Metallica have shared new single ‘Screaming Suicide’, the second to be lifted from their forthcoming eleventh studio album ’72 Seasons’.
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The brand new tune arrives alongside a video directed by Tim Saccenti, who additionally helmed the video for ’72 Seasons’ lead single ‘Lux Æterna’. In an announcement accompanying its launch, the band mentioned the brand new tune “addresses the taboo phrase suicide”.
“The intention is to speak concerning the darkness we really feel inside. It’s ridiculous to suppose we should always deny that now we have these ideas,” the assertion continued. “At one level or one other, I consider most individuals have thought of it. To face it’s to talk the unstated. If it’s a human expertise, we should always have the ability to discuss it. You aren’t alone.”
Metallica introduced ’72 Seasons’ again in November alongside European and North American tour dates for 2023 and 2024. The brand new album – the band’s first since 2016’s ‘Hardwired… to Self-Destruct’ will arrive on April 14.
In an announcement alongside the album’s announcement, frontman James Hetfield mentioned the inspiration behind the forthcoming document’s title. “72 seasons. The primary 18 years of our lives that kind our true or false selves. The idea that we have been informed ‘who we’re’ by our dad and mom. A attainable pigeonholing round what sort of character we’re,” Hetfield mentioned.
“I feel probably the most attention-grabbing a part of that is the continued research of these core beliefs and the way it impacts our notion of the world in the present day. A lot of our grownup expertise is reenactment or response to those childhood experiences. Prisoners of childhood or breaking freed from these bondages we supply.”
The band’s upcoming world tour consists of two nights in every metropolis they’re booked to play, promising a “no repeat weekend” of two completely different units and two completely different opening acts. Helps throughout the tour embrace Architects, Pantera, Mammoth WVH, 5 Finger Demise Punch, Ice 9 Kills, Volbeat and Greta Van Fleet.
Final month, Metallica held their third annual Serving to Arms charity live performance, which raises funds for his or her All Inside My Arms organisation. On the night, the band performed an acoustic cowl of Skinny Lizzy‘s ‘Borderline’ and introduced out St. Vincent to carry out ‘Nothing Else Issues’.
