Some times when a band has so much material to release, the only option is to go the double album route. Such is the case for Metallica with their upcoming release Hardwired...To Self Destruct. This of course is costing the band extra money - 10 cents per copy. According to front man James Hetfield however, they do not mind biting the bullet and paying the price.
The album will arrive on November 18th in double CD and vinyl format, though the deluxe version of the CD will have a third disc. In an interview with SixxSense Hetfield talks about the length of the album, the fact that it's in double format, and the cost, saying:
“There’s some long stuff on there, and there’s some short stuff and some medium stuff. Metallica gets diverse, and we love that. I think maximum is 75 or 80 minutes, and then the sound quality starts to suffer, on vinyl especially.
I think CD-wise, there’s a max on that too. We want it to sound good – at the end of the day we’ve got a bunch of songs that we love. So that’s what has to happen. For the extra dime it costs to make it a double, we think it’s very worth it.”
I think if Metallica can make the money back from the ten cent cost per album then it's a wise move on their part. They are a big enough name in metal and rock that they could feasibly do it (unless of course a bunch of pirates steal the album). Otherwise it might have been wiser for them to go the Guns N' Roses route and just release two albums on the same day that aren't packaged together. Whatever happens happens, though.
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