Heavy Load

Track Listings

1. Good Times

2. Headhunter

3. Frontman

4. Mad Mad World

5. Mama and Papa

6. Cheap Thrills

7. Mars

8. Are You Alive?

9. Half Seas Over

10. Mother Nature

11. Calico Cats

12. Mighty Maverick

13. Lazy Smoke

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a band under any other name---
sell out? not really
Corrosion of Metallica?
Excellent!!
Not my Metallica

Load
Metallica
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002HMH
Release Date: 1996-06-04

Tracks:

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

Amazon.com

With Load, Metallica takes a dramatic left turn with their music, continuing in the direction suggested by Metallica, their previous album. The songs on Load have groove; they're slower, with far fewer of the lightning-fast riffs that have been Metallica's trademark since their inception. While songs like "Ain't My Bitch" and "Wasting My Hate" are up-tempo and full of the vitriol one would expect from the quintessential heavy metal band, "2 X 4" is hard rock with a blues beat, "Hero of the Day" sounds positively mainstream, and "Mama Said" is an actual, honest-to-god ballad. While some diehard fans may find this mix unappealing, there's plenty to like about this album, including its laid-back, rhythmic orientation, and James Hetfield's characteristic growl tempered by his growing maturity as a vocalist. -- Genevieve Williams

Album Description

The band's 1996 album coupled with the four track CD single'Live In London', featuring 'Bleeding Me', 'Damage Inc' andcovers of Queen's 'Stone Cold Crazy' & Killing Joke's 'TheWait'. 18 tracks total. The single is a slimline jewel case;'Load' is in a stand

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a band under any other name---.......2007-07-23

hero of the day iz cool but beyond that the sound has changed too much. Great rock but not great Metallica. Then Lars started farting around chasing that Napster dude like he caused the end of the world or something, really they were done with the black album because everything after that was more rock oriented and alternative style. Long live Metallica 1983-1992 and selloutica should find a good new fanbase since most the youth of today are zombies and do not even realize what came before anyways.

sell out? not really.......2007-07-10

This album was a bit different that their previous ones. However, this is a huge progression even from the Black album.

These guys certainly did not sell out. If they had sold out they would have become less heavy (even less heavy then they were here) and made a crappy album of romantic music or a CD filled with fake drum clicks and a shimmering glockenspiel (like so much of the music today)

There is solid musicianship here and they realize their guitars have more than two strings and they know more than 3 chords. They didn't write some crappy corporate lyrics like so many 'rock' groups these days who only play what they're told and then let there music be produced in that way that gets stuff on the radio.

This album is better than all of that. There are actual melodies here and not just mindless riffing against pounding drums. This album is definitely a progression from the Black album, or any of their albums. Its produced well and sound great.

If you don't have this, you should. If you have it, listen to it again. This is easily 5 stars.

Corrosion of Metallica? .......2007-06-19

I was just thinking about the other day, what happened during the Load era of Metallica to make them do such an album? Well I think that I can explain alot of it, without making me or Metallica sound like total schmucks.

First of all, I think Metallica has become more than just a band, its a MACHINE. A very lucrative machine for the persons involved that is. Its a very different world, somewhat isolated from the ground. I don't know what would have happened if they would've come out with a very eighties sounding album in 1997. Would it have sold? Considering how dead traditional metal was (other than in much of Europe, etc), I could see them getting dropped after lackluster sales of an album of such music. They may have had to been signed to Castle records, or in other words go from the "top" to the "middle" rung (see the Neil Strauss/Motley Crue book The Dirt for a good explaination of this concept).
Metallica have worked extremely hard to get where they are, and this is an indisputable fact regardless of what you think of their music.

I don't think that Metallica were just following trends 100 % either, as Load isn't like Dokken's Shadowlife or such rubbish. Load is basically where they were at the time, getting into more bluesy influences, more hard rock, and a lot of Corrosion of Conformity!

I think it was an experiment to expand their sound to include alot of different things, not to sell out to an expanded audience per se. However, I also think that the changed climate in the U.S in regards to metal was definitely an influence. Its been said that all trends start in California and I'm sure that Metallica were influenced by "alternative culture" that is inherent in San Francisco. Metallica wanted to branch out, but at the same time, sell albums (even if unconciously). I don't even think it was a conscious attempt to "Sell out" as much as it was following a certain path that is influenced by; approaching middle age, "Different" non metal influences, and also, even if under the surface, the influence of a corporation (the aforementioned "machine") and also peers and a city that has never been total metal like Gothenburg, Stockholm or Oslo (other than the bay area thrash scene of the Eighties).
Its the same reason why Madison WI's most famous "metal" band of all time is a more "alternative", "funky", or "trippy" metal band, Last Crack. So I take all this into consideration when looking at the Load's, the times were not conducive to traditional metal, but the scene where Metallica are from was not either, and their listening choices were probably not very "metallic" at the time. Lars Ulrich disowned the "metal" label around the same time, but he has always been the one to say provocative statements such as those. Lars seems to really hate alot of the fanbase he sees as unintelligent and unenlightened. It may be pretentious, but a part of me agrees with him, though making such statements is going to alienate people.

I like the Loads, but they could have been made into one album, and it would have been a good album, though definitely not the Metallica of old.

