Re-load - Metallica

Advantages: Some good tunes
Disadvantages: Quite a few stinkers

Ok, I'm on a cd reviewing role, just done a review of Load, so now on to Reload... Once again it's a song by song break down, nice 'n simple. Fuel. Real heavy, and a good start to the cd. Gets boring, but the chorus is DEAD nice. A good song overall, but I wish he wouldn't say "OHHHH YEAH YEAH", thats sounds rubbish! 8/10 The Memory Remains. Really damn good. Stupidly enjoyable tune, I love the lyrics and the heavy yet melodic tune. A corker of ...
...Devil's Dance. hmmmmmm, a typical Metallica tune, good but not really that amazing. A bit dull too. 7/10 The Unforgiven ][. Right, you may remember on the black album there was unforgiven, well this is a heavier version, and it sounds better in my opinion. It's deeper amd louder. Great lyrics and tune. 10/10 Better Then You. No, this sucks quite a bit. Not a good song, but it gets better when it goes fast. Not up to their normal standards. 4/10 ... Read review

Advantages: It's new Metallica material
Disadvantages: It's not that great

...album would not be called Re-Load or Reloaded or anything Load. Oh well. The first track, Fuel, is a good tune but I don’t really get the lyrics, they just seem to be randomly connected words. The Memory Remains is better though, a lot better. Marianne Faithful provides guest vocals, which adds a bit of variety to the standard Metallica sound, and the variety continues with Devil’s Dance. This track has Kirk seemingly using as many whammy pedals ...
...II is also a good song, not as good as the original but then The Unforgiven is never likely to be bettered. After this the band go through the motions and do a ‘tallica by numbers until they get to Where the Wild Things Are. A stunning track that mixes gentle guitar parts with crushingly loud parts. Low Man’s Lyric sees Metallica do Mama Said II and like the other sequel on the album it’s good, but not as good as the original. Finally Fixxxer is ... Read review

Advantages: metallica produce yet another classic album
Disadvantages: rubbish artwork, lack of lyrics again

This album has several brilliant Metallica songs on it. The best of the CD are 'Devils Dance', 'Prince Charming', 'Fuel', 'Better than you' and 'Unforgiven 2'. Metallica brilliantly mix hard rock classics with the storng ballads such as unforgiven 2, this is an absolutely classic track, even better, IMO than the first Unforgiven and that says something as that is a classic song. All 13 tracks are very good, the only exception in my opinion is ... Read review

Advantages: Better Than Load
Disadvantages: Too many fillers

There was a deep suspicion about this album right from the off, as it was written at the same time as "Load" and could therefore be regarded as rejected material. The band vehemently denied this of course, claiming that the two records are vastly different, and I have to say I broadly agree with them, and feel that this is better than the last release. There are several excellent tracks - "Fuel" (real old-style monster riff), single "The Memory ...
...I think her contribution detracts slightly from the overall power of the song. It's significant that "Fade To Black" is mentioned in the lyrics as it is fairly reminiscent of that track), "Devil's Dance", (definitely not a dance track!) "Better than You" (turns into a bit of a stonker after a scratchy start), "Slither", "Carpe Diem Baby", and "Prince Charming" are the best of the bunch. Even the "fillers" are better than on "Load" - "Bad Seed", ... Read review

Advantages: Fuel is a brilliant song
Disadvantages: Some very bad songs

I have downloaded a few (three or four) Metallica songs from napster, and really liked them so I decided to buy an album. I was recommended to buy 'reload', however I couldn't find it in any shops. Luckily I was in London and decide to go to Tower Records, under the illsion that they would have it. And they did, so I bought it for the huge price of £16.49 (which I thought was sooo much), I bought it dispite the huge sum of money needed to pay for ...
...I got home, and I was eager to stick the CD in my CD player but thought (consideratly) that people in my house wouldn't appreciate it if I played metal music at 2AM. So I slept, woke, ate, during this time i am getting more and more desperate to listen to my CD. So I put it in my CD player, and hear one of the songs I had downloaded (I'm singin along), then the next song comes on, and the next, and the next. I was very disappointed with the 'next' ... Read review