These days, the release of new Metallica music to the world is A. Very. Big. Deal. To share a little ‘inside baseball’ story, just getting our writer to hear 72 Seasons ahead of our cover interview involved planes, trains and automobiles. And a surreptitious meeting. Probably under the cover of darkness… It was worth the wait, though, as Lars, Kirk and Rob spilled the beans on the state of the Metalli-nation in 2023.
This month we also collar the inestimable and unstoppable Ian Hunter for the Classic Rock Interview; spent some time at Abbey Road Studios with Def Leppard while they were working on their orchestral album; talk to a cast of thousands (well, almost) to tell the 50-years-and-counting tale of Kansas; chat to Ian Anderson about the end of the world and other things; pay tribute to the late, great Gary Rossington, the last original member of Lynyrd Skynrd, who sadly passed away shortly before we went to press. And there’s much, much more.
