Load
Metallica
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| 1 | Ain't My B*tch | Metallica | 5:04 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | 2 X 4 | Metallica | 5:28 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | The House Jack Built | Metallica | 6:38 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Until It Sleeps | Metallica | 4:29 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | King Nothing | Metallica | 5:28 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 6 | Hero of the Day | Metallica | 4:21 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 7 | Bleeding Me | Metallica | 8:18 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 8 | Cure | Metallica | 4:54 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 9 | Poor Twisted Me | Metallica | 4:00 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 10 | Wasting My Hate | Metallica | 3:57 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 11 | Mama Said | Metallica | 5:19 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 12 | Thorn Within | Metallica | 5:51 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 13 | Ronnie | Metallica | 5:17 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 14 | The Outlaw Torn | Metallica | 9:48 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Booklet Digital Booklet - Load | Metallica | Album Only | View In iTunes |
| Total: 15 Items |
Album Review
Delivered five years after their eponymous "black" album in 1991, Load captures Metallica settling into a period of maturation. Under the guidance of producer Bob Rock, Metallica have streamlined their sound, cutting away most of the twisting, unpredictable time signatures and the mind-numbingly fast riffs. What's left is polished heavy metal. They add in Southern boogie rock, country-rock, and power ballads to their bag of tricks, which make them sound like '70s arena rock holdovers. Metallica opens up their sound by concentrating on midtempo boogie — over half the album is dedicated to songs that just groove. Metallica sound tight, but with the material they've written, they should sound loose. This becomes apparent as the songs fill out the album's nearly 80-minute running time. It isn't surprising to hear Metallica get a little more conservative as they get older.
Recent Customer Reviews
PLZ buy this album!
by Th3 M4n90210This album is good.Different, i'll admit, but good.I don't know why there are so many people who dislike this album just because it's different.I may be a "kid"(which i mean young teenager), but that does not mean that i don't know what i'm talking about when it comes to music.Kill'em all and RTL are different.MOP and AJFA are different. ALL OF THEIR ALBUMS ARE DIFFERENT, albeit some more different than others.In fact, i was getting tired of "killer riff, solo,killer riff".It just got boring after a while, and if they kept releasing the same stuff, i probably wouldnt be a fan of Metallica.They are my favorite band, and I'm glad they changed their sound.Also, everybody has different opinions about the genre of music they listen to, but to everyone who says "It's not heavy/fast enough, i don't like it", i'd like to remind them to keep an open mind. It doesnt have to be fast/heavy to be good, it just has to be good to be good.In my honest opinion, I would tell everybody who hasn't bought this album to buy it. Of course some tracks are better than others, but just give them a chance and try to really listen to them. Don't give up after listening to 5 seconds of "not metal enough music".Trust me they will grow on you, and they are well worth your money.
Enough of this "the band needs to change" crap...
by Johnknight1...because Metallica was constantly changing. From Kill 'Em All to ...And Justice For All they got more & more progressive (IMO AJFA is more prog metal than thrash), & their sound was incredibly different not just from album to album, but from song to song. You could have a song about mental institutions & war, or a soldier who's kept from death & being cheated next to each other-& it all worked great.
Metallica's biggest change, however was their self-titled Black Album. While in mu humble opinion their 1st 4 albums were better (I wish they made just 1 thrash album before it), it was still one of the greatest albums ever made. They had successfully expanded themselves as much or more than anybody else at the time (rivalled only perhaps by Iron Maiden & Judas Priest), but they decided to take it further. They had done what almost everyone else before them had failed-changed & still kept being creative. However, by the mid-90's they entered an awkward stage where they wanted to become a alternative rock band.
Thus, Load was born. In place of fast, progressive, & powerful riffs were sluggy grunge-like riffs that sounded like a moderately-successful Nirvana wannna-be band-but a Nirvana wanna-be regardless. In place of long, complex lyrics that made Metallica the greatest band ever were generally repetitive lyrics (just print out the lyrics of any song on Master of Puppets & compare it to all the songs here & you'll get what I mean). They hadn't sold out, but they sounded nothing like before. They did that before with the Black Album & suceeded, but here they fell flat on their faces. The album was hated by their most dedicated fans, & very few people picked up the album (to date every studio album befoe Load has outsold Load, dwarf Kill 'Em All). They sounded uninspired, bored, depressed (& not ENRAGED or EXCITED), old, & worst of all-caught in a essential dead grunge-sound.
Just look at the opening song. I mean seriously-Ain't My B****? What type of a song name is that? This song is about something not owning you with a boring riff & slow & untechnical drumming on Lars' part. Compared to the thrill of performing that Hit the Lights gave us, or the feels of despare Blackened gave us, this is as forgeteable as 'Achy Breaky Heartbreak' (if you don't know that song is, don't try to find out about it!).
Instead of only putting a few songs on an album, Metallica essentially tried to make nearly 30 songs released on two albums with minimal pre-recording preparation (the rest are on Re-Load, obviously). So on top of boring alternative rock instead of incredible Nirvana-level alternative rock we get a poorly pre-prepared album with a ton of songs. What do we end out with? A lot of filler sounding songs! Sure there are some great songs on here like King Nothing (essentially follows a Enter Sandman copy, but much different -yet still great lyrics), Hero of the Day, Until It Sleeps, & Bleeding Me. However, most of these are just filler-esk songs-Ronnie, Mama Said, Ain't My B*** & 2x4.
On top of most of the songs being filler, the cover is just friggen ugly. It's not art-it's crap. The Black Album had the awesome rebellious 'Don't Tread on Me" snake, AJFA had lady justice being raped, bribed, & cracking, Master of Puppets had a false God pulling the strings of his victims, & Ride the Lightning had lightning & the feared electric chair. Fire & seamen...so original. Originally disgusting-kind of like the production of this album. While
Metallica didn't sell out, Bob Rock had clearly taken control over them. Fortunately Re-Load was a step forward (since it actually was further worked on, & most importantly this was the terrible bottom of Metallica's creativity. While Load isn't terrible, it certainly is mediocre. I recommend this only to die-hard alternative rock, die hard mid-90's music fans, die-hard blusy hard rock fans, or die-hard Metallica fans. Because if you aren't one of those, you'll hate this album.
Why Hate?
by frist11111Pretty good f"cking album. Sure it's not Metallica at their best but an admirable effort. Songs worth buying--
Until it sleeps
King nothing
Hero of the day
2x4
Thorn within
Bleeding me
Biography
Formed: 1981 in Los Angeles, CA
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '80s, '90s, '00s
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- Genres: Rock, Music, Heavy Metal, Hard Rock
- Released: Jun 04, 1996
- ℗ 2008 E/M Ventures
