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 ...

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 ...

"It is interesting, because we have created our own mainstream, is what I believe," Hetfield told Clash after being asked if compromises are necessary in order to be accepted by the mainstream. He ...

Metallica came off one of the more divisive albums in their catalog, 1996's Load, with another batch of songs supposedly culled from the same sessions. The appropriately titled Reload arrived a year ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. “I don’t follow the rules of metal, which is probably wrong, and I’m sorry,” he says (via ...

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 ...

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There are two types of Metallica fans in this world — the ones that think just the first four (maybe five if you want to include the Black Album) are all you need out of the band and others who also ...

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 ...

Metallica’s Reload is the first album I ever bought with my own money. I was 12, I’d seen the Memory Remains video, and I’d saved up some allowance. To me, a kid whose previous dalliances into hard ...