Late last year, Metallica announced their new album “72 Seasons” will drop on April 14. The band had to warn fans of scams on social media and YouTube after a Manhattan man was reportedly scammed by a fake Metallica YouTube channel into transferring more than $25K of Bitcoin.
“In the wake of last week’s exciting news of our new song, new album, and new tour, unfortunately the ugly side of social media made an appearance,” Metallica wrote. “Many of you have let us know about YouTube channels and live streams, as well as websites, claiming to offer Metallica Crypto giveaways in conjunction with last week’s announcement.”
“Let’s be as clear as possible. These are scams.”
Now, Metallica frontman James Hetfield has also taken to Metallica’s social media to warn fans again, this time of people posing as him.
“There are people online that have assumed my identity, spreading misinformation, and have caused damage to other people,” he said. “There are imposters and predators out there. This is out of my control, but it is in your control who you choose to connect with. Please be careful on socials and vet people before getting in contact with them.”
“To be clear…I am not on any social media forms, Facebook, Instagram, etc. The only connection I have with social media is through the official Metallica website and official Metallica socials.”
“If you are following or communicating with someone who you think is or is portraying themselves as me… it is not me. I hope this helps those who have been or are getting deceived and are ashamed to talk about it. With love and respect, James ‘Papa Het’ Hetfield”.
Hetfield previously spoke about how darkness inspired the band’s new record.
“’72 Seasons’ came out of a book I was reading about childhood, basically, and sorting out childhood as an adult,” he said. “And 72 seasons is basically the first 18 years of your life. How do you evolve and grow and mature and develop your own ideas and identity of self after those first 72 seasons? Some things are more difficult than others — you know, some things you can’t unsee and they’re with you for the rest of your life, and other things you’re able to rewind the tape and make a new tape in your life. So that’s the real interesting part for me, is how you’re able to address those situations as an adult and mature.”
He continued: “There’s been a lot of darkness in my life and in our career and things that have happened with us, but always having a sense of hope, always having the light that is in that darkness… Without darkness, there is no light, and being able to focus a little more on the light in life instead of all of the… how it used to be and how horrible it is… There’s a lot of good things going on in life — focusing on that instead, and it helps to balance out my life. And there’s no one meaning to it — everyone has some sense of hope or light in their life, and, obviously, music is mine. And the song specifically talks about gathering of people at a concert and [being] able to see the joy and the life and the love that comes out of music and the family and the kinship in that, and just a sense of uplifting.”
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