"It is interesting, because we have created our own mainstream, is what I believe," Hetfield told Clash after being asked if compromises are necessary in order to be accepted by the mainstream. He ...

It's a sentiment we've heard from other Metallica fans before regarding the two albums, which were largely written at the same time but released separately, over a year apart from each other. So we ...

But he’s insisted he doesn’t regret his decision to support the direction drummer Lars Ulrich and guitarist Kirk Hammett wanted to take. The twin albums found the band drifting further away from their ...

The podcast host suggested that it would be interesting to see Metallica return to the style they captured in the ’90s with Load and Reload. “Who knows? We might just say, ‘Okay, let’s go back to the ...

Metallica spent about two years writing and recording both 1996's Load and 1997's Reload. The two albums were written at the same time, with the Reload songs being ones Metallica didn't feel were ...