Watch: Metallica’s First Ever “Lux Æterna” Live Performance
Metallica performs its first time “Lux Æterna” in the third Helping Hands Concert and supports the All Within My Hands organization. The performance was also held at Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater.
Metallica’s First Ever “Lux Æterna” Live Performance
The third time the “Helping Hands Concert & Auction” began with a special set by guest Greta Van Fleet. Metallica played a one-of-a-kind two-part concert, the first acoustic and the second more electrically. This includes Metallica‘s latest surprise hit, “Lux Æterna,” making its live premiere. While fan-filmed videos immediately spread around the internet. A professionally recorded video of the “Lux Æterna” performance is available below.
When is the release date of the ’72 Seasons’ album?
“Lux Æterna” is the first song from Metallica’s new and upcoming 12th studio album, “72 Seasons.” This is set to be released on April 14, 2023, via Blackened Recordings. Metallica’s first full-length compilation of new songs since 2016’s “Hardwired…To Self-Destruct” clocks in at over 77 minutes and was produced by Greg Fidelman alongside Metallica vocalist James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.
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Metallica‘s James Hetfield also said this about this new album: “‘Lux Æterna‘ is an upbeat, kind of fast and joyous song, I would say. Really indicative of New Wave Of British Metal stuff, so kind of a harkening-back-to-’80s kind of riff. It’s just fun and makes me move. It was fun making the video, fun recording a song that comes out really easy, that was a real easy song to write and to perform, like I said, very much like the early ’80s for us.”
He also added:
’72 Seasons’ came out of a book I was reading about childhood, basically, and sorting out childhood as an adult. And 72 seasons is basically the first 18 years of your life. How do you evolve. And grow and mature and develop your own ideas and identity of self after those first 72 seasons? Some things are more difficult than others. You know, some things you can’t unsee. And they’re with you for the rest of your life, and other things you’re able to rewind the tape and make a new tape in your life. So that’s the real interesting part for me, is how you’re able to address those situations as an adult and mature.”
“There’s been a lot of darkness in my life and in our career and things that have happened with us. But always having a sense of hope, always having the light that is in that darkness…
Without darkness, there is no light, and being able to focus a little more on the light in life instead of all of the… how it used to be and how horrible it is… There is a lot of good things going on in life. Focusing on that instead. And it helps to balance out my life. And there’s no one meaning to it. Everyone has some sense of hope or light in their life, and, obviously, music is mine. And the song specifically talks about gathering of people at a concert and able to see the joy and the life and the love that comes out of music and the family and the kinship in that, and just a sense of uplifting.”
Watch the Metallica: Lux Æterna (Los Angeles, CA – December 16, 2022) below!
’72 Seasons’ album 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
Metallica – “Lux Æterna” lyrics:
Anticipation
In domination
A sea of hearts beat as one, unified
Magnification
All generations
Approaching thunder awaiting the light
Full speed or nothing
Full speed or nothing
Lux Æterna
Lux Æterna
Exhilaration
Frenzied sensation
Kindred alliance connected inside
Commiseration
Sonic salvation
Cast out the demons that strangle your life
Full speed or nothing
Full speed or nothing
Lux Æterna
Lux Æterna
Lux Æterna
Emancipation
Kill isolation
Never alone for the feelings alike
Amplification
Lightning the nation
Never alive more
Than right here tonight
Full speed or nothing
Full speed or nothing
Lux Æterna
Lux Æterna
Light it
