The day Metallica introduced 72 Seasons and launched “Lux Æterna” to an unsuspecting world, they put the brand new album up for pre-order in a number of totally different codecs, together with many various vinyl variants. One of these variants was an especially limited-edition urgent, a yellow-and-black splatter double-LP that was solely out there to pre-order for 72 hours.
Needless to say, Metallica care concerning the vinyl expertise for his or her followers.
Since then, they’ve launched their anticipated Pro-Ject turntable, spun “Lux Æterna” and “Screaming Suicide” on vinyl to have a good time the launch of this 12 months’s Record Store Day listing and so they’ve teased followers with a video of James Hetfield opening the vinyl of 72 Seasons.
Oh, and so they additionally acquired a majority curiosity within the vinyl urgent plant, Furnace Record Pressing. And in a once-in-a-lifetime contest, Metallica partnered with Furnace to present one fortunate fan the prospect to go to the urgent plant and watch 72 Seasons get created.
More than merely strolling via the doorways and getting a behind-the-scenes tour of Furnace, the winner, Peter Wilson, additionally bought to press his personal copy of the report and bundle it himself.
Metallica captured the expertise on digital camera and you may watch the total video of Wilson’s go to to Furnace under:
From trimming the flash on the vinyl to studying why data have to sit down for twenty-four hours earlier than they’re moved as a result of they’re nonetheless heat and are bodily altering, Wilson obtained a crash course in the making of vinyl data. Wilson’s tour information was Mark Reiter, Vice President of Manufacturing at Furnace, and he walked him via all of the totally different steps within the urgent course of.
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“There’s always Metallica on a press,” Reiter informed Wilson, who was sporting a live performance T-shirt from Metallica’s old-school present in Florida from final 12 months. “We had a day last week when Metallica was on every single one of our machines.”
Metallica have labored with Furnace since 2014 and because the video reveals, all of the 72 Seasons vinyl variants have been or might be pressed, packaged and wrapped at their plant.
If that is not sufficient vinyl for you, Metallica have shared one other sneak peek of the brand new report on vinyl; this time it is Rob Trujillo cracking open the smoky black variant, which is obtainable for pre-order proper now at Metallica.com. You can watch the video under.
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