Paste Magazine: Facing Musical Mortality, Metallica Contemplate Youth on 72 Seasons

Metallica’s present-day members are either just on the verge of or just past the age of 60. Ditto for their peers in thrash metal’s so-called Big Four: Anthrax, Slayer and Megadeth. While promoting Metallica’s last album Hardwired to Self-Destruct, drummer Lars Ulrich disclosed that no one knows how much longer the metal giants will be able to hold up the physical end of the bargain. Oddly, this sense of finality never appears, even as a faint shadow, in the 77 minutes of wall-to-wall riffing on the band’s eleventh studio album 72 Seasons.

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