At the height of their ascension, there was the devastating 1986 death of bassist Cliff Burton. Tragedy and internal strife has also beset the band over the decades. There was the exactingly unfavorable response to their collaboration with Lou Reed, Lulu the sellout accusations that came with the shortened hair and style shifts of Load and the backlash against Ulrich and the band’s litigious action towards fans during the Napster drama of the early 2000s. I get it because I'm that way with groups that I like.”įans indeed have rebelled against certain Metallica eras. “It always seems like the band bounces back, and somehow we able to make the right statement in their mind. But they love us so much that they get pissed off at us when we try different things,” he opines. They're the best fans in the world, in my opinion. Trujillo is aware that means people won’t always appreciate the warts. It's coming from the heart – we'll say, warts and all.” Metallica’s “new kid,” bassist Robert Trujillo, has been with the band for 20 years and has his own take on their secrets to success: "Honesty in the music and in the creativity. We like to feel that we're making a difference for the fans, the audience.” “We love what we do, and we love being engaged with what we do with each other. You force yourself to keep coming up with new ways to do it, so you don't fall into autopilot or just traps of being a stuck in a cage,” Ulrich explains. “You have to keep finding different ways to stay engaged. If the band members are engrossed and obsessed with all aspects of their art, the audience will follow. Keeping that fire burning is a big concept in the Metallica milieu. And we're fired up and ready to go, you know?” It might be 12 days later, like, ‘Hey, should we figure something out and start getting together again?’ It’s kind of restlessness. “I say ‘shut down,’ but it was sort of an, ‘Okay, we'll see you guys next year' type of thing. That's the longest break we've had.” The drummer backtracks slightly. We were on the road for ’03 and ‘04, and then we took most of ‘05 clean off. “The last time we really put the brakes on Metallica was in 2005,” he says. For that matter, they really haven’t slowed down since forming in 1981. In a lengthy conversation with Consequence, the drummer notes Metallica “don’t ever really shut down.” Indeed, they haven’t taken extended time off in the past 18 years – or 72 seasons, as it were. Lars Ulrich is, as ever, the band’s Energizer bunny onstage and off, leading the charge with his unbelievable attention to detail and unwavering focus. But in the ocean of music, Metallica are the sharks who must keep swimming or die. After a remarkable 40-year career, Metallica is in the top echelon of bands who could easily rest on their considerable laurels. As always, their audience is along for the ride, ready for a worldwide tour stretching until September 2024. That wisdom may come with more tattoos and graying hair, but Metallica maintain their title as metal’s most recognizable name. There’s both torture and triumph in his words, offering hope for young listeners in the thick of it as well as Hetfield’s own generation inspired by the singer’s soul searching. Hetfield has gone deeper and more intensely personal than ever on 72 Seasons, laying bare the wounds inflicted in his first 18 years. The lyrics on Metallica’s new studio album owe much to therapy, sobriety and self-reflection. The first single off that album, “Whiplash,” also addresses the sacred audience-artist connection, if from the point of view of a younger, brasher thrasher: “Late at night, all systems go, you've come to see the show/ We do our best, you're the rest, you make it real, you know.” Imagine the feeling as he takes the Metallica stage, bellowing out to the expansive crowd, "Emancipation kill isolation/ Never alone for the feelings alike.”Īs the lead single off 72 Seasons, “Lux Æterna” serves as a through-line from 1983’s incendiary Kill ‘Em All debut. Salvation and connection are the goals, he proselytizes, the song’s power-punk musicality as raw as the real-life traumas that fuel Hetfield’s lyrics.
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“Cast out the demons that strangle your life/ Full speed or nothin', full speed or nothin',” James Hetfield roars on “Lux Æterna.” It’s a heady rallying cry that’s a mantra as much for the frontman as for the millions of fans for whom Metallica toils.
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