exclusive meeting with Metallica for the release of the new album “72 seasons”

Metallica is more than 40 years of a career led drum beating, without concessions, placing metal in the popular media sphere, to become a huge machine that brings together hundreds of thousands of spectators in concert each year. James Hetfield, singer-guitarist, and Kirk Hammett, guitarist of Metallica, received franceinfo for an exclusive interview, on the occasion of the release of their new album, 72 Seasonsstarted in the midst of a pandemic, “a bittersweet time”.

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The two musicians still fondly remember their beginnings: “40 years ago, when we first saw our record kill ’em allit was magical”, assures James Hetfield. And Kirk Hammett to smile again: “Looking at the record, flipping the sleeve over and seeing our heads behind it, I showed it to my mom and said, ‘Look, I’m not the moron you thought I was!’

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40 years later, no nostalgia: “Our goal was not to have a job, not to have to work. And it worked pretty well!”. Before specifying: “It was never our goal to be ‘established’ in pop culture. We never wavered, as grunge, new metal, alternative came and went, and we’re still here. ”