Metallica have dropped a menacing new single, ‘If Darkness Had A Son’ – test it out under.
The track is the third single, after ‘Screaming Suicide’ and ‘Lux Æterna’ to be taken from the band’s upcoming album, ’72 Seasons’, which might be launched on April 14.
Previous to the monitor’s launch, Metallica teased ‘If Darkness Had A Son’ on TikTok. The band shared an 80-second instrumental of the brand new track by way of the platform, that includes every band member duetting with their bandmates. The movies began out with simply drummer Lars Ulrich, with every band member becoming a member of in one after the other.
“Duet this,” they then wrote to followers.
Try the video for ‘If Darkness Had A Son’ under:
Talking concerning the inspiration behind the identify of ’72 Seasons’ in a press launch, frontman James Hetfield stated: “72 seasons. The primary 18 years of our lives that kind our true or false selves. The idea that we have been advised ‘who we’re’ by our mother and father. A doable pigeonholing round what sort of character we’re. I feel essentially the most attention-grabbing a part of that is the continued examine of these core beliefs and the way it impacts our notion of the world as we speak. 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.”
Metallica will embark on a world tour in help of ’72 Seasons’ the identical month it’s launched. The European leg of Metallica’s world tour will kick off in Amsterdam on April 27, 2023, making stops in Paris, Hamburg and Gothenburg all through Could and June, earlier than persevering with on North America. The band will then return to Europe for the second leg by means of Could, June and July 2024, adopted by additional dates in North America.
The band will play two nights in every metropolis, every with its personal distinctive setlist and no repeats throughout the exhibits. Every present can even have totally different opening acts. Help throughout the tour comes from Architects, Mammoth WVH, 5 Finger Demise Punch, Ice 9 Kills, Pantera, Volbeat and Greta Van Fleet.
The tour features a cease at Obtain the place Metallica will headline twice throughout the prolonged 4-day celebration of the competition’s twentieth anniversary.
The band can even maintain a listening get together the night time earlier than ’72 Seasons’ comes out for followers to listen to the album a day early, in addition to see the accompanying music movies.
