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Reload
Studio album by
Metallica
ReleasedNovember 18, 1997 (1997-11-18)
Recorded
  • May 1995 – February 1996
  • July–October 1997[a]
StudioThe Plant (Sausalito, California)
Genre
Length76:03
LabelElektra
Producer
Metallica chronology
Load
(1996) 		Reload
(1997) 		Garage Inc.
(1998)
Metallica studio album chronology
Load
(1996) 		Reload
(1997) 		St. Anger
(2003)
Singles from Reload
  1. "The Memory Remains"
    Released: November 11, 1997
  2. "The Unforgiven II"
    Released: February 23, 1998
  3. "Fuel"
    Released: June 22, 1998

Reload is the seventh studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on November 18, 1997, through Elektra Records in the United States and Vertigo Records internationally. The album is a follow-up to Load, released the previous year, and

Like Load, Reload was produced by Bob Rock.

Metallica's last studio album to feature bassist Jason Newsted. Reload debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 436,000 copies in its first week. It was certified 4× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipping three million copies in the United States.

Background and recording

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Further information: Load (album)

Reload was recorded during the same sessions as Metallica's previous album, Load, at The Plant Studios in Sausalito, California, between May 1995 and February 1996.[2] The sessions were produced by Bob Rock, who also produced Load and Metallica (1991).[3] The original idea was to release Load and Reload as a double album, but problems arose with recording almost 30 songs at one time, so Metallica decided two separate the material into two different albums.[2] Lead singer and rhythm guitarist James Hetfield said at the time: "Reload has all of the crappy ones ... But really, these aren't the rejects, they're just all the songs that weren't finished when we released Load."[3] Lead guitarist Kirk Hammett also believed a double album "would have been a lot more material for people to digest, and some of it might have gotten lost in the shuffle".[3]

By 1994, the band members' influences ranged outside of heavy metal: Hetfield took inspiration from American songwriters such as Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, and Nick Cave; Hammett grew interest in David Bowie's works with Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew, and the blues music of Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, and Howlin' Wolf; Newsted grew fond of Red Hot Chili Peppers and Faith No More, particularly the bass playing of the former's Flea; and Ulrich was enjoying Britpop groups such as Oasis.[4][5] The initial recording sessions were productive,[6] and the band's songwriting process became looser and more relaxed compared to previous albums.[7] Encouraged by drummer Lars Ulrich,[8] Hammett played rhythm guitar for the first time on a Metallica album, having previously only played lead parts while Hetfield played all rhythm parts. Hammett said this was done to achieve "a looser sound".[9] He ultimately became more influential in the songwriting process,[10] sharing co-writing credits with Hetfield and Ulrich on six of the final album's thirteen tracks.[11] After being excluded from the songwriting process on Load,[10] bassist Jason Newsted received a co-writing credit on "Where the Wild Things Are" for writing the music.[12][13]

After Load's release in June 1996,[14] Metallica embarked on the Poor Touring Me tour in support of the album from September 1996 to May 1997.[2] At the end of the tour, the band announced its follow-up, Reload, to be released in November.[15] Additional sessions for Reload occurred between July and October 1997, during which the band re-did guitar parts and added additional overdubs and vocals.[2][16] The band members felt a new sense of maturity during these sessions, particularly after Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich's marriages.[2] They continued the experimentation they began on Load. Under the guidance of Faith No More's Jim Martin, Hetfield hired the musician David Miles to play hurdy-gurdy on "Low Man's Lyric", while assistant recording engineer Bernardo Bigalli added violin to the track.[17] Ulrich explained: "It's in the same vein as [the Load track] 'Mama Said', which had kind of a country feel."[18] Hammett added various guitar effects using different pedals, such as ones by Electro-Harmonix and Roland Corporation on "Prince Charming" and a DigiTech Whammy on "Devil's Dance".[19] He also utilized wah-wah effects throughout Reload,[3] particularly on "Where the Wild Things Are".[12]

