72 Seasons

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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. [24]

Artwork

Critical reception

Exclaim! listed the album cover as the 23rd worst of the year, writing: "Man, IKEA's new METÄLLICA collection looks like shit." [25]

Release and promotion

On November 28, 2022, Metallica announced the album's title, release date, tracklist and a promotional tour of North America and Europe, featuring Pantera, Five Finger Death Punch, Ice Nine Kills, Greta Van Fleet, Architects, Volbeat, and Mammoth WVH, titled the M72 World Tour. The band subsequently released the album's first single, "Lux Æterna", along with a music video. [26] On January 19, 2023, Metallica released a new music video for "Screaming Suicide". [27] After teasing a new song on TikTok over the last few days of February, Metallica released a new music video for "If Darkness Had a Son" on March 1. [28] The next single, title track "72 Seasons", was released on March 30. [29]

On April 10, to further promote the album, the band appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! . They were interviewed by host Jimmy Kimmel and gave recorded live performances of 72 Seasons singles "Lux Æterna" and "If Darkness Had a Son", as well as the tracks "Master of Puppets" and "Holier Than Thou", which were each broadcast over the next few days. [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] On April 12, Metallica sat for an extensive interview with Howard Stern on his Sirius XM satellite radio show. The band performed three songs during this appearance: Bob Seger's "Turn the Page", an acoustic rendition of their song "Blackened", and "Lux Æterna". [36] On April 14, the day of the album's release, the band announced a partnership with the online game platform Roblox to feature the new album's songs in several of its games, along with virtual items being released onto the platform. [37]

Critical reception

72 Seasons
72 Seasons.jpg
Studio album by
Metallica
ReleasedApril 14, 2023 (2023-04-14)
RecordedMarch 2021 – November 2022
StudioMetallica's HQ (San Rafael, California)
Genre
Length77:14
Label Blackened
Producer
Metallica chronology
S&M2
(2020)		72 Seasons
(2023)
Metallica studio album chronology
Hardwired... to Self-Destruct
(2016)		72 Seasons
(2023)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? 7.3/10 [38]
Metacritic 77/100 [39]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [40]
The Arts Desk Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [41]
Clash 6/10 [42]
Classic Rock Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [43]
The Independent Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [44]
Kerrang! Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [45]
Metal Hammer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [46]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [47]
Pitchfork 6.4/10 [48]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [49]

72 Seasons received generally positive reviews, [50] with critics singling out Hetfield's lyricism for praise, though the album's length was criticized. On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 77 out of 100 based on 22 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [39] At AnyDecentMusic?, that collates critical reviews from more than 50 media sources, the album scored 7.3 points out of 10, based on 18 reviews. [38]

In the first review published for 72 Seasons, Classic Rock gave the album a score of 4 out of 5, describing the music as "titanium-plated modern metal" and describing the lyrics as "tormented and bleak". This review summarized 72 Seasons overall as an "intense album, one that goes hard for virtually every second of its 77-minute running time", and also stated that even though "ballads are absent and even big melodies are scarce", the album "won't disappoint anyone but the most truculent fan". [43] In The Daily Telegraph , Neil McCormick rated this album 4 out of 5 stars. [51] Similarly positive sentiments are shared in a Rolling Stone review, which says that the album shows Metallica "[playing] with more purpose than in their speed-demon days" and features segments that "don't sound like anything the thrashers have recorded before". The review gives the album 4 stars out of 5, remarking that Hetfield "[breaks] the facade of brash metal rage as he searches for his own truth" with an "agony [that] sounds authentic". [49]

A more mixed review from Metal Hammer stated that 72 Seasons is an album where Metallica comes across as "simply [an] agreeably solid metal band", but it is still "worth taking a moment [for]" on account of James Hetfield's "genuinely moving" lyrics in which he "[digs] deeper into his early trauma [than] ever before". Although remarking that the music of the album "[nails] massive, crunching, half-time stadium metal", the review points out that much of it "maintains a similar tone and pace throughout" and often "can't match [the] dynamic range" that Hetfield's lyrics display. The review concludes by stating "the fact that Metallica have still found something new to say (if not play) deserves respect", and is "the best we realistically could have hoped for". [46]

Commercial performance

72 Seasons debuted at number 2 on the US Billboard 200, selling 146,000 copies in the first week with 134,000 coming from pure album sales; this marked the band's twelfth album to chart in the top 10 and the first since ...And Justice for All not to debut at number 1 on the US Billboard 200, thus ending the band's streak of number one albums at six. It was kept off the top spot by Morgan Wallen's One Thing at a Time , which was completing seven weeks atop the chart. [52]

The album debuted at number one in 20 different countries including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

As of May 2024, the album has collated a total of 373,000 equivalent album units in the United States. [53]

Track listing

72 Seasons track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."72 Seasons"
7:39
2."Shadows Follow"
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
6:12
3."Screaming Suicide"
5:30
4."Sleepwalk My Life Away"
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
  • Trujillo
6:56
5."You Must Burn!"
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
  • Trujillo
7:03
6."Lux Æterna"
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
3:22
7."Crown of Barbed Wire"
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
  • Hammett
5:49
8."Chasing Light"
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
  • Hammett
6:45
9."If Darkness Had a Son"
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
  • Hammett
6:36
10."Too Far Gone?"
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
4:34
11."Room of Mirrors"
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
5:34
12."Inamorata"
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
11:10
Total length:77:14

Personnel

Metallica

Production

Charts

Certifications

Certifications and sales for 72 Seasons
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
France (SNEP) [110] Gold50,000‡
Germany (BVMI) [111] Gold100,000‡
Poland (ZPAV) [112] Platinum20,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI) [113] Silver60,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release formats for 72 Seasons
RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
VariousApril 14, 2023Blackened [114]

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