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14 май 2025

Watch: METALLICA's KIRK HAMMETT Unboxes Remastered Deluxe Box Set Of 'Load' Album

Watch below as METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett becomes the first to unbox the long-awaited remastered deluxe box set of METALLICA's "Load" album.

Dubbed "The Whole Kitchen Sink", the box includes more than 10 pounds of content across six pieces of vinyl, 15 CDs, four DVDs, a 128-page book and reproduced memorabilia.

Available for pre-order now, this deluxe box set — along with the standard 180g 2LP, CD, cassette and digital (including a Spatial Audio mix using Atmos),and a 3CD Expanded Edition — hits stores on Friday, June 13 via METALLICA's own Blackened Recordings.

Remastered by Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering with Greg Fidelman overseeing, the "Load" remastered limited-edition deluxe box set is available now for pre-order at Metallica.com, where full package details and track listings can be viewed. Pre-orders of the deluxe box will receive instant grat tracks "Until It Sleeps (Remastered)", "Until It Sleeps (Herman Melville Mix)", "F.O.B.D. ('Until It Sleeps' Rough Chorus Vocal Idea Mix)" and "Until It Sleeps (Live at Slim's, San Francisco, CA - June 10th, 1996)".

"Load (Remastered)" will be released in formats, including standard 180g 2LP, CD, cassette and digital (including a Spatial Audio mix using Atmos). Standard pre-orders receive "Until It Sleeps (Remastered)" IG, expanded edition pre-orders receive "Until It Sleeps (Remastered)" and "F.O.B.D. ('Until It Sleeps' Rough Chorus Vocal Idea Mix)" IGs. The 2LP, 3CD expanded and deluxe digital versions for the first time ever feature the extended version of "The Outlaw Torn", originally edited for release due to time constraints of the CD format.

The "Load" remastered limited edition deluxe box set is an ambitious and comprehensive time capsule of 1995-97 era METALLICA, jam-packed with exclusives including previously unreleased demos, rough mixes, live performances, on-air and television appearances, and much more. The one-time pressing will include the remastered "Load" album on 180g double vinyl, a "Mama Said" picture disc, and "Loadapalooza '96", a 140g triple album recorded live during METALLICA's Lollapalooza headlining run at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre on August 4, 1996. The set's 15 CDs range from the remastered "Load" album to never-before-released collected riffs, demos and rough mixes, B-Sides and rarities, and a wealth of live material, while its four DVDs offer a plethora of behind the scenes, in-studio and live footage, on-air and television appearances, the band's Polar Beach Party visit to Tuktoyaktuk, Canada, and more. Rounding out the box's content are memorabilia including a pack of 14 Rorschach Test cards, a Pushead patch, an 11x17 Lollapalooza poster, a Rolling Stone cover reproduction, a five-pack of guitar/bass picks, lyric sheets, two laminated tour passes and a deluxe 128-page book.

Originally released June 4, 1996, "Load" was the second METALLICA album to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, where it would remain for four straight weeks. The 1995 sessions at The Plant in Sausalito, California that resulted in "Load" (as well as 1997's "Reload") would find guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Jason Newsted creating yet another landmark of the METALLICA catalog. Currently, two of "Load"'s four singles — "Until It Sleeps" and "King Nothing" — have been lighting up crowds the world over in regular rotation on the setlists of the band's "M72" world tour.

Released in 1996, "Load" marked a new direction for METALLICA, featuring what one critic has described as "a fresh take on LYNYRD SKYNYRD-tinged boogie rock for the 1990s."

Although "Load" and 1997's "Reload" were warmly received by critics at the time, they've since taken their place among the most reviled work of METALLICA's career.

In a 2013 interview with Revolver magazine, Ulrich said that "Load" and "Reload" are "great records" that "are creatively on par with every other record we've made. Obviously, they're bluesier records, and at that time, we were listening to a lot of LED ZEPPELIN, DEEP PURPLE and AC/DC, and we had a different kind of foundation than records before or after," he said. "And I understand that there are people who couldn't quite figure out what was going on with the haircuts and the rest of it, and that's fine. But musically, if you strip all that other stuff away, if you just listen to the 27 songs — 'Load' and 'Reload' were intended as one double-record — it's a great collection of songs that is on par with everything else that we've done creatively."

