1996 was a big, complicated year for Metallica. The release of their sixth studio album, Load, came with much criticism from fans and critics alike. Their headlining slot on the massive traveling ...

Understanding how these words may be perceived by Metallica's faithful, Labonte urged, "And that is not a criticism — that is not a criticism." "I have put a lot of thought into this," stressed the ...

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It's a sentiment we've heard from other Metallica fans before regarding the two albums, which were largely written at the same time but released separately, over a year apart from each other. So we ...

The podcast host suggested that it would be interesting to see Metallica return to the style they captured in the ’90s with Load and Reload. “Who knows? We might just say, ‘Okay, let’s go back to the ...

Metallica spent about two years writing and recording both 1996's Load and 1997's Reload. The two albums were written at the same time, with the Reload songs being ones Metallica didn't feel were ...

Confession time: I don’t hate Metallica’s ReLoad (I certainly don’t hate it as much as I hate Swansong; God, that album sucks). Maybe it’s the fact that it came out just as I was getting into hard ...

But he’s insisted he doesn’t regret his decision to support the direction drummer Lars Ulrich and guitarist Kirk Hammett wanted to take. The twin albums found the band drifting further away from their ...