By JACOB FRIDLUND
Staff Writer
Metallica will release their upcoming album ‘72 Seasons‘ on April 14th, 2023 after 7 years. Metallica’s vocalist and frontman James Hetfield talked about their first single “Lux Æterna”, from the new album.
Metallica shared an official statement about the ’72 Seasons’ album:
“’72 seasons.’ The first 18 years of our lives form our true or false selves. The concept that we were told ‘who we are’ by our parents. 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 a reenactment or reaction to these childhood experiences. Prisoners of childhood or breaking free of those bondages we carry.”
James Hetfield’s interview about the new album and “Lux Æterna” song:
“‘Lux Æterna’ is an upbeat, kind of fast and joyous song, I would say… really indicative of New Wave Of British Metal stuff, so kind of a harkening-back-to-’80s kind of riff. It’s just fun and makes me move. It was fun making the video, fun recording a song that comes out really easy, that was a real easy song to write and to perform, like I said, very much like the early ’80s for us. ’72 Seasons’ came out of a book I was reading about childhood, basically, and sorting out childhood as an adult.
