Robert Trujillo & His Metallica Band Mates Announce New Album “72 Seasons” & Supporting Tour

It’s a new season(s) for Robert Trujillo.

The 58-year-old half-Mexican American musician and his Metallica band mates will release a new album and launch a massive world tour next year.

MetallicaThe veteran metal band’s 12th studio album, 72 Seasons, will be released on April 14 via the band’s Blackened Recordings imprint.

The first full-length from the band since 2016’s Hardwired… To Self-Destruct, was produced by Greg Fidelman along with Metallica singer/guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich. At more than 77 minutes, the 12-track collection can be previewed now via the thundering, breakneck first single, “Lux Æterna.”

“72 seasons. The first 18 years of our lives that form our true or false selves,” Hetfield said in a statement announcing the album. “The concept that we were told ‘who we are’ by our parents. A possible pigeonholing around what kind of personality we are. I think the most interesting part of this is the continued study of those core beliefs and how it affects our perception of the world today. Much of our adult experience is reenactment or reaction to these childhood experiences. Prisoners of childhood or breaking free of those bondages we carry.”

The band also announced a massive 2023-2024 Live Nation-promoted tour on Monday, November 28, during which they will play two nights in every city they visit, with each No Repeat Weekend featuring two completely different setlists and support acts.

The M72 world tour will feature an in-the-round stage set-up that will move the signature up-close Metallica Snake Pit section to center stage, with the band performing on the circular stage around the 800-1,000-person fan area. The tour will also feature discounted tickets for fans 16 and under.

The world trek is currently slated to kick off on April 27 with a pair of shows at the Johan Cruijff Arena in Amsterdam, followed by two-night stands in Paris, Hamburg (Germany) and Gothenburg (Sweden) before hitting U.S. shores on August 4 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. for a series of North American gigs currently slated to run through a November 12 show at Ford Field in Detroit. The outing will pick up again on May 24, 2024 with another European swing before returning to North America in August 2024.

Among the rotating group of opening acts slated to join them are: Architects, Mammoth WVH, Five Finger Death Punch, Ice Nine Kills, Volbeat, Pantera and Greta Van Fleet. Two-day tickets will go on sale on Friday, December 2 and will include the option of pre-ordering the 72 Seasons vinyl and/or CD; click here for more ticketing information.

72 Seasons track list:
“72 Seasons”
“Shadows Follow”
“Screaming Suicide”
“Sleepwalk My Life Away”
“You Must Burn!”
“Lux Æterna”
“Crown of Barbed Wire”
“Chasing Light”
“If Darkness Had a Son”
“Too Far Gone?”
“Room of Mirrors”
“Inamorata”

