Metallica Announces New Album and World Tour

Patrick Cavanaugh

11/28/2022 12:14 pm EST

Heavy metal act Metallica has been a major force in the aggressive music scene for decades, with this year earning them a major surge in popularity thanks to their song "Master of Puppets" playing a prominent role in Season 4 of Stranger Things, as the band announces that they are releasing the new album 72 Seasons and embarking on a world tour in support of the album. To celebrate the announcement of the new album and tour, the band released the first single from 72 Seasons, "Lux Æterna." Metallica's 72 Seasons is set to hit shelves on April 14, 2023 and its upcoming world tour will run through 2023 and 2024.

"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," singer James Hetfield shared in a statement about the album, per Variety. "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."

The full tracklist for 72 Seasons is as follows:

  1. "72 Seasons"
  2. "Shadows Follow"
  3. "Screaming Suicide"
  4. "Sleepwalk My Life Away"
  5. "You Must Burn!"
  6. "Lux Æterna"
  7. "Crown of Barbed Wire"
  8. "Chasing Light"
  9. "If Darkness Had a Son"
  10. "Too Far Gone?"
  11. "Room of Mirrors"
  12. "Inamorata"

Setting their new world tour apart from other outings is that each city the band travels to will see two nights of shows, each with different supporting acts and different setlists. Additionally, the band will offer discounted tickets for fans under 16. 

Tour dates and supporting acts are as follows:

Show 1 Support Europe: Architects & Mammoth WVH**

Show 2 Support Europe: Five Finger Death Punch & Ice Nine Kills

*Five Finger Death Punch/Ice Nine Kills play show 1 in Paris, Architects & Mammoth WVH play show 2 in Paris

**Volbeat replaces Architects on show 1 in Gothenburg

Show 1 Support North America: Pantera & Mammoth WVH***

Show 2 Support North America: Five Finger Death Punch & Ice Nine Kills

***Greta Van Fleet replaces Pantera on show 1 both weekends in Mexico City

Metallica's 72 Seasons is set to hit shelves on April 14, 2023 and its upcoming world tour will run through 2023 and 2024.  

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