Messy, overheated, self-indulgent, divisive, and literally seminal, Metallica’s 1996 album lacked only a colossal 301-song, five-LP, 15-CD, four-DVD box set reissue.

Metallica has finally announced the deluxe remaster for their notorious 1996 LP, Load. The news comes from the band’s social media pages, where they announced pre-orders for the remaster and its ...

Produced by Black Album helmer Bob Rock, Load's long-term legacy has been mixed: Plenty of old school Metallica fans hated it, and it didn't quite have the earworms of their 1997 follow-up Reload ...

Comedian and 'That Metal Show' co-host Jim Florentine made an interesting statement about Metallica's complimentary 'Load' and 'Reload' albums on his excellent 'Metal Comedy Midgets' podcast recently.

Metallica are reissuing their divisive sixth studio album, Load. The California metal institution announced today (April 29) that their 1996 blues rock effort will get an expanded re-release on ...

Haters gonna hate – but with 1997’s Reload album, Metallica just didn’t care. ... Load and Reload, as far as I’m concerned, is just the double album spread out over a year and a half.

Metallica have announced details of a deluxe reissue of the ‘Load’ album, along with a remastered version of ‘Until It Sleeps’. Find out more below. The new 2025 version of the band’s ...

Metallica will revisit their 1996 album Load with a remastered reissue that includes a “Super Deluxe” edition that clocks in at 30 hours, much of it unreleased music.. Out June 13 via their ...

Or should that be slow and low with the songbook, because this was an opportunity for Metallica frontman and rhythm guitar kingpin James Hetfield to demonstrate exactly what he meant when he told ...

Metallica's 'Load (Remastered)' Review. ... (Though the box covers the years 1995 to 1997, Reload is not included.) Five “Shadocast” CDs are given over to riffs, demos, and detours.