M72 2023-2024 Tour Dates
April 27 – Amsterdam NL @ Johan Cruijff Arena
April 29 – Amsterdam NL @ Johan Cruijff Arena
May 17 – Paris FR @ Stade de France*
May 19 – Paris FR @ Stade de France
May 26 – Hamburg DE @ Volksparkstadion
May 28 – Hamburg DE @ Volksparkstadion
June 16 – Gothenburg SE @ Ullevi Stadium**
June 18 – Gothenburg SE @ Ullevi Stadium
August 4 – East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium
August 6 – East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium
August 11 – Montreal, QC @ Stade Olympique
August 13 – Montreal, QC @ Stade Olympique
August 18 – Arlington, TX @ AT&T Stadium
August 20 – Arlington, TX @ AT&T Stadium
August 25 – Inglewood, CA @ SoFi Stadium
August 27 – Inglewood, CA @ SoFi Stadium
Sept. 1 – Glendale, AZ @ State Farm Stadium
Sept. 3 – Glendale, AZ @ State Farm Stadium
Nov. 3 – St. Louis, MO @ The Dome at America’s Center
Nov. 5 – St. Louis, MO @ The Dome at America’s Center
Nov. 10 – Detroit, MI @ Ford Field
Nov. 12 – Detroit, MI @ Ford Field
May 24, 2024 – Munich DE @ Olympiastadion
May 26, 2024 – Munich DE @ Olympiastadion
June 7, 2024 – Helsinki FI @ Olympic Stadium
June 9, 2024 – Helsinki FI @ Olympic Stadium
June 14, 2024 – Copenhagen DK @ Parken Stadium
June 16, 2024 – Copenhagen DK @ Parken Stadium
July 5, 2024 – Warsaw PL @ PGE Narodowy
July 7, 2024 – Warsaw PL @ PGE Narodowy
July 12, 2024 – Madrid ES @ Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano
July 14, 2024 – Madrid ES @ Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano
August 2, 2024 – Foxborough, MA @ Gillette Stadium
August 4, 2024 – Foxborough, MA @ Gillette Stadium
August 9, 2024 – Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field
August 11, 2024 – Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field
August 16, 2024 – Minneapolis, MN @ US Bank Stadium
August 18, 2024 – Minneapolis, MN @ US Bank Stadium
August 23, 2024 – Edmonton, AB @ Commonwealth Stadium
August 25, 2024 – Edmonton, AB @ Commonwealth Stadium
August 30, 2024 – Seattle, WA @ Lumen Field
Sept. 1, 2024 – Seattle, WA @ Lumen Field
Sept. 20, 2024 – Mexico City MX @ Foro Sol***
Sept. 22, 2024 – Mexico City MX @ Foro Sol
Sept. 27, 2024 – Mexico City MX @ Foro Sol***
Sept. 29, 2024 – Mexico City MX – Foro Sol

Show 1 Support Europe: Architects & Mammoth WVH**
Show 2 Support Europe: Five Finger Death Punch & Ice Nine Kills
*Five Finger Death Punch/Ice Nine Kills play show 1 in Paris, Architects & Mammoth WVH play show 2 in Paris
**Volbeat replaces Architects on show 1 in Gothenburg

Show 1 Support North America: Pantera & Mammoth WVH***
Show 2 Support North America: Five Finger Death Punch & Ice Nine Kills
***Greta Van Fleet replaces Pantera on show 1 both weekends in Mexico City

Ceu Earns Libera Award Nomination for Acclaimed Album “Tropix”

The sky’s the limit for Céu

The 37-year-old Brazilian singer-songwriter, whose full name is Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças, has earned a Libera Award nomination from the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM).

Céu

Céu is nominated in the Best Classical/World Album for her album Tropix, released by Six Degrees Records. The critically acclaimed album, which was released in March 2016, earned Céu two Latin Grammys last year, including Best Portuguese Language Contemporary Pop Album.

Meanwhile, Robert Trujillo and his Metallica bandmates picked up a nod in the Best Metal/Hard Rock Album category for the band’s Hardwired…To Self-Destruct album, which was released by Blackened Recordings.

The Libera Awards, which are presented by SoundExchange, recognize artistic, creative and business achievement in the independent music sector.

“The Libera Awards allow the independent recorded music community to celebrate and showcase its own,” said Richard James Burgess, CEO A2IM, in a statement. “In a digital environment where credits are sorely lacking it is increasingly necessary to identify and publically demonstrate the incredible diversity of independent music.”

The ceremony will be held June 8 at New York City’s PlayStation Theater with Ted Leo hosting the sixth annual event.

Here’s a look at this year’s nominees:

2017’s Libera Awards Nominations

Album of the Year 

  • Angel Olsen – MY WOMAN (Jagjaguwar)
  • Bon Iver – 22, A Million (Jagjaguwar)
  • Bonobo – Migration (Ninja Tune)
  • Mandolin Orange – Blindfaller (Yep Roc Records)
  • Radiohead – Moon Shaped Pool (XL Recordings)
  • Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 3 (Run the Jewels, Inc.)
  • Thundercat – Drunk (Brainfeeder)

Best Blues/Jazz/R&B Album

  • Adrian Young – Something About April II (Linear Labs)
  • BADBADNOTGOOD – IV (Innovative Leisure)
  • Bobby Rush – Porcupine Meat (Rounder Records)
  • Charles Bradley – Changes (Daptone Records)
  • Nick Waterhouse – Never Twice (Innovative Leisure)
  • Sampha – Process (Young Turks)
  • Thundercat – Drunk (Brainfeeder)

