Throughout an look on the twenty second episode of “The Metallica Report”, the lately launched podcast providing weekly insider updates on all issues METALLICA, James Hetfield was requested to call his favourite season of the 12 months. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I like spring and fall. They’re each nice. Summer time — I grew up in Southern California. I just like the seaside. I like getting within the water. I like doing that stuff, however when it is too scorching, it is not pleasing anymore. I do not know why. I used to like — the warmer, the higher. After which within the winter, clearly being [at home] in Colorado, when there’s snow on the bottom for 5 months, it is, like, ‘Okay, I am form of over this.’ However spring and fall — I do not know… I want it may very well be like fall on a regular basis, ‘trigger the leaves are altering in Colorado. It is all turns golden. The climate is simply excellent. And clearly spring too. Animals popping out and so they’ve bought their younger ones and also you see stuff blooming and it is like… I do not know. it jogs my memory of — eh, it simply jogs my memory of life.”‘
Again in 2016, James mentioned that he moved his household from the San Francisco space, the place he and METALLICA have been primarily based for 40 years, to Vail, as a result of he did not really feel as if he belonged within the Bay Space anymore. “I form of bought sick of the Bay Space, the attitudes of the folks there, slightly bit,” he mentioned. “They speak about how numerous they’re, and issues like that, and it is effective in the event you’re numerous like them. However exhibiting up with a deer on the bumper would not fly in Marin County. My type of consuming natural would not vibe with theirs.”
Hetfield elaborated: “There was an elitist angle there — that in the event you weren’t their method politically, their method environmentally, all of that, that you just had been seemed down upon. … It wasn’t wholesome for me. [I was] beginning to really feel like I used to be simply combating on a regular basis, and I simply needed to get out of my very own head.”
In August 2022, TMZ reported that James and his spouse of greater than twenty years had known as it quits. Sources near the previous couple informed the tabloid website James filed for divorce from Francesca Hetfield of their dwelling state of Colorado earlier final 12 months.
Hetfield met Francesca in 1992 and so they had been married since 1997. The 2 are mentioned to nonetheless be in contact as they co-parent their daughters Cali and Marcella, and son Castor.
In 2019, Hetfield entered rehab, forcing the band to cancel its “WorldWired” tour dates in Australia and New Zealand.
James first entered rehab in 2001 due to his struggles with alcohol abuse “and different addictions,” in accordance with an announcement posted on METALLICA‘s website that 12 months.
METALLICA launched its twelfth studio album, “72 Seasons”, in April through the band’s personal Blackened Recordings. Produced by Greg Fidelman with Hetfield and METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich, and clocking in at over 77 minutes, the 12-track “72 Seasons” is METALLICA‘s first full-length assortment of recent materials since 2016’s “Hardwired…To Self-Destruct”.
