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METALLICA has confirmed the rubric and merchandise day of its forthcoming 12th workplace album: "72 Seasons" volition beryllium disposable April 14, 2023 via the band's ain Blackened Recordings. Produced by Greg Fidelman with METALLICA's James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, and clocking successful astatine implicit 77 minutes, the 12-track "72 Seasons" is METALLICA's archetypal afloat magnitude postulation of caller worldly since 2016's "Hardwired…To Self-Destruct". The medium volition beryllium released successful formats including 2LP 140g achromatic vinyl and limited-edition variants, CD and digital.
"72 Seasons" is heralded by archetypal azygous "Lux Æterna", a short, crisp blast that distills 40 years of METALLICA into 3 and a fractional minutes. "Lux Æterna" is disposable present to watercourse and download, and arsenic an instant-grat way with each pre-orders of "72 Seasons". The "Lux Æterna" video, directed by Tim Saccenti, tin beryllium seen below.
Says METALLICA astir the clip: "We precocious traveled to Los Angeles to seizure our show utilizing immoderate brainsick cutting-edge technology."
Speaking connected the conception of the medium title, Hetfield says: "72 seasons. The archetypal 18 years of our lives that signifier our existent oregon mendacious selves. The conception that we were told 'who we are' by our parents. A imaginable pigeonholing astir what benignant of property we are. I deliberation the astir absorbing portion of this is the continued survey of those halfway beliefs and however it affects our cognition of the satellite today. Much of our big acquisition is reenactment oregon absorption to these puerility experiences. Prisoners of puerility oregon breaking escaped of those bondages we carry."
The implicit way listing for "72 Seasons" is:
01. 72 Seasons
02. Shadows Follow
03. Screaming Suicide
04. Sleepwalk My Life Away
05. You Must Burn!
06. Lux Æterna
07. Crown Of Barbed Wire
08. Chasing Light
09. If Darkness Had A Son
10. Too Far Gone?
11. Room Of Mirrors
12. Inamorata
Says METALLICA: "The medium bundle was erstwhile again conceived and creation directed by our bully friend, acclaimed decorator David Turner and his team. David, who won a Grammy for his enactment connected 'Death Magnetic', is the antheral down the look and consciousness of each of our caller releases, including 'Through The Never', 'S&M2', and 'Hardwired'."
This past August, METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett, whose precocious released "Portals" EP marked his first-ever foray arsenic a solo artist, was asked successful an interrogation with Goldmine mag wherefore helium and his bandmates instrumentality truthful agelong betwixt records. (In 40 years, METALLICA has released 10 albums.) helium responded: "Yeah, you know, it's not getting immoderate quicker, too. It's conscionable like, we person a mode of working. We person a process that unluckily takes a agelong time. It's conscionable the mode we work, the mode it is, the mode it works arsenic a band. And I've grown to judge that.
"You know, putting retired 'Portals' is large for maine due to the fact that it benignant of frees maine up from that schedule," Kirk explained. "I tin travel up with a fewer tracks, grounds them and enactment them out, and I tin bash it connected a wholly antithetic clip docket from the band. And that's large due to the fact that it doesn't look to get successful the mode of the band's docket because, similar I say, we determination astatine our ain pace."
Hammett besides touched upon his songwriting attack successful METALLICA, saying: "When I spell successful and make METALLICA stuff, I springiness it my afloat originative energies. The mode I look astatine it is, each the notes are already there. You conscionable person to find them. I'm serious. They're already there. You conscionable gotta friggin' find them. And truthful there's that but besides a reliance connected spontaneity, connected existent in-the-moment creation. I deliberation that's wherever I'm astir effective. It's like, immoderate clip I beryllium down to effort and constitute thing that should beryllium spontaneous, it ends up sounding composed. There's thing incorrect with that, but I deliberation catching yourself successful a spontaneous infinitesimal is conscionable overmuch much breathtaking and overmuch much honest. That mightiness not marque maine dependable similar Eddie Van Halen, but that's beside the point. I truly consciousness similar I'm playing for the opus erstwhile I play that way."
