Happy anniversary for Metallica's Load album. “At that time we did Load, writing that kind of stuff wasn’t exciting to me anymore,” James Hetfield told me in 1997. “None of us were writing that stuff, ...

Pantera / Down vocalist Philip Anselmo has always been outspoken, and for a new article authored by the man himself, Anselmo chose Metallica's 'Load' as an album that should have never seen the light ...

Thanks to a deluxe reissue, Metallica’s Load appears on six U.K. charts, and even manages top 10 debuts on both the vinyl and physical albums lists. UNITED KINGDOM - JANUARY 01: Photo of Cliff BURTON ...

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Metallica fans started flocking into stores on June 4, 1996 to buy the band's newest album, Load – to the tune of 680,000 units sold in America during that first week alone. Others despaired, however, ...

Metallica released their sixth album, Load, in June 1996. It was a massive hit, topping charts in countries around the globe. Earlier today (April 29), the band announced a remastered version of the ...

When people go back and look at Metallica’s catalog as a whole, Load isn’t typically ranked at the top of the list. Rather, the general consensus seems to be that they peaked early and got worse and ...

We’ll start our list of the Top 10 Post-Black Album Metallica Songs with one of two doom-laden epics from the Load album — and the reason we’re giving “Bleeding Me” the slight edge over the similarly ...

"This album and what we're doing with it — that, to me, is what Metallica are all about: exploring different things. The minute you stop exploring, just sit down and fucking die." — Lars Ulrich, ...