Metallica has something special planned for the release of their upcoming album 72 Seasons.
The band will hold a ‘worldwide listening party’ in movie theaters on April 13th, one day before the album’s release.
The feature-length event will include the entire 72 Seasons album, along with “epic new videos” and special intros from the band themselves. A trailer for the event was released on Thursday.
Tickets and a list of participating theaters can be found here.
Ahead of the album’s release, Metallica has released new songs: Lux Æterna, Screaming Suicide, and If Darkness Had A Son.
Explaining the meaning behind the upcoming album, James Hetfield said,
“72 Seasons came out of a book I was reading about childhood, basically, and sorting out childhood as an adult. And 72 seasons is basically the first 18 years of your life. How do you evolve and grow and mature and develop your own ideas and identity of self after those first 72 seasons? Some things are more difficult than others — you know, some things you can’t unsee and they’re with you for the rest of your life, and other things you’re able to rewind the tape and make a new tape in your life. So that’s the real interesting part for me, is how you’re able to address those situations as an adult and mature.
72 Seasons – the band’s first full album of new material since 2016’s Hardwired…To Self-Destruct – will be released date on April 14, 2023.
