Reload Music Cd

Metallica - Reload

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Reload      Artist : Metallica      List Price : $18.98 USD        Your Price : $14.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1997-11-18      Studio : Elektra / Wea      Label : Elektra / Wea      Avg. Customer Rating : (637 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Reload      review for music lovers      Rating:      If you are of the speed metal only type of metallica fan, then this is not for you. However, if you love music, then this is. With Death Magnetic, Rick Ruben, along with many old metallica fans, said "make the album that should have come after And justice for all". The thing is, they made that album already. It's called "the Black ALbum". The fact of the matter is, Metallica was ready to move forward after "justice" - they had taken the "prog-metal"/speed metal thing as far as they could take it, and for them to evolve as musicians, they HAD to realease the stripped-down blues metal experimentaion that was "metallica(black album)", Load and Reload. which was, incidentally, just as important and influential as their first four albums. Musically, this is growth. this is experimentation. not something that the relatively narrow -minded""new metallica sucks" fan wants to hear. They already made four perfect, groundbreaking thrash albums, which no one else had done.... So, if you like music, Load is an expertly crafted excercise in melody and slow-tempo heavy rock. and if you like the sound of that, then metallica is one of the best, if not the best, at that genre. which is pretty cool, since they are also the best (or were, depending how you see it) band at speed- driven prog - thrash metal. Thus, if you are more broad in your music taste, you will find that Metallica is a band who created and conquered two genres, and RELOAD is an excellent example of this.     Customer Reviews for Reload Cd      Not a repeat of "Load" and yet not a return to what we're used to      Rating:      The Metallica fans are divided, with some saying Metallica has evolved and others saying they betrayed their fans. Make no mistake: "Reload" sounds nothing like "Master of Puppets" and bears only a passing resemblance to "Load." The album is distinctly heavier than its namesake predecessor, yet tries to maintain its feel by including softer songs like "Low Man's Lyric" (a good track in its own right, but I digress). What this amounts to is a bunch of songs, some of which are great and some immediately forgettable, all tossed into a blender and put on the album in whatever order they came out. The album doesn't flow well, a cardinal sin when coming from the same people who brought us "Master of Puppets" and "Ride the Lightning." Most of the songs are good, but the album is laid out terribly, leaving us somewhere in limbo when it comes to forming an opinion of it.