Metallica announced every show they have booked through 2024 on Monday, and the band also released a new song/video for “Lux Æterna” from their forthcoming album, “72 Seasons.”
The 12-track, 77-minute album is produced by Greg Feldman, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, and is set to arrive on April 14, 2023. It’s the band’s first album since 2016’s “Hardwired… To Self-Destruct.”
“72 seasons. The first 18 years of our lives that form our true or false selves,” frontman/guitarist Hetfield said in a release. “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. 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 album is available for pre-order ahead of the band’s “M72” world tour. Metallica will play two nights in every city it visits with each “No Repeat Weekend” featuring two different setlist and support lineups.
“The “M72” tour will feature a 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,” the band announced in a release. “Two-day tickets will be on sale Friday, December 2 at Ticketmaster.com and will include the option of pre-ordering “72 Seasons” vinyl and/or CD. Single-day tickets will be available beginning January 20.” Further information including fan club presales, enhanced experiences and more is available here.
The complete track listing for 72 Seasons is:
72 Seasons
Shadows Follow
Screaming Suicide
Sleepwalk My Life Away
You Must Burn!
Lux Æterna
Crown of Barbed Wire
Chasing Light
If Darkness Had a Son
Too Far Gone?
Room of Mirrors
Inamorata
Support acts for the tour vary by city and date but include Pantera, Five Finger Death Punch, Ice Nine Kills, Mammoth WVH, Greta Van Fleet, Architects and Volbeat. Tour dates can be found here.
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