The album Reload is essentially the tracks that were not finished from the Load sessions, at the time the band had planned to make Load a double album but after a lengthy stay in the studio they decided to split it up over two albums. The band insisted that these weren’t Load rejects and claimed that these songs were of a more extreme nature either heavier or mellower that needed more time spent so they decided to leave them for this album.
Kicking off with the bombastic Fuel, the album immediately announces itself as a “don’t fuck with this” type of affair. Memory bares another side of the met with an interesting choice of guest vocals by Marianne faithful (renowned for her escapades involving Mick Jagger and a mars bar!!) that offset the often-unrealised heaviness and greatness of the song. Devils Dance is a mother of a song, with a bass heavy grove underlying the entire journey with monstrous vocals throughout.
Up next we have an astonishing ballad in the form of the Unforgiven II, more than a reworking of the original with a character of its own whilst still being underpinned with the melody of the first from the Black Album. This track is immensely deep and powerful, an awesome track, and in an equal for the already acclaimed Unforgiven released some six years previous to this offering.
It’s hereon that some hardcore Metallica fans have had some issue. Although the whole album is awesome it isn’t perhaps up to the standard we had come to expect, although when the standard is as high as it is, that’s always going to be difficult. Tracks like Better Than You, Slither, Prince Charming are all great tracks that blast out of the speakers without apology and have real melodic undertones that give the songs added depth, however at 13 tracks long some of these mid album tracks somewhat merge into one idea rather than having identities for themselves, with perhaps the exception of Where the Wild Things Are (co-written by Jason) that has a great feel and melody.
As far as the latter part of the album goes my section is Low Mans Lyric, Attitude and the mighty album closer Fixxxer. Low Mans Lyric is a very brave song that got greeted with some hostility by elements of the fan base. A very personal track that James Hetfield’s amazing voice delivers for us better than we could ever hope for, an amazing track, the no holds barred stomp of Attitude takes us to a different place, before the perfect Fixxxer takes us to the end. The epic quality of Fixxxer is incredible, amazing riffs and lyrics make this one of the best Load/Reload era tracks (strictly in my opinion of course), a perfect way to round off the 'tallica’s most experimental period to date, and a very successful period at that.
Although many don’t consider Reload the greatest, it is certainly an immense record in its own right. As Kerrang magazine claimed, “Metallica cruising is better than most bands firing on all cylinders” a perfect description if ever there were.
ReLoad is the seventh album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released in 1997. It is the direct counterpart to their 1996 album, Load. Over 3 million copies have been sold in the US as certified by the RIAA.
Kirk Hammett:
Hammett was invited to join Metallica following the dismissal of the band's original lead guitarist Dave Mustaine in 1983. This was prior to the release of Kill 'Em All. At the time Hammett was taking private guitar lessons from the now-famous Joe Satriani. In 2002, he became the first inductee into Guitar World magazine's "Hall of Fame".Though he is primarily Metallica's lead guitarist, Hammett has written and contributed riffs for Metallica songs since the mid-1980s (particularly in the 1990s during the Load era). One of these riffs, used in "Enter Sandman", was written in a hotel room at 3:15 am, and became one of Metallica's most popular songs. It was the first track and first single on Metallica's self-titled "Black Album" and was ranked 399th on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. Also the riff for "Creeping Death" was originally an Exodus riff that Kirk took with him to Metallica. Kirk has often been criticised[citation needed] for his extensive use of the wah-wah pedal in his solos, but he insists, "The wah-wah is an extension of my personality". He also once said, "They'll have to cut off my leg if they want me to stop using the wah-wah pedal". Kirk wanted to have guitar solos on Metallica's 2003 album, St. Anger, but drummer Lars Ulrich and producer Bob Rock thought that the solos did not sound right in the songs. He later himself admitted, "We tried to put in solos but they sounded like an afterthought so we left them out".
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