{"id":101279,"date":"2023-04-24T08:30:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T13:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=101279"},"modified":"2023-04-24T08:30:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T13:30:42","slug":"metallica-hits-number-2-on-the-billboard-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=101279","title":{"rendered":"METALLICA &#8211; Hits Number 2 On The Billboard 200"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The mighty <strong>METALLICA<\/strong> have released their 11th studio album titled <em>72 Seasons<\/em> via their own label, <strong>Blackened Recordings<\/strong>. The album <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/morgan-wallen-one-thing-at-a-time-number-one-seven-weeks-billboard-200-1235313290\/\" target=\"_blank\">debuted<\/a> at #2 on the Billboard 200, with 146,000 units earned, comprising mostly of album sales. The release marks the largest sales numbers for hard rock\/heavy since September 2019, when <strong>Tool<\/strong> released <em>Fear Inoculum,<\/em>\u00a0reaching 248,000 units earned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8220;&#8230;The main thing for me is that there are no slow ballads, which is another big time plus when I am rating a metal album. \u201cSleepwalk My Life Away\u201d and \u201cYou Must Burn!\u201d are killer tracks, and do not slow down this crushing collection of ass kickers.&#8221; &#8211; <strong>Randy &#8220;Rocket&#8221; Cody<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=100810\">TheMetalDen<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Produced by <strong>Greg Fidelman<\/strong>, <strong>James Hetfield<\/strong>, and <strong>Lars Ulrich<\/strong>, the 12-track album is over 77 minutes long and marks Metallica&#8217;s first full-length collection of new material since 2016&#8217;s <em>Hardwired&#8230;To Self-Destruct<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=100810\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  data-gnlv=\"hey\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/metallica72seasons-4.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100811\" width=\"531\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/metallica72seasons-4.webp 638w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/metallica72seasons-4-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/metallica72seasons-4-100x100.webp 100w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/metallica72seasons-4-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/metallica72seasons-4-150x150.webp 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=100810\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"158\" height=\"32\"  data-gnlv=\"hey\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fivestars-2-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100826\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mighty METALLICA have released their 11th studio album titled 72 Seasons via their own&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101281,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101279\/revisions\/101281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/101280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}