I can’t say that I’m ever really too excited about new Metallica music because if we’re being honest, when you go to one of their shows they’re almost certainly only going to play songs that came out over 25 years ago, but seeing Lux Æterna (is that some kind of weird reference to Elon Musk and Grimes’ baby?) drop this morning I still felt compelled to check it out.

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Thankfully, it was actually pretty good as well. Again, it’s not hitting the heights of some of the classic Metallica tracks from the 80s and 90s, but it’s fast, chuggy, has some great lead guitar and a pretty catchy chorus. Definitely not enough ‘yeah’s though sadly.

The video seems to be what Metallica always does with videos now, which is just them playing in some weird room with a few strange lights. I don’t hate that but it’s hardly as cool as playing in San Quentin prison is it?

Take a look below and see what you think, as well as seeing James Hetfield’s comments about the new album ’72 Seasons’ too:

72 seasons. The first 18 years of our lives that form our true or false selves.

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.

Yeah, sounds like they’re going pretty deep in their old age with the concept on this album hey? Wonder if it’ll be as memorable as their collaboration with Lou Reed from back in the day. That really was something else wasn’t it?

New song is OK though. Might check the album out when it drops in April next year.

For more of the same, check out when someone transposed ‘Nothing Else Matters’ into a major key. Also something else.