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Album Title:Load Artist | Group:Metallica Label:Elektra Release date:1996 Genre:Rock Number of track(s):14 File format:mp3 Total duration:01h:19m:02s:473ms Total size:189.6872 MB Ain't My Bitch2 X 4The House Jack BuiltUntil It SleepsKing NothingHero Of The DayBleeding MeCurePoor Twisted MeWasting My HateMama SaidThorn WithinRonnieThe Outlaw Torn Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Delivered five years after their eponymous "black" album in 1991, Load captures Metallica settling into an uneasy period of maturation. Under the guidance of producer Bob Rock, Metallica have streamlined their sound, cutting away most of the twisting, unpredictable time signatures and the mind-numbingly fast riffs. What's left is polished -- and disappointingly straightforward -- heavy metal. Metallica's attempts at expanding their sonic palette have made them seem more conventional than they ever have before. They add in Southern boogie rock, country-rock, and power ballads to their bag of tricks, which make them sound like '70s arena rock holdovers. Metallica's idea of opening up their sound is to concentrate on relentless midtempo boogie -- over half the album is dedicated to songs that are meant to groove, but they simply don't swing. Metallica sound tight, but with the material they've written, they should sound loose. That becomes apparent as the songs drag out over the album's nearly 80-minute running time -- there are only so many times that a band can work the same tempo exactly the same way before it becomes tedious. It isn't surprising to hear Metallica get stodgier and more conservative as they get older, but it is nonetheless depressing. File name:01 Ain't My Bitch.mp3 Duration:5mn 4s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:12.2 MiB Track number:1 File name:02 2 X 4.mp3 Duration:5mn 28s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:13.2 MiB Track number:2 File name:03 The House Jack Built.mp3 Duration:6mn 39s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:15.9 MiB Track number:3 File name:04 Until It Sleeps.mp3 Duration:4mn 29s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:10.9 MiB Track number:4 File name:05 King Nothing.mp3 Duration:5mn 28s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:13.2 MiB Track number:5 File name:06 Hero Of The Day.mp3 Duration:4mn 21s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:10.6 MiB Track number:6 File name:07 Bleeding Me.mp3 Duration:8mn 18s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:19.6 MiB Track number:7 File name:08 Cure.mp3 Duration:4mn 54s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:11.9 MiB Track number:8 File name:09 Poor Twisted Me.mp3 Duration:4mn 0s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:9.80 MiB Track number:9 File name:10 Wasting My Hate.mp3 Duration:3mn 57s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:9.70 MiB Track number:10 File name:11 Mama Said.mp3 Duration:5mn 19s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:12.8 MiB Track number:11 File name:12 Thorn Within.mp3 Duration:5mn 51s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:14.1 MiB Track number:12 File name:13 Ronnie.mp3 Duration:5mn 17s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:12.7 MiB Track number:13 File name:14 The Outlaw Torn.mp3 Duration:9mn 49s Bit rate:320 Kbps Bit rate mode:CBR File size:23.1 MiB Track number:14 Load is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica.
Released on June 4, 1996 through Elektra Records, it sold 680,000 units
in its first week and the biggest debut of 1996. Load debuted at #1 on Billboard 200.
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Xenokrist, January 13th, 2013
Any metalhead worthy of his title knows the history of Metallica. They released some admittedly kick-ass thrash albums (i.e Kill 'Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets alongside ...and Justice For All), the last one being the album that introduced me to the greatest genre on this fucking planet. Then Metallica teamed up with Bob Rock and released the Black Album, which was quite polarizing, some calling it a sellout album, and some calling it the band's evolution. I fit in the latter group, because I don't see myself as some elitist that thinks experimenting and evolution is a cardinal sin in the metal genre. Around 1995-1996, they came up with one of their greatest ideas yet. Mixing heavy metal with blues-oriented hard rock. And holy shit, did they do it well.
