Metallica Load CD

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 the sandinista! of metal.
sometimes in life there could be a double album like the white album and sometimes a triple album like sandinista!. but load on the vinyl days would have been a quadruple album but on cd form this was the ultimate example of cd technology. a lot of fans hated i mean hated the record and the videos and all that jazz. in the decade of tool, rage, pantera and sevendust, metallica had to release an album like that. this and reload have the feel of double albums like blood sugar sex magik and the real double album was mellon collie. 2x4, wasting my hate, king nothing, epics like bleeding me and the outlaw torn are awsome songs. so who cares if they dressed like a bunch of hollywood types i dig the style. well the problem witht he 90's is just that it is not a good decade for metal. but load is a good album. it may be everything that is wrong witht the record world but to hell with that people experiment at times and you got to be independant instead of being a formulaic commercial clown. still load is load.
Submitted by davidandino83 (chicago)
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 Sell Out? Do Me A Favour!
Following Metallica's epic tour of nearly three years and 250+ shows on the Black Album tour. The band returned in 1996 to be hit by major critics with this new album. Load marked the start of an era when the band had short hair, classy cocktails, owned speedboats and put semen and blood on their front covers. Musically it was a change too, with a more bluesy feel to the songs. But i feel this is a good thing, for a start no band plays the same stuff all their career and gets as big as Metallica. And they've shown another dimension to their immense talent in this fine record. With "Until It Sleeps" the lead single which i would call a piece of Art. And a song which was a break from the norm even further with "Mama Said" a heart felt country style song about James Hetfield's mother who passed on when he was just 16. It takes courage to do what Metallica did, they got accused of "Selling Out" which is rubbish, Metallica stands for doing What they want, When They Want, How They Want To Do It. Top Work Lads!
Submitted by redman.7 (United Kingdom)
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 have a beer
this load cd from metallica is the best come from this band so go and buy it you be mad not to.
Submitted by woodja1 (queensland australia)
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 Pretty Good Stuff
This is the most creative age of Metalllica, and actually I do not think they sold out, this guys were like how old... 36 years old at that time, plus it was 1996 men, times change, anyway, great music, great lyrics, Metallica kick a@#ss !
Submitted by aliceinchains92 (U.S.A)
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 Another side of a band.
Many people say this is when Metallica totally sold out. I understand what they mean but i think they are wrong. First of all the black album was the first step in making a more commercial-sounding album and that album is the album that is their most sold and it is still pretty heavy. This album is on the other hand something else in many ways, more slow songs, more bluesy guitar, more hard rock than metal. But it is not a sell out. Each of Metallicas first 5 albums has sold way more than this one. Instead i would say that it is pretty conservative to think a band should stick to the same sound or even genre throughout their whole career. Because you like metal does not mean you can`t listen to rock,pop,blues,country,classical. The members of metallica seem to listen to all kinds of music, maybe all conservative metalheads should do that too?
Submitted by JOJO (Sweden)
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