  • ""It seems natural to me that you'd want to take music and push it and pull it, experiment and fuck with it, after you've been doing it for a while," says the 33-year-old drummer. "But we're in a music genre - call it hard rock or metal - where change is frowned upon. It's an area of music where you say, 'Sure, we're going to make a different record every time out,' but the only thing that's different is the sleeve. We still are a hard-rock band, but that doesn't mean we have to think like one."[18]
  • It is the only song in Metallica's discography, apart from Lulu, the band's 2011 collaboration with Lou Reed, in which Hetfield shares lead vocals with a guest[1]
  • Other singers the band had reportedly considered included Carly Simon, Patti Smith, and Joni Mitchell,[20][18] although Hetfield and Ulrich (Chicago Tribune) said that Faithfull was their only choice.[1] Ulrich said: "We needed someone charismatic, someone ... weathered in every possible way."[21] Faithfull recorded her vocals for the song on October 9, 1996 at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin, Ireland, during the band's stop there on the Load tour.[1] She reportedly recorded her vocals while intoxicated.[3]

It was the final Metallica studio album to feature the lineup with bassist Jason Newsted, before he left the band in January 2001, though it was not his last release with the band.

Music and lyrics

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We're just slowly integrating other styles and techniques into our music, which is something any artist does, whether they're a musician or a painter or a race car driver or hairstylist. After a while, if you're truly devoted to what you're doing, you'll take on a lot of influence and integrate it into your own style to make things less boring.[3]

—Kirk Hammett, Guitar World, 1997

Hard rock,[22][23] heavy metal[24][25]

Experimentations with metal, blues, psychedelia, country, and Southern rock[3]

Speaking in 1997, Ulrich commented that "As far as I'm concerned, you can take any of these songs and interchange them on the two albums."[20]

  • "shares its predecessor's mix of gravelly, feral metal and lighter, more melodic rock'n'roll"[20]

Hetfield and Ulrich came up with the idea to record a sequel to 1991's "The Unforgiven" as a means of doing something they had not done before.[20] Hetfield had purchased a new Fender Telecaster guitar with a B-Bender and began playing the song: "It sounded really good, and I thought it was something new, but then I was like, "Aw, shit, I know that riff, that's 'Unforgiven'. But it sounded new enough. So I thought, 'Fuck. This could be another song. Well, should we hide the fact that it's 'Unforgiven?' No, let's just make it a continuation."[3]

The authors Joel McIver and Paul Stenning argue that with Load and its follow-up Reload, Metallica recognized and adapted to a changing music scene, compared to other metal bands such as Slayer who stuck to their formula.[26][27]

  • emphasis on blues rock and rhythm[28]
  • "The Memory Remains" about a fading Hollywood star[18] partly inspired by Sunset Boulevard (1950)[21]
  • Hot rods ("Fuel");[29] "hymn to speed, gasoline, and the pleasures of the 'pumping engine'"[21]
  • Ballad about a homeless man expressing frustrations at the world ("Low Man's Lyric")[30][31]
  • Compared to the original, "The Unforgiven II" replaces the Spaghetti Western-style intricacies with "a sense of real emotion"; lyrics about battles won, lost, or thrown away[32]
  • "Where the Wild Things Are", named after the 1963 children's book of the same name,[13] recalls childhood traumas[30]
  • "Prince Charming" – lyrics told from the perspective of a malevolent character in multiple unpleasant scenarios[33]

Newsted believed that "Fixxxer" is "what Black Sabbath would have sounded like if they stayed together in October 1997"[34]

This was the second album to feature most songs in E♭ tuning, with "Bad Seed" being played in D♭ tuning and "Devil's Dance" in D tuning. D tuning was earlier used for "The Thing That Should Not Be" on Master of Puppets, "Sad but True" on Metallica and later used for "Sabbra Cadabra", and "Whiskey in the Jar" from Garage Inc.

Artwork and packaging

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Artist Andres Serrano in 2023
The cover art for Reload was created by New York artist Andres Serrano (pictured in 2023).

