Metallica: 72 seasons (Red/Ltd)

Specialversion bara för Ginza. Metallica has confirmed the title and release date of its forthcoming 12th studio album: 72 Seasons will be available April 14, 2023 via the band"'s own Blackened Recordings. Produced by Greg Fidelman with Hetfield & Ulrich, and clocking in at over 77 minutes, the 12-track 72 Seasons is Metallica"'s first full length collection of new material since 2016"'s Hardwired...To Self-Destruct. The album will be released in formats including 2LP 140g black vinyl and limited edition variants, CD and digital. 72 Seasons is heralded by first single ""Lux Æterna,"" a short, sharp blast that distills 40 years of Metallica into three and a half minutes. ""Lux Æterna"" is available now to stream and download, and as an instant grat track with all pre-orders of 72 Seasons. Speaking on the concept of the album title, James Hetfield said: ""72 seasons. The first 18 years of our lives that form our true or false selves. 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.""