Metallica – Load (2025 Remastered Expanded Edition) (2025) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Metallica – Load (2025 Remastered Expanded Edition) (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 03:53:15 minutes | 2,70 GB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

Load is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on June 4, 1996, through Elektra Records in the United States and Vertigo Records internationally. It was recorded between May 1995 and April 1996 primarily in Sausalito, California, with additional sessions in New York City. Bob Rock returned as producer from Metallica (1991). Compared to previous albums, the recording sessions were more relaxed and productive, resulting in almost 30 songs being recorded. While a double album was considered, the band decided to split the material into two albums; half appeared on Load and the other half were released as Reload the following year.

The “Load Expanded Edition” contains 41 tracks from the remastered album, previously unreleased demos, rough mixes and live tracks from their worldwide tour.”Delivered five years after their eponymous “black” album in 1991, Load captures Metallica settling into an uneasy period of maturation. Under the guidance of producer Bob Rock, Metallica have streamlined their sound, cutting away most of the twisting, unpredictable time signatures and the mind-numbingly fast riffs. What’s left is polished — and disappointingly straightforward — heavy metal. Metallica’s attempts at expanding their sonic palette have made them seem more conventional than they ever have before. They add in Southern boogie rock, country-rock, and power ballads to their bag of tricks, which make them sound like ’70s arena rock holdovers. Metallica’s idea of opening up their sound is to concentrate on relentless midtempo boogie — over half the album is dedicated to songs that are meant to groove, but they simply don’t swing. Metallica sound tight, but with the material they’ve written, they should sound loose. That becomes apparent as the songs drag out over the album’s nearly 80-minute running time — there are only so many times that a band can work the same tempo exactly the same way before it becomes tedious. It isn’t surprising to hear Metallica get stodgier and more conservative as they get older, but it is nonetheless depressing.” (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AMG)

Tracklist:

1-1. Metallica – Ain’t My Bitch (Remastered 2025) (05:04)
1-2. Metallica – 2 x 4 (Remastered 2025) (05:28)
1-3. Metallica – The House Jack Built (Remastered 2025) (06:38)
1-4. Metallica – Until It Sleeps (Remastered 2025) (04:29)
1-5. Metallica – King Nothing (Remastered 2025) (05:28)
1-6. Metallica – Hero of the Day (Remastered 2025) (04:21)
1-7. Metallica – Bleeding Me (Remastered 2025) (08:18)
1-8. Metallica – Cure (Remastered 2025) (04:54)
1-9. Metallica – Poor Twisted Me (Remastered 2025) (04:00)
1-10. Metallica – Wasting My Hate (Remastered 2025) (03:57)
1-11. Metallica – Mama Said (Remastered 2025) (05:19)
1-12. Metallica – Thorn Within (Remastered 2025) (05:51)
1-13. Metallica – Ronnie (Remastered 2025) (05:17)
1-14. Metallica – The Outlaw Torn (Remastered 2025 / Extended Version) (10:44)
1-15. Metallica – Bitch (“Ain’t My Bitch” Original Arrangement Rough Mix) (06:11)
1-16. Metallica – 2 x 4 (Take 16) (06:09)
1-17. Metallica – Jack (“The House Jack Built” Re-Edit Version 1 Rough Mix) (06:56)
1-18. Metallica – F.O.B.D. (“Until It Sleeps” Rough Chorus Vocal Idea Mix) (04:54)
1-19. Metallica – Load (“King Nothing” Take 16) (05:41)
1-20. Metallica – Mouldy (“Hero of the Day” Instrumental Mix) (04:40)
1-21. Metallica – Boss (“Bleeding Me” Demo) (08:36)
1-22. Metallica – Believe (“Cure” Riff II) (00:32)
1-23. Metallica – Dusty (“Poor Twisted Me” Take 12) (04:16)
1-24. Metallica – Streamline (“Wasting My Hate” Original Arrangement Rough Mix) (04:47)
1-25. Metallica – Mama (“Mama Said” Acoustics Only Alternate Mix) (05:28)
1-26. Metallica – NC-17 (“Thorn Within” Riff) (00:57)
1-27. Metallica – The Blue and The Gray (and The Red) (“Ronnie” Vocal Idea) (07:56)
1-28. Metallica – Outlaw (“The Outlaw Torn” Outlaw of Torn Vocal Tag Alternate Mix) (11:16)
1-29. Metallica – Ain’t My Bitch (Live at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, Irvine, CA / 4th August 1996) (05:01)
1-30. Metallica – 2 x 4 (Live at Donington Park, Castle Donington, England / 26th August 1995) (05:47)
1-31. Metallica – The House Jack Built (Birmingham, England Live Rehearsal) (07:16)
1-32. Metallica – Until It Sleeps (Live at Oslo Spektrum, Oslo, Norway / 23rd November 1996) (04:13)
1-33. Metallica – King Nothing (Live at Slim’s, San Francisco, CA / 10th June 1996) (07:03)
1-34. Metallica – Hero of the Day (Live at 100.7 WMMS Coffee Break Concert) (04:26)
1-35. Metallica – Bleeding Me (Live at Globen, Stockholm, Sweden / 16th November 1996) (08:13)
1-36. Metallica – Wasting My Hate (Live at Oslo Spektrum, Oslo, Norway / 23rd November 1996) (03:57)
1-37. Metallica – Mama Said (Live on Sverige-Sovjet, Stockholm, Sweden / 15th November 1996) (04:42)
1-38. Metallica – Devil’s Dance (Live in Tuktoyaktuk, Canada / 3rd September 1995) (05:57)
1-39. Metallica – Fuel (Live at Rosemont Horizon, Chicago, Illinois / 9th February 1997) (04:25)
1-40. Metallica – Overkill (Live at Earls Court, London, England / 12th October 1996) (04:01)
1-41. Metallica – Kill/Ride Medley (Live at Donington Park, Castle Donington, England / 26th August 1995) (09:53)

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