In 1996, Metallica released Load, and the sequel (in name anyway) the following year, Reload. While these albums certainly have their admirers, they’re nowhere near as beloved as the albums that ...

Load and Reload, as far as I’m concerned, is just the double album spread out over a year and a half. It is two records of equal weight, of equal substance, of equal importance.

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James Hetfield: I Followed the Vision of Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett on Metallica’s ‘Load’ and ‘Reload’ Joe DiVita Published: November 24, 2017 Amy Harris for Loudwire ...

Metallica frontman James Hetfield has admitted he “wasn’t 100 percent on” with the band's 1996 album Load and its 1997 follow-up Reload, describing them as acts of compromise within the band ...

Metallica 2025 'Load' reissue variants. CREDIT: Press Metallica have announced details of a deluxe reissue of the ‘Load’ album, along with a remastered version of ‘Until It Sleeps’.

They love Load and Reload. But when those albums first came out, it was like, “Fuck Load. “ I remember! “Fuck Reload, fuck Metallica.” But nowadays we play “Fuel” and people go nuts.

“And so all those factors came out on Load and Reload… and [those two albums] are so different from anything that came before it. “It's interesting, 'cause nowadays I run into fans and they love that ...

On June 4, 1996, Metallica ’s sixth album Load was released — arguably the most highly anticipated metal album of that entire decade. The band’s previous LP — titled simply Metallica, but better known ...

They love Load and Reload. But when those albums first came out it was like ‘fuck Load, fuck Reload, fuck Metallica.’ Nowadays we play ‘Fuel’ and people go nuts.” Now, let’s not get it twisted — “Fuel ...

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It helped Metallica score their first U.S. Top 10 single, but also forced fans to confront new visual changes that probably fueled animosity against what it represented – not what Load sounded like.