Load Music Cd

Metallica - Load

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Load      Artist : Metallica      List Price : $18.98 USD        Your Price : $14.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1996-06-04      Studio : Elektra / Wea      Label : Elektra / Wea      Avg. Customer Rating : (618 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Load      great album if anyone else had made it      Rating:      Okay, I'm going through the inevitable re-assessment of Metallica's catalog that comes with every new album. With Load, I have the same opinion that I did ten years ago: if this album had been made by anyone else, it would have been hailed as a great ROCK album. Problem is, Metallica spent all those years putting out truly epic, towering songs. After their 1st four albums (lets just ignore BLACK) anything other than truly legendary thrash built on mathematically precise, wonderfully layered foundations sounds weak and pathetic. The songs on this album are good. I spent a lot of time listening to it and still go back every once in a while. I, like everyone else (or at least everyone who was around for the old stuff and has good taste) would have preferred MORE of the old sounding stuff. That being said, what's here is good music and should be judged on it's own merits rather than being trashed because of what its not.     Customer Reviews for Load Cd      "Betrayal" or not, still a very good album      Rating:      Okay, I'll admit it up front: this does not sound like the Metallica we were used to. That said, the album is very good. Metallica experiments a little on "Load," trying out some new styles. This is most noticeable on "Mama Said," which almost sounds country. As a whole, the album has a slower pace than any other Metallica album, but makes up for it with depth: "Hero of the Day," "Until it Sleeps" and "The Outlaw Torn" sound totally different from what we're used to but strike us still, relying more on lyrics and metaphor than, say, "One" or "Master of Puppets," which are still amazing pieces of music but use different tactics to get there. Comparing it to other Metallica works is where the argument begins. Standing alone, this is a great album.