Metallica are back with a new single, album and tour.
The album is called 72 Seasons and it'll be out April 14th. The first single and video from the album is "Lux Æterna." Watch the video on YouTube. 72 Seasons is the band's first album since 2016's Hardwired...to Self-Destruct.
The album clocks in at just over 77 minutes and will be available as one CD, two LPs and digitally. As for the title, James Hetfield says, "72 seasons. The first 18 years of our lives that form our true or false selves. The concept that we were told ‘who we are’ by our parents. A possible pigeonholing around what kind of personality we are. I think the most interesting part of this is the continued study of those core beliefs and how it affects our perception of the world today.”
The band will launch their Metallica’s M72 world tour in Amsterdam on April 27th and it will see the band playing two nights in every city it visits and doing two completely different setlists. The first North American leg starts August 3rd, 2023 in East Rutherford, New Jersey and wraps up November 12th in Detroit. The second leg starts August 2nd, 2024 in Foxborough, Massachusetts and wraps up August 30th in Seattle.
The first night of each North American show will have Pantera and Mammoth WVH opening, while second night will have Five Finger Death Punch and Ice Nine Kills. Two-day tickets will be on sale Friday with single day tickets available January 20th.
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