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Metallica<\/a><\/strong> began working with producer Greg Fidelman<\/strong> in 2008 on their record Death Magnetic<\/em>. Metallica<\/a><\/strong> and Fidelman<\/strong> would follow that up with the oft-maligned Lou Reed<\/strong> collaboration Lulu<\/em> in 2011, which still draws very divisive opinions to this day. Though Fidelman<\/strong> credits the Lulu<\/em> sessions for giving us arguably one of the best modern Metallica<\/a><\/strong> tracks, “Hardwired” from Hardwired\u2026 to Self-Destruct<\/em>.<\/p>\n In an interview with The Metallica Report<\/em>, Fidelman<\/strong> said he and Metallica<\/a><\/strong> built trust in one another throughout the Lulu<\/em> sessions. That trust culminated in the song “Hardwired”, which Lars Ulrich<\/strong> noted in an interview with The Howard Stern Show<\/em> was written and recorded in roughly one week \u2013 hardly the usual timeframe Metallica<\/a><\/strong> takes to write a song. <\/p>\n “The Lou Reed<\/strong> project installed some confidence in them towards me, that for sure happened,” said Fidelman<\/strong>. “I don’t know that the Hardwired<\/em> project would have happened the way it did if they didn’t have that confidence that they built during the Lulu<\/em> record.<\/p>\n “So, as we get towards the end of the Hardwired<\/em> thing, we’re gonna record [the title track]. Their confidence in me solidified, well before that probably. We don’t even need to talk about it anymore. That’s, I suppose, the key to the confidence thing \u2014 there’s a lot of conversations you don’t need to have, because there’s not a lot of questions, right? You just know. ‘Yeah, Greg<\/strong> thinks we could do this. I think we could do this. What else is there?’ As far as they’re concerned, what else is there? So, it definitely helped.”<\/p>\n \n