We are 1 month and 1 day away from the release of Metallica’s new album, Hardwired…To Self-Destruct, an album we’ve been waiting 8 years for, but did you know we were supposed to have a Metallica video game to tide us over?

About a decade ago, the now defunct “Black Rock Studio” was in the production stages of it, and even made a teaser trailer, but for one reason or another, it got scrapped. But thank god for savvy tech people, because PtoPOnline recently managed to get a hold of a very early build of the game, and released the footage for us to see what could have been.