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Metallica - Load



6.4 | 2015 votes |
Release date: 4 June 1996
Style: Heavy metal

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01. Ain't My Bitch
02. 2 X 4
03. The House Jack Built
04. Until It Sleeps
05. King Nothing
06. Hero Of The Day
07. Bleeding Me
08. Cure
09. Poor Twisted Me
10. Wasting My Hate
11. Mama Said
12. Thorn Within
13. Ronnie
14. The Outlaw Torn

Guest review by
The Silent Man
Rating:
8.0
OK, I know you're laughing at my rating, but since I want to be an objective reviewer, I'm not considering what Metallica was in the ?80s: I'm just considering the content of this album. And I'm going to show you that it is not as bad as it seems at first. Load is Metallica's longest work yet, clocking in at about 79 minutes, it is the band's first experimental production and it represents a turning point in the history of Thrash Metal. In fact, thousands of Metallica's early fans decided to abandon their idols after they heard this album and many of them still consider The Four Horsemen as a dead band. But what's wrong with Load? Why is it so awful, so bad, so terrible?

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published 22.09.2003 | Comments (45)

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19.01.2015 - 00:05
Rating: 7
Toxik

Well yuo actually can't blame Metallica for doing the same album over and over again
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14.07.2015 - 19:16
Mountain King
K i K o
Unlike most people here, I don't care if it's dark or not or if it's menacing or brutal. Music is not about that and it shouldn't always be evil or melancholic to be good. I actually consider that to be stupid I mean who said evil and dreadful is cool and something the opposite is gay? if the music is good I rate it high. Load is not a crappy album, it has a lot of work in it (14 songs) but it's at most an average album. 6.5 is a good rating for it if you ask me. I'm not a big fan of Metallica although I have listened to their whole disco, I just pick a few songs from each album and actually non from their last 2. "Mama Said" is a good song, so is "Outlaw Torn" and "Bleeding Me" but that's it...
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26.07.2015 - 21:14
Rating: 5
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by Toxik on 19.01.2015 at 00:05

Well yuo actually can't blame Metallica for doing the same album over and over again


Good point, but same time why some bands like Sentenced changed, don't suck, Kreator gothic don't suck,
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26.07.2015 - 21:49
Rating: 7
Toxik

Written by Bad English on 26.07.2015 at 21:14

Written by Toxik on 19.01.2015 at 00:05

Well yuo actually can't blame Metallica for doing the same album over and over again


Good point, but same time why some bands like Sentenced changed, don't suck, Kreator gothic don't suck,

Sometimes it's a matter of perspective
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26.07.2015 - 21:50
Rating: 5
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by Toxik on 26.07.2015 at 21:49

Written by Bad English on 26.07.2015 at 21:14

Written by Toxik on 19.01.2015 at 00:05

Well yuo actually can't blame Metallica for doing the same album over and over again


Good point, but same time why some bands like Sentenced changed, don't suck, Kreator gothic don't suck,

Sometimes it's a matter of perspective

and maybe geography ?
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26.07.2015 - 22:41
Rating: 7
Toxik

Written by Bad English on 26.07.2015 at 21:50

Written by Toxik on 26.07.2015 at 21:49

Written by Bad English on 26.07.2015 at 21:14

Written by Toxik on 19.01.2015 at 00:05

Well yuo actually can't blame Metallica for doing the same album over and over again


Good point, but same time why some bands like Sentenced changed, don't suck, Kreator gothic don't suck,

Sometimes it's a matter of perspective

and maybe geography ?

In Metallica case a lot.
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26.07.2015 - 22:43
Rating: 5
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by Toxik on 26.07.2015 at 22:41

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In Metallica case a lot.


sometimes what works in Europe don't work in USA and other way around
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28.07.2015 - 01:41
Rating: 7
Toxik

Written by Bad English on 26.07.2015 at 22:43

Written by Toxik on 26.07.2015 at 22:41

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In Metallica case a lot.


sometimes what works in Europe don't work in USA and other way around

Exactly. If Metallica was a band from Europe their sound would be a lot different.
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28.07.2015 - 07:50
Rating: 5
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
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Written by Toxik on 28.07.2015 at 01:41

what works in Europe don't work in USA and other way around

Exactly. If Metallica was a band from Europe their sound would be a lot different.


you never know, but I guess it would be better
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28.07.2015 - 16:05
Rating: 5
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by deadone on 28.07.2015 at 14:29

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Europeans prefer their sterile overproduced pop garbage over music with groove and soul when it comes to commercial metal stuff.

I prefer the American (and British) approaches.


so you admit Brittan is not Europoe? When it comes to changes Europe has better possibilities, not Hollywood
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07.01.2016 - 11:35
BloodFireDeath

Its a good album. While musically it might not be as strong but lyrically its in its best form. James Hetfield sounds genuinely depressed here.
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15.09.2017 - 06:40
Rating: 8
JunN_Vai

In this year(s) of 2017 and around, i found Load and Reload are enjoyable to hear, studio version or live version..... good but true
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05.01.2019 - 20:31
Rating: 3
Maasai Mara

The black album had the passable enter sandman, Reload had Fuel. This contains nothing of note worth, hundreds of bands playing hard rock on the radio sound way better than this. You know you truly suck when even a song about your mum is garbage.
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18.09.2020 - 21:25
Rating: 8
spydencer51

Pretty friggin' underrated IMO. This actually has great songs on it, albeit some filler, but hey it's a Metallica album.
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25.03.2023 - 14:11
Rating: 5
Metal Addiction

I feel dreadful and disastrous whenever I listened to this album..... because this album has always made me remorseful of the time that I was exhilarated listening to Metallica's classics like Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets.
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25.03.2023 - 14:27
JoHn Doe

8 songs I still like on this album :
Until It Sleeps
King Nothing
Hero Of The Day
Bleeding Me (best song of the album IMO)
Cure
Wasting My Hate
Thorn Within
The Outlaw Torn
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23.04.2023 - 10:38
Rating: 6
franksamuel0209

The first half of the album (up until
bleeding Me) is GREAT and Outlaw Torn is killer but everything else is just filler than completely derails the album listening experience.
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12.05.2023 - 14:56
MikeWS
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The problem with albums such as this and ReLoad, is when people review and judge it as if it was a thrash album. It´s not thrash.
But once you review the album for what it is, you realize that it´s not bad at all. It´s a really solid Rock album, with Bleeding Me and The Outlaw Torn being some of the greatest work Metallica has ever done. In my humble opinion that is.
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13.05.2023 - 13:32
Rating: 4
Roman Doez
Hallucigenia
Written by Guest on 12.05.2023 at 14:56

The problem with albums such as this and ReLoad, is when people review and judge it as if it was a thrash album. It´s not thrash.
But once you review the album for what it is, you realize that it´s not bad at all. It´s a really solid Rock album, with Bleeding Me and The Outlaw Torn being some of the greatest work Metallica has ever done. In my humble opinion that is.

I think the problem with albums such as this and ReLoad is that they're not very good tbh
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19.12.2023 - 10:51
Rating: 8
Stormm

Heh, Load and Reload will be dividing fans forever and it's sometimes fun, mostly annoying. Metallica was blamed for bad experiments on those two albums, but is exactly opposite. They were going back to the roots with Load and Reload, to find new ways in their music and also to pay tribute to their idols like Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin or Thin Lizzy, which influenced them. Different style, different approach, different production, doing what you want no matter what. Problem of Load are fillers. 2x4, Poor Twisted Me, Thorn Within and Ronnie are not in line with other songs.
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