It is also ironic that one of the worst Metallica songs came from such a successful album. However, it makes a lot of sense given the context of the band’s moment at the time. It is simply a weak song ...

Just over a year after Load was released, Metallica unleashed the rest of the album sessions along with some newly recorded material in the form of ReLoad. The band continued to experiment ...

while its fans were wringing their hands over the group’s newly cropped coifs and the more diversified sound of its then-new Load album. Metallica used the expanded dynamics to bring more ...

and lost more than half their global audience with release of the provocative post-Black Album Load (1996) and, more contentiously still, Reload (’97). Had Metallica gone grunge? Had Metallica ...