You can’t rush perfection, but you can hurry it up, as evidenced by these\u00a011 rock and metal albums recorded in less than one week.<\/p>\n
Making an album can sometimes take ages: we’re talking months and months of recording, enlisting the right musicians, setting up the studio, nailing down arrangements, narrowing down song selections and so forth.<\/p>\n
But albums can also seemingly happen overnight, with no long, drawn-out process taking place at all. Those are the\u00a0kind of albums we’ve highlighted below, each of which was recorded in less than one\u00a0week, listed from longest to shortest.<\/p>\n
Black Sabbath<\/a> famously tracked their legendary self-titled debut in half a day, but there’s one artist here who took just a quarter of that amount of time. Imagine walking into a studio and, just a couple of hours later, your entire new record is ready for the next phase before getting released?<\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong>The Best Hard Rock Album of Each Year Since 1970<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n To be clear: we’re speaking about the recording process here. There are a number of other steps that go into crafting an album that aren’t included \u2014 the mixing, mastering, etc. Here, we’re focusing only on the actual act of recording an album of songs in a studio.<\/p>\n 11 Big Rock + Metal Albums That Were Recorded in Less Than One Week<\/p>\n Recording an album can be a laborious, meticulous process. Some artists, however, have made very quick work of tracking a new record. One was even recorded in just three hours!<\/p>\n Gallery Credit: Allison Rapp<\/a><\/p>\n Below, see the best hard rock song of each year since 1970:<\/p>\n Best Rock Song of Each Year Since 1970<\/p>\n Rock will always continue to roll.<\/p>\n Gallery Credit: Chad Childers, Loudwire<\/a><\/p>\n