Like Load, the cover artwork for Reload is a painting by the New York artist Andres Serrano.[35] Titled Piss and Blood, the artwork is a "red-tinged amber landscape" with a central swirl in the middle.[35] It was created using a mixture of blood and the artist's own urine.[28][36] According to Serrano, Piss and Blood, along with Load's artwork Semen and Blood III, were part of a series called "Bodily Fluids", which were "photographs intended to look like paintings, using milk, blood, piss and semen".[37] In a 1997 interview with Guitar World, Hetfield explained that Load and Reload "belong together" so the artwork had to match.[3] While Ulrich and Hammett were fans of Serrano's work, Hetfield disliked it, saying in 2009 that it was art made "for the sake of shocking others".[37] In a 2018 interview, Ulrich maintained his appreciation for the Load and Reload covers, calling them his favorite Metallica album covers.[38]

All the photos in the liner notes were taken from the 1997 Cunning Stunts concert.

Like Load, Reload featured a new Metallica logo that simplified and modernized its appearance, going from "metal" to "alternative".[39]

Release and promotion

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I know a lot of people think [Reload is] just the scraps – but it's not. We normally stop at 12 songs when we write albums, but we knew we wanted to develop all of them, that they were all good enough.[16]

—Lars Ulrich, 1997

Metallica promoted Reload in the build up to the album's release with various live performances, including at three European festivals in August 1997.[40] They also collaborated with DJ Spooky on a remix of their 1984 song "For Whom the Bell Tolls", titled "For Whom the Bell Tolls (The Irony of it All)", for the soundtrack of the 1997 film Spawn, released on July 29.[41] In October, they performed two acoustic-only sets at the annual Bridge School Benefit shows in San Francisco; the first show the band debuted "Low Man's Lyric".[40] On November 11, Metallica performed a free concert in the parking lot of CoreStates Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dubbed the "Million Decibel March", they played a mix of old and new songs, including "The Memory Remains" and "Fuel". Two days later, they played another free concert at the nightclub Ministry of Sound in London.[40] In December, the band performed with Faithfull on NBC's Saturday Night Live and BBC's Top of the Pops, and later at the Billboard Music Awards.[42][43]

Reload was released 17 (Chicago Tribune) months after Load on November 18, 1997,[b][44][20] through Elektra Records in the Unites States and Vertigo Records in the United Kingdom and Europe,[45] in CD, cassette, and double LP formats.[46][36] Like its predecessor, Reload debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200, selling 436,000 units in first week and remaining on the chart for 75 weeks.[47][48] In 2025, it was certified 4× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipping four million copies in the United States.[49] The album also attained number one positions in Austria,[50] Finland,[51] Germany,[52] New Zealand,[53] Norway,[54] and Sweden.[55] Elsewhere, Reload reached number two in Australia,[56] Canada,[57] Denmark,[58] and Hungary;[59] number three in the Netherlands,[58] France,[60] and Switzerland;[61] number four in Belgian Flanders and the U.K.;[62][63] number five in Ireland and Spain;[64][65] number six in Italy and Scotland;[66][67] and number 14 in Belgian Wallonia.[68] Overall sales were less than Load.[69][70]


Singles:

  • number 15 in the UK[75]
  • stalled at number 59 on the Billboard Hot 100[72] but reached number two on the Mainstream Rock chart[73]
  • number 31 in the U.K.[76]
  • number six on the Mainstream Rock chart[73]

Tour

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See also: Garage Inc.

From April to May 1998, Metallica embarked on the Poor Re-Touring Me tour, performing in Australia, New Zealand, Korea, and Japan.[75] After the birth of Hetfield's daughter on June 11, the band embarked on the U.S. leg, which ran from June to September 1998.[78] Ulrich's son was born on August 5.[76]

  • Newsted was injured by a flying glass bottle while on stage during a show on September 5[76]

The day after the tour ended, Metallica began recording a new album of cover versions.[76] Along with newly recorded covers, the collection featured The $5.98 E.P. – Garage Days Re-Revisited EP (1987) in its entirety and every cover the band had recorded up to that point. Titled Garage Inc., the compilation was released on November 24, 1998.[79][80] Wall believes the album was released, in part to combat bootlegs of the material, but also to reestablish credibility within the metal community after their reinvention for Load and Reload; the band's original logo returned on the cover of Garage Inc., while the front cover featured a photo of the band by the photographer Anton Corbijn.[81]

