The album "72 seasons" will be released on April 14, 2023 and will be immediately followed by concerts in Amsterdam, Paris (Stade de France on May 17 and 19), Hamburg in Germany, then in Sweden, according to press releases from Metallica and the giant of ticketing and Live Nation entertainment.
From August to November 2023, concerts will follow in the United States and Canada (Los Angeles, Phoenix, Detroit, Montreal, etc.) before returning to Europe from May 2024 (Munich, Helsinki, Warsaw, Madrid. ..), then again in North America (Chicago, Seattle, Mexico...) until September 2024.
The California quartet, whose founding members like James Hetfield, 59, and Danish drummer Lars Ulrich, 58, have been playing and performing for 40 years, have promised two gigs at each of their stops with a different show each day.
Their 12th studio album - the first since 2016 - features 12 tracks, one of which, "Lux Aeterna", was released on Monday.
According to James Hetfield, the title of the opus "72 seasons" refers to the "first 18 years of our lives which form our true or our false selves".
"Our parents told us + who we are + (...). The essence of our adult experience is to replay or react to our childhood experiences. To be prisoners of our childhood or to free ourselves of these links", writes the American singer, who, in four decades of career, has broken with a number of excesses and addictions and has even conducted psychotherapy with his group, recounted in a documentary in 2001 ("Metallica: Some Kind of Monster").
With the power of metal sound, Metallica had awakened in September a New York charity concert for the climate and against poverty by a dozen American and European artists organized in Central Park, in the heart of Manhattan, by the American NGO GlobalCitizen.
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