Random metal related thoughts

[Bürggermeister]

It's a lot of money to pay for some live albums of when they were embarrassed by their best music and had truly become the shitshow known as 'tallica... ehhh... baby-ah!

[Giggles]

Load of shite wha!

They can load and reload all they like but they'll never hit the mark again wha!

I do wonder if doing one box set for the whole Load/Reload era would be better,

Metallica Inc. wants as much money from you as possible 💰

15 fucking cds.... 15!!!! I wouldn't spend my money on a box like this for one of their good albums, let alone one of their worst!

Any guesses on what the price will be?

[Giggles]

I think I listened to this album once or twice about 20 years ago when I was 16, and I remember being very unimpressed. I had only recently gotten into Metallica, had devoured the first 5 albums and just wrote off Load and Reload as shit, because it wasn't the Metallica I wanted to listen to.

I decided to give Load another go there with an open mind. I'm about 7 tracks in and I'm enjoying it far more than I thought I would. I think the lyrics are quite shit in places, but the actual music itself is grand like.

[Sworntothecans]

I think I listened to this album once or twice about 20 years ago when I was 16, and I remember being very unimpressed. I had only recently gotten into Metallica, had devoured the first 5 albums and just wrote off Load and Reload as shit, because it wasn't the Metallica I wanted to listen to.

I decided to give Load another go there with an open mind. I'm about 7 tracks in and I'm enjoying it far more than I thought I would. I think the lyrics are quite shit in places, but the actual music itself is grand like.

They honestly should have kept the Danzig /AIC /COC influence. It would have suited them far better as they matured instead of the diminishing returns.

[The Great Cull]

Load of shite wha!

They can load and reload all they like but they'll never hit the mark again wha!

I do wonder if doing one box set for the whole Load/Reload era would be better,

Metallica Inc. wants as much money from you as possible 💰

15 fucking cds.... 15!!!! I wouldn't spend my money on a box like this for one of their good albums, let alone one of their worst!

Any guesses on what the price will be?

Any guesses on what the price will be?

Over 300 euro!
I've all 5 of the older box sets and they were all cheaper and are brilliant sets (especially the Justice box)

I do like Load. It's not within an asses roar of any of the older albums but it has its charms. It's essentially them showcasing their Danzig, COC and Alice In Chains influences all while dressed like Smashing Pumpkins and Janes Addiction. Mad that compared to what was to come after that it sounds amazing in comparison.

They can get fucked with the price of this though. The problem with the material from the Internet era is that almost the entire thing is out online in some capacity already so I'd have been hard pushed to go to 120 euros for this just for the sake of completion.

[Sworntothecans]

I never want to get in the habit of boxsets, records are pricey enough as it is and demos are usually a listen once and never again deal.

[Ducky]

I think I listened to this album once or twice about 20 years ago when I was 16, and I remember being very unimpressed. I had only recently gotten into Metallica, had devoured the first 5 albums and just wrote off Load and Reload as shit, because it wasn't the Metallica I wanted to listen to.

I decided to give Load another go there with an open mind. I'm about 7 tracks in and I'm enjoying it far more than I thought I would. I think the lyrics are quite shit in places, but the actual music itself is grand like.

Yeah it's a very solid hard rock record. Reload is patchier but has some great songs too.

The two albums stand out to me as the last time they sounded genuine from an artistic PoV.

[Cosmic_Equilibrium]

Yeah the Loads do have a much more genuine feel to them than trying to force themselves to still play thrash. I think they should just do Load part 3 for their next album, it would feel more true to themselves.

[The Great Cull]

They won't do that now. They seem to have success with a new audience by using chat GPT to create their 72 seasons effort so they'll do the same again next time

[Eoin McLove]

They should join with Iron Maiden to form Maidtallica and combine their go-nowhere riffs with ol' 'Arry's interminable repetition. A 60 CD set with a special die hard editing that comes with its own therapist.

[The Great Cull]

The extra loud bass will be a problem for Papa Het

[Ducky]

Shrodinger's bass mix.

[Born of Fire]

I'd have zero interest in listening to a haggart of outtakes and rough cuts anyway. Yeah sometimes a bands demo version will be a much rawer effort that really appeals more than the fully polished finished product but fuck sifting through hundreds of versions of the same songs 

[Mithrandir]

I'm looking at this metal flash sheet and most are pretty obvious but the ones I've circled are driving me mad, I know I recognize them but can't work out what bands they are arghhhh

[Thorn]

Left one Bal Sagoth?  Probably not, just first instinct.