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[46]
Chicago Tribune
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal7/10[82]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[83]
Entertainment WeeklyB[25]
Los Angeles Times[84]
The Plain DealerB[31]
Rolling Stone[24]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[85]
USA Today[86]

Reload was met with mixed to favorable reviews. AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine thought the record was worthwhile and noted it was heavily influenced by Southern rock. He did not approve of the idea of doing the sequel "The Unforgiven II", but praised the collaboration with Marianne Faithfull on "The Memory Remains".[46] Dan Snierson from Entertainment Weekly said Reload "continues Metallica's journey into stripped-down maturity while toying with fresh melodic textures" and "also forsakes some of the punchy hooks and gut-clenching heft that elevated recent Metallica CDs".[25] Marc Weingarten of the Los Angeles Times said that Reload is "strong enough to make you forgive the band its past concessions to mass tastes", but criticized "Bad Seed" and "The Unforgiven II" as "pointless".[84]

Rolling Stone's Lorraine Ali opined the album was rooted in heavy metal despite some songs being influenced by "bluesy rock & roll". She said Reload was not Metallica's best, but named it a steppingstone in Metallica's legacy.[24] On the other hand, Musician described the album as "greasy, driving, full of fat grooves, lyric and rhythmic hooks, and sonic curveballs". The magazine felt it "captures one of rock's greatest bands at its peak".[87] Uncut magazine's Neil Kulkarni called Reload one of the best metal albums of the 1990s, arguing it was on par with Metallica.[88]

Canadian journalist Martin Popoff lamented the "dull, unfinished, unrealized" songwriting in many songs, but praised the production and groove of the album.[82] British author Paul Stenning said Metallica were "at their best on the likes of opener 'Fuel', the inspired follow up to an old favourite in 'The Unforgiven II' and the closing 'Fixxxer' which had a fantastic lead riff."[89]

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  • both albums, if combined with the best tracks, "would have made one of the great hard-rock albums of the decade"
  • As they stand, both albums are spread thin and make up "two solid but flawed ones"
  • Reload is "slightly better"; highlights "The Memory Remains" and "Low Man's Lyric" but "one-third" fails to live up to the standards of those two tracks
  • says "The Unforgiven II" would have been better off as a B-side rather than on an album of new material
  • praises band performances; Hetfield "turns in the most varied and nuanced performances of his career"

USA Today[86]

  • "These 13 songs stack up against Load's mother lode of rock riches, continuing in that album's vein of apocalyptic darkness cloaked in blistering guitars and sucker-punch rhythms. Beneath the thunder lie deft nuances and sobering wisdom, evidence of Metallica's growing maturity."

John Soeder[31]

  • more experimental than Load, "guaranteed to alienate narrow-minded listeners"
  • "these trailblazing metallurgists have seized the day; now if only they could get a few more songs to clock in under the six-minute mark"

Gary Blockus[90]

  • negative
  • first Metallica album "with nothing remarkable or magic"
  • "a serious misfire"

James Muretich[91]

  • "band's sound is becoming almost a little too predictable"
  • "more consistency than creativity"
  • "while Reload hits the mark more times than now, Metallica is beginning to sound very much like metal world's version of ZZ Top, the increasingly weary purveyors of recycled riffs"

Wash Post[92]

  • Sound is still "bludgeoning" and the attitude is "still bleak"
  • "songs [such as "Fuel"] are more economical than they would have been in the band's early days, but otherwise come as no great surprise."
  • "Re-Load aims for a new sound with the use of guest musicians and a new-found melancholy"

Paul Verna, Billboard[93]

  • "darker, more immediate, and more rough-edged than its predecessor"
  • "a spontaneous afterthought to a well-crafted masterpiece"
  • "Metallica's flirtation with hard-edged modern rock fans continues with this album, boding well for its long-term success"

Joel McIver[94]

  • worse than Load; "pure mediocrity"

Paul Stenning:[70]

  • heavier and "arguably features stronger songs"
  • nevertheless "had its highs, lows, and complete underground moments"

Mick Wall: Reload is the "nadir" of Metallica's recording career[69]