Hetfield has repeatedly expressed his dislike of the "Load" album cover and its inspiration, telling Classic Rock magazine in a 2009 interview: "Lars and Kirk [Hammett, guitar] were very into abstract art, pretending they were gay. I think they knew it bugged me. It was a statement around all that. I love art, but not for the sake of shocking others. I think the cover of 'Load' was just a piss-take around all that. I just went along with the make-up and all of this crazy, stupid shit that they felt they needed to do."

In a 2017 interview with Clash, Hetfield was asked if the band had to make certain compromises along the way in order to be accepted by the mainstream. He responded in part: "As far as doing something that doesn't feel right, I'm sure there's been a few times that it's happened — the 'Load' and 'Reload' era, for me, was one of those; the way that was looking, I wasn't 100 percent on with it, but I would say that that was a compromise. I said, 'I'm going with Lars's and Kirk's vision on this. You guys are extremely passionate about this, so I'll jump on board, because if the four of us are into it, it's going to be better.' So I did my best with it, and it didn't pan out as good as I was hoping, but, again, there's no regrets, because at the time it felt like the right thing to do."

Following the "Load"/"Reload" albums and tour, METALLICA went into a tailspin that resulted in Newsted's exit of, Hetfield spending the better part of a year in rehab and the band nearly splitting up.

In a 2016 interview with TeamRock, Hetfield was asked what he thought late METALLICA bassist Cliff Burton might have felt about the drastic changes in METALLICA's look and sound that the band made through the 1990s and early 2000s with albums like "Load", "Reload" and "St. Anger". Hetfield replied: "Well, I certainly would have thought there would have been some resistance, for sure. I think the 'Black Album' was a great album and I appreciate the fact that we did have the balls to do that… I would certainly think that the 'Load' and 'Reload' [era], I would have had an ally that was very against it all — the reinvention or the U2 version of METALLICA."

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14 май 2025

Вашингтон Ирвинг

Нормальный альбом сам бы Хэтфилд презентовал, так что всё понятно.

14 май 2025

gravitgroove

Вашингтон Ирвинг, да на самом деле ничем не хуже 1991, но действительно затянут метражом. Если вести к тому что этот альбом удостоен обложки с размазанной кровавой диареей, а не спермой, то и 1991 так же ровно наполовину, ну или 1 / 3 укомплектован дребеденью, отбракованной с AJFA

14 май 2025

gravitgroove

подождем вестей от очередного сэра Робина Гуда, когда он вернется с крестового похода на торрент трекер с этим возом. Хотя демки и лайфы от Металлика - это, пожалуй, самое скучное, что вообще может быть в музыке.

14 май 2025

Rutger

По внутренней иерархии Метлы, к обложке Load может прикасаться только Кирк

14 май 2025

Bumba Records

Единственный альбом, которого у меня нет в коллекции. И не будет. Reload. как по мне, "работа над ошибками". Хотя, хз.. Не слушал давно. Но его наличие, как бы намекает.

15 май 2025

neversaydie

Если по обложке , Хэтфилд , негативно о ней отзывался , если по альбому . Сам альбом хорош , стабильно ровное количество хороших треков для прослушивания, может бы ть даже получше Reload, если взять Load и Reload и оставить все, что можно послушать, то будет очень да же хороший альбом.

15 май 2025

Bumba Records

neversaydie, да, не стоило растекаться мыслью по древу.. Из двух альбомов вышел бы отличный полноформатник. Вчера переслушал Reload - интересный альбом. Последние работы Метлы "притянуты за уши". В 90-е творческий потенциал у группы был выше.

15 май 2025

Gleb Monster

Кому лень смотреть, вот полный текст презентации:

Кто богатый — налетай
А кто жадный — убегай
Отделяем мух от котлет
А тех, кто Лоад любит, от тех, кто нет
Для вас несвежий товарчик
А для нас солидный наварчик
Альбом без изъяна
Альбом без обмана
Надёжный, как пружина от кардана
Берём бокс-сетами, бокс-сетами берём
Я вчера один полный взял
И всего на триста баксов попал!

17 май 2025

WahrandPhain

Gleb Monster, так боксы берут не для себя, а для перепродаж, не удивлюсь кстати, что сама метла половину тиража сольет на дискогс)))))))))))))))))))