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Load is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on June 4, 1996, by Elektra Records in the United States and by Vertigo Records internationally. The album showed more of a hard rock side of Metallica than the band's typical thrash metal style, which alienated much of the band's fanbase.
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 ...
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]
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]
Lead guitarist Kirk Hammett used a slide for the guitar solo, a first for Metallica and one of the many musical departures found on Load. Upon the album's release in June 1996, "Ain't My Bitch" quickly became a staple in the band's live set, featured regularly during their Poor Touring Me world tour. The song was last played in 1998, and as of ...
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 ...
"Bleeding Me" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica from their 1996 album, Load. Although never commercially released as a single, a promotional CD was sent out to radio stations in 1997, and the song would eventually reach #6 on the US Mainstream Rock chart. [1]