{"id":3906,"date":"2017-09-19T16:16:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T14:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlight.rocks\/?p=3906"},"modified":"2022-06-13T16:19:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T14:19:11","slug":"metallica-mit-doppelplatin-fuer-hardwired-to-self-destruct-ausgezeichnet-umjubelter-tourstart-in-koeln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlight.rocks\/en\/metallica-mit-doppelplatin-fuer-hardwired-to-self-destruct-ausgezeichnet-umjubelter-tourstart-in-koeln\/","title":{"rendered":"Metallica awarded double platinum for \"Hardwired... To Self-Destruct\" + Acclaimed tour start in Cologne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two spectacular live shows that left no fan wishes unfulfilled, an exclusive pop-up store in Cologne and finally double platinum for the current album <strong>\"Hardwired... To Self-Destruct\" - Metallica<\/strong> celebrated an all-around perfect Germany tour kick-off! The rock icons had released their album at the end of 2016. <strong>\"Hardwired... To Self-Destruct\"<\/strong> published and directly <strong>Number 1 in the Official German Album Charts<\/strong> conquered. In addition, reached <strong>\"Hardwired... To Self-Destruct\"<\/strong> double platinum with us. The award could <strong>James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett<\/strong> and <strong>Robert Trujillo<\/strong> and then celebrated the second concert in the Lanxess Arena with their fans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\"Hardwired... To Self-Destruct\"<\/strong> is <strong>Metallica's<\/strong> eighth number one album and also got them off to a highly successful start in this country: in 2016, no other album to date has sold as many copies in Germany in the first week after release as <strong>\"Hardwired... To Self-Destruct.\"<\/strong> Worldwide, the album shot to the top of the charts, in 59 countries to No. 1 on the iTunes charts. Critics also celebrated the icons' new work: <strong>Sueddeutsche.de<\/strong> wrote <i>\"Four monsters between metal and mainstream. (...) Now the band has released their best album in more than 20 years.\"<\/i> and <strong>Loud.de<\/strong> summarized <i>\"We are Metallica. We're here, we're loud, we're not going away.\" <\/i>during the<strong> STAR<\/strong> cheered: <i>\"The album proves why the band is so unique.\"<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Metallica<\/strong> Germany tour continues in 2018, with six more shows on the schedule:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Press release: Universal Music Group<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two spectacular live shows that left no fan wishes unfulfilled, an exclusive pop-up store in Cologne and finally double platinum for the current album \"Hardwired... To Self-Destruct\" - Metallica celebrated an all-around perfect...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,264],"tags":[273,426,272],"class_list":["post-3906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metallica","category-news","tag-metal","tag-metallica","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlight.rocks\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlight.rocks\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlight.rocks\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlight.rocks\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlight.rocks\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/starlight.rocks\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3908,"href":"https:\/\/starlight.rocks\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions\/3908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlight.rocks\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlight.rocks\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlight.rocks\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlight.rocks\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}