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With Load being my favourite Metallica album, I was looking forward to see what ReLoad had to offer. Unfortunately in the main it seems to be mainly warmed up leftovers from the Load sessions. Not what would have gone on the second Load disc had they had time to make it a double album. But then the band also once catagorically stated that this 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 as possible to create a very interesting sound. The Unforgiven 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 the end of album epic, much like The Outlaw Torn on Load but not as good.
Considering their previous works this is a disappointing album. For any other band it would be considered good, but Metallica have done much better in the past.
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Jul 25th, 2000
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