In 2020, Metal Hammer included it in their list of top 10 albums of 1997.[95]

Legacy

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Opinions on Load and Reload have been mixed in the years and decades following its release. Both albums have typically placed low in lists ranking Metallica's studio albums; Reload typically placing lower than Load.[96][97][98][99][100] Several have argued that Load and Reload could have been one good album but the band was "too loose" regarding editing.[70][101][100][102] The author Paul Stenning argues that by including every song written during the period, the material's immediacy and longevity were "diluted", leaving "too much to digest and too little inspiration behind many tracks".[70] The author Malcolm Dome argues that both albums share the same strengths and weaknesses, ultimately representing a drop in Metallica's "impeccable" standards. He says the two albums "capture a band gently probing its boundaries, but still reticent to leave the family home".[103] In his 2004 biography of the band, Joel McIver argues that with the experimentation, Metallica lost sight of themselves and what they succeed at best: "heavy metal with power, aggression, and kill".[104]

The band has held mixed opinions on the Load and Reload period in subsequent decades. Hetfield felt he was following Hammett and Ulrich's vision and did not believe in the idea of revamping their image.[105] He felt that the large number of songs "diluted the potency of the poison of Metallica".[106] Hetfield also believed that former bassist Cliff Burton, if still alive, would likely have disapproved of the direction the band took for the two albums.[106] Nevertheless, Hetfield did not regret the period because it "felt like the right thing to do" at the time.[105] When interviewed in 2002, Ulrich said he liked some of the material from Load and Reload and was more disappointed that fans reacted poorly to the music based on the band members' new image rather than the music itself.[107] By 2003, Ulrich agreed that the two albums could have been condensed into one, but felt that at the time, he and Hetfield wanted to release all the newly-written songs and lacked "an edit button on our instrument panel".[8]

Track listing

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All lyrics are written by James Hetfield[11]

No.TitleMusicLength
1."Fuel"
4:29
2."The Memory Remains" (with Marianne Faithfull)
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
4:39
3."Devil's Dance"
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
5:18
4."The Unforgiven II"
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
  • Hammett
6:36
5."Better than You"
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
5:21
6."Slither"
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
  • Hammett
5:13
7."Carpe Diem Baby"
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
  • Hammett
6:12
8."Bad Seed"
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
  • Hammett
4:05
9."Where the Wild Things Are"
6:52
10."Prince Charming"
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
6:04
11."Low Man's Lyric"
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
7:36
12."Attitude"
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
5:16
13."Fixxxer"
  • Hetfield
  • Ulrich
  • Hammett
8:15
Total length:76:03

Personnel

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Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[11]

Charts

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Certifications and sales

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Certifications and sales for Reload
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Argentina (CAPIF)[130] Platinum 60,000^
Australia (ARIA)[131] 5× Platinum 350,000‡
Austria (IFPI Austria)[132] Gold 25,000*
Belgium (BRMA)[133] Gold 25,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[134] 2× Platinum 200,000^
Estonia — 5,000[135]
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[136] Platinum 45,271[136]
France (SNEP)[137] Gold 100,000*
Germany (BVMI)[138] 5× Gold 1,250,000‡
Hong Kong (IFPI Hong Kong)[139] Gold 10,000*
Japan (RIAJ)[140] Platinum 200,000^
Netherlands (NVPI)[141] Gold 50,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[142] Platinum 15,000^
Poland (ZPAV)[143] Platinum 100,000*
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[144] Platinum 100,000^
Sweden (GLF)[145] Platinum 80,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[146] Platinum 50,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[147] Gold 100,000^
United States (RIAA)[49] 4× Platinum 4,480,000[148]
Summaries
Europe (IFPI)[149] 2× Platinum 2,000,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Notes

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  1. ^ Marianne Faithfull's vocals on "The Memory Remains" were recorded on October 9, 1996, at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin, Ireland.[1]
  2. ^ Reportedly released a day earlier in the U.K. on November 17.[16]

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Further reading

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  • Chirazi, Steffan (November 22, 1997). "Ride the Lightning: The Making of 'Re-Load'". Kerrang!. No. 675. EMAP. pp. 21–23.
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