![]() I forgot that part.” Trujillo taught himself to cook (speciality dish: Mexican enchiladas with a secret sauce). What else was I going to do? Oh yeah, and I made a solo record (last year’s Portals EP). Hammett “played guitar and increased my meditation time considerably. Up to then, Ulrich says he’d passed the various lockdown periods “hobbling along trying to figure out whether I should binge-watch forty episodes of The Crown this week”. Self-isolating at home, they communicated with each other via Zoom meetings. By Ulrich’s estimate, the band officially started work on it during the late summer of 2020, and when still in the teeth of the covid pandemic. ![]() In the manner of its beginning, at least, 72 Seasons took shape like no other Metallica record. “And no opinion is not worthy! When you haven’t shared any new music for six years, it’s nice just to press the button and get it out of the house, so to speak. “I’m preparing myself for the barrage of different opinions,” he continues. He likes the songs, he says, adding the caveat: “I haven’t quite figured anything more out,to be honest. He’s been listening to it most often while looking out of the window of a moving car, and also whenever he’s working out at home. In the past few weeks, Ulrich has set himself to taking stock of 72 Seasons as a whole, complete piece. Everything in Metallica world just now has the look of being in ship-shape working order, a well-oiled machine. Their combined crackle of electric energy and urgent intent ramped up by the videos accompanying them – slickly stylised, attention-grabbing clips, the work of New York-based photographer/filmmaker Tim Saccenti, who also counts Depeche Mode and Coldplay as clients. The three new songs have been met with an overwhelmingly positive response from the Metallica faithful. Each of them, Ulrich especially, is in relaxed but expansive mood.Īs well they might be. It’s seasonably mild in California and, reports Hammett, raining sideways in Hawaii. ![]() On another mid-February morning, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Rob Trujillo are at their homes in, respectively, San Francisco, Honolulu, and Topanga Canyon – a hop to the west of Los Angeles. The band were also the subject of a weighty profile piece in august, scholarly American magazine The New Yorker (among its other recent, and more typical, profile subjects are Salman Rushdie, American-Iranian conceptual artist Tala Madani, and Swiss explorer Bertrand Piccard). Since the Stranger Things episode aired last July, the original Metallica track has had more than half a billion streams on Spotify. Tye Trujillo recorded his part at a tiny studio in Venice Beach, unbeknown at the time to James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett. It was, in fact, Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo’s 18-year-old son, Tye, playing the re-recorded riff (the young Trujillo’s third-grade teacher happens to be married to one of the show’s producers). More accurately, the grandstanding moment in season four’s finale episode when Hellfire Club metalhead Eddie Munson cranked out Master Of Puppets from the roof of his trailer in the Upside Down. ![]() Put another way, Metallica are riding the wave of the Stranger Things effect.
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