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Read more about the artist at mozartgabriel.com and see the “Inamorata” video at youtube.com/@metallica. Metallica is currently on tour to showcase the April release of the album 72 Seasons. The closest the band will get to Santa Fe is Phoenix, Arizona, on September 1 and 3. More details at metallica.com.

Taos Pueblo doesn’t appear anywhere in the nearly 12-minute animated video for “Inamorata,” the closing track on Metallica’s new album 72 Seasons, but it merits a mention in the credits.

Pueblo native Mozart Gabriel and his wife, Helly March, had a chance encounter earlier this year with Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo while seeing Trujillo’s son Tye’s band OTTTO in Nashville, Tennessee. They traded phone numbers, and March sent him some samples of her work.

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Made for metal — Stills from the official “Inamorata” video; courtesy Jess Cope, Owl House Studios

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