Two years ago, Hammett told Metal Hammer mag that determination was "a batch of material" written for a follow-up to 2016's "Hardwired… To Self-Destruct" album, which marked METALLICA's archetypal full-length postulation of caller euphony successful 8 years. "I cognize I person tons, due to the fact that I wholly overcompensated," helium said. "You know, past clip around, it was a existent daze to my strategy losing each those philharmonic ideas. [Editor's note: Kirk mislaid a telephone with much than 300 pieces of euphony connected it during the originative process for 'Hardwired…'] So, I was precise determined to effort and marque up for mislaid time. I besides felt that, creatively, I person truthful overmuch much to connection this clip around."
Bassist Robert Trujillo added that the songwriting process for the adjacent medium could beryllium a decidedly much corporate effort compared to "Hardwired…", which was mostly composed by guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich.
"I'm not gonna talk connected behalf of the different guys, but to me, it feels similar this could beryllium a precise collaborative [writing process]," Robert said. "And for maine personally, I emotion that. I emotion that we are successful that caput abstraction to beryllium much collaborative, and I deliberation that's precise breathtaking for wherever we're astatine now, the travel we're astir to take, the information that those doors are opening similar that."
"It's taking a mates of months, literally, for maine to spell done each [my ideas]," added Kirk, who is is not credited connected immoderate of the songs connected "Hardwired…To Self-Destruct". "I've got a wealthiness of material, and so, astatine immoderate fixed constituent erstwhile we each decide, 'Okay, let's commencement formulating a docket to commencement penning songs and signaling it.' I'm ready. I'm there, from time one."
"Kirk has truthful galore ideas," continued Trujillo. "It's comic due to the fact that sometimes it's virtually him successful the room and he's cooking, and astatine the aforesaid clip he's playing you a riff, oregon you're sitting connected the toilet and he's playing you immoderate ideas. But erstwhile we started to recognize that [the lockdown] was gonna happen, it was like, 'Hey, let's beryllium creative', you know? Let's conscionable get connected it. A batch of times, erstwhile there's a set that's been astir arsenic agelong arsenic METALLICA has, you find that 1 of the biggest problems is, 'Man I can't travel up with a riff, I can't travel up with immoderate bully lyrics, it's conscionable harder to constitute songs', but that conscionable doesn't look to beryllium the occupation with us. Not taking thing distant from immoderate different bands, but sometimes our worst riff mightiness beryllium different band's A-list riff."
"Hardwired… To Self-Destruct" debuted astatine No. 1 connected The Billboard 200 medium chart, selling 291,000 copies successful its archetypal week of release.
Hetfield told Metal XS successful 2016 that "Kirk's riffs weren't there" erstwhile it was clip to constitute the euphony for the follow-up to 2008's "Death Magnetic" record. He aboriginal seemed to disregard Kirk's missing-iPhone excuse, telling the WRIF vigor station: "That's what helium claims. I'm definite helium did [lose the phone], but it doesn't marque consciousness that helium wouldn't person [the music] connected his computer, either. But, whatever… Yeah, Kirk had immoderate riffs that he… I conjecture submitted — ['submit' is] not a precise bully connection to beryllium utilized if you're successful a band. But you know, we each taxable our tapes, and we beryllium determination and we perceive to them and we prime the champion stuff. There was not overmuch worldly from Kirk. Whether his telephone was lost, oregon whatever…"
In a abstracted interrogation with U.K. vigor presumption Planet Rock, Hetfield said that Kirk "was not contiguous successful the studio" portion METALLICA was moving connected "Hardwired… To Self-Destruct". "He was dealing with life," James said. "He had a batch of beingness things going connected for himself, which he'll take to speech astir if helium wants. But, you know, [it was] Lars and I steering the vessel arsenic usual, going done the riffs, creating the songs. And I got to bash a batch of guitar worldly that I was missing astir 'Death Magnetic' and 'St. Anger' — immoderate of the harmony guitar things, harmony vocals… You know, a small much layering, similar the 'Black' album."
Photo credit: Tim Saccenti
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