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re: 25 years ago, today: Metallica shoots "Load."
Posted on 6/7/21 at 1:07 pm to RoyalAir
Posted on 6/7/21 at 1:07 pm to RoyalAir
quote:Yes. It's top 3 for me for sure. One of the greatest grooves ever.
Ronnie is an underrated masterpiece.
Load is a spectacular album. The only track I would lose is Cure.
The House Jack Built is another hidden gem.
Bleeding Me alone should be enough to shut up the anti-fanboy bandwagon critics.
I personally think it's incredible that Mr. Hetfield was album to put something like this out just 8 short years after AJFA. Of course he's the greatest person who ever lived, so maybe it's not surprising.
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Posted on 6/7/21 at 4:17 pm to Hoodie
100% agree with every word. At least St Anger and Lulu were experiments, Death Magnetic, tuning back up to E standard with James voice, and multi millionaires acting thrashy again was more cringy than anything else they've done. I'd love for them to go back down to Eb and take advantage of James' low voice and do more 90s style mid tempo
Posted on 6/8/21 at 12:43 am to Corso
quote:Wasn't TBA the first in Eb? It was "cringy" for them to not continue the trend they started on the first album that people like you started hating on them for? Nah. Death Magnetic is fricking great. Not a single other soul in the world could write and pull off a song like All Nightmare Long.
100% agree with every word. At least St Anger and Lulu were experiments, Death Magnetic, tuning back up to E standard with James voice, and multi millionaires acting thrashy again was more cringy than anything else they've done. I'd love for them to go back down to Eb and take advantage of James' low voice and do more 90s style mid tempo
Posted on 6/8/21 at 9:30 am to Hoodie
as my friend stated.
The album was a Load of shite.
Metallica post JFA is arse.
The album was a Load of shite.
Metallica post JFA is arse.
Posted on 6/8/21 at 8:30 pm to Big Scrub TX
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Wasn't TBA the first in Eb? It was "cringy" for them to not continue the trend they started on the first album that people like you started hating on them for?
TBA was in E standard and I'm not sure what you mean about starting to hate on them. What made Metallica Metallica and not Slayer or Megadeth is how they were able to evolve and produce original content and ideas. James and Lars reverting back to "thrash" like they're still kids living out of a U-haul and not worth 9 figures a piece just to please the original fanbase was cringy to me
Posted on 6/8/21 at 9:11 pm to Corso
I’m with Corso on this. Metallica will always be my favorite band, but I don’t feel like they’ve done anything truly authentic or taken any chances since St. Anger.
Posted on 6/8/21 at 9:21 pm to themetalreb
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LOL...I guess that’s why The Black Album sold/sells so poorly***
LOL...So by your logic TBA is better than Puppets since its sold more.
Posted on 6/9/21 at 1:31 pm to Corso
quote:Sad But True and The God That Failed (off the top of my head) were not.
TBA was in E standard
Posted on 6/9/21 at 4:00 pm to Hoodie
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It's amazing how Load so clearly marks the jumping-off point for a lot of fans. "New Metallica" and "Old Metallica" began right here, arguably
I can still remember late summer of 91 when Enter Sandman premiered on MTV and within the first minute I realized something wasnt right..something has changed here. I was a huge thrash metal fan at that point and was seriously pissed off.
This post was edited on 6/9/21 at 4:57 pm
Posted on 6/9/21 at 4:36 pm to ThuperThumpin
quote:Yeah, it's weird. The entire buzz around TBA was "ooh, look, more accessible songs".
It's amazing how Load so clearly marks the jumping-off point for a lot of fans. "New Metallica" and "Old Metallica" began right here, arguably.
I can still remember late summer of 91 when Enter Sandman premiered on MTV and within the first minute I realized something wasnt right..something has changed here. I was a huge thrash metal fan at that point and was seriously pissed off.
If someone doesn't like Bleeding Me, then that's on them.
Posted on 6/9/21 at 5:07 pm to Big Scrub TX
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Yeah, it's weird. The entire buzz around TBA was "ooh, look, more accessible songs".
The album did grow on me and I still prefer it to any of the subsequent albums. I honestly didn't listen to much of anything past TBA until a few years ago. There are songs that are great but its not like the first 4 albums that I'll listen to beginning to end and love every minute of em.
Posted on 6/10/21 at 10:06 am to Big Scrub TX
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Sad But True and The God That Failed (off the top of my head) were not
That's true but their main tuning at that point both in the studio and live was still E standard.
Posted on 6/10/21 at 11:48 am to djsdawg
quote:It’s a weird deal because even though critics liked Load and St Anger, their fans seem to be harder on them. I think Load got caught at the end of the period where people were allegiant to genres so they thought they couldn’t like hard rock if they were metal fans. So a good album like St. Anger was pretty much what critical fans were saying Metallica should’ve done all along, but somehow they still hated it.
All of them are good except for st anger.
This post was edited on 6/10/21 at 11:51 am
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