Metallica announced Saturday, National American Sign Language Day, that they will release ASL videos for every track on their just-released LP 72 Seasons. The heavy metal legends first shared their ASL-accompanied video the album’s title track, with the remainder of 72 Seasons’ songs to be released with an ASL visual …
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Welcome to our weeklyrundownof the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, the first release of the year from Post Malone, Kelly Clarkson teases her highly anticipated album Chemistry, Doja Cat adds to the narrative in a remix with SZA, …
Read More »Watch Metallica Power Through 'Master of Puppets' on 'Kimmel'
Metallica continued their residency on Jimmy Kimmel Live with a raucous, eight-minute rendition of their 1986 song “Master of Puppets.” The metal band, performing a four-night stint on the late-night show, gave the hard-hitting song its full due on the Kimmel stage. The live rendition of “Master of Puppets” follows …
Read More »Metallica Preps for '72 Seasons' Album Release With 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Takeover
In the days leading up to the release of their new album, 72 Seasons, Metallica will perform every night on Jimmy Kimmel Live! starting next week, the band announced Friday. “In a first for theJimmy Kimmel Live!show, it’s ‘Metallica Week,’ as we will be the musical guest each night, beginning …
Read More »Metallica Deliver Some of the Deepest, Hardest-Hitting Music of Their Career on '72 Seasons'
Yellow and black are the colors of caution signs, fallout shelters, and “Baby on Board” placards — warnings of imminent menace and catastrophe if you don’t get your shit together. So it’s fitting that Metallica would adopt the color scheme for the cover of 72 Seasons, their meditation of sorts …
Read More »Power Trip Festival: Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC, Guns N' Roses to Shake Coachella Grounds
Some of metal and hard rock’s most celebrated artists will decimate the Coachella grounds this fall for the inaugural Power Trip festival. Guns N’ Roses, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, and Tool are all set to play Indio, California’s Empire Polo Club on October 6, 7, and 8. Ticketing …
Read More »Metallica Rage About the 'Wrath of Man' on '72 Seasons' Title Track
Metallica conjure the “wrath of man” in a molten hellscape in the video for “72 Seasons,” the title track of their upcoming album. James Hetfield sings bleak lyrics like “staring into black light, permanently midnight” and “mad seasons take their toll” while playing heavy, piston-chugging riffs. The song is a …
Read More »James Hetfield to Appear Alongside Peter Dinklage in Upcoming Western Thriller
Metallica frontman James Hetfield will step outside of his wheelhouse to act in the upcoming Western thriller, The Thicket, according to Deadline. Based on Joe R. Lansdale’s like-titled book, the film also stars Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) and Juliette Lewis. Hetfield’s role has not yet been revealed. Filming has …
Read More »Metallica Drop New Seven-Minute Epic 'If Darkness Had a Son'
After Metallica teased snippets of their new song “If Darkness Had a Son” for the kids on TikTok, the metal legends unleashed the seven-minute 72 Seasons epic in its entirety Wednesday. The track comes paired with a Tim Saccenti-directed music video capturing Metallica performing the song at a Los Angeles …
Read More »Metallica Donates $250K to Turkey/Syria Earthquake Relief
Metallica‘s non-profit foundation All Within My Hands has made a $250,000 donation toward relief efforts following the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. In the few days since the natural disaster struck, the death toll has reached more than 41,000 individuals, with thousands more injured and displaced. “We’re at a …
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