NEWS
2023/04/12
“British Telecom, fuck…” chuckles Lars Ulrich, as he and Kerrang! battle against the trials of transatlantic phone calls, having finally managed to connect his home in San Francisco with K!’s London HQ. The drummer jokes that this period of faffing around is “the calmest 10 minutes I’ve had all week”, but he’s not wrong, with a Herculean press drive filling his calendar, as the world readies itself for the biggest metal album of the year. It’s been seven years since Metallica’s last record, Hardwired… To Self-Destruct, and while the band might be grizzled veterans at making award-winning, millions-selling music by now, their upcoming 11th full-length 72 Seasons was created under entirely new circumstances thanks to a certain global pandemic. With the band booking...
