METALLICA - LOAD (2LP)

Metallica Load on 2LP Set from Warner Bros.

1996 Multi-Platinum Set Expands Band's Metal Parameters and Includes Amazing Country-Rock, Balladic Currents

Cut from Original Masters by Chris Bell and Pressed at Pallas

Newly Mastered LP Versions of Metallica's Kill 'Em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, ...And Justice for All, and "The Black Album" Also Available

Load Also Available as a Deluxe Limited-Edition 180g 45RPM 4LP Box Set

Released five years after Metallica’s famous “Black” album, Load remains proof that the legendary Bay Area band was capable of much more than thrash signatures and charged metal. Coming at a time when hard rock was in the process of reorganizing, the 1996 set led the way and announced to the world that Metallica wasn’t content to rest on its laurels.

By slowing down the tempos, decreasing the aggression, and upping the depth of its grooves, the quartet channels its English and Southern rock influences in spectacular fashion. Load mines the shorter, blues-oriented approaches pioneered by Led Zeppelin, Cream, Lynryd Skynyrd, and Deep Purple, expanding on these classic parameters by retaining some of the ferocious bite Metallica injected into its formative early works.

Having sold more than five million copies in the U.S. alone and topped the Billboard album charts for four consecutive weeks, the album confirmed that Metallica’s evolution happened without any inherent loss to its basic appeal. Guitarist Kirk Hammett is allowed more room to explore tonalities, and rhythms serve the songs in concise fashion, making the record Metallica’s purest rock effort. “Ain’t My Bitch,” “King Nothing,” “Hero of the Day,” and “Until It Sleeps” all received considerable airplay and remain concert and radio staples to this day.

Now, fans can finally hear Load in stunning analogy fidelity. Warner Bros.' standard 2LP set of Load has been cut from the original masters by Chris Bell and pressed on 180g LP at Pallas in Germany. Housed in a gatefold jacket printed at Stoughton, and containing two inserts, it's another essential release to add to your Metallica collection!

Metallica Load Track Listing:

1.   Ain't My Bitch
2.   2 X 4
3.   The House Jack Built
4.   Until It Sleeps
5.   King Nothing
6.   Hero Of The Day
7.   Bleeding Me
8.   Cure
9.   Poor Twisted Me
10.  Wasting My Hate
11.  Mama Said
12.  Thorn Within
13.  Ronnie
14.  The Outlaw Torn