Metallica are back: A new album and tour are coming in 2023, and, today, they’ve shared a song called “Lux Æterna.” Produced by Greg Fidelman, James Hetfield, and Lars Ulrich, the album, 72 Seasons, arrives April 14 next year. Their tour dates kick off in Europe the same month, before a string of North American shows later in the year. Extra stints are scheduled for Europe and America in 2024. Check out the itinerary, as well as the Tim Saccenti–directed video for “Lux Æterna” and the album tracklist, below.

The tour includes two shows in each city visited, and the band promises completely different setlists and support lineups at each.

In a press release, Hetfield explains the record’s title thus:

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.

72 Seasons arrives more than six years after its predecessor, Hardwired…To Self-Destruct. Since then, they have reissued some classics, released a second live album with the San Francisco Symphony, commissioned a covers album featuring the likes of Phoebe Bridgers and Kamasi Washington, and broached the Billboard songs chart with “Master of Puppets” after a prominent Stranger Things placement.

72 Seasons:

01 72 Seasons
02 Shadows Follow
03 Screaming Suicide
04 Sleepwalk My Life Away
05 You Must Burn!
06 Lux Æterna
07 Crown of Barbed Wire
08 Chasing Light
09 If Darkness Had a Son
10 Too Far Gone?
11 Room of Mirrors
12 Inamorata

Metallica:

12-16 Los Angeles, CA – Microsoft Theater
04-27 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Johan Cruijff Arena !@
04-29 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Johan Cruijff Arena #$
05-17 Paris, France – Stade de France #$
05-19 Paris, France – Stade de France !@
05-26 Hamburg, Germany – Volksparkstadion !@
05-28 Hamburg, Germany – Volksparkstadion #$
06-16 Gothenburg, Sweden – Ullevi Stadium ^@
06-18 Gothenburg, Sweden – Ullevi Stadium #$
08-04 East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium %@
08-06 East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium #$
08-11 Montreal, Quebec – Stade Olympique %@
08-13 Montreal, Quebec – Stade Olympique #$
08-18 Arlington, TX – AT&T Stadium %@
08-20 Arlington, TX – AT&T Stadium #$
08-25 Inglewood, CA – SoFi Stadium %@
08-27 Inglewood, CA – SoFi Stadium #$
09-01 Glendale, AZ – State Farm Stadium %@
09-03 Glendale, AZ – State Farm Stadium #$
11-03 St. Louis, MO – The Dome at America’s Center %@
11-05 St. Louis, MO – The Dome at America’s Center #$
11-10 Detroit, MI – Ford Field %@
11-12 Detroit, MI – Ford Field #$
05-24 Munich, Germany – Olympiastadion !@
05-26 Munich, Germany – Olympiastadion #$
06-07 Helsinki, Finland- Olympic Stadium !@
06-09 Helsinki, Finland – Olympic Stadium #$
06-14 Copenhagen, Denmark – Parken Stadium !@
06-16 Copenhagen, Denmark – Parken Stadium #$
07-05 Warsaw, Poland – PGE Narodowy !@
07-07 Warsaw, Poland – PGE Narodowy #$
07-12 Madrid, Spain – Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano !@
07-14 Madrid, Spain – Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano #$
08-02 Foxborough, MA – Gillette Stadium %@
08-04 Foxborough, MA – Gillette Stadium #$
08-09 Chicago, IL – Soldier Field %@
08-11 Chicago, IL – Soldier Field #$
08-16 Minneapolis, MN – US Bank Stadium %@
08-18 Minneapolis, MN – US Bank Stadium #$
08-23 Edmonton, Alberta – Commonwealth Stadium %@
08-25 Edmonton, Alberta – Commonwealth Stadium #$
08-30 Seattle, WA – Lumen Field %@
09-01 Seattle, WA – Lumen Field #$
09-20 Mexico City, Mexico – Foro Sol &@
09-22 Mexico City, Mexico – Foro Sol #$
09-27 Mexico City, Mexico – Foro Sol &@
09-29 Mexico City, Mexico – Foro Sol #$

! with Architects
@ with Mammoth WVH
# with Five Finger Death Punch
$ with Ice Nine Kills
% with Pantera
^ with Volbeat
& with Greta Van Fleet

Metallica: M72 World Tour 2023-2024

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