Legendary American heavy metal band Metallica announced on Monday, November 28, the April 2023 release of a new studio album and a tour of Europe and North America in 2023 and 2024. The album 72 seasons will be released on April 14, 2023 and will be immediately followed by concerts in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Paris (Stade de France on May 17 and 19), Hamburg (Germany), then Sweden, according to press releases from Metallica and the ticketing and entertainment giant Live Nation.
From August to November 2023, concerts will follow in the United States and Canada (Los Angeles, Phoenix, Detroit, Montreal, etc.) to then return to the Old Continent from May 2024 (Munich, Helsinki, Warsaw, Madrid… ), then new in North America (Chicago, Seattle, Mexico…) until September 2024.
The California quartet, whose founding members James Hetfield, 59, and Danish drummer Lars Ulrich, 58, have been playing and performing for forty years, promised two concerts at each of the stages with a different show every day.
Their twelfth studio album – their first since 2016 – contains twelve tracks, one of which, Eternal lightit was presented on Monday.
“To be a prisoner of our childhood or to free ourselves from these constraints”
According to James Hetfield, the title of 72 seasons refers to “the first eighteen years of our life that form our true or false selves”.
“Our parents told us ‘who we are’ (…). Much of our adult experience is reproducing or reacting to our childhood experiences. To be prisoners of our childhood or to free ourselves from these constraints”writes the American singer, who in four decades of career broke with a series of excesses and addictions and even conducted psychotherapy with his group, told in a documentary in 2001 (Metallica – some kind of monster).
With the power of the metal sound, Metallica had awakened in September a benefit concert in New York for the climate and against poverty of a dozen American and European artists organized in Central Park, in the heart of Manhattan, by the American NGO GlobalCitizen.
