| Let's Rock ! |
|
|||||||||||||||
|
Browse by Genre
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
    | Languages :
|
LoadMetallica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  | ||||
METALLICA - LOAD (CD) |   | |||
| 04 June 1996 - Elektra Records | |||||||
 |
Tracklist
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  the lyrics |
| |||||
article viewed 7226 times
Review
  note : 12/20 | ||
| After the success achieved by the "Black Album", metallica kept their thoughts in... their bank accounts and so, they decided to release "Load", an album that smells like sales.
This album is full of simple riffs, mostly with poor guitar solos (listen to the awful One in "The house that Jack built"... terrible!), the drum work is boring but ok, the melodies are effective, and most of the time they work well. I can't really understand how metallica could have fun playing in this album, I miss the Ulrich of "... and Justice for All", the Hammet of "Master of Puppets", well, Newsted it's more or less the same, although the bass has less relevance than in previous works and, yes the only improvement is Hetfield, which is now a more convincing singer. His voice is stronger now, he's trying different things and I like that change. Listening to this album it's a contraditory experience: if you listen to it thinking about metallica's past you can't help but being disappointed because of the weakness you immediately spot and because you know that the band has dOne much better before... but on the other hand, try to pretend this is the first album you listen from this band and you might figure it's not so bad, not so bad at all. You can even get carried away by some of the vicious melodies, in songs like "Ain't my bitch", "King nothing", "Hero of the Day" (my favorite song from this album), the more balladistic "Until It Sleeps" or the country-like "Mamma said". Of course you will most likely hate songs like "Cure" (I'd dare to say this is the worst metallica song ever!!), the weak "2x4", the sooooo boring "The thorn within" and the annoying "Ronnie" (what the hell was in their heads!?!) So, can I dislike this album? Yes and No. To me this is half a good album... Listen to half of it and you have a balanced and well made album. Then the second half of it gets boring and with lack of ideas. If I could, I'd just keep the first 7 songs, taking away "2x4" and adding the great, great song called "The outlaw thorn". Other important thing here is that metallica has left thrash metal, they play a fusion between hard-rock and metal which you can't simply call heavy-metal... To label their sound it you'd have to say it's something like a Power-rock-metal. Some people won't like this album just because of that. If you're a die-hard fan you will buy it anyway (and you will probably be hard on your view about it), but to the remaining people it will be as I told before an album which will generate contraditory opinions, although I think no One will trully love it. Note: my rate is up in One point because of the last song in the album: i don't know why but i can't stop thinking it's a classic, One of the best songs metallica's dOne in a long time (previous masterpieces can only be found in "...And Justice For All"... Rated: 13 | ||
| 0 comment | Tuesday 11 March 2008 | |
 | ||
| Spirit of Metal Webzine © 2003-2008 | ‘Just metal.’ | Contact - Sitemap - Links |