On Monday, the iconic metal band Metallica announced their latest album "72 Seasons" and a massive world tour for 2023 and 2024.
The 12th studio album is the first full-length collection of new material since 2016’s “Hardwired…To Self-Destruct” and will be available on April 14, 2023, via their Blackened Recordings.
The album consists of 12 tracks and is produced by Greg Fidelman with founding members James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, and clocks in at over 77 minutes.
Metallica has dropped the first single “Lux Æterna” from the album, a three-and-a-half-minute-long blast that recalls the band’s early albums, which got a big revival with the prominent use of their 1986 classic “Master of Puppets” in the series “Stranger Things” earlier this year.
Speaking on the concept of the album title, James Hetfield said: “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," he added.
"Much of our adult experience is reenactment or reaction to these childhood experiences. Prisoners of childhood or breaking free of those bondages we carry.”
The band has also revealed the entire tracklist of the upcoming album.
The "72 Seasons" tracklist is:
The band has also announced a massive tour for 2023 and 2024. Presented worldwide by Liquid Death and Blackened American Whiskey (in North America only) and promoted by Live Nation.
The M72 world tour will see the band playing two nights in every city it visits — with each No Repeat Weekend featuring two completely different setlists and support lineups.
The tour will feature a bold new in-the-round stage design that relocates the famed Metallica Snake Pit to center stage, as well as the I Disappear full-tour pass and the debut of discounted tickets for fans under 16 years of age.
Two-day tickets will be on sale Friday, December 2. Single-day tickets will be available beginning January 20th.
A portion of proceeds from every ticket sold will go to the band’s "All Within My Hands" foundation.
Founded in 2017, the foundation aims to assist and enrich the lives of members of the communities who have supported the band and have raised nearly $13 million – providing $5.9 million in grants to career and technical education programs in the US, over $2.5 million to combat food insecurity, and more than $3.2 million to disaster relief efforts worldwide.
M72 2023-2024 World Tour Dates:
Show 2 Support Europe: Five Finger Death Punch & Ice Nine Kills
*Five Finger Death Punch/Ice Nine Kills play show 1 in Paris, Architects & Mammoth WVH play show 2 in Paris
**Volbeat replaces Architects on show 1 in Gothenburg
Show 1 Support North America: Pantera & Mammoth WVH***
Show 2 Support North America: Five Finger Death Punch & Ice Nine Kills
***Greta Van Fleet replaces Pantera on show 1 both weekends in Mexico City
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