Metallica (Official Thread)

[Lynch]

On this day 23 years ago, June 4, 1996, Load was released.

I know some of you here still don't like this album. When it was released, I was in the same boat. "WTF is this shit?!" However, it didn't take long to warm up to it. To this day, I still fully enjoy almost this entire album and still listen to it on a regular basis.

 

[Riff Raff]

On this day 23 years ago, June 4, 1996, Load was released.

I know some of you here still don't like this album. When it was released, I was in the same boat. "WTF is this shit?!" However, it didn't take long to warm up to it. To this day, I still fully enjoy almost this entire album and still listen to it on a regular basis.

It does take some listens to grow but it did for me. Good album.

 

[Lynch]

And then there is the flipside ... on this day in 2003, this turdlette of an album was released.

St Anger (June 5, 2003)




I've tried, I really have tried to like this album. While there are some positives sprinkled all over the album, the lack of true guitar solos combined with possibly the single-worst drum sound on any metal album... EVER... it's hard to get through (for me).

 

[Riff Raff]

If some of the songs were shorter and the snare was turned on I could forgive the lack of solos. It would have been a tolerable listen.

 

[Lynch]

Cool poster/pic from this week's show in London:

 

[Lynch]

 

[Lynch]

Poster from tonight's show in Denmark

 

[Lynch]

Yet another cool poster, tonight from one of their stops in Norway.

 

[Riff Raff]

New song and it's great.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Maybe they heard the new Megadeth sounding so retro and heavy they realized they had to step up their game?