Best Live Act 

  • Angel Olsen (Jagjaguwar)
  • Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)
  • Charles Bradley (Daptone Records)
  • Chuck Prophet (Yep Roc Records)
  • Iggy Pop (Loma Vista Recordings)
  • Radiohead (XL Recordings)
  • Run the Jewels (Run the Jewels, Inc)

Best Sync Usage

  • Alabama Shakes – Transparent | Season 3 Official Trailer | Amazon Video (Music Supervisor: Arranged by Zync Music) (ATO Records)
  • Gillian Welch – Hell or High Water (Music Supervisor: Chris Robertson) (Acony Records)
  • Perfume Genius – Toyatathon 2016 Ad Spot (Music Supervisor: Abby Rubin) (Matador Records)
  • Radiohead – The Accountant Official Trailer (Music Supervisor: Miwa Okumura) (XL Recordings)
  • Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – Lincoln MKZ Spot (Music Supervisor: Neal Sugarman) (Daptone Records)
  • Sharon Van Etten – 2016 Volvo XC90 TV Commercial (Music Supervisor: Ben Dorenfeld, Grey Advertising / Jon Coombs, Secretly Group) (Jagjaguwar)
  • tUnE-yArDs – #Pixel: Memories by you, Phone by Google (Music Supervisor: Abby Rubin) (4AD)

Breakthrough Artist 

  • Delicate Steve – This Is Steve (ANTI-)
  • The Lemon Twigs – Do Hollywood (4AD)
  • Margaret Glaspy – Emotions and Math (ATO Records)
  • Margo Price – Midwest Farmer’s Daughter (Third Man Records)
  • Roosevelt – Roosevelt (City Slang)
  • Whitney – Light Upon the Lake (Secretly Canadian)
  • Young M.A – OOOUUU (M.A Music/3d)

Best Classical/World Album

  • Bing & Ruth – No Home Of The Mind (4AD)
  • Céu – Tropix (Six Degrees Records)
  • Hailu Mergia – Wede Harer Guzo (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
  • Imarhan – Imarhan (City Slang)
  • Laraaji – All In one Peace (Leaving Records)
  • Peter Broderick – Partners (Erased Tapes Records)
  • Tinariwen – Elwan (Anti-)

Best Country/Americana/Folk Album

  • Case/Lang/Veirs – Case/Lang/Veirs (ANTI-)
  • Drive-By Truckers – American Band (ATO Records)
  • Gillian Welch –  Boots No. 1: The Official Revival Bootleg (Acony Records)
  • Hiss Golden Messenger – Heart Like a Levee (Merge Records)
  • Mandolin Orange – Blindfaller (Yep Roc Records)
  • Margo Price – Midwest Farmers Daughter (Third Man Records)
  • Michael Chapman – 50 (Paradise of Bachelors)
  • Ryley Walker – Golden Sings That Have Been Sung (Dead Oceans)

Creative Packaging

  • Bobo Yéyé – Belle Époque in Upper Volta (Creative Director: Ken Shipley and Rob Sevier) (Numero Group)
  • Bonobo – Migration (Creative Director: Neil Krug) (Ninja Tune)
  • Bon Iver – 22, A Million (Creative Director: Eric Timothy Carlson) (Jagjaguwar)
  • Eggs Over Easy – The Eggs Over Easy Story (Creative Director: Nathan Golub) (Yep Roc Records)
  • King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity (Creative Director: Jason Galea) (ATO Records)
  • My Morning Jacket – It Still Moves (Deluxe Edition) (Creative Director: Jim James & Danny Cash) (ATO Records)
  • Thundercat – Drunk (Creative Director: Adam Stober) (Brainfeeder)

