Lars Ulrich admits he reads online comments about Metallica

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Metallica’s Lars Ulrich has admitted that he sometimes reads comments about the band online.In a new interview with Metal Hammer, Ulrich said he occasionally reads social media comments about his band’s music online.

In the interview, he said that he was reading what fans were saying online about the band’s surprise comeback single ‘Lux Æterna“ last year.He said: “If you decide to go down into the comment sections, at least for me, you have to prepare yourself for not taking any of it overly personally.

You have to kind of remove yourself from it. But I’d like to challenge anybody in a band to say they don’t look at comments.“I mean, I’m not sitting up until four o’clock in the morning scrolling through every one,” he continued. “But when you haven’t put any music out in five or six years and you dump something like ‘Lux Æterna’ on an unsuspecting world, you’re going to want to see what the feedback is.”Last year, Metallica announced details of a new album, ‘72 Seasons’, and a huge world tour for 2023 and 2024.The follow-up to 2016’s ‘Hardwired… To Self-Destruct‘ will arrive next week on April 14, with the European leg of the metal icons’ world tour – which includes the previously announced Download Festival headline slots – kicking off this month.Speaking about the inspiration behind the forthcoming new record’s name in a press release, frontman James Hetfield said: “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.