More news from Metallica. The band announced their 12th studio album, 72 Seasons, which will be released Friday April 14th, 2023. The album follows their 2013 Hardwired… to Self-Destruct, featuring 12 tracks totaling over 77 minutes.
On Metallica’s site, Hetfield explains the reasoning behind the albums title:
“Is there a special meaning to the title?” you ask. James explains it best: “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.”
After that explanation, the album artwork makes more sense. The artwork shows a burnt and destroyed crib, along with charred toys and possessions which lines up with Hetfield’s comment on breaking free from those childhood experiences or our former selves.
The full track list for 72 Seasons:
72 Seasons
Shadows Follow
Screaming Suicide
Sleepwalk My Life Away
You Must Burn!
Lux Æterna
Crown of Barbed Wire
Chasing Light
If Darkness Had a Son
Too Far Gone?
Room of Mirrors
Inamorata
We also got a preview with what’s to come on the new album with the first single “Lux Æterna”. The heavy, old school sound can be heard, but some fans may wonder what the song title actually means. In Latin translation Lux Æterna means eternal light and it also used in Catholic requiem mass, as a chant honoring the dead.
You can listen to Lux Æterna below:
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