Reload | 
 enlarge | Artist: Metallica
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  637 reviews
Sales Rank: 3626
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 62126
UPC: 755962126250
EAN: 0075596212625
ASIN: B000002HRE
Release Date: November 18, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | Fuel | | • | The Memory Remains | | • | Devil's Dance | | • | The Unforgiven II | | • | Better Than You | | • | Slither | | • | Carpe Diem Baby | | • | Bad Seed | | • | Where the Wild Things Are | | • | Prince Charming | | • | Low Man's Lyric | | • | Attitude | | • | Fixxxer |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
For many heavy metal fans, Metallica epitomizes the genre, especially for those listeners who remember the band's fast-and-furious 1983 debut, Kill 'Em All. As a result, their continued foray into a more stripped-down, laid-back sound with this album has met a mixed response. However, there's enough innovation and just plain strange stuff on this album to make it worth a listen. The creepy "The Memory Remains" is perfectly accentuated by Marianne Faithfull's backing vocals, and "Where the Wild Things Are" features the multilayered vocals and guitars that Metallica is famous for, albeit at about half their usual speed. The opening ("Fuel") and closing ("Fixxxer") tracks are especially strong, and intermixed with some slower, country-inflected tunes are the obnoxious rockers that made Metallica the long-running success they are. --Genevieve Williams
Album Description
Japanese exclusive reissue of 1997 album, packaged in a miniature LP gatefold sleeve, features 13 tracks. CBS. 2003.
Album Details
Australian Version featuring a Limited Edition Bonus Live EP Recorded in London.
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| Customer Reviews:
 review for music lovers October 27, 2008
Sean O'Brien (Fullerton, CA)
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.
 Not a repeat of "Load" and yet not a return to what we're used to October 2, 2008
Jonathan Mettin (Philadelphia, PA USA)
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.
 its funny how this is better than Load July 6, 2008
Joe (PA)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
better than Load but still not enough for me to care. seriously, who cares what Metallica has to say anymore? arent we over it yet? i mean, they released 4 records that made metal what it is today, no one in a metal band can decline the notion that Metallica paved the way and in a way invented what we know today as american metal but that was 20 plus years ago, do we really care anymore?
there are some decent radio hits on this cd which is what Metallica had been trying to do since 1990 and have succeeded but with time the songs on these later era releases just arent worth the plastic they are put on.
im just so over Metallica and these songs.
dont get me wrong tho, i love Metallica, i love the early era stuff because it still rules over most if not all metal thats around today but do they really have anything left to offer but stale music packaged as an excuse to tour?
 Metallica should just quit already. They've been awful since the self titled album. May 27, 2008
Joseph A. Beckman
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
The best to the worst; Metallica stinks and they know it. The band committed suicide after ...And Justice For All.
Cry Us A River May 22, 2008
J. Ronthi (Washington, DC USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This album is not terrific, as it has some filler. That filler is, generally, very bad. But when its good, this album succeeds. For some reason, the thrashing burn-outs never matured, however, and they are here giving undeserved 1-star ratings. It's all very unfortunate.
This album is a good, solid, hard, blues-based, rocker. It is interesting enough to keep you listening. The first half of this album is very good.
If you like hard rock, check it out.
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