Hero of the Day” or “Until It Sleeps”? On one hand, Metallica leaned into the melancholy with “Hero of the Day.” The ...

“This the new rock 'n' roll Metallica. The riffs are becoming much greasier, bluesier, dirtier. We really cruise through it ...

Metallica's James Hetfield has reiterated his mixed feelings toward the band's mid-'90s output, calling 1996's Load and 1997's Reload "forced." The singer and guitarist reflected on Metallica's ...

“There always has to be some kind of compromise – especially when you’ve got four guys in the band,” Hetfield told Clash ... that it’s happened. The Load and Reload era, for me, was ...

"It is interesting, because we have created our own mainstream, is what I believe," Hetfield told Clash after ... a few times that it’s happened - the Load and Reload era, for me, was one ...

with the Reload songs being ones Metallica didn't feel were quite ready at the time Load was recorded. In an interview with The Metallica Report, Metallica frontman James Hetfield explained that ...

“At that time we did Load, writing that kind of stuff wasn’t exciting to me anymore,” James Hetfield told me in 1997. “None of us were writing that stuff, and when you write, that’s ...

We’ll say a prayer before going onstage: 'James, you're a human being ... the band's creative process changed too much for Hetfield at this point. “We’ve always been very organic. Load and Reload felt ...

Dollar for dollar, pound for pound, Metallica frontman James Hetfield and his right hand has produced some ... filled riff that maintains the rest of the song to great effect. If Load and “King ...

James Hetfield evaluated one of Hollywood’s hottest ... “And that people say to me, ‘The first album I listened to was Load or Reload.’ That’s amazing.” Go behind the scenes of ...