NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 24: Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield of Metallica perform onstage during Global Citizen Festival 2022: New York at Central Park on September 24, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Global Citizen)
Metallica’s first studio album since 2016’s Hardwired to Self-Destruct is coming. The new album is 72 Seasons. James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich are again co-producers with Greg Fidelman, a producer from Slipknot, Black Sabbath records. What kind of Metallica record can we expect this time around? What will Lars’s snare drum sound like?
Metallica will support 72 Seasons with the massive “M-72.” world tour. The trek is scheduled to begin on April 27 in Amsterdam and run through Sept. 29, 2024, in Mexico City. The band will play two nights per city over the course of a “No Repeat Weekend,” with each night featuring a different set list and lineup. Opening acts include Pantera, Wolfgang’s Mammoth WVH, and Greta Van Fleet, with a stop at Ford Field in Detroit for two days with one day for rockers to rest. It’s November 10 and 12, 2023.
The best part is the concert will be “in the round,” right smack dab at the 50-yard line making almost every seat a good seat. Remember when Metallica played in the round in 2009 at Joe Louis Arena? I thought I had crappy seats and turns out the band played right in front of me. I know it’s a year away but a show like this will be epic. The new album will be a concept record. Allegedly it centers on the perception of the world today through their eyes. I don’t want to get too deep into phycology wise but remember how that concept worked for Pink Floyds’, “The Wall.”
Metallica has been together since 1981 and this is the best news coming from the Metallica camp in a long time. The only thing is I hope I don’t have to get a second mortgage on my house to afford tickets. Metallica has announced a new album titled 72 Seasons, to be released on April 14.
'Metallica' & The 9 Other Best-Selling Albums During the SoundScan Era
Metallica released their self-titled fifth studio album on August 12, 1991. Affectionately known as “The Black Album,” the LP became a game-changer for the band. It also had a massive impact on the music industry at large thanks to the game-changing technology then known as SoundScan, which premiered on March 1, 1991.
Per a feature piece from Billboard, “SoundScan, which is now known as MRC Data, measured album sales as they happened — stores scanned bar codes at the checkout register — and over the next few months [after its launch] it upended the conventional music business wisdom about what sold, as well as when and how. It revealed the popularity of several genres — alternative rock, country, hip-hop, harder metal — that had been seen as commercially marginal compared to bread-and-butter pop-rock bands.”
Basically, SoundScan provided real-time data of what was actually selling at record stores and other retailers, and it has provided proof of Metallica’s popularity.
How popular are the metal icons? “The Black Album” is the biggest selling record in the United States since the launch of SoundScan.
Metallica, however, has some very unique company on the list of the biggest selling albums of the SoundScan era. Scroll through the gallery below to see which titles join them in the top ten.
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When he’s not out on the streets, you can find him in his game room, where he collects jukeboxes and classic pinball machines. Screamin also devotes time doing local charities with his, "Screamin Angels"; and for 15 years with Rock 4 Tots charity.
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