Metallica launch official videos for three more songs from 72 Seasons
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Metallica have launched videos for Shadows Follow, Room Of Mirrors and Too Far Gone?. All the three songs are taken from new album 72 Seasons, which was released on Friday, and join an ever-growing list of tracks from the album that now have accompanying visuals.
The animated videos for Shadows Follow and Room Of Mirrors were directed by Tristan Zammit, best known for working on films for rap musicians like XXXTentacion, Little Yachty and Denzel Curry, who comments on YouTube, "I hope everyone loves this! Thank you to Metallica for letting me create this! Greatest band of all time."
Metallica have premiered a new music video for "Too Far Gone?" lifted from the new album, 72 Seasons. Check out the Team Rolfes-directed clip here,
In a new interview with Japanese music critic and radio personality Masa Ito of TVK's "Rock City", METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich spoke about how the making of the band's latest album, "72 Seasons", benefited from the bandmembers' increased maturity and respect for each other. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "We love being in METALLICA and we love METALLICA and we cherish METALLICA and we want to be the best METALLICA possible. And I guess that 40 years later, to still be able to make music together and still be able to make a difference is something we cherish so much and it's something that we're so respectful of. I think that in the past there were times where we were more weary about… there was so much internal differences and so much negative energy within the bandmembers that writing songs and going to the studio was often kind of like… not something that we really wanted to do, because it was so exhausting. But now, with this record, and certainly as we get older, there's less and less in-fighting, there's less and less disagreements."
He continued: "This record we made, I think, without any arguments. Nobody was shouting or yelling or doing anything crazy. There was no posturing or 'my way' — it was basically nothing of that. And so I think ultimately that joy of going to the studio and creating this music shows up in the energy and the passion — the passion shows up in there somewhere. And like I said, this may be the most friction-free record METALLICA has ever made internally between the bandmembers.
"I think there's been enough documented over the years about how we made records," Ulrich added. "The Black Album was a very difficult record to make. A lot of the albums with [producer] Bob Rock — not because of Bob Rock, but just because of where we were at as people at the time, when we were having a hard time working in a collective environment… And I think now we're so much more appreciative and respectful and love each other in a different way now. I mean, we've always loved each other and cared for each other, but I think now we're protective of those relationships because we wanna make sure that they sustain through every experience that we have and we come out the other side fully intact. That, I think, is always the goal."
"72 Seasons" was released on Friday (April 14) via METALLICA's own Blackened Recordings. Produced by Greg Fidelman with guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield and Ulrich, it is METALLICA's first full-length collection of new material since 2016's "Hardwired…To Self-Destruct".
Last week Metallica announced that their upcoming M72 World Tour shows at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX, are to be broadcast live in cinemas worldwide on Friday, August 18 and Sunday, August 20. The band will be performing two completely different sets over the course of the two shows, with no songs repeated. Ticket details will be announced shortly.
The band have also confirmed that the M72 tour will feature a new in-the-round stage set, with the band's iconic "snake pit" relocated to the centre of the stage, giving fans lucky enough to get tickets a 360-degree view of the show. The tour kicks on April 27 at the Johan Cruijff Arena in Amsterdam.
