From the ashes of the crossover event Dark Nights: Death Metal comes a bold, new era for the DC Multiverse with the upcoming Infinite Frontier initiative, set to launch this March.

Writer Scott Snyder revealed that the underlying message in Death Metal was to make the entirety of the DC Universe's past real and remembered. This theme was made literal in the story as Wonder Woman restored everyone's memories of their past lives through multiversal resets. In addition to making a more additive, encompassing DCU, the move also signaled a new wave of talent working on DC's titles moving forward.

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"The tenet is instead of making this moment all-important at the expense of the past, instead of saying 'Nothing matters but now!' -- which is some stuff that's getting us into trouble in the real world right and left about prioritizing ourselves or this moment or that kind of selfishness that Lex Luthor over in Justice League was always promoting -- but instead said 'Look at the past! Reckon with it in terms of all the good, the bad, the ugly!'" Snyder told CBR. "And by reckoning with it, you can go build something better, brighter and more expansive going forward. That was always the way we saw the event: Making the whole past real and, in doing so, there would be ups and downs and things people were horrified by and things people were excited by, all of it, but that we would be expand on it by making the DC Multiverse bigger on the other side and bring in new talent."

Snyder elaborated that much of what occurred with Death Metal, including the publication of anthology specials, will help inform DC as it moves into 2021 with Infinite Frontier. Snyder credited DC's editorial staff helping springboard off the ending of Death Metal to expand on the themes and ideas the crossover introduced in Infinite Frontier.

"On a story level, it was about that, and then on a structural level in terms of what we hope to do with the anthologies, to signal that all this stuff was about that. Now luckily, after all the hardship and heartbreak about losing a lot of people at DC, the state of things with Marie Javins in charge -- who is my absolute dear, dear friend and who edited a lot of the first Metal and all of Justice League with the great Rebecca Taylor and Mark Doyle and came over and edited [Death] Metal -- we've been able to make what's on the other side with Infinite Frontier line up with the priorities and kind of compass that Death Metal has always been following as opposed to it being somewhat kind of in a bubble or partially what's after," Snyder continued. "Right now, it's pretty integral to the thinking of the way DC is proceeding but bigger. Infinite Frontier is like an extension and expansion of the ideals of Death Metal in a way that I think is going to be blazingly fun and real interesting line of comics."

Written by Scott Snyder, pencilled by Greg Capullo, Yanick Paquette and Bryan Hitch, inked by Jonathan Glapion, colored by FCO Plascencia, Nathan Fairbairn and Alex Sinclair and lettered by Tom Napolitano, Dark Nights: Death Metal #7 is on sale now from DC.

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