72 Seasons
At 77 minutes, Metallica’s eleventh studio album delivers everything you could want from a Metallica album in 2023 and so much more. Too much more.
There's no doubting the revitalised energy coursing through the veins of Metallica and 72 Seasons. It's potently exuberant as if they have been supping from the fountain of youth and are now going hell-bent for leather with experimentation and curiosity…
On album eleven, the hard rock veterans roll back the years to deliver a thrilling sonic onslaught - including their longest ever song
By not pressing to recapture the past, Metallica sound more liberated than they have in decades.
Metallica triumph (again) on sprawling but deadly 11th album. Can we get a yeah-heah?
While promoting Metallica's 11th album, Lars Ulrich claimed 72 Seasons was "maybe the most friction-free record we've ever made," which is a fair assessment of the LP.
Forty years on from their genre-defining debut, 'Kill 'Em All,' world-conquering thrashers Metallica return with an album very much embracing their roots
James Hetfield’s adventurous lyrics aren’t matched by the tempo on a 77-minute album set to chug mode
Despite being the biggest heavy metal band of them all, METALLICA have a tough time of it. "72 Seasons" arrives a forgivable seven years after the well-received "Hardwired… To Self-Destruct", and like each of its post-Black Album predecessors, it is destined to be praised and derided in equal measur...
Graham Ray reviews the new album from the biggest heavy metal band in the world! Read the review of '72 Seasons' by Metallica here!
"Ultimately, 72 Seasons is a record that sits sonically somewhere between The Black Album and Reload, if those records immediately came after Kill 'Em All."
Metallica's ‘72 Seasons’ serves as a streamlined hodgepodge of everything the band has done to date but lacks mellower moments.
While their most musically cautious work, Metallica's '72 Seasons' still takes some huge risks. We all deserve to be happy, including our heavy metal heroes.
With weighty lyrics referencing James Hetfield’s ongoing recovery and harking back to the band’s formative British influences, 72 Seasons has the edge of Metallica’s 80s heyday – albeit one blunted by overlong songs
Metallica - 72 Seasons review: Nostalgia will provide your fuel and fire if that is what you desire.
The heavy metal band are belligerent as ever, Merchant is full of existential desire and Manchester trio GoGo Penguin are the sound of hope