Time to dust off your soul patches, cake on the guyliner and rewatch Some Kind of Monster — Metallica are bringing Load back from the crypt. The band’s famously divisive 1996 album is getting the ...

In honor of Metallica's massive Load deluxe box set, Loudwire Nights has decided to pit the two biggest Load singles against each other for this week's Chuck's Fight Club. So who do you got - "Hero of ...

Metallica's Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield at MetLife Stadium on Aug. 4, 2023 in East Rutherford, N.J. (photo: Theo Wargo / Getty Images). Metallica’s chart-topping 1996 album Load is coming back to ...

It’s the spring of 1996, and I’m in Right Track Recording studios in New York, where Metallica are putting the finishing touches to what will become Load. Listening to the playback, I somewhat ...

For a while now, Metallica‘s been slowly remastering and re-releasing their back catalog. Of course we already got the O.G. masterpieces like Master of Puppets and Ride the Lightning done up in ...

The podcast host suggested that it would be interesting to see Metallica return to the style they captured in the ’90s with Load and Reload. “Who knows? We might just say, ‘Okay, let’s go back to the ...

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While Metallica have one of metal's most respected catalogs, not every album was a masterpiece, and bringing up the '90s can be triggering for some Metallica fans. So what does Mike Portnoy think of ...

Put kindly, many fans see the trio of albums Metallica released in the ‘90s as a low point for the band. Some were still on board after the release of their 1991 self-titled album (The Black Album).

Metallica’s chart-topping 1996 album Load is coming back to life this summer. Due June 13 from the band’s Blackened Recordings, the project will be available in both remastered and limited-edition ...