A warning to those who are fortunate enough not to have heard this already
Artist: Metallica
Album: Load
Year: 1996
Chronological position: Sixth album
Genre: Hard rock
Expectations before listening: Like, really, really low
A promise is a promise. Listening to this album, Load, was a promise I made to a fellow poseur named Mats (who registered on the forums today as Matshovden). Well... Load? More like Load of Crap. Hah, take that, Metallica. Since I'm not in the mood for forming decent paragraphs, I'm just going to list some things I don't like about this album:
- This isn't metal
- The slick production would fit a pop album
- You get the feeling that this album was written only for the money
- Mr. Hetfield's angry voice doesn't fit with the very non-angry music
- The music is boring and dull
- The lyrics are boring, dull and I stopped paying attention to them before I was halfway through
- The album is 79 minutes long
- The cover art is sickening and physically painful to watch (it's semen and animal blood between two sheets of plexiglass)
2/5