Load (album)

Load
Studio album by
Metallica
ReleasedJune 4, 1996
RecordedMay 1, 1995 – February 1, 1996
StudioThe Plant (Sausalito, California)
Genre
Length79:04
LabelElektra
Producer
Metallica chronology
Metallica
(1991)		 Load
(1996)		 Reload
(1997)
Singles from Load
  1. "Until It Sleeps"
    Released: May 21, 1996
  2. "Hero of the Day"
    Released: September 9, 1996
  3. "Mama Said"
    Released: November 25, 1996
  4. "King Nothing"
    Released: January 7, 1997

Load is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released on June 4, 1996, by Elektra Records in the United States and by Vertigo Records internationally. Four singles were released from the album. It has sold over 5 million copies in the US. The album showed more of a hard rock side of Metallica than the band's typical thrash metal style. This alienated much of the band's fanbase. It's influenced by genres such as southern rock, blues rock, country rock, and alternative rock. At 79 minutes, Load is Metallica's longest studio album.

Track Listing

  1. Ain't My Bitch
  2. 2x4
  3. The House Jack Built
  4. Until It Sleeps
  5. King Nothing
  6. Hero of the Day
  7. Bleeding Me
  8. Cure
  9. Poor Twisted Me
  10. Wasting My Hate
  11. Mama Said
  12. Thorn Within
  13. Ronnie
  14. The Outlaw Torn

References

  1. ↑ Prown, Pete; Newquist, HP (1997). Legends of Rock Guitar: The Essential Reference of Rock's Greatest Guitarists. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 226. ISBN 0-7935-4042-9. The band re-emerged with Load, a less metalish and more hard-rock album that downplayed the group's previous headbanging.
  2. 1 2 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Metallica: Load". AllMusic. Retrieved June 17, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Until it Sleeps". Metallica.com. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Hero of the Day". Metallica.com. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Mama Said". Metallica.com. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
  6. ↑ "King Nothing". Metallica.com. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
  7. ↑ Pete Prown, Harvey P. Newquist (1997). Legends of Rock Guitar: The Essential Reference of Rock's Greatest Guitarists. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 226. ISBN 9780793540426.
  8. ↑ "Metallica revives old sound, 'Death Magnetic' shows band's desire to reclaim its thrash metal throne". report. Ohio.com. Archived from the original on August 3, 2020. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
  9. ↑ Moore, Doug (October 14, 2013). "Metallica Albums From Worst To Best". Stereogum. Spinmedia. Archived from the original on October 23, 2019. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
  10. ↑ Browne, David (June 7, 1996). "Metallica; Load". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on December 9, 2014. Retrieved June 17, 2013.