Metallica - Load
NME.COM feature on Metallica - Load album including album review, artwork, tracks, listen now, tour dates, discography and more.
Release date: 18 August 2008
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- 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
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Metallica - Load: Wikipedia Album Entry
Load is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released June 4, 1996. To date, the album has sold over 5 million copies in America, and is certified Gold in the UK, having sold over 100,000 copies. It spent four consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard 200.
At 78:59 minutes, Load is Metallica's longest studio album. Initial pressings of the album were affixed with stickers that boasted its long playtime, simply reading "78:59." Consequently, "The Outlaw Torn" had to be shortened by about one minute to fit on the album. The full version was released on a single for "The Memory Remains" as "The Outlaw Torn (Unencumbered by Manufacturing Restrictions Version)" with a running time of 10:48.
According to drummer Lars Ulrich: "This album and what we're doing with it - that, to me, is what Metallica are all about: exploring different things. The minute you stop exploring, then just sit down and fucking die."
The songwriting dispenses almost entirely with the thrash metal style that characterized the band's sound in the 1980s. In place of staccato riffs, Hetfield and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett experimented with more blues-based tones and styles. Additionally, Ulrich adopted a minimalist approach to his drum recording, abandoning the speed and complex double bass patterns of previous albums.
Most of this blues-based metal comes from of Ulrich's Deep Purple influences; one can hear Ian Paice's style in the regular cymbal attacks and drum hits, as well as Ritchie Blackmore's blues licks from the Mark III era of Deep Purple.
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Metallica - Load Lyrics
Metallica - 2 X 4 Lyrics
Yeah, I'm gonna make you, shake you, take you
I'm gonna be the one who breaks you
Put the screws into ya, yeah, my way
Yeah, come on, come on, come and make my day
Metallica - House Jack Built Lyrics
Open doors, so I walk inside
Close my eyes, find my place to hide
And I shake as I take it in
Let the show begin
Metallica - Cure Lyrics
The man takes another bullet
He keeps them all within
He must seek, no matter how it hurts
So don't fool again
Metallica - Wasting My Hate Lyrics
Good day, how do?
And I send a smile to you
Don't waste, waste your breath
And I won't waste my hate on you
Metallica - Until It Sleeps Lyrics
Where do I take this pain of mine?
I run but it stays right by my side
So tear me open and pour me out
Metallica - Thorn Within Lyrics
Forgive me father
For I have sinned
Find me guilty of the life
I feel within
Metallica - Ronnie Lyrics
Stories start, quiet town
Small town boy, big time frown
Never talks, never plays
Different path, lost his way
Metallica - Poor Twisted Me Lyrics
[Incomprehensible]
Oh, poor twisted me
Oh, poor twisted me
Metallica - Mama Said Lyrics
1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2
Mama, she has taught me well
Told me when I was young
Metallica - King Nothing Lyrics
Wish I may, wish I might
Have this, I wish tonight
Are you satisfied?
Dig for gold, dig for fame
Metallica - Hero Of The Day Lyrics
Mama, they try and break me
The window burns
To light the way back home
Metallica - Bleeding Me Lyrics
I'm diggin' my way
Yes, I'm diggin' my way to somethin'
I'm diggin' my way to somethin' better
Metallica - Ain't My Bitch Lyrics
Outta my way, outta my day
Outta your mind and into mine
Into no one, into not one
Into your step but outta time
Metallica - Outlaw Torn Lyrics
And now I wait my whole lifetime
For you
And now I wait my whole lifetime
For you