Best Dance/Electronica Album

  • ANOHNI – HOPELESSNESS (Secretly Canadian)
  • Bonobo – Migration (Ninja Tune)
  • Boys Noize – Mayday (Boysnoize Records)
  • DJ Shadow – The Mountain Will Fall (Mass Appeal Records)
  • Flume – Skin (Mom + Pop Music/Future Classic)
  • Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Ears (Western Vinyl)
  • TYCHO – Epoch (Ghostly International)

Independent Champion 

  • Bandcamp
  • MERLIN
  • NPR
  • PledgeMusic
  • Redeye
  • Secretly Distribution
  • Spotify

Label of the Year (6+ employees) 

  • ATO Records
  • Innovative Leisure
  • Jagjaguwar
  • Mexican Summer
  • Stones Throw
  • XL Recordings
  • Yep Roc Records

Label of the Year (<5 employees)

  • Acony Records
  • Dangerbird Records
  • Daptone Records
  • Erased Tapes Records
  • Run For Cover Records
  • Topshelf
  • Triple Crown Records

Marketing Genius

  • Bon Iver – 22, A Million – (Marketing Lead: Phil Waldorf / Tom Davies) (Jagjaguwar)
  • Charles Bradley – Changes – (Marketing Lead: Nydia Davila, Victoria Morris, and Joanna Noyes) (Daptone Records)
  • DJ Shadow – Nobody Speak Campaign – (Marketing Lead: Amit Nerurkar, Chris Mcilvenny, Annie Chen) (Mass Appeal Records)
  • Joseph – I’m Alone, No You’re Not – (Marketing Lead: Jon Salter, Laura Lyons) (ATO Records)
  • KAYTRANADA – 99.9% The Game – (Marketing Lead: Adam Berman, Pablo Douzoglou, Blake Thomas) (XL Recordings)
  • King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity – (Marketing Lead: Jon Salter, Dave McClain, Laura Lyons) (ATO Records)
  • Radiohead –  Radiohead Disappears from the Internet – (Marketing Lead: Radiohead, Scott Wright) (XL Recordings)
  • The xx – I See You (Marketing Lead: Pablo Douzoglou, Blake Thomas) (Young Turks)

Best Metal/Hard Rock Album

  • The Claypool Lennon Delirium – Monolith of Phobos (ATO Records)
  • Descendents – Hypercaffium Spazzinate (Epitaph)
  • King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity (ATO Records)
  • Metallica – Hardwired…To Self-Destruct (Blackened Recordings)
  • Pierce The Veil – Misadventures (Fearless Records)
  • Red Fang – Only Ghosts (Relapse Records)
  • White Lung – Paradise (Domino Recording Company)

Best Rap/Hip-Hop Album

  • Aesop Rock – The Impossible Kid (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
  • De La Soul – And The Anonymous Nobody (A.O.I. Records)
  • Gold Panda – Good Luck And Do Your Best (City Slang)
  • KAYTRANADA – 99.9% (XL Recordings)
  • NxWorries – Yes Lawd! (Stones Throw)
  • Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 3 (Run the Jewels, Inc.)
  • Tech N9ne – The Storm (Strange Music)

Video of the Year 

  • Angel Olsen – Shut Up Kiss Me (Jagjaguwar)
  • ANOHNI – Drone Bomb Me (Secretly Canadian)
  • Bonobo – Kerala (Ninja Tune)
  • DJ Shadow feat. Run The Jewels – Nobody Speak (Mass Appeal Records)
  • King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Gamma Knife/People-Vultures (ATO Records)
  • Mitski – Your Best American Girl (Dead Oceans)
  • Radiohead – Daydreaming (XL Recordings)

Video of the Year (Fan Vote) Sponsored by YouTube

  • Angel Olsen – Shut Up Kiss Me (Jagjaguwar)
  • ANOHNI – Drone Bomb Me (Secretly Canadian)
  • Bonobo – Kerala (Ninja Tune)
  • DJ Shadow feat. Run The Jewels – Nobody Speak (Mass Appeal Records)
  • King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Gamma Knife/People-Vultures (ATO Records)
  • Mitski – Your Best American Girl (Dead Oceans)
  • Radiohead – Daydreaming (XL Recordings)