Metallica announce new LP ’72 Seasons’, plan two-year world tour

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Metallica will make a spectacular return to the stage next year to support their 12th studio album: 72 seasons.

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The 12-track album, due out in April, will be Metallica’s first full-length collection of new material since 2016. Hardwired… self-destruct And they’re two years old M72 World Tour It takes the quartet to Europe, America, Canada, South America and Mexico. The band will play two nights in each city, with different setlists for both shows, in what the band calls “No Repeat Weekend.”

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In keeping with the news, the band dropped the propulsive first single from the album. Lux AternaOther song titles are barbed wire crown, sleepwalk my life away, you must burn! When If darkness had a son.

Regarding the concept of the album title, frontman James Hetfield said the songs were inspired by the band’s early life.

“Seventy-two seasons. The first 18 years of life that form who you really are or what you don’t. The notion that your parents taught you who you are.” A possible pigeonhole for what kind of personality we are. I think the most interesting part of this is the continued research into these core beliefs and how they affect our perception of the world today,” Hetfield wrote. “Many of our adult experiences are reenactments or reactions to these childhood experiences. Prisoners of childhood, or liberation from the shackles we hold.”

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The band, also made up of Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo, will play a different opening act on both nights of the ’50 Yard Line’ round.

in Canada, M72 Tour It will land at Olympic Stadium in Montreal on August 11 and 13, 2023 and at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton on August 23 and 25, 2024.

Metallica have continued to tour since their release, Hardwired… self-destructthe band brought in new fans when the 1986 song Master of Puppet Featured in Netflix’s season 4 finale stranger things.

“How the Duffer Brothers Incorporated Music stranger things It’s always been next-level, so we were very excited to not only include ‘Master of Puppets’ in the show, but to build such an important scene around it.” Bandshard on Instagram. “We were all thrilled to see the final result. We were completely blown away when we saw it.”

For M72 tour ticket information, visit Metallica.com.

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