Metallica has asked fans to once again support their plans for a new series of deluxe box set reissues of their controversial late 1990s albums Load and ReLoad. You can read a message below from the band seeking fan content from an era just at the start of the internet and pre-social media. ReLoad turns 25 in 2022 and Load turned 25 last year. Read Ghost Cult’s retrospective on Load here:
There is almost no band in history that had a success akin to “The Black Album.” Metallica exploded the band of the same name from the underground and made Rock, Heavy Metal, and yes, even Thrash as mainstream as it was ever going to get for a hot minute. From 1991-1995 Metallica was everywhere on tour, pop radio, MTV, Antarctica, Woodstock 1994 as the headliner, and much more. They were unstoppable. They sold tons of albums when it was only CDs and cassettes. They transformed the culture of underground heavy music and themselves in the process, and you can still feel the ripples in the industry from it. Like it or not, they changed everything.
Metallica will be releasing Hardwired…To Self-Destruct on November 18th via Blackened Records, and they’ve just announced a radio takeover, plus special sales on their web store to heighten the excitement for the new record. Continue reading