Excellent!!.......2007-05-16

The CD arrived in perfect condition and my dad really enjoys his b-day present!! Thanks

Not my Metallica.......2007-05-12

After making albums such as Kill em all, Master of Puppets, and ...And Justice for all, it's really hard to hear this. A once awsome thrash metal legend of a band has now turned into a bunch of preppy, whiny, and soft sell outs. This band in their old days inspired hordes of thrash metal and death metal bands now has country like ballads. And do not call me small minded, do think a small style change in a metal band. Hell, Pantera, Overkill, Slayer, Testament, Metal church all changed their style, but theyt did not turn into these soft losers, they only got heavier and more progressive. Even bands like Megadeth got more mainstream, but it was mostly good except for a few crappers. So really, I'm saying If you want the thrash metal legends Metallica, steer clear of this. This is radio friendly rock or hard rock at most. Atleast I got bands like Overkill who still have just as much aggression as they ever had.

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Heavy groovin' rawk
Heavy groovin' rawk
Heavy groovin' rawk
Great One!

Daredevil
Fu Manchu
Manufacturer: Bong Load
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ASIN: B000002XY8
Release Date: 2003-11-04

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Heavy groovin' rawk.......2003-03-17

Uh, yeah, this stuff will get you goin'. Fuzzed out loud guitar riffs, Sabbath style, but no doom. This is So-Cal Desert bliss. Cars, speed, and... well... other stuff. It's almost all uptempo, a few pychedelic touches here and there, and way catchy, if you think that heavy earthmoving equipment can be catchy. And did I mention the killer drumming? The cool 'n sleazy fuzz guitar leads? Ah, man, just perfect.

There are two divisions in the Fu story, Mark i and 2. This is the best album of early, Mark 1 material. Just about every song is good; the band sounds fresh and excited. Their next album, In Search Of, marks the end of Fu Mark 1, as a couple guys split to form Nebula afterwards. In Search Of sounds a little down; you can tell that they stopped having fun together. Unlike this album, which is a blast nonstop! After the split, The Action is Go probably gets the nudge as the best, though King of the Road is really good, too. Maybe a little too much compression sometimes, though.

Daredevil and Action are the two best, IMHO, but this one has more lead guitar and that young, raw feel. Action is a little more polished, but has more moods and some different grooves. So there you have it. Buy this and play *really* loud!

Heavy groovin' rawk.......2003-03-17

Great One!.......2000-06-03

This album does not get old. It's just awesome, groovin' rock and roll. This one rivals the almighty In Search Of.., and yes this one came out first. Check this one out!

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Heavy Load
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Good Times
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nice
mmmm good
This is Where the Rock is!!!!
now this is Rock N Roll!
Real rock Sabbath for the new millenium

Ou Est la Rock?
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Customer Reviews:

nice.......2003-07-18

the gods give breath of life back to rock and roll, and save a dead poddle from drowning. Spread the word.

mmmm good.......2003-07-18

the gods bestow the breath of life back into rock and roll,
and save a dead poddle from drowning. Spread the word.

This is Where the Rock is!!!!.......2002-07-11

Rock and Metal collide in the battle for heaven and hell... from the sky falls Fireball Ministry... the once parched desert of music becomes fertile with godly riffs, thunderous bass, pounding drums... a voice unlike no other emerges from the chaos... FM have delivered us all from evil and brought us to a much BETTER evil!!!!!!! Raise thy horns 'o true ones for it is time to take back the rock and ram it down the gullets of all that pose in the name of false metal. In the end, we will conquer. Yet the war cannot be won without the battle so start here. And do not be suprised when the legions appear to take you with them, onward... to victory.

now this is Rock N Roll!.......2002-02-19

I saw them live at the Roxy. After that i bought both their albums. Badass stuff! Check it out!

Real rock Sabbath for the new millenium.......2000-10-28

This band is the real deal. Honest and genuine, they represent all that is good with rock.

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Album Description

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It's Always 1999
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Love Revolution
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Turning It Down Since 2001
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Definite about face

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Release Date: 2003-11-17

Tracks:

Ain't My Bitch
2 X 4
House Jack Built
Until It Sleeps
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Wasting My Hate
Mama Said
Thorn Within
Ronnie
Outlaw Torn

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Definite about face.......2005-08-16

Metallica have spent the last seven years claiming that anyone who doesn't like "Load" is a hatemonger out to stifle the band's musical ambitions. Pull up a seat, Lars, it's time we had a chat.
First of all, you guys made a bit of a left turn on 1991's so called "Black Album" (didn't Prince beat you to that one?), and many self respecting "old school" 'Tallica fans consider it hands down your finest hour. Do you honestly think it's the haircuts that made the difference this time around? Let's start with pre-LP single "Until It Sleeps". If I wanted dime store Smashing Pumpkins I'd have picked up "Adore" or that Zwan album. Hell, stick a pair of plugs up James' nostrils and you'd have a breathy instrumental. I still cannot figure out to this day why some people insist on pretending Hetfield can sing, but that's between you and me, Lars. We both know who the REAL backbone of this group is.

Next up: what's up with "Ain't my B**ch" exactly? Bet you spent a lot of time on that one, what with it's complex time signatures and grad school lyrics. Yes, Lars, I AM giving you sh*t. Frankly I'm tired of listening to yours. Have you noticed the fans at your shows getting younger and younger? Yes, Lars, the kids DO spend more money than their thirtysomething counterparts, that wasn't my point. Did you ever think maybe the fans are getting younger because teenagers are a bit less discriminating and thus easier to please intellectually? Wait, you think this is a GOOD thing? Lars, you're forty f**king years old. Name one forty year old Priest fan who thinks "Parental Guidance" is their best song. This is your legacy we're talking about here! Are you sure you want to cash all that in for a few quick bucks? OK, Lars, it's your life. Art is not a democracy, you're right. But I tell you what. Since you're not really making anything resembling art these days do you think you might be able to take a bit of constructive criticism? Oh? That's great! You say you have a roundtable discussion set up for your fans later on? And exactly where is this little shindig? Ah. The county courthouse. Say no more, Lars, say no more.