Metallica releasing new album and heading on huge world tour
Metallica are releasing a new album and heading on a huge world tour. The band’s record ’72 Seasons’ – the follow-up to 2016’s ‘Hardwired... to Self-Destruct’ will arrive on April 14, 2023, with the European leg of the band’s gigs starting the same month. Their ‘M72’ world tour will stretch into 2024 and includes previously announced Download Festival headline slots. Frontman James Hetfield, 59, said: “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 personalit...