4 a long time is an extended fucking time to do something. Simply ask Metallica founding member and drummer Lars Ulrich, who’s been behind the equipment for the most important metallic band on the earth since 1981. Again in these days, they performed small venues, however it solely took a number of years till they had been touring with Ozzy after which headlining their very own enviornment gigs.

Now, Metallica are on a world tour supporting 72 Seasons, their twelfth studio effort launched earlier this 12 months. Whereas talking with Jim Kerr of New York’s Q104.3 radio station (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), Ulrich mirrored on Metallica’s present standing as the highest of the heavy metallic meals chain and the lengthy highway it’s taken to get there.

“It’s fairly surreal, actually. 42 years in, it’s fairly loopy. And it’s nonetheless, and I’ve mentioned this a thousand instances, and those that comply with us most likely roll their eyes each time the next comes out of my mouth, however it nonetheless appears like we’re simply getting began and it nonetheless appears like we’re simply making an attempt to determine all of it out and we maintain threatening, at the very least to individuals round us, that we may very well flip skilled sooner or later.

“However it’s loopy, the dedication and the help from the followers over time. And, clearly, it’s not all the identical followers. There’s an entire revolving door, and particularly within the wake of, say, a phenomena like Stranger Issues final summer season, there’s an entire new, younger technology which can be displaying up in any respect the exhibits, and I’m getting acknowledged by 10-year-olds on the road. And so it’s fairly loopy that 42 years into this trip that that’s nonetheless occurring and it’s fairly loopy the exhibits we have now right here this weekend at MetLife are the most important exhibits we’ve ever performed within the larger New York, Jersey, tri-state space. So the truth that that retains form of proceed to develop and positively post-COVID, that there’s this sort of pleasure, admiration, appreciation for stay music and that everyone’s out celebrating life and togetherness and so forth is a loopy factor.”

In keeping with Ulrich, loads of the success they’re experiencing right this moment of their 50s and 60s may be instantly attributed to the grind they maintained a long time earlier. Again then, Metallica had been infamous highway canine, touring the world in help of every album that got here out. Issues particularly received busy after the discharge of their self-titled album again in 1991 off the again of hit singles like “Enter Sandman” and “Unhappy However True.”

Now, as elder statesmen for the metallic world, Ulrich mentioned they will take their time and revel in issues for as soon as.

“For lots of years, in our twenties and thirties, we had been filled with piss and vinegar, as they are saying, and possibly by no means slowed down lengthy sufficient to take any of it in, as one doesn’t when one simply retains cruising at that velocity, however now in our superior ages right here, despite the fact that we nonetheless really feel, we nonetheless really feel [very young], it’s superb that there’s nonetheless this love for heavy music and for what we do. The distinction now, in comparison with, say, 20, 30 years in the past, is that we decelerate lengthy sufficient to take it in and recognize the love, recognize the generosity of the followers and the interplay and the way lucky all of us are sharing music and to have the ability to nonetheless really feel that we’re out right here, and like I mentioned earlier than, we nonetheless join with followers on the stage that we’re connecting and we nonetheless have a stage of form of music and a stage of, I assume, depth and may go up and really feel that we’re delivering the products to the extent that we nonetheless can share that and be ok with what we’re doing.”

In the event you’re into Metallica and need to catch them on the highway, you could find the total record of tour dates, in addition to hyperlinks to get your palms on tickets, under.

METALLICA
M72 WORLD TOUR 2023-2024

Friday, August 4 2023 – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium [Tickets]
Sunday, August 6 2023 – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium [Tickets]
Friday, August 11 2023 – Montreal, QC – Stade Olympique [Tickets]
Sunday, August 13 2023 – Montreal, QC – Stade Olympique [Tickets]
Friday, August 18 2023 – Arlington, TX – AT&T Stadium [Tickets]
Sunday, August 20 2023 – Arlington, TX – AT&T Stadium [Tickets]
Friday, August 25 2023 – Inglewood, CA – SoFi Stadium [Tickets]
Sunday, August 27 2023 – Inglewood, CA – SoFi Stadium [Tickets]
Friday, September 1 2023 – Glendale, AZ – State Farm Stadium [Tickets]
Sunday, September 3, 2023 – Glendale, AZ – State Farm Stadium [Tickets]
Friday, November 3, 2023 – St. Louis, MO – The Dome at America’s Middle [Tickets]
Sunday, November 5, 2023 – St. Louis, MO – The Dome at America’s Middle [Tickets]
Friday, November 10, 2023 – Detroit, MI – Ford Area [Tickets]
Sunday, November 12, 2023 – Detroit, MI – Ford Area [Tickets]

Friday, Could 24 2024 – Munich DE – Olympiastadion [Tickets]
Sunday, Could 26 2024 – Munich DE – Olympiastadion [Tickets]
Friday, June 7 2024 – Helsinki FI – Olympic Stadium [Tickets]
Sunday, June 9 2024 – Helsinki FI – Olympic Stadium [Tickets]
Friday, June 14 2024 – Copenhagen DK – Parken Stadium [Tickets]
Sunday, June 16 2024 – Copenhagen DK – Parken Stadium [Tickets]
Friday, July 5 2024 – Warsaw PL – PGE Narodowy [Tickets]
Sunday, July 7 2024 – Warsaw PL – PGE Narodowy [Tickets]
Friday, July 12 2024 – Madrid ES – Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano [Tickets]
Sunday, July 14 2024 – Madrid ES – Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano [Tickets]

Friday, August 2 2024 – Foxborough, MA – Gillette Stadium [Tickets]
Sunday, August 4 2024 – Foxborough, MA – Gillette Stadium [Tickets]
Friday, August 9 2024 – Chicago, IL – Soldier Area [Tickets]
Sunday, August 11 2024 – Chicago, IL – Soldier Area [Tickets]
Friday, August 16 2024 – Minneapolis, MN – US Financial institution Stadium [Tickets]
Sunday, August 18 2024 – Minneapolis, MN – US Financial institution Stadium [Tickets]
Friday, August 23 2024 – Edmonton, AB – Commonwealth Stadium [Tickets]
Sunday, August 25 2024 – Edmonton, AB – Commonwealth Stadium [Tickets]
Friday, August 30 2024 – Seattle, WA – Lumen Area [Tickets]
Sunday, September 1 2024 – Seattle, WA – Lumen Area [Tickets]
Friday, September 20 2024 – Mexico Metropolis MX – Foro Sol*** [Tickets]
Sunday, September 22 2024 – Mexico Metropolis MX – Foro Sol [Tickets]
Friday, September 27 2024 – Mexico Metropolis MX – Foro Sol*** [Tickets]
Sunday, September 29 2024 – Mexico Metropolis MX – Foro Sol [Tickets]