Metallica... New album '72 Seasons'

[jobrok1]

New Metallica album, en route!

Metallica have announced details of their forthcoming 12th studio album, 72 Seasons, and shared its thrashy lead-off single, Lux Æterna.

Produced by Greg Fidelman with James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, and clocking in at over 77 minutes, the 12-track 72 Seasons is Metallica's follow-up to 2016's Hardwired...To Self-Destruct.

On the concept behind the album title, James Hetfield says: "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."

The album track list 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

The album is introduced by the short, sharp thrashing blast of Lux Æterna, which clocks in at just 3 minutes 30 seconds in length, and nods back to Motorbreath from Metallica's 1983 debut album Kill 'Em All, with the repeated lyric "Full speed or nothing!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u-7rWKnVVo

[jobrok1]

First track is alright, actually!
Short and punchy straight up rocker.

[Pagan Saviour]

Ah here. Weak as piss.

[Jward]

First track is alright, actually!
Short and punchy straight up rocker.

It's like a cross between Saxon & The Offspring  :

77 minutes ??!!
Jaysus

[Carnage]

It's alright, immediately brought this to mind:

https://youtu.be/nNOUdQYvXIg

It's like they've been listening to Megadave's last 20 years' worth of albums.

[Pagan Saviour]

Can't believe people think this is a good track? The vocals alone are pathetic.

Just seen the album artwork. Good god.

[jobrok1]

It's like a cross between Saxon & The Offspring  :

Can't argue with that, Wardy!
Accurate enough description.

I don't mind the track.
I like that it's a short enough track. Doesn't outstay it's welcome.

Young fella is already harping on about getting the album.
I fear I may have lost him already.   

[Mooncat]

Some thoughts:

Verse sounds like Offspring, though I quite like it. The fiddly riff at the start keeps on sounding like it wants to break into a more technical, Rust in Peace style riff, but disappointingly never does. Kirk tries a solo without the wah! It's not bad, but better than most solos he's done in the last 20 odd years. The chorus vocals are excellent! Real Garage Days kind of vibe off them. Also the guitar tone is back to the thrashy scooped days too.

Overall it was more interesting to me than any tracks they've done since the 90s. Enough that I'll check out the new album now, something I wasn't planning on otherwise.

[The Butcher]

The fiddly riff at the start keeps on sounding like it wants to break into a more technical, Rust in Peace style riff, but disappointingly never does. Kirk tries a solo without the wah! It's not bad, but better than most solos he's done in the last 20 odd years.

By the end of the song I didn't want to hear that riff again, got old real fast for me. Kirk basically did a Devil Dance solo 2.0

That album art..oh dear lord

[Bürggermeister]

That paragraph from Hetfield is enough to drive me away. It essentially says

"Here's 77 minutes of teenage angst whinged at you by a multi-millionaire 60 year old!"

[Carnage]

"Here's 77 minutes of teenage angst whinged at you by a multi-millionaire 60 year old!"

Robb Flynn will be jealous.

[Trev]

Title is crap, artwork is worse, song is fine

[Circlepit]

The opening is great. The artwork though and the blurb..... describing the vocals as a throwback to garage inc is spot on.
77 minutes though. That's a big ask.
There will be so many versions to buy as well!

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Not just the vocals; the entire song sounds like a Garage Days cover that didn't make the cut.

[londonleatherboy]

How have these clowns been getting away with it for so long