72 Seasons (song)
"72 Seasons" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica, it was released as the fourth single from the band's eleventh studio album 72 Seasons alongside a music video. The song was first teased a couple of days prior on March 27, 2023 as a 15‑second excerpt, where they continued to release longer clips each day until its release.[3] The music video features the band playing the song while being illuminated by lasers[4] in front of artwork by Canadian artist Kelly Richardson.[5] At the 66th Grammy Awards, "72 Seasons" won the award for Best Metal Performance.[6]
"72 Seasons"
Reception[edit]
Writing for Audio Ink Radio, Anne Erickson described the track as "actually feeling like you are going through a roller-coaster of seasons", describing Kirk Hammett's guitar as "sharp", and overall calling the song "a musical journey" alternating [between] fast-thrash guitar solos and musical breakdowns.[8] Writing for Rolling Stone, Kory Grow also described it as being a journey of sorts, with "heavy-piston jugging riffs" and "a fiery, wah-wah inflected solo" by Hammett.[9] Jon Hadusek of Consequence Of Sound considered the song to be the "fastest" and "grooviest" of all of the singles released from the album. They thought the song to have a tensions-building instrumental with a quick tempo and a "soaring chorus hook".[4]
Metallica
Production