The production on this album is simply superb, everything is crystal fucking clear. It's not as overproduced as the Black Album, but the low-end production is certainly refreshing, seeing as how other bands in this era were focusing on the more trebled high-end shit. The guitars are smooth and there's not a whole lot of crunch, but it creates a perfect balance within the guitar sound. The bass is heard very well on this album, and that is most likely a consequence of the awesome low-end based production. The drums are a bit too quiet for my tastes, but they sound good if you focus on them closely, except for the bass drum, which is pounding in your face the whole time, and I certainly am a fan of that, and again, is a consequence of the low-end production.
The musicianship on this album is extremely tight and competent. This album showcases Lars' doing his tightest drum work since AJFA. However, this could be because most of this album is mid-paced hard rock, but it's still nonetheless competent and collected. Kirk Hammett is doing what he usually does, and that's showcasing excessive use of the wah pedal, as we all know he's notorious for. I'm not kidding when I say that every single solo on the album has a wah effect in it somewhere, whether it's ambiguous or obvious and for that, I will have to deduct some points. But he has experimented with the 'talk box', as seen on "The House Jack Built". The clean parts he does on "Bleeding Me" are very haunting and foreboding. And "Ronnie" is one of the catchiest goddamn songs I ever heard, it's just a good toe-tappin' song. Jason has written some very good bass lines and doesn't follow around James and Kirk all the time, in fact, for half the album he's playing a different line. Some great examples to showcase this are "Until It Sleeps", "Bleeding Me" and "The Outlaw Torn".
The vocal work on this album I admit has degraded a bit since James blew his voice out doing a cover of "So What", and therefore he's lost that snarl and grit his voice had in the past. But the smooth vocals work on this album. For the ballads on this album such as "Hero Of The Day" and "Mama Said", it's perfect and it fits precisely to the style of music portrayed in these songs. The lyrics in this album are very heartfelt on some songs like on the just mentioned "Mama Said", which was a song about his mother dying, and the soft country-styled instruments make the lyrics ever more daunting and gripping, and compliment them greatly. "Thorn Within" is a great example of foreboding, ominous lyrics. Some are admittedly ridiculous like "2x4".
I feel as if I should debunk some accusations made about this album, the first one being that it was a sell-out album. Many people misunderstand what sell-out means in the music business. If they had given in to the fans' wishes and just made another thrash album that they didn't really want to do, then THAT is selling out to the fans. If they're doing what they want to do, then that is by no means selling out. The second one being that this album wasn't "metal enough". Well of course it's not metal! But it's a damn good hard rock/blues fusion. It wasn't meant to be metal. And I'm glad that they didn't decide to make another album like the Black Album.
This album is an impressive, underrated gem in Metallica's discography, and I definitely recommend it to anyone who is into blues-oriented hard rock or groove based rock.
Ain't My Bitch
2 X 4
The House Jack Built
Until It Sleeps
King Nothing
Hero Of The Day
Bleeding Me
Cure
Poor Twisted Me
Wasting My Hate
Mama Said
Thorn Within
Ronnie
The Outlaw Torn
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Delivered five years after their eponymous "black" album in 1991, Load captures Metallica settling into an uneasy period of maturation. Under the guidance of producer Bob Rock, Metallica have streamlined their sound, cutting away most of the twisting, unpredictable time signatures and the mind-numbingly fast riffs. What's left is polished -- and disappointingly straightforward -- heavy metal. Metallica's attempts at expanding their sonic palette have made them seem more conventional than they ever have before. They add in Southern boogie rock, country-rock, and power ballads to their bag of tricks, which make them sound like '70s arena rock holdovers. Metallica's idea of opening up their sound is to concentrate on relentless midtempo boogie -- over half the album is dedicated to songs that are meant to groove, but they simply don't swing. Metallica sound tight, but with the material they've written, they should sound loose. That becomes apparent as the songs drag out over the album's nearly 80-minute running time -- there are only so many times that a band can work the same tempo exactly the same way before it becomes tedious. It isn't surprising to hear Metallica get stodgier and more conservative as they get older, but it is nonetheless depressing.
