ReLoad
by Metallica

Not anywhere as good as Load was, but Reload still has some very Metallica tunes and this album is still in my Top 5 favorite albums from the band. (Edited)

A much better and much more memorable album than what Metallica released afterwards or any of their newer stuff and it definitely shouldn’t be ranked dead last of all their studio albums. (Edited)

Although Reload is far from Metallica’s best album and is overall a much much weaker album than their previous album, Load (1996), it was on the US Billboard 200 albums chart for a total of 75 weeks. (Edited)

From Strangel 02/07/2024 01:29 | #301770 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

It’s a bit of an insult that the utter dross that is St Anger is currently rated above this reasonably good album. I like some of the deviations here and if I try not to compare too much with the epic nature of their earlier iconic stuff this album comes off as a great listen. Unforgiven II also suffers from comparison with the first Unforgiven instalment. Not too many bands can write a song that is as good as that.

But yeah, there’s a lot of very average songs here which is something you could never say about their pre-load albums. (Edited)

I was late in getting this due to all the criticism it received. It's not bad at all. In fact I think it's actually pretty good. It's not thrash hence why the early loyalists hated it. But it is an album full of great hard rock/classic metal tracks. There's nothing fucking wrong with this at all. (Edited)

From VictorVale 12/01/2020 18:47 | #261759

Melhor do que parece, mas pior que deveria!

Some really underrated songs on this album. Fixxxer, Low Man's Lyric, Where the Wild Things Are and Devil's Dance are some of the better songs from this period of their career. (Edited)

From Anti 12/28/2014 05:17 | #130246 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

I know, not the greatest Metallica album ever, but Fuel, UNFORGIVEN II, Low Man's Lyric, and Fixxxer are DAMN good songs. (Edited)

From RoundTheBend 04/08/2013 06:09 | #71933

Starts out stronger, but kinda fizzles out... much better than Load and might be in my top 5 of Metallica. (Edited)

From junodog4 06/29/2012 15:29 | #45583 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Like Load, it's been slammed by the purists. I applaud Metallica's attempt to change and grow. This album is inconsistent, but it's entirely listenable, with some pretty strong tracks. Way better than St. Anger. (Edited)