Metallica has announced a new studio album titled 72 Seasons, set for release on April 14th. To celebrate the announcement, the group released the first single, “Lux Æterna,” as well as a world tour planned for 2023 and 2024.
72 Seasons is the band's first album since Hardwired… To Self-Destruct (2016) and will feature 12 new tracks. Production was handled by Greg Fidelman alongside frontman James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich.
In a statement released to the press, James explained the idea behind the album's name: “72 seasons. The first 18 years of our lives that shape our true or false self. The concept that our parents told us 'who we are'. A possible classification around the type of personality we are. I think the most interesting part of this is the ongoing study of these core beliefs and how they affect our perception of the world today. Much of our adult experience is reenactment or reaction to these childhood experiences. Prisoners of childhood or freeing ourselves from the shackles we carry.”
“Lux Æterna” is the band’s first song in over six years and came with a video directed by Tim Saccenti.
Metallica has also announced a two-year world tour that will feature two shows in each city. Opening acts include Pantera, Mammoth WVH, Five Finger Death Punch, Ice Nine Kills , and Architects . See the previously announced dates here.
72 Seasons is available for pre-order in various formats at the official Metallica store . Watch the video for the song “Lux Æterna” and then check out the album cover and tracklist.
Metallica: 72 Seasons
- 72 Seasons
- Shadows Follow
- Screaming Suicide
- Sleepwalk My Life Away
- You Must Burn!
- Lux Aeterna
- Crown of Barbed Wire
- Chasing Light
- If Darkness Had a Son
- Too Far Gone?
- Room of Mirrors
- Inamorata
