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[11] At 79 minutes, Load is Metallica's longest studio album. Load received mixed reviews from critics but was a commercial success, debuting and spending four consecutive weeks at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart. Load sold 680,000 units in its first week, making it the biggest opening week for Metallica as well as the biggest debut of ...
Reload is the seventh studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on November 18, 1997, [9] via Elektra Records. The album is a follow-up to Load, released the previous year, and Metallica's last studio album to feature bassist Jason Newsted. Reload debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 436,000 copies in its ...
Many of the songs that would later appear on both the Load and Reload albums were recorded as demos by Hetfield and Ulrich between winter 1994 and spring 1995 in Ulrich's home studio, "The Dungeon". A large portion of the recorded tracks were released on the MetClub only release Fan Can III , while other songs were released throughout various ...
With Metallica scheduled to play the 1987 Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington, the band's UK label Vertigo Records suggested that they release new material to mark the occasion. Initial songwriting attempts with new bassist Jason Newsted resulted only in a demo for "Blackened", and vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield subsequently broke ...
Load and Reload followed in 1996 and 1997, respectively. [8] [9] The year after Reload, Metallica released Garage Inc., a double album of cover versions. [10] After Newsted left in 2001, [1] the bass on 2003's St. Anger was performed by producer Bob Rock, who was also credited with co-writing all of the songs. [11]
Metallica plays at European festivals to fulfill earlier contractual obligations. They play three back-to-back shows at the Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium, [52] Blind Man's Ball in Germany, [53] and Reading Festival in England. [54] 1997: Re-Load Promo Tour: US, Europe: November 11–18, 1997: 6: The tour promoted the just-released album ReLoad ...
The 2011 book Metallica: The Music and the Mayhem describes the song as "qualifying on all grounds, with lyrics full of festering resentment, and Hammett giving a lengthy solo." [3] Loudwire ranked the song in 94th place in their ranking of every Metallica song, calling it "entirely forgettable" but "nothing particularly offensive." [1]
"The Memory Remains" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica. Written by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, it was the lead single from the band's seventh studio album, Reload, released in 1997. The song was first performed live in a "jam" version on July 2, 1996. [2]