Metallica’s long-anticipated new album, ”72 Seasons,” will arrive on April 14, and as excited as the band’s fans are for the release, so is drummer Lars Ulrich.
Metallica have released four tunes from the album so far including “Lux Æterna” and “Screaming Suicide” both of which sported a New Wave of British Heavy Metal vibe. More recently the band put out the lengthy and heavy title track as well as the mid-tempo jam, “If Darkness Had A Son.” The band also plans to hold a worldwide listening party at select cinemas to celebrate the album’s release.
In a new interview with Metal Hammer, Ulrich talked about investigating what fans online thought of the first single, “Lux Æterna.”
“If you decide to go down into the comment sections, at least for me, you have to prepare yourself for not taking any of it overly personally,” Lars said. “You have to kind of remove yourself from it. But I’d like to challenge anybody in a band to say they don’t look at comments.”
“I mean, I’m not sitting up until four o’clock in the morning scrolling through every one,” he added. “But when you haven’t put any music out in five or six years and you dump something like ‘Lux Æterna’ on an unsuspecting world, you’re going to want to see what the feedback is.”
Previously, singer/guitarist James Hetfield said he almost went out of his way not to read online reactions to the band and their music.
“I’ve got tons of friends that are either musicians or artists or someone who are creative and putting stuff out there,” Hetfield told Lazer 103.3FM in Iowa. “I just tell ’em, ‘Don’t read the comments. I mean, just don’t. Unless you’re feeling a little more secure in yourself these days.’ ‘Cause most of us artists are pretty fragile, insecure people, and we get up there and the music makes us feel strong and good. But other times when people… you know, someone says something about the lyrics, and it’s just, like, ‘Ouch! That went right in my heart, dude!’”
Hetfield continued: “So I tell you, when you read that stuff, you can’t believe it — you just can’t. Most people… It’s really easy just to hit ‘send’ [on your phone or computer] — I know that. But we also do get a lot of great comments out there that kind of work themselves out. It’s like throwing a couple of pitbulls in a room — they work it out.”
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