Was Metallica's Load really all that bad?

no-YOU! · brother of the Son Number of posts: 936 Age: 38 Registration date: 2007-04-06

It's really, really bad! I know that's just my opinion, but I can't get into this disc at all. I've tried, really, I have, it's just plain garbage.

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onebigfish · Number of posts: 212 Age: 38 Registration date: 2007-04-08

There are a few good songs on it. Hero of the Day is one of their best songs, IMO.

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**alldatndensum** · Mission Of One Number of posts: 9992 Age: 40 Registration date: 2007-01-03

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That sounds like a lousy Seattle hardcore band. Shocked

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Actually, I kinda like that. If nothing else, it would make an awesome album title for even a metal band.

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I always thought 'Until It Sleeps' was a good song...

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"Bleeding Me" is my favorite tune on that album.

Angel with Attitude · The Emperor Has No Clothes Number of posts: 3479 Registration date: 2007-04-09

IMO, it was not horrible, it just was. A few good songs on it.

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It really did become a thing of, everybody copy and paste the cool thing to say about Metallica, which is, Load sucks, Master of Puppets is the best, blah blah blah.

I concur with this sentiment. Rabid Metallifanz couldn't handle not getting what they grew to expect and want...

It drove me absolutely crazy at the time. Get over it! Like some other bands or something. Rolling Eyes

Bwhahhaha...what's hilarious here ...it's those same people who have taken all their Metallica to the used record store in droves. Lame. Razz

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KaramKaram · Number of posts: 624 Age: 31 Registration date: 2007-04-12

In answer to the question: Yes, it was, and still is

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Get over it! Like some other bands or something. Rolling Eyes

Temple of Blood · Number of posts: 1108 Age: 34 Registration date: 2007-04-09

It would've been ignored and put straight into the cutout bin if it didn't have the name "Metallica" stamped on the front.

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GODSWIZARD · Play it LOUD!! Number of posts: 17975 Age: 52 Registration date: 2007-01-06

RABID METALLIFANZ sounds like a lousy Seattle hardcore band.

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**Orion Crystal Ice** · Subject: Re: Was Metallica's Load really all that bad? Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:24 pm

It's usually what they're made up of.. lol!

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CrissOliva'sMagicGuitar · Mentally Yours Number of posts: 803 Age: 38 Registration date: 2007-04-07

Not sure. I listened to it one time, and sold it 10 years later. Don't care to ever hear it again.

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Zze · Number of posts: 91 Registration date: 2007-06-01

I have always liked the new megadeth stuff, but never could really get into anything newer produced by Metallica, it sounds just way TOO commercial to me.

zombiewalkin · Number of posts: 1578 Age: 38 Registration date: 2007-04-09

Good point. Even Megadeth's low points still had some great guitarwork on them. Its like they werent as heavy but still the musicianship was always topnotch. Were the stuff from Load and ReLoad sounded lazy to my ears.

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Questionmark · Number of posts: 332 Registration date: 2007-04-09

mmm. There were some good moments on Load and Reload. But overall they were just ok albums for me. I think Metallica peaked on And Justice for All.

wv_metaller4christ · Number of posts: 584 Age: 23 Registration date: 2009-06-02

AAANNNNNNNDDD I revive this thread! In my opinion, NO it is NOT bad at all. Believe it or not, that was the first metal/rock (whatever you want to call it) album I had ever bought. yes you heard me right. When I got into Metallica, the first albums I bought were Load, Reload, Metallica, and Garage Inc. and just by having those 4 albums I thought that "was" Metallica. I had NO IDEA they had a previous sound. I was already in love with them with just those albums and then I finally got Ride The Lightning and was hooked even more. Upon hearing Fight Fire With Fire I was like "This is the same band?????!!!!!!"

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**exo** · Number of posts: 8671 Age: 34 Registration date: 2007-04-07

wv_metaller4christ wrote:

Upon hearing Fight Fire With Fire I was like "This is the same band?????!!!!!!"

Not exactly.

There IS the loss of a driving musical force and the intervening 13 odd years of personal growth and maturity to be accounted for....

I'll stand by my assesment from a few years qgo...if they'd cut the filler and tightened up the excess flab from this era, they could have produced one single, stellar album that might just be the most crushingly heavy thing they've ever done. Sure, it doesnt' have the ears pinned back ferocity of the earlier stuff, but the early sense doesn't have the same sense of crushing groove they were working in by this point, either. This isn't a "rock" album...it's a METAL album. Just not the type of metal people were expecting. The "Load was Metallica's "hard rock" phase" stuff stems FAR more from their appearance than the material on the album........

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Master's Apprentice · Number of posts: 828 Age: 37 Registration date: 2009-02-20

Thanks for reviving this thread metaller4christ.
It gives me a chance to sum up my feelings towards this steaming load...

And I quote Temple Of Blood from 2007....

"It was that bad."

Yes mate.

Yes it was...

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