Load - Metallica Reviews

Load features some of my favourite metallica songs such as "The house that Jack built" and "King Nothing". All of the songs are great though and it flows together to make one hell of an album. Something different from their origins, Load was a love it or hate it album. I don't care about genres. If i like it, i like it. With ...  Read the complete review

Few albums caused so much contention as Metallica’s 1996 album Load. Adorned with its garish modern art cover called provocatively Seamen and Blood; its booklet showing Metallica posing in all sorts of make-up; resembling Widow Twanky at Brighton Palladium. Clearly this was a statement of intent; a Rebellion against their trademark Thrash roots; ...  Read the complete review

--- SECTION 1 - WHAT THEY SAID --- Four years after the release of the chart-busting self-titled "Black Album", Metallica released its long awaited follow up, Load... and got some pretty shocked reactions. This was NOT what people were used to. There were no more skull-crushingly heavy thrash riffs or dark, gravelly lyrical pieces ...  Read the complete review

In the mid-nineties, platinum-selling US rock band Metallica returned to the studio with the eagerly awaited follow up album to their self-titled record of 1991. Hits such as the anthemic ‘Enter Sandman’ and the reflective ‘Nothing Else Matters’ had made the dedicated band a household name, so the unanticipated change in style led to mixed ...  Read the complete review

This album is great! There are sooo many great pieces of music on it. The album comes with a full colour 30-page book with lots of pictures of the band and a small incite of the lyrics from each song. Metallica as usual they have made all their songs (in true Metallica style) complicated with cool riffs all the way through the album, backed up ...  Read the complete review

This album was released in 1996 on Vertigo records. This CD has to be one of the best in my collection (ah, I can feel you people out there thinking “is collection must be pretty bad then”) but this album is great! There are so many brilliant songs on it. The album comes with a full colour 30-page book with lots of pictures of the band ...  Read the complete review

This album was released in 1996 on Vertigo records. This CD has to be one of the best in my collection (ah, I can feel you people out there thinking “is collection must be pretty bad then”) but this album is great! There are so many brilliant songs on it. The album comes with a full colour 30-page book with lots of pictures of the band ...  Read the complete review

This album was released in 1996 on Vertigo records. This CD has to be one of the best in my collection (ah, I can feel you people out there thinking “is collection must be pretty bad then”) but this album is great! There are so many brilliant songs on it. The album comes with a full colour 30-page book with lots of pictures of the band ...  Read the complete review

This album was released in 1996 on Vertigo records. This CD has to be one of the best in my collection (ah, I can feel you people out there thinking “is collection must be pretty bad then”) but this album is great! There are so many brilliant songs on it. The album comes with a full colour 30-page book with lots of pictures of the band ...  Read the complete review

Unlike ReLoad, this is an album that oozes quality. Fuel, King Nothing and Until it Sleeps are tracks which makes this album stand out from it's successor. Yeah, it's not thrash, in fact some argue it isn't even metal, but what the hell! It's a darn good album! Emotional, heavy in places and light in others with a real ...  Read the complete review

Load is my favourite Metallica album, it was also the first one I bought. Put simply, I simply love it. A lot of people slagged the band off for having their hair cut and going ‘alternative’ but you can’t expect a band that has been going for 15 years to always produce the same material. Unless maybe they’re AC/DC. ...  Read the complete review

Load is Metallica's 90's album, with all the good and crappy influences of alternative music thrown in. Here, the band branched out in several ways. James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich gave the newer guys, Kirk Hammett and James Newsted, some more breadth in deciding what to play and in crafting the music, to avoid producing another album ...  Read the complete review

Load is the best Metallica album ever. The songs Until It Sleeps and Bleeding Me show Metallica's supreme musical talent. The vocals in these songs capture your imagination and make you think. The guitar playing and drumming should also be commended The song Mama Said is completely different to all other Metallica songs but they still make ...  Read the complete review

People think that "Load" is the end of Metallica. But I don't thinks so. And people think that Metallica is making metal music. Ahha..! It's the biggest wrong opinion about them. Metallica always made thier own music not metal not rock or something like that... Thay are making Metallica style music. If you are looking for hard ...  Read the complete review

Something completely different from thrash's founding fathers. A more laid back approach which encompasses more diverse influences than what we had seen previously. Southern Boogie ("Ronnie"), Blues ("2x4") even a dash of country ("Mama Said") are embraced which may alarm many of the band's hardcore fans. ...  Read the complete review

Metallica’s Load is just great. I love Metallica and have seen them a number of times live. My best performance being at Donnington when all those plastic bottles were flying!!! This particular album has to be an all time favourite as it holds many happy memories for me. We had Nothing Else Matters played as ‘our’ song ...  Read the complete review

This is the long awaited follow up to the infamous ‘Black’ album. Its good too. More commercial and polished, but that classic Metallica sound is still present. The songs are pretty good, and sound different to anything that they have done before. There is a lot of experimentation with new sounds such as country and blues, ...  Read the complete review

For me Metallica have written some of the best rock songs there have been, and they have done some right dross as well. Their previous albums contained gems mixed in with tracks that were repetative, and dull. They partake in way too much frenzied guitar thrapping. This album is altogether finer. They thrapp far less furiously and seem more intent ...  Read the complete review

After reaching a peak with their succesful commercial metal, eponymous album in '91; the band it seems had problems finding a direction, and so the band decided to venture in other areas of the rock genre and take another bold step into making a bold daring album, but this time to much more controversy than the last. Five years after the ...  Read the complete review

After a long break since the Black Album, Metallica released Load to a mixed reception. People attacked it for being too different, and for 'betraying their fans.' Rubbish. I would hope that any serious musician matures in five years, and Metallica are no exception. While I admit that this doesn't grab you in the same way as their ...  Read the complete review