not-so favorites from the album. We go on a deep dive track-by-track listen of this album as well as share personal stories of discovering Metallica's "Hardwired… to Self‐Destruct", the GREAT production (finally), a secret Metallica/Paul Stanley collaboration, seeing Metallica on the "Hardwired" tour, etc.