![]() 72 Seasons keeps up the trend at an hour and 17. What we know for sure is that every studio album Metallica have put out since 1996’s Load has been around an hour and 15 minutes long. But that’s all for the armchair shrinks to sort out. Does it have something to do with the fact that original members James Hetfield (vocals/guitar) and Lars Ulrich (drums) met just before they turned 18? Could be. Given the title and premise of 72 Seasons-the concept is that everything we become as adults is shaped by our first 18 years, or 72 seasons-the band were clearly thinking about life cycles. Death Magnetic came out eight years before that (close enough). Their 11th studio LP, 72 Seasons, comes seven years after Hardwired…to Self-Destruct. In astrology, there’s a theory that every seven years, imperceptible shifts in the cosmos influence our lives. In biology, there’s the popular (but not quite true) idea that all the cells in the human body replace themselves every seven years. ![]() In psychology, you’ve got the seven-year itch-the hypothesis that humans stray from committed relationships after about seven years. Psychology, biology and astrology all have tenets based on the seven-year cycle. ![]()
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